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Summary: Good Player
Review: Best minidisc player for it's cheap price. And cool remote.
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Summary: Good Player
Review: I sorta agree with the new yorker guy on why he'd rather buy a cheap mp3 playing cd player than an expensive minidisc player if all you want to do is listen to music. however! He neglects to mention the one thing about minidisc that makes it far superior to and far more versatile than cd-r / mp3 players, that being, with the appropriate player that has a mic input, you can RECORD ANYTHING ANYWHERE. This e909 player is outdated and doesnt take advantage of minidisc's full potential so i can see why one would never want to get this. But with most of the new player/recorders especially the MZ-N10 from Sony, you can use minidisc to record audio for video projects, record conversations, concerts, record from cd players or the computer audio (MOD, XM and other chip tune files) via line in or optical in. All you need is a good shotgun microphone...
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Summary: good player but want the new one
Review: I sorta agree with the new yorker guy on why he'd rather buy a cheap mp3 playing cd player than an expensive minidisc player if all you want to do is listen to music. however! He neglects to mention the one thing about minidisc that makes it far superior to and far more versatile than cd-r / mp3 players, that being, with the appropriate player that has a mic input, you can RECORD ANYTHING ANYWHERE. This e909 player is outdated and doesnt take advantage of minidisc's full potential so i can see why one would never want to get this. But with most of the new player/recorders especially the MZ-N10 from Sony, you can use minidisc to record audio for video projects, record conversations, concerts, record from cd players or the computer audio (MOD, XM and other chip tune files) via line in or optical in. All you need is a good shotgun microphone...
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Summary: Minidisc Versus CD/Mp3 Player
Review: I whole heartedly agree with the above statement stressing that a CD/Mp3 capable player can fit a much greater deal of music onto the one cd compared to the Minidisc's offering of 74mins or sometimes the higher capacity 80min.However i disagree with the fact that LP4 compression has such a 'dramatic' effect upon the qulity of the music, especially through headphones. The Minidisc has great versitility, and I believe the main reason why people choose to buy minidisc players over CD/Mp3 players is the sheer fact of 'portability' and music on the move, a minidisc unit is a great deal smaller than any CD player... However i do agree that a newer version of minidisc unit such as the NetMD are a much better investment to take advantage of USB connection for 32x faster than real time recording and antrac3, mp3, wma and wav compatability.
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Summary: Best portable music device *for my purposes*
Review: If your going to buy a minidisc make sure you've done your research. This minidisc has been perfect for me but I made sure it did what I wanted first. It's tiny. Marginally bigger than a minidisc in it's case and really lightweight. I think this has been acheived by moving all the battery charging function into the supplied cradle. The headphones are crap, replace them (senheisser earbuds are good), although that's true with most portable players. The big saving grace is the battery life. About 40 hours with music recorded in LP2 mode, this means you can get 160 minutes of music on the minidisc. This is only using the internal rechargeable battery, add an alkaline and it jumps to 120 hours! All this and shock protection too, you can get it to jump if you shake it continuously for 40 seconds but I haven't manged that even when running with it. It's play only so you'll need a minidisc recorder as well. The best recorders to get are the NetMD ones, which allows you to make a great quality copy of your mp3's CD's etc from the computer straight to minidisc. The big drawback of this is that as it's a sony proprietry format your stuck with Sony's terrible software to do it. It works ok though just a few irritating functions and once you've built up a bit of a library you should be golden. Have a look at minidisc dot org for some good reviews and hopefully if someone breaks the NetMD format you might get some decent software to copy songs over too......
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Summary: Best portable music device *for my purposes*
Review: If your going to buy a minidisc make sure you've done your research. This minidisc has been perfect for me but I made sure it did what I wanted first. It's tiny. Marginally bigger than a minidisc in it's case and really lightweight. I think this has been acheived by moving all the battery charging function into the supplied cradle. The headphones are crap, replace them (senheisser earbuds are good), although that's true with most portable players. The big saving grace is the battery life. About 40 hours with music recorded in LP2 mode, this means you can get 160 minutes of music on the minidisc. This is only using the internal rechargeable battery, add an alkaline and it jumps to 120 hours! All this and shock protection too, you can get it to jump if you shake it continuously for 40 seconds but I haven't manged that even when running with it. It's play only so you'll need a minidisc recorder as well. The best recorders to get are the NetMD ones, which allows you to make a great quality copy of your mp3's CD's etc from the computer straight to minidisc. The big drawback of this is that as it's a sony proprietry format your stuck with Sony's terrible software to do it. It works ok though just a few irritating functions and once you've built up a bit of a library you should be golden. Have a look at minidisc dot org for some good reviews and hopefully if someone breaks the NetMD format you might get some decent software to copy songs over too......
