Sony Walkman

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Sony Walkman, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Finding specific tracks is hard and playlist management is frustrating2026-07-24
Moving music files is slower and clunkier than with a removable drive2023-01-17
Running Android adds UI friction, with home screen, app switching and notifications getting in the way of playing music2023-01-16
Forced to convert MP3s to Atrac3 using clunky, poorly designed software2021-07-26
Software for NetMD device is so terrible it is worse than iTunes2012-09-29