SonicStage, the Glossary
SonicStage is a discontinued software product from Sony that is used for managing portable devices when they are plugged into a computer running Microsoft Windows.[1]
Table of Contents
49 relations: Advanced Audio Coding, ATRAC, Au (mobile phone company), CLIÉ, Digital music store, Digital rights management, Drag and drop, Freeware, Graphical user interface, Hi-MD, High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding, IPod, ITunes, Java (programming language), KDDI, Kyocera, Kyocera Communications, Linux, LISMO, MacOS, Media player software, Microsoft Windows, MiniDisc, Mora (music store), MP3, NEC Mobile Communications, Open-source software, OpenMG, PlayStation Portable, Plug-in (computing), Portable application, Qt (software), RealPlayer, Sharp Corporation, Sony, Sony Connect, Sony Mobile, The Guardian, Toshiba, Vaio, Walkman, Walkman A Series, WAV, Winamp, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Player, Windows Vista, Wine (software), Yen and yuan sign.
- Sony software
Advanced Audio Coding
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression.
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ATRAC
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms developed by Sony.
Au (mobile phone company)
au, or au by KDDI, is a Japanese mobile phone operator.
See SonicStage and Au (mobile phone company)
CLIÉ
The Sony CLIÉ (creativity, lifestyle, innovation, emotion, formerly communication, link, information and entertainment) is a series of personal digital assistants (PDAs) running the operating system (OS) Palm OS, developed and marketed by Sony from 2000 to 2005.
Digital music store
A digital music store is a business that sells digital audio files of music recordings over the Internet.
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Digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.
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Drag and drop
In computer graphical user interfaces, drag and drop is a pointing device gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.
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Freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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Hi-MD
Hi-MD is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage format.
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496–3.
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IPod
The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on November 10, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.
ITunes
iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple. SonicStage and ITunes are Windows media players.
Java (programming language)
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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KDDI
() is a Japanese telecommunications operator.
Kyocera
is a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.
Kyocera Communications
Kyocera Communications, Inc. (pronounced "key-yo-sarah") is an American manufacturer of mobile phones for wireless service providers in the United States and Canada.
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Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
LISMO
LISMO is an online music service provided by au, a Japanese mobile phone brand run by KDDI, a Japanese telecommunication company.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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MiniDisc
MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.
Mora (music store)
is an online music and video store for the Japanese market operated by Sony Music Solutions, a part of Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ).
See SonicStage and Mora (music store)
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.
NEC Mobile Communications
NEC Mobile Communications was a mobile phone manufacturer established 1 May 2010.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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OpenMG
OpenMG is a digital rights management (DRM) system developed by Sony for managing and protecting digital music data on a personal computer.
PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.
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Plug-in (computing)
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.
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Portable application
A portable application (portable app), sometimes also called standalone software, is a computer program designed to operate without changing other files or requiring other software to be installed.
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Qt (software)
Qt (pronounced "cute" or as an initialism) is cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.
See SonicStage and Qt (software)
RealPlayer
RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks. SonicStage and RealPlayer are Windows media players.
Sharp Corporation
is a Japanese electronics company.
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Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Sony Connect
Sony Connect, stylised Sony CONNECT, was the name for a series of related software products by Sony, most notably the Connect Music Store online music store.
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Sony Mobile
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. (ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Corporation and Ericsson.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Toshiba
is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Vaio
VAIO (バイオ) is a brand of personal computers and consumer electronics, currently developed by Japanese manufacturer, headquartered in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture.
Walkman
, is a brand of portable audio players manufactured and marketed by Japanese company Sony since 1979.
Walkman A Series
The Walkman A Series is a flagship line of mid-range digital audio players (DAP) by Sony as part of its Walkman range.
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WAV
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers.
Winamp
Winamp is a media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. SonicStage and Winamp are Windows media players.
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.
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Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to distinguish it from the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11), is the first media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play audio and video on personal computers. SonicStage and Windows Media Player are Windows media players.
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Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.
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Wine (software)
Wine is a free and open-source compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
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Yen and yuan sign
The yen and yuan sign (¥) is a currency sign used for the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies when writing in Latin scripts.
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See also
Sony software
- BIVL
- Extended Copy Protection
- Media Go
- Music Center for PC
- PSP Media Manager
- PlayStation App
- SecuROM
- SensMe
- SonicStage
- Sony Creative Software
- Sony Ziris
- VISCA Protocol
- VisualFlow
- XrossMediaBar
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SonicStage
Also known as Sonic Stage.