SERVICE MANUAL
Published by Sony Techno Create Corporation
Sony Corporation
NW-S202/S202F/S203F/S205F
SPECIFICATIONS
DIGITAL MUSIC PLAYER
9-887-385-03
2006K05-1
C
2006.11
Connect Business Division
US Model
Canadian Model
E Model
Australian Model
Tourist Model
NW-S203F/S205F
AEP Model
UK Model
NW-S202/S202F/S203F/S205F
Chinese Model
NW-S202F/S203F/S205F
• SonicStage and the SonicStage logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation.
• OpenMG, ATRAC, ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus and their logos are trademarks of Sony Corporation.
• “WALKMAN” and “WALKMAN” logo are registered trademarks of Sony Corporation.
• Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT and Windows Media are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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• MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology and patents licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson.
• IBM and PC/AT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
• Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
• Pentium is a trademark or a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
• CD and music-related data from Gracenote, Inc., copyright
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Audio compression technology
– MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (MP3)
– Windows Media Audio (WMA)
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– Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC)
– Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
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WMA/AAC format audio files that are copyright-protected cannot be played back.
Maximum recordable number of songs and time (Approx.)
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The approximate times are based on a transferred 4-minute ATRAC or MP3 format song. Other playable audio file
formats may be different from ATRAC or MP3 format.
NW-S202F/S202
NW-S203F
Bit rate
Songs
Time
Songs
Time
48 kbps
340
22 hr. 40 min.
685
45 hr. 00 min.
64 kbps
255
17 hr. 00 min.
515
34 hr. 20 min.
96 kbps
170
11 hr. 20 min.
345
23 hr. 00 min.
128 kbps
125
8 hr. 20 min.
260
17 hr. 20 min.
132 kbps
120
8 hr. 00 min.
250
16 hr. 40 min.
160 kbps
100
6 hr. 40 min.
205
13 hr. 40 min.
192 kbps
85
5 hr. 40 min.
170
11 hr. 20 min.
256 kbps
64
4 hr. 10 min.
130
8 hr. 40 min.
320 kbps
51
3 hr. 20 min.
100
6 hr. 40 min.
352 kbps
46
3 hr. 00 min.
94
6 hr. 10 min.
NW-S205F
Bit rate
Songs
Time
48 kbps
1,350
90 hr. 00 min.
64 kbps
1,000
66 hr. 40 min.
96 kbps
690
46 hr. 00 min.
128 kbps
520
34 hr. 40 min.
132 kbps
500
33 hr. 20 min.
160 kbps
415
27 hr. 40 min.
192 kbps
345
23 hr. 00 min.
256 kbps
260
17 hr. 20 min.
320 kbps
205
13 hr. 40 min.
352 kbps
185
12 hr. 20 min.
Capacity (User available capacity)
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NW-S202F/S202: 512 MB (Approx. 482 MB = 505,724,928 bytes)
NW-S203F: 1 GB (Approx. 968 MB = 1,015,726,080 bytes)
NW-S205F: 2 GB (Approx. 1.89 GB = 2,035,974,144 bytes)
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Available storage capacity of the player may vary.
A portion of the memory is used for data management functions.
Supported bit rates
MP3: 32 to 320 kbps variable bit rate-compliant
WMA: 32 to 192 kbps variable bit rate-compliant
ATRAC: 48/64/66 (ATRAC3)
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/96/105 (ATRAC3)
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/128/132 (ATRAC3)/160/192/256/320/352 kbps
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CD recording cannot be done using SonicStage software in ATRAC3 at 66/105 kbps.
AAC: 16 to 320 kbps variable bit rate-compliant
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Nonstandard bit rates or non-guaranteed bit rates are included depending on the sampling frequency.
Photo: NW-S203F
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