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Summary: ***BEST I EVER GOT***
Review: This player is excellent. First off, you get so much for your money: car adapter, remote for headphones and for your car. Secondly, this player is very user friendly. It doesn't come with a stereo cord,but this recorder is such a great price I didn't mind paying an extra 5 dollars for cords. Some reviewers didn't think this machine was so friendly. Trust me it is. I don't know what the fuss is with some people. All you have to do is read the instructions and your fine. Some people are just natural born complainers. Buy this minidisc player. This is an exceptional player for the price and for Sony that is rare.
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Summary: ITS GRRRRREAT!
Review: Wow to everyone complainging about the drm, you can use real one without a problem. The real one player overides sony's drm on their proprietary software. However this product is amazing. It holds 5 hours of music at what sounds like near cd quality even though the bitrate is much much lower (62 kbps). If you dont get this then you are stupid. It could be easier to use, which i would have to say is the only bad thing about it. Get it now or you are a big fat poopie head.
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Summary: Great product!
Review: I've been looking for a long time to find a replacement for my old loyal 'tape' walkman. MP3 Memory-players are too expensive if you want enough space.... and MP3 CD-players are too bulky and consume too much battery power. I was skeptical at first to buy a mini-disk player since the technology is proprietary to Sony (we know what happened to BETA videos when they did the same!). But I'm very impressed with the product. It's easy to use, flexible, very light and small, great performance, and has an incredible battery life. The software is not so bad as others would complain. I used it the first time without even reading the manual. Although it could have been a little more user-friendly. The only negative point is the car kit... but that's because I can't use it in my car anyway (I don't have a tape player in it). But that's just me! In conclusion.... I like it a lot and I hope it will stand the test of time!
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Summary: Broke too Quick
Review: Hello all
I Purchased this profuct the type 5 minidisc from sony and had a bad expereince with it. I had it for a bout a month when it started to not read discs. ONe day i was just walking with it and it syoped working i was lucky it was in the return period. Other than that i really like these things they are small and compact. The mini disc can hold up to 5 CDs. All and all it is okay because of my first problem.
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Summary: Wish I had this years ago!
Review: Great product. I wish I had discovered minidisc technology years ago. I purchase this for one reason (descrete, portable recording), but ended up using it mostly for another reason (music playback) It's not perfect. I wish it had the AM/FM turer, but I was not willing to pay the $70 extra for the model with the tuner. I would also have been nice to record off a mike, but it has a line input and you can run your mike(s) thru a mixer if you really need to record "live". Recordings made thru the line-input cannot be uploaded to your computer either. But what it does it does very, very well. A single 80 min disc can hold (at maximum compression) well over 5 hours of music! It only needs a single AA cell, and that lasts for over 50 hours on playback. Well worth the money.
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Summary: Flawless
Review: I love this item..it's mad tight yo!!
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Summary: MZ-N510 NetMD Walkman
Review: This is truly a beautiful machine. On "normal" mode, you can fit 80 minutes on an 80 min minidisc. On LP2 it doubles (2 hr 40 minutes) and on LP4 it quadruples (5 hours). The quality is the same on all 3, so I don't know why anyone would even use normal or LP2, since LP4 holds so much. The recording features are VERY nice if you have a CD you want to copy (or off the radio, PC, or anything that has sound output) but aren't near your computer. The SonicStage software works well, but there are 2 problems. The first is that you can only copy your musc 3 times (but why do you need more than one song a minidisc???) You can still put the music back on the computer("check in") ONLY if you got the music from that computer ("check out"). It also comes with more software for quick burning that is unlimited. The other problem is that music that you copy from elsewhere can't go on your computer. However, it would be illegal to do that anyways. Also, Minidiscs are better than CDs because they have Groups. You can put as much or as little in groups (albums, artists, style, tempo, whatever you want) which make navigating easier. The battery life is also VERY nice. I listened to it the whole flight to Japan and back on one AA battery. My CD player would've taken 8 AA batteries. Also, when I was in Japan (Minidisc players are very popular) nobody had the recording option (they must get a seperate machine to make Minidiscs), which means ours are even better. However, this remote control is very basic. It's play/pause, stop, next, previous, and next and previous group, so if you're using it to navigate through your Minidiscs you get lost. The only bad thing about the player itself is that the battery compartment sticks out quite far. It isn't far enough to cause a probelm; it still fits in your pocket or palm or anywhere. Another bad thing is that it's quite pricey. You can get a decent CD player for $30-40, but this is over $100 more than that, it's worth it though.
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Summary: Walkman is great
Review: This is a great MiniDisc Recorder/Player, but I highly discourage people from running with it. It's quite big, and a little bulky, even though it does fit in a palm of somebody older than 13. It's pros definetly outweigh the cons. So heres my list of pros and cons. Pros
Great Software- I dont see what the complaining is about. If you follow the directions you'll be done in less than 2 minutes!
Recording Speeds- Really nice if your in a hurry. You can burn approximately 20 songs a minute and 100 songs in 6 minutes.
Memory/Data in a MiniDisc- Although the minidisc claims to be 74 minutes, you can alter the quality of the song (Lp4, Lp2) modes and gets incredible amounts of songs. In LP4 mode (66k) you can get nearly 5 hours of music (4 hours 59 minutes to be precise) and in Lp2 (132k) you can get approx. half of that. Although I said "Alter the quality) there is really no way you can tell the difference between standard and LP4. The only difference I have picked up is that you have to raise the volume a little bit.
Battery Life- 1AA battery can run for 56 hours continually (but its more if you turn it on and off) I've had my MiniDisc Player for 2 weeks now and I listen to it atleast 3/4 hours a day and still is at FULL battery. Cons
Searching for songs- Searching for songs often can be a pain, especially if you don't figure it out (READ THE MANUAL! IT REALLY WORKS) There aren't many cons to this player. Overall I would give this player a high rating of 4.5/5 stars. It's really good and I don't see what the complaining is about.
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Summary: Digital Rights Management
Review: The DRM of the supplied software is an impudence: Transferring music from and to the device is restricted to four times either-way. Since I won't let sony tell me what to do with my data I returned the device immediately!
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Summary: SOUR LEMON: No line out, USB won't transfer recording to PC
Review: This unit sports out a line-in and an USB interface for connection to a PC. Apparently it looks ideal for very high quality recording "on the field" for hobby musicians and similar uses. It isn't so. Due to Sony's brain dead MD DRM (digital rights management, OpenGm) you can only transfer music to it FROM the PC, but you cannot get anything that you have recorded on it out: You have not even a line out, not an SPDIF, and NET MD will transfer to MD ONLY. Once you have recorded anything there, it stays there.
Pity this "feature" is not spelled out clearly on the package. Being the recording function practically useless, dumbed down NET MD units such as this one are functionally equivalent to MP3 payers, but you can only store up to 80 minutes of audio. At least an MP player is usually solid state or hard disk or CD-R based. All three MP3 technologies are definitely better and more user friendly than Sony's Mini Disks.
This one is actually functionally user hostile. Sony wants you to get locked in a MD supports buying mode, and went to a great deal disabling useful product features by design. Stay clear of this unit, stay clear of all NET MD and all Sony's "OpenGM" products in general. They were created to defeat their customers.
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