Description

The S639F supports MP3, WMA (protected and unprotected), AAC (unprotected only) and WAV. We’re sad not to see FLAC or OGG support here, particularly after just reviewing Samsung’s FLAC- and OGG-loving YP-Q1. High-quality H.264 and MPEG-4 SP video is supported, however, as well as JPEG photos.

The player has full support for podcasts with a dedicated button in the main menu, and Sony’s bundled desktop software does a good job of automatically downloading new shows and syncing them. It’s just a shame the rest of the software is rather unintuitive, but you can alternatively use Windows Media Player for file management. Or you can simply drag and drop files via Windows Explorer or Finder in Mac OS X.