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Summary: regret for buying Mini Disc all these years!
Review: Mini Discs are not the best choice when it comes to portable music players. They are actually the worst. They look nice and designy though, but that's it!
I used to buy Minidiscs and I have a minidisc (model Sony MZ-N1 Net MD player/recorder) and I thought it was the best thing,...But I changed my mind after I got a compact CD player that also reads MP3's. When I got to use my CD/MP3 player it was so much faster, more convenient with a great CD quality sound, that I never looked back to my Minidisc ever again. That Minidisc is collecting dust somewhere!
Here are some reasons why Minidisc players are bad compared to CD/Mp3 players:
1. Mini Disc is too slow in recording and transferring your songs. CD/MP3's are faster, you just burn one CD at a fast rate on your PC and you are on your way. Put tons of MP3 songs on that one CD and you are done. Calculated, transferring your songs and MP3's to a CD is 15 to 20 times faster than the Minidisc! Or should I say the Minidisc is just 20 times slower! And keep in mind that my Minidisc is a top of the line model, imagine the lower Minidisc models, how slow those go compared to the average CD/Mp3 players. Simply put Minidisc is a waste of your time.
2. On a Minidisc you can only put 74 minutes worth of music. If you want more you can double or triple the Minidisc capacity and have 5 hours of music on it at the maximum, that's it, you get no more. In order to do that you have to record all your tracks on LP mode (long play) and with my so called top of the line Minidisc I had the option of LP-4 as well, but then in any of the LP modes the music quality lowers dramatically! The sound on the Minidisc is completely tarnished to a low quality pulp! So stay away from any LP mode in order to record more songs on your Minidisc!... You record more songs but you loose all the quality. If you want to have decent sound quality stick to the normal SP mode (standard play) and with that you can never record more than 74minutes of music on your Minidisc, that's IT!That is the maximum you get out of the Minidisc. But with a CD/MP3 player you have 1 single CD where you can have up to 11 hours of music on it! You read this right 11 hours, with a crisp CD quality. So, the Minidisc with its 74 minutes capacity on each disc is just too limited next to the CD/MP3 player that can handle 11 HOURS of music!
3. If you need more songs to carry around with your Minidisc, you have to have at least 10 Minidisc cartridges, just in order to equal the same amount of songs on a full CD with MP3's! Imagine the amount of songs and the variety of selection that I have with my CD/MP3 player with carrying only 1 single CD with me. If I wanted to do that with the Minidisc, I would need to record 10 Minidisc cartridges and carry all the 10 minidiscs with me all the time. Exchanging the discs every time you want to hear something new, and putting all those Minidiscs in your pocket,...It's just too much hassle. With the CD/MP3 I have all of that recorded on 1 CD, worth of 11 hours of music! With great CD quality.
4. Just imagine the cost of buying all those blank Minidisc cartridges, compared to the 1 blank CD! Plus keep in mind that one blank Minidisc would cost you 6 to 8 times more than a blank CD. Just do the math on the 10 Minidiscs that you need to equal the same amount of music that goes on just 1 CD for the CD/MP3 player. Do the math on that! Minidiscs are just too expensive.
At the end go with a CD/MP3 player, they also read CD-recordables as well as CD-Rewritables. They are fantastic! Even their average models out do my top of the line Minidisc. I have them both and I went with the CD/MP3. I regret for buying the Minidisc and paying ...for it!
I wish I had discovered the CD/MP3 sooner, because not that it gave me better quality, is faster and saved my time and that it is more convenient, but it costs a lot less money. Just go and compare them here at Amazon[.com] or any retailer.
There would be only one reason for buying a Minidisc though, if you just don't know any better. Or you just like to throw away money and your time. Or maybe you just like to carry around all those tiny Minidisc cartridges with you! Other than that Minidisc is just a waste of machinery to me, I can't say how much I regret for buying Minidiscs all these years and coughing up all that money for it. As a consumer I hope others won't make the same mistake, go with a compact CD/MP3 player. I know I did, eventually.
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