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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy Used: $69.99
You Save: $180.00 (72%)
New (5) Used (5) Refurbished (8) from $69.99
Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 14867
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 1
Batteries Included: No
Battery: AA type
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9 x 3
MPN: MZNH600D
Model: MZNH600D
UPC: 027242636514
EAN: 0027242636514
ASIN: B0001M3MVG
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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Sony has made the SonicStage software MUCH easier to use. August 16, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been a LOUD critic of Sony's SonicStage software. (You can see my rants on older models.)
But that has changed. The new version of SonicStage is very much better.
We active MD users have complained to Sony for years and -- to their credit -- they gave us the main feature we asked for: the ability to take music off the player in a non-proprietary format.
(Sony chose WAV which is very useful but big. You can also burn to CD.)
While I still find Sonic Stage 4.0 quirky it is MUCH easier to use than previous versions. Again, I give credit to Sony.
Personally, I wish I could just drag-and-drop the files off the MD but the SonicStage method isn't too bad.
So, for under $200 you get GREAT audio recording quality and a really well-designed piece of hardware. That's hard to beat! You do have to put up with some "only OK" software.
 wonderful!! June 23, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sounds great, easy to use and easy on the battery!Software is absolutely no problem and ultra easy.Cannot understand why people are having difficulty with it.1GB disc is awesome.UPDATE: had it over 2 years now - works great and the software is easy to understand. Love the submenu and shuffle plus equaliser. SONY -make more of these, they are great.
 Player is fine, Software is a nightmare April 19, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had my mini disc player for about two years now, and though I have no complaints about the player I'm having such difficulty with the software that I'm about to break down and buy an ipod. At one point I purchased a track from the Sony Connect Music Store and when I tried to transfer it to my player I got an error stating that copyright prevented the track from being transferred. I was pretty aggravated since I had PAID for the song. After much fiddling I was able to work around it.
My computer has been rebuilt twice since I've had this software and both times have caused major problems with the software. While I can still download the tracks I've already purchased for free, I cannot transfer them to my player or a cd.
While I can convert WAV or MP3 files on my computer to ATRAC, I cannot convert ATRAC to any other format. Since my hard drive crashed and my some of my music was stolen out of my car I was originally excited because a lot of it was on my mini-discs. However, I cannot transfer those tracks back onto my computer. The lack of flexibility in the software has made the player itself useless to me.
Transferring tracks to and from the player takes forever and if a particular track is prohibited, no error pops up it just continues to say "transferring" and it is not until you stop it when you're frustrated that it is taking so long that you find out which tracks are problematic.
The Connect Music Store has a limited selection in my opinion. I like some semi-obscure stuff which it doesn't have, and there are artists that aren't obscure that they don't carry either. In the two years I've had this I have found maybe twenty songs that I wanted.
I am not the most computer literate person, if I was I may not have had so many problems, but after reading similar complaints about the software I can now place some of the blame on Sony. :)
 I hate this product April 15, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
There is no way to digitally transfer information from the MD Walkman to the computer / CD rom, making this an expensive piece of junk. A toy not worth the effort. I am unbelievably disappointed with this product and it's software.
Soured on Sony December 29, 2005
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
This review is more about the Hi-MD concept in general than one particular player.
The sound quality was excellent. The rest of the product and concept deserves to die in the marketplace.
Complaints:
-The only thing that isn't proprietary is the headphone jack and the AA battery. Beyond that, Sony's dual role as a content provider (complete with nasty intellectual property lawyers) and equipment manufacturer fatally compromises usuability of this line of players. No Macintosh support is just the beginning. Proprietary compression algorithms. Weird and twisted upload/download rules. Wrong choices made at every point of the PRD process.
-100x recording speed? Make that 4x on a good day. 100x speed is a specification that should attract the attention of Elliot Spitzer, if he only cared.
-The players are flimsy. Just walking with mine caused it to skip. And one hard fall to the floor and it stopped working entirely. Sony will charge you to honor the warranty (parts only--no labor). By contrast Apple replaced my daughter's iPod no questions asked when it started developing hard disk hiccups.
-Trying to find Hi-MDs offers the thrill of the hunt, if you're into that kind of thing. But their rarity suggests that Sony is at best half-hearted about supporting this device.
I used to be a loyal Sony customer, but now believe they have gone almost irretrievably downhill. Sleek designs do not compensate for disfunctional product management and shoddy manufacturing. In fact, I'm planning an HD TV purchase next year and have Sony far down on the list of possibilities. You can find better quality and value almost anywhere else these days.
Howard, are you listening?
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