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Summary: A Technical Marvel
Review: This is quite simply the most amazing product Sony has come out with yet. I would give it 5 stars just for the sheer coolness factor this little gizmo offers. I got mine several weeks after it came out and i dont leave home without it. It plays MP3 at surprisingly high quality, and nice and loud unlike most MP3 players. It's quite expensive, so if money is an issue I recommend waiting for a price drop, but other than that, buy the Memory Stick, its just the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.
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Summary: Unbelievable product!
Review: This is simply the coolest and most functional player out there. It seems as if half the people writing reviews don't even own the player, they're just commenting and adding to what other people have said. What's the big stink about ATRAC? Are you people worried about space on your HD or something? Because if you dont have 200mb (or less) of free space on your computer then what are you doing with something so new and technological as an mp3 player in the first place? The music quality itself is awesome and the player as a whole package really is great.
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Summary: atrac or 8-track
Review: This product is a PERFECT example of how stupid big corporations can be. They think that since everybody's copying and exchanging music, the best thing to do is make it such a pain-in-the-ask to to copy music. Sony you are dumb. This is such a beautifully crafted peice of hardware, but NO, you just had to RUIN it with ATRAC. I got one as a present from my brother in law. I was shocked that he managed to buy this without knowing that it was a mp3 gimp. I love sony cameras and vaios, but this walkman is a marketing audacity of sony music. People dont have time and energy to convert files into something else and check them in and out. Mp3 activities end up consuming enough time as it is, like a hobby or something.
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Summary: Good quality sound...very bad software..poor Sony support
Review: Three times the software has locked up the computer and then when I rebooted found that it had trashed my drive. I had to rebuild it from scratch each time. Very poor. I have since upgraded my computers to Windows 2000 which Sony seems to think noone is using. They don't support Win2000 or WinME both of which are far more stable than Win95/98. So, I have shelved my unit and purchased an IGO MP3 Player which is far easier to use, works with modern OS's and is supported. Sony has failed it's customers because of it's lack of timely upgrades, poor/non available support and lack of support for other operating systems. If you're smart, stay away from this until Sony changes their bad behaviour.
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Summary: Read this before you buy it!
Review: Two positive things to say about the player: 1.It looks very fancy and is supposed to have good audio quality 2.It is light and easy to use and just looks cool in your hand! But... the provided Open Mg software is awful. It is the worst Jukebox software I have ever seen in my life. I have a feeling that it still runs in a pre-beta. I use win me and when I connected the device with my computer, started the software..."kaboom", and I recieved a bluescreen message(fatal error). After reinstalling the software for at least 5 times, it still did't work so I called Sony and asked them why it is not working. A friendly person told me that the Open Mg Software doesn't work with windows me and only works with preinstslled Windows 98. He also told me that I can wait till a win me driver will be released. Thanx a lot! I spent [a lot of money] on this thing and now it doesn't work with a new operating system. Tss, tss bad bad software. A stupid thing is also that the player doesn't support mp3, but instead converts mp3 files into atrac3 files which take much storage on your computer together with your mp3's. Now the second thing is, the NW-MS7 is too expensive for a 64Mb mp3 player. You can buy the Rio 500 and spend less money and even although the Rio 500 is pretty old, the software still works better that the Sony NW-MS7. Now I own the Creative Nomad Jukebox and it is so much better. For only 100 bucks more you'll get a 6 Gig storage space with the size of a portable CD player. So if you still use windows 98 and look for a awesome designed "mp3" player and don't care about the software and the price then buy it! If you use win me or 2000 and look for a good working mp3 player and a good software then you should look for something else and don't spend [this much] on a 64 MB player.
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Summary: Betamax redux
Review: What a useless piece of junk. Impressively cool looking, it requires you to jump through Sony's copy-protection hoops to play music that you legitimately own. It also requires special MagicGate memory sticks, which are much more expensive per megabyte than other storage media. If you want an expensive toy that forces you to endlessly convert files and pay homage to a technology that will disappear in a year you should by this player. Can you say Betamax?
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Summary: I love mine
Review: You know, in reading the other reviews, one has to wonder what it is they were expecting when they bought their Sony MS. It's a gadget, a toy, and it is a prized possession of mine. I found it easy to use, easy to download music, great to carry around and take music on the go without carrying a cumbersome CD player and CD's. Maybe if I was a techno-freak I would have knocks against this product, but for the general consumer I think it's a great toy. Just wish it came with a case or clip so I could more comfortably take it running.
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