Screen displaying NO DATA when trying to play newly downloaded songs

The message means the music is copy protected and that means it will not play outside the device it was downloaded to, in your case the Walkman.

MP3 players can only play music files in mp3 file format. You can download mp3 music files from the Internet toyour computer and then copy them to your MP3 player. For your CD collection, you need to convert your CDs tomp3 music files onto your computer or download them from the Internet and thencopy them to your MP3 player.
You can do this using Windows Media player and Rip the CDs - Media Player willcreate a MP3 music file for each music track.
Click on this link for instruction on converting music files to mp3 file format:- http://www.fixya.com/support/r5798418-creating_transferring_mp3_music_files

It means the Digital Rights to the song have expired.

From Sony's site:
"This issue may occur if the license for the track you are trying to play has expired on the device. If you currently subscribe to a music subscription service, connect the device and sign into the account to refresh your license to allow for playback. You may need to do this once during each billing period to listen to the subscription music you have transferred. If you are no longer a subscriber to the service where you downloaded the file from, you can delete the song from your portable player to prevent this error from occurring each time you try to play the song back."

my sony walkman NW-E013 keeps saying NO DATA even after i put music on to it?

I downloaded music to my sony walkman NW-E003F mp3 player, but it keeps saying "NO DATA" when i go to all songs.

YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD FIRST THE INCLUDED CD SOFTWARE BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD MUSIC.

I hade just that prob. "format error" used to display. I did this:
1. dwl sonicStage (free)
2.- in the walkman went to menu/initialize/format
then displayed a confirmation screen, I confirmed
it displayed "formating...... COMPLETE"
3.- THEN plugged into the PC and transfered songs with Sonic
and it worked!

yes you loaded the music and supported by windows but the file system is not applicable. the first should be format your mp3 then download the sonique stage this serves as your file manager you can download songs and automatically converted thru this and save thru your mp3 using this .

hi ali

it is comman problem , when u connect to pc , songs are played by song player of computer (like media player or real player) but latest version to play songs of the format is present in walkman is there, due to lac of cd's , i suggest you to please go to Sony' website and download latest software of said modle & update , it will solve the problem

thanks

Hi there, one of the problems you have is that there is not much you can access from via your phone, so often the easiest (although not speediest) solution is to re-upload the songs. Have you tried adding another song, playing it, and seeing if that song will play successfully? If it does, then I would suggest deleting the other songs, and uploading them to your phone again. If this is not possible (because you downloaded them straight from mobile network), upload them to a PC and see if the songs will play - if they do, save them to PC, reformat your card (my computer -> right click on card name -> format) and then put them back on your phone. Unfortunately if they wont play on PC either, the chances are they have been corrupted and you may have to contact your download source for a refund or new copies. If after trying these options you are still stuck, try a) a mates memory card in your phone, and b) your memory card in a mates phone. If a works and b doesnt, contact your memory card supplier. If b works and a doesnt, then contact your phone manufacturer. Hope this helps and isnt too confusing - Chris.