Sony NW-HD1 20 GB Network Walkman Digital Music PlayerSony NW-HD1 20 GB Network Walkman Digital Music Player
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- 20 GB hard drive digital music player that fits comfortably into the palm of a hand or in a pocket or purse
- Stores up to 13,000 tracks (900 CDs) at 48 kbps when using Sony's ATRAC3plus audio format
- Up to 30 hours of playback with built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
- Skip Free G-Protection Technology provides quick recovery from both horizontal and vertical shock
- USB 2.0 cradle for PC connection and recharging
The NW-HD1 keeps the music smooth and steady with a built in G-Sensor that ensures skip-free play during your bounciest car rides, workouts and jogging expeditions. The 1.5" 7-line backlit display provides all the information you need to keep tabs on your tunes. While displaying track number, bit rate, elapsed time, song title, and artist name, it provides a spectrum analyzer for viewing your music's highs and lows, as well as play mode, bass boost, volume limiter and battery life indicators.
In addition to a standard mini headphone jack, the NW-HD1 also sports a line out jack so you can plug the player into your car or home stereo, or into a powered speaker system. The unit's USB 2.0 port is the key transferring music onto the device and charging the battery. Simply pop the NW-HD1 into the supplied cradle, connect the cradle to your PC and you're ready to transfer your ATRAC3plus encoded tracks at high speed to the device. Meanwhile, the cradle charges the NW-HD1's battery when the cradle is plugged in via the supplied AC adapter. A quick charge feature allows the battery to be charged to 80 percent capacity in just an hour.
The power to encode, organize, and manage the music you play on the NW-HD1 lies in Sony's bundled music software, SonicStage. With SonicStage, you can import, manage and easily transfer your digital music collections. First, import your audio CDs, existing MP3s or Windows Media files into SonicStage and then encode them to ATRAC3plus. Then, set up playlists and mixes on your PC. Finally, use the high speed USB connection to upload the tracks to your NW-HD1. It couldn't be simpler. The NW-HD1 is also fully compatible with Sony's robust Connect Online Music Store, which provides an easy method for downloading personal music in ATRAC3plus format. Connect offers access to over 500,000 songs including many independent titles as well as featured artist and celebrity mixes.
What's in the Box
HW-HD1 Network Walkman Digital Music Player, SonicStage software, earbud headphones, carrying pouch, USB cable, USB cradle, AC power adaptor
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- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Studio: Sony
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57 of 64 people found the following review helpful:  Work of Art Ruined By The Worst Software Ever Written, By chris2519 "Chris" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Sony NW-HD1 20 GB Network Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics) From a hardware perspective, it's a work of art. Beautiful, sleek, lightweight, and solid feeling. I got it in my hands and fell in love. And then I tried to use it. Which required installing SonicStage. I'd read all the bad reviews of SonicStage, and I'd used (what I thought was) equally bad Sony software in the past -- OpenMG for their NetMD player, for example. So I was prepared for some annoyances, fine tuning, maybe occassional bugs. I also assumed the people who complained were exaggerating about how bad it was. LET ME PROMISE YOU -- THEY WERE NOT. In almost twenty years of using computer software, tinkering with electronics, owning some version of almost every gadget known to man -- I have never seen such a promising piece of hardware CRIPPLED by such a buggy, ill-conceived, underpowered, unintuitive piece of software. It's WORSE than what people are telling you. It's so bad that I ended up returning mine and buying an Ipod -- something I swore I'd never do. The...Read more 53 of 61 people found the following review helpful:  An extremely well built MP3 player, By This review is from: Sony NW-HD1 20 GB Network Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics) I will keep this very simple and list the pro's and the con's of this unit so you can see what I liked about it and what I did not. For reference, my last MP3 player was a Jukebox Zen 20gig USB 2.0 version but the hard drive died so I purchased this sony.
Let me get the bad out of the way first: -No remote included in the box (for 400, there really should be one) -Converstion of MP3s to Atrac takes a long time if you have more than 1 gig of music...but...(see the good below) -No "on the go" playlists. That is my biggest gripe with the unit as far as operations and functions go. There is a bookmark feature that lets you remember up to 100 of your favorite songs so you can make a bogus playlist of sorts, but coming from a Zen, the playlist feature is dearly missed -The case included cannot be hanged anywhere. It simply protects the player from scratches but has no belt clip/string/rope. -Cheapo headphones in the box but that's...Read more 27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:  Style Wars, By DMD 312 (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews This review is from: Sony NW-HD1 20 GB Network Walkman Digital Music Player (Electronics) I think whether or not you like the Sony comes down to a taste in style. I do not have any MP3 files on my computer, so I don't care about the lack of native MP3 support or converting CD's to ATRAC. The ATRACplus format sounds awesome and is better than Apple's AAC format because you can store more songs in a smaller space (that is, the Sony unit is smaller than the Apple 40GB unit). The 40GB iPod stores 10,000 songs in AAC format (or probably less in MP3 format). This Sony 20GB unit stores 10,000 songs in ATRAC3plus 64kbps format. These formats are basically equivalent to each other in terms of sonic quality, except that Sony allows for greater size compression. People complain about the SonicStage software and I will admit that it is not the best, but it also only took me 5 minutes to figure out without looking at the documentation. The battery life difference is not even a contest as the Sony goes for 27 hours while the iPod only goes for 12 hours.
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