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Summary: Great Replacement for an MP3 Player....
Review: Bought it a short while ago. Used to have a pre-historic RCA Lyra #1....and MusicMatch Jukebox stopped support my little Lyra....Windows Media Player doesn't support it....the drivers that came on the CD aren't supported by Windows XP Home Edition....so I faced the music and started researching Mini-Disc players and MP3 players. I couldn't decide on an MP3 player because of the divided opinions on each one....so I decided to check out Mini-Disc players/recorders. Only heard GOOD THINGS about em' so I thought why not. And only GOOD THINGS have come out of purchasing this wonderful product. Awesome sound quality in LP2 mode (haven't gotten around to trying the other modes). All around worth the cash you shell out for it. Do it up....put your pre-historic MP3 players out of their misery....and go for Mini-Disc!
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Summary: Great little player
Review: Featuring an amazing battery life and exceptional audio quality, this is a player for people on the move. Very good built quality, easy to use remote control (although a backlit screen would be greatly appreciated), very fast MD recording process through REAL ONE. The radio on the remote is a big bonus and it's quite efficient especially in areas of good reception. For the price it's a bargain!
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Summary: Sony MZ-NF610 Minidisc Recorder/Player
Review: First of all, for all the people that hate MDsimple burner, you can just use RealOne(included with all recent windows' OSes) Second, I don't understand why you would even need to burn a CD to an MD more than once (unless you lost the first one) but if you do, just rename the CD/files. A blank MD can be used up to a MILLION times and is far cheaper than a flash memory card or comprible size. The only problem i've had with my MD is that it won't let me upload The last track on sulbime's 40oz to freedom (thanks) but i'm all right with that... This is a whole lot better than a CD player, I don't like mp3s files a whole lot, so I prefer using sony's LP format, which takes out some of the quality (bass, treble) but puts it back in using the player. The only con I have with this product is that you can't record something with a microphone, and then put it on a computer. I'm not sure, but thsi may also be possible with realone.
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Summary: A Good Portable Device (good - not GREAT)
Review: First things first:
[*]NO BACKLIGHT on the remote or the player (What the hell - my $10 watch packs that)
[*]Cheap - piece of junk software
[*]Crappy-old school headphones (be prepared to invest atleast $15 more on a decent pair)
[*]The pause feature is annoying as hell - If I paused a track, that means that I don't want to listen to the music and want to listen to the person talking to me. When you pause a track, you hear this "beep - beep - beep ..." and it goes on till you hit play again or hit STOP and then if you hit STOP, 10 secs later, the player will shut down. So then, when you hit play again, it will take about 2 seconds to come back and play that track again.
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Now, I love this player. Its awesome.
Excellent sound quality and I can get about 40 songs on MD using LP2 conversion and hella lot more using LP4 (you loose some quality). I get a lot of base and I can stick it in my back pack and go and no skipping. I like the fact that I can carry my songs on a MD, I like Techno, Rock, Hip-hop ...compositions. so I basically have a MD for each type of music. The most impressive feature is the fact that this player can run forever on 1 AA bat. and if its a recharable bat, it gets charged while its in the player (given you have the player plugged into the wall). Which is awesome, means you can have 1 bat that lasts foooorever and you can carry additional bat as needed)
iPOD - I go camping, so how do you suggest I recharge it?
plus its expensive, so I have to be more careful with it. With the MD player, I don't care...I throw it around all the time
Now a little about the software:
If you use all the software that Sony has provided with this MD player, you will be in a world of TROUBLE. Things will break and you will get all sorts of errors and what not. So here is what you need to do (By dino):
1) Install all the software that came with the player
2) Get yourself a copy of NERO burner, you will also need NERO Image drive, Its installed with NERO burner.
3) Open Nero and create a "New Audio CD" project - Drag and drop all your MP3 files (Try to limit these to about 20 files otherwise "Net MD Simple burner will have issues") - basically if you add hella files, it will have memory issues when burning, not because of your hardware, but because of the software - NET MD SIMPLE BURNER.
4) Hit Burn - Select "Hard Drive" as the burn device on the Tab.
5) you will be asked to save image file (pick a location on your Hard drive and save)
6) You will see it burn all the MP3 - when its finished. Kill NERO
7) Now, Start Nero Image Drive and Mount this image.
8) Start NET MD simple burner and it will detect this image of Audio CD and you can move all the tracks to your MD.
NOTE: If you have multiple CD/DVD drives, make sure you remove all audio CD's from those drives.
9) Once done burning, Open Image drive and unmount the IMAGE and delete the Image file (Image of Audio CD).
What we basically did here was to fool Net MD Simple burner into thinking that its burning a real CD from the CD/DVD drive. So now, you can burn as many songs as you want without the 3 song limit.
ohhh..you did not know ?
haha - Net MD - Sony will not allow you to burn a song more than 3 times onto a MD unless you check the song back into your computer and then it will allow you to check out a copy. Eventually, if you get errors or something...you will not be able to burn that song on the MD at all...who came up with this junk ?
-so you will just be using NET MD simple Burner and NERO - Trash rest of the programs that sony installed. (make sure you leave the shared files on)
END of the DAy, THIS md PLAYER fits my lifestly and I am happy with what I paid for it.
