Editing Sony Connect (section)

==Connect Music Store==
The '''CONNECT Music Store''' was [[Sony]]'s music store built within the [[SonicStage]] music management application for [[Microsoft Windows]]-based personal computers. It was one of the world's largest online music download stores with over 2.5 million tracks to preview and purchase, with over 10,000 new songs added every Tuesday.

In 2003, Robert Shahnazarian began producing exclusive recording only available to users of Sony Connect.  These sessions were the brain child of Ty Braswell and Neil Schield to provide exclusive content to users of Sony Connect's music platform.  These session were recorded at Sony Studios in Santa Monica along with Westlake Recording Studios. These “exclusive” sessions were known as the Live from the Connect living-room series, and were recorded and mixed by Robert Shahnazarian.  Over 350 sessions were recorded for this series and included such artists as Taylor Swift, John Legend, David Crosby & Graham Nash, Tears for Fears, and Brand Carlile to name just a few.

The CONNECT Music Store closed in North America and Europe on 31 March 2008, and the website has been unavailable from 1 March 2008. However, in late 2008, Sony launched a new [[online music store]] called "bandit.fm" on a trial basis in several countries, particularly [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]]. The store was never launched globally, and closed in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=bandit.fm |url=http://www.bandit.fm/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220022819/http://www.bandit.fm/ |archive-date=2016-12-20 |access-date=2019-03-24}}</ref> In 2010, Sony also launched another store named [[Music Unlimited]] which at first was compatible with PlayStation devices.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamesradar.com/sony-launching-music-unlimited-a-ps3-psp-compatible-music-service-will-it-fail-as-hard-as-connect/|title = Sony launching 'Music Unlimited,' a PS3, PSP compatible music service - will it fail as hard as Connect?|date = 2 September 2010}}</ref>

"Sony Connect" was also the name given to the software used to manage book, music and image content on the [[Sony Reader]]; it has since been renamed [[Sony eBook Library]].

The [[SonicStage]] software transferred music tracks to Sony media devices like Network Walkman, CD Walkman, [[Hi-MD]], [[PlayStation Portable|PSP]] (via the Memory Stick), [[Sony Clie|Clie]] handheld or Vaio computers, but did not transfer to non-Sony hardware.