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 My Best MP3 Player! April 17, 2002
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have bought both an MP3 player and a minidisc player, but this surpasses both. Basically I can hold 70 songs (from either my CD or MP3) on a single disc. You can take off/add songs to the disc, or just get more at only two bucks a piece. There is much more memory than flash, and its much cheaper. The only better players are the 5 and 10 gig MP3 players, but they are about 3 times more expensive than this player. It is extremely small and compact, and I have gotten great battery life, about 40 hours on one AA battery. I run with it, and cannot make it skip no matter what I do to the player.
This model has only a few minor flaws. The headphones aren't great, but you can always get another pair. There is no random shuffle for changing tracks, and there is no belt clip. I had to buy a case to use while running. But overall, I highly reccomend this product if you want to take your MP3's, CD's, or any other music on the go.
it's goooood! April 12, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
what can i say - u can record up yo 5 h of your favourite music on this sony's mini disc it's better then a mp3 and it's easier to use .that's all
 Great Mini Disc Player April 1, 2002
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I just bought one of these units on Friday and I must say I've been pretty happy with it.
The first thing I noticed about it, was that it didn't have a belt clip, since I was going to be using this unit while running, I was concerned. In practice, it turned out just fine. Even while slipped in a pocket, the unit is so light and small that it wasn't uncomfortable at all.
The unit comes with one Mini Disc, and as for recording I took mp3s and sent them via the USB cable (also provided). The recording process through the software provided wasn't necessarily a no-brainer, but if you have been able to burn your own cd's, I'm sure you can figure this out. The USB port also supports USB 2.0 which is great if you can take advantage of it since this method transfers data much faster.
It has a good variety of recording sources, since it can also take analog input (tapes, albums, whatever) when recording directly from the player itself.
Recording length seems good also. The discs hold 80 minutes at a normal rate, but you can record in two levels of compression doubling and quadrupling the record time respectively (also with a lessening of sound quality).
Controls are everything you'd expect. Standard controls that would be on any cd player as well as some advanced track grouping controls that I haven't even delved into. Display gives you encoded artist name and track time. It runs off of one "AA" battery (battery meter is also on display). In two half hour sessions the first battery I put in hasn't drained much.
All in all I'm very happy with this unit and would recommend it to someone looking for something smaller than a traditional portable cd player that has more flexibility than a standard mp3 player.
The perfect portable mp3 player. March 31, 2002
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
An optical minidisk player/recorder is the perfect mp3 vehicle: records in high quality (CD) or compressed (mp3), converting any source to its own format during download. Its replacable media is a true optical disk... almost as small as any memory cartridge, and competes with mp3-player expansion memory at the ridiculously low price of [money] for up to 80 minutes of music. Each minidisc is rewriteable forever. Now that Sony has perfected the USB interface and Long Play Mode, there's no reason to buy an iPod for nearly 3x the cost (buy two of these and 50 discs instead). This model, in particular, is a bargain. Light, rugged, with immaculate sound. Comes with headphones, battery, USB cable, PC software (no MAC available), and one disc.
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