Customer Reviews:
 If it wasnt for the software, this would be a great product. March 17, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Because Sony's SonicStage software is presumed to suck, nobody uses it unless they have to. Because I use iTunes, I am forced to burn a disc in iTunes of the music that I want to put on my mini-disc. Then I have to rip that disc into SonicStage which can take a long time. After that I can then select the music from SonicStage and burn a minidisc. This whole Process can take as long as 45 minutes. After that ordeal, the Walkman works great. I hate SonicStage so much because what I have just described is going on as I write this review.
 Good, but only for little while October 28, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I liked this for a while, but suddenly the software stopped working and I cannot seem to fix it. I had a different MD player also from Sony and it broke, but I always had pretty good luck with Sony stuff so I bought this one. As of yet I have heard nothing from Sony on what the fix might be.
 A Great Product October 8, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Before I heard of this from a friend of mine, I was saving up for an iPod. What a waste of time.
This is much better. Sure, the iPod might have more room (but it isn't expandable!) and better sound quality, but I'm not exactly a music freak who needs perfection quality. The music, when in LP4 mode, which is the smallest type of mode that lets you store a little over 5 hours on one MD, doesn't have horrible, static quality. If you are a person who just wants their music, then this is right for you.
The software that comes originally packaged with the product is bad, but go to www.connect.com and download the new version of SonicStage. It lets you easily import any MP3 and 7 other formats of music, and also includes the Connect Music store which lets you buy songs for 99 cents. It lets you put each song on a disc 5 times, or else you have to buy it again.
Overall, this product is great. The battery life is truely amazing, and it comes with a rechargable battery.
Get this product if you are not a music "freak" who needs perfect quality. Just get this if you want good value, easy functioning, and just a great product.
 Not awesome, but good October 4, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
this unit is pretty decent, i purchased one in about November 2003, and it has served me well. If you have a huge (rather, massive) music collection, then you are best off buying an iPod, but this does the job well if you are more selective with your music. You can still fit more than 300 minutes of music (at least 4-6 albums) on 1 disc (with minimal loss of quality). The software takes a little getting used to, but does the job once you know how to use it. Transfer speeds are pretty good, and it looks good too! A fine unit.
Now for some disadvantages:
- If you wanted to do live recording of your voice with a microphone, this unit cannot do that. So beware before you buy.
- The main reason I chose to buy this player over others is that it came with an AM/FM tuner. But you cant record the radio onto MD, which is disappointing. And it is very strange how once you connect it to the power supply, you cannot turn the radio on. You have to play it first using the battery and then plug in ithe power supply...BTw, can someone tell me how you can watch TV on this unit (I live in australia so maybe it only works with US channels??) and weather band?
Apart from that I am happy with the unit.
A Good Portable Device (good - not GREAT) September 3, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
First things first:
[*]NO BACKLIGHT on the remote or the player (What the hell - my $10 watch packs that)
[*]Cheap - piece of junk software
[*]Crappy-old school headphones (be prepared to invest atleast $15 more on a decent pair)
[*]The pause feature is annoying as hell - If I paused a track, that means that I don't want to listen to the music and want to listen to the person talking to me. When you pause a track, you hear this "beep - beep - beep ..." and it goes on till you hit play again or hit STOP and then if you hit STOP, 10 secs later, the player will shut down. So then, when you hit play again, it will take about 2 seconds to come back and play that track again.
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Now, I love this player. Its awesome.
Excellent sound quality and I can get about 40 songs on MD using LP2 conversion and hella lot more using LP4 (you loose some quality). I get a lot of base and I can stick it in my back pack and go and no skipping. I like the fact that I can carry my songs on a MD, I like Techno, Rock, Hip-hop ...compositions. so I basically have a MD for each type of music. The most impressive feature is the fact that this player can run forever on 1 AA bat. and if its a recharable bat, it gets charged while its in the player (given you have the player plugged into the wall). Which is awesome, means you can have 1 bat that lasts foooorever and you can carry additional bat as needed)
iPOD - I go camping, so how do you suggest I recharge it?
plus its expensive, so I have to be more careful with it. With the MD player, I don't care...I throw it around all the time
Now a little about the software:
If you use all the software that Sony has provided with this MD player, you will be in a world of TROUBLE. Things will break and you will get all sorts of errors and what not. So here is what you need to do (By dino):
1) Install all the software that came with the player
2) Get yourself a copy of NERO burner, you will also need NERO Image drive, Its installed with NERO burner.
3) Open Nero and create a "New Audio CD" project - Drag and drop all your MP3 files (Try to limit these to about 20 files otherwise "Net MD Simple burner will have issues") - basically if you add hella files, it will have memory issues when burning, not because of your hardware, but because of the software - NET MD SIMPLE BURNER.
4) Hit Burn - Select "Hard Drive" as the burn device on the Tab.
5) you will be asked to save image file (pick a location on your Hard drive and save)
6) You will see it burn all the MP3 - when its finished. Kill NERO
7) Now, Start Nero Image Drive and Mount this image.
8) Start NET MD simple burner and it will detect this image of Audio CD and you can move all the tracks to your MD.
NOTE: If you have multiple CD/DVD drives, make sure you remove all audio CD's from those drives.
9) Once done burning, Open Image drive and unmount the IMAGE and delete the Image file (Image of Audio CD).
What we basically did here was to fool Net MD Simple burner into thinking that its burning a real CD from the CD/DVD drive. So now, you can burn as many songs as you want without the 3 song limit.
ohhh..you did not know ?
haha - Net MD - Sony will not allow you to burn a song more than 3 times onto a MD unless you check the song back into your computer and then it will allow you to check out a copy. Eventually, if you get errors or something...you will not be able to burn that song on the MD at all...who came up with this junk ?
-so you will just be using NET MD simple Burner and NERO - Trash rest of the programs that sony installed. (make sure you leave the shared files on)
END of the DAy, THIS md PLAYER fits my lifestly and I am happy with what I paid for it.
If you are not Tech Savvy, you will have problems with this player, go for something simple :)
On the other hand, if the stuff above makes sense, you will be fine :)
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