May I join in? I too had a NW-35 for Christmas after doing a fair bit of research, and I wanted one that would take a micro-SDcard. I had a 2 previous walkmans but wanted the extra storage as I had been saving in WMA format but also wanted to increase to higher definition MP3. I had got used to every player on my phone allowing me to place a track that was playing into a playlist. Indeed, a pop-up menu on the Walkman says "add to playlist". Sadly, if Ihaven't yet created one it just tells me that I need to use compliant software on my PC to create them. I used Media Go and also tried Media Monkey and both created a playlist which I was able to transfer to the Walkman. So when the pop-up menu showed now existing playlists to add to I thought the problem was solved - but NO! - I was told the playlists were not editable. This is crazy and infuriating, and totally against what is explained at http://helpguide.sony.net/dmp/nwa30/v1/en/contents/TP0001154646.html#menu (a help page for my model!).
I have raised this with Sony Support but feel totally let down and might suggest a return and refund if I don't get a satisfactory answer.
By the way I don't have a problem with volume and find 65 is loud enough at most. I have a pair of Sony headphones and 50 is OK for these, but some older Sony Sony earphones that came with with an older walkman are a bit less sensitive. My device came with AVLS switched off and I left it that way because Android sometimes annoyingly starts warning me in the middle of a piece of music. I do have volume levelling switched on but I don't think this made a lot of difference. BTW I also rip with dbpoweramp - a brilliant program. And I found that Media Go places files in folders quite different to the way I order them on my PC, so I transfer using windows explorer and by-pass Media Go for that.
Hope someone can cast some light on the playlist problem.
