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(21 customer reviews) 15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Mis-Leading,
February 14, 2005 David M. Nabinger "Tech Head" (US Army Europe (Germany)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sony MZ-N420D Psyc Net MD Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics)
First I am a huge Sony Minidisc fan and have used md's for a long time. Entering the mp3 and wma time, I decided to get a net md to play these files. Unfortunetly Sony forgot to give their users an easy way to transfer their files to the net md. Here's why;
First even though the package says it plays mp3's and wma's, it actually means it will convert them to Atrac then store it to the player. Taking too much of your time.
Second it doesn't even convert all wma's or mp's. Most of my files are wma and it didn't even convert 75% of them.
Third the device soemtimes thinks it's full when not and heres the kicker, you must use batteries to to do any tranfers. Most mp3 player uses the power of your computer to do that.
Honestly I have never been so mad at sony. I do still love most of their products but they should have put more effort into this.
Sorry customers, but if you want an easy to use and better quality mp3 player look at...Read more
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Wondermus,
September 13, 2004 A. J Springer "tekende" (Guthrie, OK United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sony MZ-N420D Psyc Net MD Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics)
I just bought this about a week ago, so take that in stock when you read this review. I plan to update it after I've owned it for longer. BUT here are my thoughts so far.
PROs:
--Over 5 hours of music on one MD
--Sound is very good, even at the highest compression rate it's just barely below CD-quality
--MDs are relatively inexpensive (about $2 apiece)
--Low price compared to most mp3 players
--Bass and treble are adustable
--Transferring music to MD is fairly simple and fast
--MDs can store track information (album name, song name, etc) and display it on the player
--Unit is very small (it fits quite comfortably in my pocket WITH my cell phone)
--HUGE battery life when playing music
--MDs are very easily rewritable
CONS:
--MD has limited memory for storing track information (normally not a problem but if you go much beyond about 80-90 songs it...Read more
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A good value.,
June 25, 2004 D. Mende "dfmusic" (Northern NJ, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sony MZ-N420D Psyc Net MD Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics)
A good value. The battery life (1 AA) is incredible. All files (MP3 etc.) must be converted to the Sony file format but the included software does this. There are two programs. "MD Simple Burner" is the easiest and fastest way to get music from your audio CD's burned on a MD(3 to 5 minutes per CD.) "Sonic Stage" will convert various file types (mp3, wav, wma) to the Sony format and transfer it to the MD. There are 3 different transfer modes, SP, LP2 and LP4. SP provides the best quality while LP4 the smallest file. I don't download music from the internet so I can't verify this feature. The Good: It is cheap (mine was $100,) reliable, small, each disk holds 70-80 songs (5 hours of music) in LP4 form, good sound quality, disks cost less than $2, good battery life and has good anti-skip protection. The Bad: Sonic Stage is slow, awkward and unstable, tiny display, confusing manual, other than headphones and a MD, no other accessories are included. It is smaller and much cheaper than...Read more