If you are not Tech Savvy, you will have problems with this player, go for something simple :)
On the other hand, if the stuff above makes sense, you will be fine :)
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Summary: cd players' days are over
Review: Five hours of high quality music on a single disc, radio/tv/weatherbank tuner, capability to rewrite endlessly and to arrange music by folders, easy menus, user-friendly software, extra long battery life, very compact and stylish, what more do you need from a portable music player/recorder? And this model has it all. I'll never look back to a cd player again. I bought this unit at a sony style store where I could test and compare vitually every mini disc player sony markets at the moment. It's not easy to make a choice since there are so many sleek, stylish, tiny models that catch the eye. Well, the look, performance and the price of this model turned to be the most attractive to me.A piece of advice when choosing the software to burn your music, either from CDs or your own downloaded MP3 files - use SonicStage, it's the easiest and least confusing.
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Summary: Excelente Producto
Review: Genial en tamaño, calidad de sonido, capacidad de almacenamiento y un diseño excepcional, el único problema es que el mando a distancia no cuenta con iluminación en pantalla
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Summary: Excelente Producto
Review: Genial en tamaño, calidad de sonido, capacidad de almacenamiento y un diseño excepcional, el único problema es que el mando a distancia no cuenta con iluminación en pantalla
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Summary: Be Careful - only a 90 day Warranty??????
Review: Got mine 7 months ago, used it about 1 hour per day, thought it was fine until the remote went up. Now none of the buttons function as labeled ("volume" changes tracks, "display" changes play mode, "stop" doesn't work at all). Unfortunately I am just now realizing that it only had a 90 day warranty and a new remote costs $100+! Seems like it should have lasted a little longer than 7 months... Also agree with others comments re: headphones (unusable), and small, hard-to-press buttons on the remote.
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Summary: The Simple Truth
Review: Here goes. This review is meant to make buyers aware of the flaws in this so-called "easy transfers" from a PC to a NetMD. Don't get too worked up about the hype of cheap minidiscs and 160 Mb worth of songs you can put in it. There are some catches that you need to be aware of: 1. You can transfer your MP3s only 3 times to a minidisc. Yes, 3 times. Why? Sony has made a licensing agreement with itself (the Sony label company) that an MP3 file can only be transfered 3 times. So, if your first transfer didn't work-- you got 2 transfers left. If your disc got broken, it doesn't matter-- only 1 transfer is left. This, ladies and gentlemen, is called the OpenMG magic. The OpenMG software is a nightmare to be told in reason number 2. 2. The OpenMG software that comes with this device is a pure frustrating-agonizing joke. Go to www.musiclub.sonystyle.com and see how many people are complaining about this software. Sony "the software company" and Sony "the electronics company" is so incompatible with each other that you'd think one's made in Japan and the other in the U.S separated by a large body of water (literally). Technically: You have to convert MP3s to an ATrac3 file before transfering anything to a NetMD device. OpenMG's job is to convert MP3 files into Atrac3 files. Guess what? Those converts DOES NOT always work. Transfering a CD to an MP3? You still need to convert to Atrac3 files. You cannot record anything to a minidisc without converting it first-- well what if the conversions DOES NOT always work? A HAH! Strike 2! 3. Finally, I have had this NetMD MZ-NF610 for the past 2 months. The first month, everything worked fine--transfers were good, followed every single instructions on the manual, and never dropped, bumped, and hurt the device in any way. What happened in the second month you asked? These MP3-Atrac3 conversions started to go wrong. Go to any minidisc forum in the website (search for "minidisc forum" on google) and you will see that there's this huge problem of converting files. The conversion progress goes up to 8 or 9% and then it halted into nowhere. No explanation and no reason. Sony support line doesn't help because the people working there are your grandparents. If you're thinking about buying this device as an alternate MP3 device, re-think again. The industry is on a crackdown and what makes you think that you can transfer these files freely? Buying this device is like buying a 200 dollar worth of fish net. The simple truth. Note: These errors that the other reviewer noted are NOT "seek/scan/write error by the disc player" because I can still record analog(ly) through an optical cable from my stereo. (a bit more work than clicking your mouse)
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Summary: NOT an MP3 player - but in many ways, better.
Review: Hey everybody - this is not an MP3 Player! It is a MiniDisc Player. Yes, you can "transfer" MP3s to it using the software, but really it is meant to record directly from CD to ATRAC - which is Sony's proprietary (and superior) compression algorithm. When you transfer an MP3 - the software first converts it to ATRAC, then copies it to the MiniDisc player. So doing the math - the music is compressed twice. If all you want to do is listen to MP3s - GET AN MP3 PLAYER!!! Using an MD player to listen to MP3s is kind of like buying a bunch of DVDs, then recording them to VHS tape and watching them on a VCR. As far as the software is concerned - if you don't care about transferring MP3s - you don't have to use the SonicStage software everybody whines about! You can use the supplied SimpleBurner - which records CDs in your PCs CD-ROM drive to your MD at either LP2 (160 minutes on an 80 minute blank MD) or LP4 (320 minutes). The quality of LP2 is very near CD quality. You can also hook the unit directly to a CD player (remember those) using analogue or digital connections. When you do it that way - you can record at SP (highest quality - 80 minutes on an 80 minute blank MD) or LP2/LP4. Why would you want an MD player vs. an MP3 player? If you don't have a bunch of MP3s, and all you want to do is make your existing CD collection portable - MD offers a cheaper, more versatile, and sonically superior alternative to MP3. Blank MDs are cheap (less than $2) - re-recordable, durable, and easy-to-handle. Individual tracks can be split into multiple tracks, re-ordered, re-titled, and deleted directly on the MD unit, or using the supplied software. This is very useful for students, musicians, etc. Can't do any of that w/ an MP3. Again - if you have thousands of MP3s - then get an MP3 player. But if you don't - you should check this out.
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