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Summary: I can't believe it sucks
Review: I recieved the Memory Stick Walkman under 5 impressions.1) It played MP3s. 2) It had no copyright crap that Metallica's whining about. 3) Memory Sticks were pretty inexpensive. 4) It used normal Memory Sticks. 5) I could use my existing media player to upload songs. Boy, was I angry when I faced the brutal truth. This thing takes like an hour to convert MP3s into OMGs, it has MagicGate Memory Stick technology that makes no difference except that it's more expensive (which is a lot, considering a NORMAL Memory Stick's price), I had to use OpenMG Jukebox, which is a piece of crap compared to Windows Media Player 7, or even RioPort. This copyright stuff will hurt Sony badly, and I'm so ticked off, I refuse to buy Sony's products!
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Summary: Sleek style and size makes up for time consuming formatting
Review: Lets face it, almost 95% of prospective buyers of a digital music player are in the market because they are downright cool gadgets. With Sony's MS7 walkman you definitely get a cool gadget that would make all of your friends quite jealous. ATRAC3 WHATS THE BIG DEAL? As you have read in earlier reviews this "walkman" uses the ATRAC3 format over MP3. Technically there are many differences between the two formats but audibly they are one in the same. The big deal with the ATRAC format is not the sound but rather the convenience issue of the player. For those of you who simply want to be able to drag and drop your MP3s onto this player you may want to double think purchasing this model. Though dont be fooled, the Jukebox software that comes with this player allows you to convert your MP3s into the ATRAC format (as well as your CD's) CHECK IN/ CHECK OUT Once converted, the jukebox software will display all of your songs originally with three musical notes next to them indicating the amount of "rights" that song has to be transferred. Once you select an ATRAC file that you want to send to your player you then must continue with the check out process. Once stored on your player you now only have two notes, indicating that you only have "rights" to that song two more times. The only way to get your "right" back is to check the song back into your hard drive. When you think about the system it is quite ingenious and would make any Sony lawyer happy. MEMORY STICKS If you are buying this player thinking that you are going to stock up on Sony MG memory sticks think again. 64MB MG MS are over $100 a piece. If you are looking for a player that would allow you to keep separate "mixs'" on different medias that you can interchange in your players, look to Iomegas new Clik player. SLEEK STYLE As seen in the picture this player is very ergonmically built. It fits well in your palm and has a very intuitive menu. A "rocking" scroll bar on the side of the unit allows you to scroll up and down between your checked out songs and also allows you to FF and REW. There are also options to change display types of your song readouts and time counter playback options. The look and feel are truly state of the art and worth the price tag. ACCESORIES The player comes with a very tiny (and easy to lose) cradle that recharges the units LITH battery and also is the specially designed input of the included USB cable. (The input on the cradle almost looks like an 1394 port)Also easy to lose is the adapter for the headphone jack. The headphone input is not your standard 3.5" mini plug but rather a 2.5". The included headphones are 2.5" and comes with the aformentioned adapter. Also included is a very hard to install strap to hang the player around your neck. All in all this is the most sleek and best looking player on the market. Purchasing this all comes down to looks over convenience, shes very pretty but a definite pain in the arse.
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Summary: Sony MS-7, Great Design Poor Interface
Review: Like many Sony products the MS-7 is a study in top-notch industrial design. The MS-7 fits perfectly in the hand and pocket, the controls are intuitive and it has the feel of a rugged piece that will take some abuse. Unfortunately all the efforts put into the superb design are lost by the proprietary SDMI memory sticks and clumsy software. The music files loaded into the MS-7 are not MP3 rather ATRAC3. While ATRAC3 has a bit better compression ratio, approximately 12:1 vs. 10:1 for MP3, it is hardly worth the nuisance of having to re-rip your MP3 files after downloading from your computer to the player 4 times. Had it not been for the fact that mine had a bad left channel I probably would have kept it just because it is so cool. I wound up with a Nomad II, which I like very much. The Nomad II cost less, comes with a 32 preset FM tuner, nice headphones, not ear buds and uses a replaceable AA alkaline battery. If Sony reissues the MS-7 sans SDMI and ATRAC3 I'll be the first in line to buy one.
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Summary: MP3 King
Review: Simply the best and most advanced personal music system available.
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Summary: Beware if you have Windows 2000
Review: So, you buy a Sony product and expect that the company will support it. Well, beware! I have a new computer and can no longer use my MP3 player. Not only was it unbelievably difficult to figure out how to use the software, but I had to reboot my machine every time I wanted to rip a CD. Now I can't even use the product. YIKES!
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Summary: Beware if you have Windows 2000
Review: So, you buy a Sony product and expect that the company will support it. Well, beware! I have a new computer and can no longer use my MP3 player. Not only was it unbelievably difficult to figure out how to use the software, but I had to reboot my machine every time I wanted to rip a CD. Now I can't even use the product. YIKES!
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Summary: Expensive and Useless
Review: Sony has made a nice piece of hardware, but you can only get music onto the thing using their sites when downloading emusic. And, if the song is fairly popular, chances are, you will have to pay to download it. The real surprise is that you do not get to keep the song, you have to check in and out of Sony's mainframe to "check in" and "check out" the songs, plus, they will erase your song if they decide you have had it too long. Basically, its an MP3 player that is expensive, and you can not even get the music you want. I bought mine, and returned it furious 3 hours later.
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Summary: EXCELLENT PLAYER!
Review: The functionality and ease of use of this player is so amazing..oh and about ATRAC3, do you people realize that what an mp3 is converted to ATRAC3 it is compressed?! I listen to full-fledged hard rock, not some drum-and-bass junk so listen to this: I had a FOUR MEGABYTE mp3 but after it was converted to ATRAC3 it was ONE AND A HALF MEGABYTES! and it doesn't lose any quality at all!, in fact it sounds even better than mp3 when you're listening to it on the player. Because of this I was able to fit 24 songs on this player with the stock 64MB card!! With a normal mp3 player the files aren't compressed and you can only fit about half the amount of songs as when they're compressed using this player's software. so go buy the Sony NW-MS7 now .... it's the best one out there.
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Summary: MPWhat?
Review: The Sony MemoryStick would and could become one of the best portable MP3 players on the market...if it weren't for the fact that it isn't an MP3 player! Technically, because Sony only allows its proprietary ATRAC music-compression system on its player, it isn't an MP3 player. Thus, any MP3's you might have already on your computer would need to be converted to the ATRAC compression system first. Unfortunately, this causes a lot of hassles, and if you already have a huge amount of MP3's (legally, of course) on your system, you might want to look at another of the player's out there. However, if you are looking to digitally manage all of your music on your computer, and you have a huge hard drive, then this is the best player on the market for you.
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Summary: Not so bad
Review: This is a very good portable digital music player. It is one of the smallest ones available, has excellent sound quality and loading it is very fast. The rechargable battery charges quickly and lasts me about 12 hours. The only drawback is the OpenMG software it uses, and its restriction to Win98. One of the other reviews mentions that you can only check out a song 4 times, and makes it sound like it is 4 times ever. Not true! You CAN only have 4 copies checked out at one time, but when you unload the player it checks the copy back in. I haven't had more than 1 copy of any song checked out at any one time, so it isn't an issue.
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