Sony D-NF400 ATRAC Walkman Portable CD Player with Digital AM / FM / TV / Weather Tuner

Rating:
Summary: Happy purchase, but...
Review: The Ugly:
The SonicStage software is garbage. I popped a CD in. It was able to go to some web site to retrieve artist/track info for my CD. But every time I hit the ATRAC convert button it crashes on me. This stupid thing actually made me waste time reading the manual.
The good:
For the MP3 playback it works pretty well. You can organize files in folders (8-levels max) and the display of the playing track is changeable. It allows full track names to scroll horizontally. Under [Menu] there's a "sound" option that allows you to change the LOW/MID/HIGH frequency wave pattern for sound quality customization. Aside from SOFT/ACTIVE/HEAVY and default NONE. I really like this feature. The radio/TV/Weather feature works pretty well. And there's a auto-shutoff timer you can set for the use of the player in 10, 20, ... minutes interval.
The bad:
Notice that there's a "loading time" for even regular CD's. takes around 10 seconds from the time you pop the disc in, hit play, to it actually playing a regular CD. For MP3 it's reasonable consider the amount of stuff it needs to load for initialization. AC/DC 4.5-volt power adapter not included in the US/Canada version.