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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Sony NW-E75 256 MB Network Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics) Once and for all this is a great unit. The only true con has been the Atrac format. Here is your answer.
Sony is now supporting an MP3 File management utility. Go to Sony's site and go to support for the NW-E75. Find the MP3 File Manager Application and run it to automatically load to your player (make sure you unit is connected). Open 'My Computer' - open the ESYS directory and run the utility. You will be presented with instructions on how to use the utility to drag and drop MP3 files directly to your player. You will be able to load and play MP3 files in just a few minutes. This is a tremendously simple utility that does direct MP3 transfers. You don't have to load SonicStage. If you do, the NW-E75 will load and play both file formats. Just put them in different groups. With this new MP3 utility, the Sony NW-E75 is about the smallest, full function, longest battery life unit on the market. It is well designed and easy to use. Read...Read more 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: By Alan (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Sony NW-E75 256 MB Network Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics) I bought this MP3 player for working out. I love that it runs on a AAA battery because I hate being caught in the middle of a workout with a low battery signal. I can just run to my gym bag and grab a new battery. The additional cost of batteries is negligible because it runs for an average of 60 hours on every AAA battery. Not only that but it's super light-weight, and has no moving parts which is perfect for running
If you're looking for a high capacity, high transfer speed MP3 player, this isn't for you. The player runs on Sony's ATRAC3 format, so you have to use the software to convert it which takes a few minutes to move the music to the player. That wasn't really an issue for me. I put about 150 songs on it which took about 10 minutes, but I don't plan to keep changing the music since that's more than enough music to work out to. The software took a little getting used to, but if you play with it enough, it's pretty intuitive. I have yet to use it for this,...Read more 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: By Dan "Dan" (Fredericton ,NB Canada) - See all my reviews This review is from: Sony NW-E75 256 MB Network Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics) That small Mp3 player "the smallest one I have ever seen so far" is by far the best mp3 available so far. Although it has great pros it also has some disadvantage , let me start with the advantages : a very small compact design to hide it any where , 256 MG ,very high sound quality , a very long battery life ( about 40 to 60 hours using Atrac3 plus), and ability to hold about 80 to 160 songs using Atrac3plus and Atrac3.now, for the disadvantage: you have to use the software supported to download mp3 and music to the player, converting to Atrac3 and Atrac3plus takes some time, the software used to transfer and convert the music is kind of confusing and needs some times to get used to , and you have to have Atrac3 or Atrac3plus in order to reach the 40 to 60 hours playback(they didn't mention any thing about mp3 play time, I think it is much smaller). One of the big question I had before buying that mp3 player is the quality of Atrac3 and Atrac3plus... well, It is depends: Atrac3plus...Read more |