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Summary: Question
Review: I was wondering whether the MagicGate expansion slot can come off the actual MP3 player.
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Summary: Fancy, yet feeble..........
Review: I've owned this for almost 1year. It looked Cool, yet after carrying and slighty bumped against a desk few times, it broke..
Design is fancy and the format type(ATRAC3) is good to save a memory. However, the software occupies immense system resources. Overall, it was nothing but a funny toy for me.
Although sound quality,design and portabilty are OK, durabilty makes this player as one of worst mp3 players i've owned...
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Summary: Not usual Sony quality
Review: Sony NW-MS70D Network Walkman. If you hear these words, quickly turn around, run away and never look back. This is absolutely the worst experience with a Sony product I've ever had. The unit arrived earlier today and 16 hours later I can safely say that monkeys coded the SonicStage software. Drunken monkeys. I popped the CD in expecting a quick and easy install and then to transfer some songs onto the unit and would soon be listening away. Wrong. The included software refuses to connect to the device, even though my PC sees it no problem. After countless installs, google searches, and system tweaks I'm worse off now than when I started. Now the install won't even run. Mind you, this is on a custom machine, Intel 875 motherboard, P4 2.8C, with a GB of PC3200 RAM, WinXP Pro, running off a WD SATA Raptor, so it can handle pretty much anything thrown at it. You name it; I tried it in trying to get this going. Checked permissions, services, shut down all security, av, anti trojan, spyware blockers, disabled everything in start, rebooted, repeated ad nauseum. In the course of my research I found that many people have had such problems, just go look at the Sony support forums yourself. For this kind of money you'd expect that the thing would at least give you some sort of error code to clue you in on what's wrong. Pros:
-Best looking design out there.
-Made from titanium.
-Good battery life. Cons:
-Doesn't actually play MP3's.
-Songs need to be recorded in proprietary Sony format for which no alternative editing/playing utilities exist.
-Software buggy. I'd recommend staying away from Sony's NW-MS70D. It may be that I was stuck with a defective unit, but the under whelming software packaged with this player is enough to make me want to return it anyways. Who wants an MP3 player that doesn't play MP3's? ***Additional input After complete reinstall of system OS the unit is functioning. Sound quality is excellent. The Sony player is one of the best I've heard, the SonicStage software is not nearly adequate. Maybe I'll get used to it.
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Summary: Ignore the people who can't figure out how to use it.
Review: The proprietary formats won't stop you from getting great use out of the player. I can store a ton of music on it, and I'm an audiophile willing to admit that the maximum and next to maximum setting for Real Player's compression algorithms are indistinguishable using anything less than an MDC 2000 style headphone--AND NOBODY WALKS AROUND WITH ANYTHING THAT HEAVY! If you have a bunch of MP3's that you were too cheap to buy the CDs for, then you may run into problems. They are surmountable, but everybody has their own favorite methods. If you have the CDs, then you will not know what I'm talking about. The unit is incredibly small and attractive. I've had my MP3 player start conversations at bars, restaurants, in class, and with my clients (yeah I've got all of those). I like to use it with a noise reduction headphone so that I can still appreciate the sound when walking on the street or in the subway...or to just overpower the new age music at the gym. Its a great player with high memory, strong lasting power, terrific ease-of-use options, and futuristic look and feel. Better for professionals with more spending power than time to take advantage of illegal downloads.
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Summary: Major Flaw !
Review: The Sony NW-MS70 sounds and looks amazing. I bought this product expecting that once I had uploaded my CD collection on my PC then I'd have many happy hours of listening. Sadly this is not the case! If like me, you suffer hard disk problems on your PC and you are away from your music collection, you've had it! When I bought my MD walkman I never thought about this eventuality but it has happened. Sony support say there's nothing they can or WILL do because it's down to copyright - so thank you SONY. As for my walkman, it did sound great but now it is useless! I think this is a fundamental flaw and if I'd known this at the time of purchase, I would NOT have bought this player.
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Summary: Great for world traveling
Review: This digital music player is very useful when traveling because: 1) It is small, lightweight and thus will fit almost anywhere (ipod is at least 4X larger not to mention about 100X heavier); 2) Sony has made it easy to change the volume or song while the player is still in your pants pocket or shirt, so you do not have to take the player out every time you want to change a song or the volume (ipod requires a remote control and is a its white color is a big tip off to thieves that you have a $400 dollar ipod player available). 3) The battery life is great for long train trips or flights (Good luck with ipod battery life); 4) Sony software allows for easy transfer of your music to the player (the reviewers who complain about mp3 formats not working obviously do not own the player, because it is ridiculously simple to load your songs onto the player, and anyone who owns this player can figure out within minutes how to "bypass" the "mysterious" Sony "proprietary" software to record any song they want on this player (The key to this is that Sony software requires that you have the wave file for the song, and not just the mp3 file. 5) The player is built very ruggedly since everything is solid state and not a disk drive (i.e ipod). It has never skipped while playing. 6) The memory is expandable to whatever size you decide and Sony now has 1GB cards that you can purchase(i.e. your player is not limited to 10, 20, or 30 GB like the ipods). This is by far the best digital music player money can buy. You definitely get better options and quality for your money than with the ipod. Highly recommended for the professional who wants only the best.
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Summary: Very good for the 105 days it lasted.
Review: This is a light weight, compact unit that's perfect for those who listen to their own CDs. I haven't had issues transferring WAV files since I record off of my own CDs. It doesn't skip with movement and the sound is very good. However my unit stopped working 105 days after I received it. Being that the full warranty is only for 90 days, I am now stuck with paying shipping and labor charges to get it fixed (Sony only covers parts for 1 year). This is an expensive unit and I was happy with it while it worked but the price works out to 3$ per day. No MP3 unit is worth this price regardless of size, features and sound. You expect to pay a lot for a Mercedes but you also expect it to run for longer than 3 & 1/2 months.
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Summary: Quality!
Review: This is a very durable little mp3 player. I take it everywhere and to all types of gyms. Sometimes I can't hold on to it while doing activity, and I just hold it in the strap of my sports bra, put in my pocket while snowboarding, tuck it away in a hat or visor, etc. Its great! I would suggest anyone who is active and likes to take their music everywhere they go to buy this little walkman. Well worth the money!
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Summary: May not work with your computer!
Review: This walkman has nice attributes and but fails for most people who take music seriously. If you want to continue using a more robust media manager (Media PLayer, Music Match, or Realplayer), use playlists, or have more than a few hundred songs on your PC, the encryption software Sony requires you to use simply will not work. Sony is the only company that will not allow you to transfer MP3s and WPAs to its devices. It converts them to ATRAC to protect copyrights (many of whish Sony owns). The software that handles that is proprietary, badly written, and untested. Furthermore, their software support is really horrid. I strongly discourage this product for most users.
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Summary: Run for your lives
Review: What a mess. Sony missed the boat big time with this one. The software is a mess, buggy and doesn't work well with Windows. My puter crashed a minimum of 15 times in 2 days. Support? I had to hunt them down and then it took, no lie, 6 hours on the phone. Seems the CD was missing a .dll file and windows would not recognize their .inf files. In addition, the unit itself had to have the memory reformatted, a manufacturing issue. Now that it works, beware, unless you rip your own CDs or want to buy from the Sony Music Store, which, by the way, uses a different version of the software and will also crash your puter, you are pretty limited. I wish I had purchased another product, the use of this will be very limited and I cannot recommend it to anyone for any reason.
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