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Summary: Awsome but.........
Review: OK Well i just got this thing for Christams and its great. But it is sooo totally confusing!!! i've been tying to figure it out for liek hours on end. I read the manual twice but nothing. All these thoings keep popping up on my computer and i have no clue why. I have a question IS THIS AN MP3 PLAYER OR NOT???? I hope it is becouse thats why i bought it. If it is then how on earth do you work it. I called my friends and family but they're stuck in the dark ages. I reallly need to figure it out! I have such a variety in music and so many CD's that an MP3 player would make my life simpler. HELP!
Rating:
Summary: 400 MP3 Limit. Look
Review: The D-NE510 and 518 have impressive features like resume within the middle of an MP3, and fast forward within MP3s, as well as support for 16 to 320 kbps, Variable Bit Rate (VBR), and sampling frequencies of 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz -- all features any audio book listener would want -- however, even though it supports 16 to 24kbps, it only supports 400 mp3s per CD. If you encode at 16kbps mono, only good for audio books or speech, you end up with well over 400 MP3s. Some of my audio book CDs have 900 MP3s on them, and all of them have over 400 MP3s. I find it odd that they will let you have 999 ATRAC3 files, and claim that you can fit 490 ATRAC3 songs on a CD, yet even if you wanted to compress your mp3s small enough to fit over 490 songs on a CD, sony won't let you.Let us say that you have audio books on CD with tracks every 3 minutes. You extract and compress them to MP3s at 16 or 24kbps, even 32kbps. You are left with over 20 files that are about 700KB. We already know that a CD can hold 650 to 700 megabytes, that gives us 1000 MP3s per disc. Sony only lets you have 400 MP3s per disc. This means that you can only fit 20 audio-book CDs worth of mp3s on to a CDR. The rest of the CD is wasted. This gives sony's ATRAC3 an unfair advantage over MP3. I would not have purchased this if I had known because none of my audio book CDs has less than 400 tracks.
Rating: 
Summary: Bad Sound Quality
Review: The sound quality is just bad. I have a dying, 9-year old-sony discman that I used as comparison (w/same cd and headphones) and the dying, grinding, gasping discman still had much better sound quality than the NE510. I'm returning it.
Rating: 
Summary: Decent MP3 Player, Poor Design
Review: This CD Walkman plays audio CDs, and MP3 CDs just fine. The biggest complaint I have about it is that the controls are designed such that when you intend to hit play, you can accidently hit next track. On the whole it has good sound reproduction and is fairly easy to use.
Rating:
Summary: It's good, I guess
Review: This mp3 player is not bad. It haven't been able to install the disk that came with the cd player since my pc is opperating on a windows 98. You can still make mp3 cd's with other softwares like nero. It just takes more time. The sound quality for the mp3 are good but you will only hold around 200 songs if you want it that way. The design is terrible and the buttons don't work well. Still, if you want an mp3 player, this isn't that bad of a choice since it is not that expensive.
Rating:
Summary: Great player, especially for the amateur to MP3s
Review: This Sony CD player is the first MP3 CD player I have ever owned, and it has suited me very well for the last six weeks.
PROS
- AWESOME battery life - 60-70 hours
- NO Skipping
- Jog Dial is excellent when it works
- Good sound quality
- Display shows useful information, you can edit this info in Musicmatch
- Burning just MP3s is extremely simple
CONS
- Feels sort of flimsy
- No backlight on display
- My jog dial worked well for a few weeks, but it started malfunctioning to the point of uselessness, and sometimes even became a hindrance when using the normal track selecting buttons. This was my biggest problem
- Fairly unattractive design
- You can't fast forward/rewind quickly through a track
- ATRAC burning software is terribly designed and slow, and you lose some sound quality with that compression
Because of the loss of sound quality and overall bad design of the burning suite, I only burned MP3 CDs, which still hold 150+ songs and don't lose sound quality. It was not a problem to me to carry around a few CDs, which could hold my whole collection; however, it would probably be an annoyance to those with larger amounts of songs. To people who have over 1000 songs that they would like to carry around with them, I would suggest that they invest in a MP3 player. To everyone else, I reccomend this very good bargain CD player.
Rating: 
Summary: wonderful MP3/ATRAC3-CD player!
Review: You cannot make this thing skip without breaking it, and that's not an easy feat either. It's a tough, skip-free, stylish, great sounding, battery efficient, feature-packed and, to top it off, AFFORDABLE CD player. Just imagine, having 450 of your favorite songs, 25 to 30 of your favorite albums, all on a single CD, and have the ability to organize them by album, play them in random order, play the ones you chose to bookmark, pause, fast forward, or rewind in mid-song (rare in non-Sony Mp3 CD players), and be using next to no batteries as you do so. Atrac 3 is a must have, it's so nice to be able to put your favorite books, nearly 25 hours of stand-up comedy, or just all your favorite music, on 1 CD, and have it sound as good as high bitrate Mp3s. If you don't get this model, get the $99 model with the 3-line display. Though really, so long as you organize your tracks by folder, 2-line is plenty. I bought this for a vacation to Orlando, a 15 hour ride. After using it the entire trip there, entire trip back, 30 hours, I still have all 4 bars left on the battery meter, it's amazing. This is one of the best purchases I've -ever- made, of any kind, and the only one I felt deserving enough of a positive online review.
Rating:
Summary: The Best Portable Audio Player For Your Money
Review: You cannot make this thing skip without breaking it, and that's not an easy feat either. It's a tough, skip-free, stylish, great sounding, battery efficient, feature-packed and, to top it off, AFFORDABLE CD player. Just imagine, having 450 of your favorite songs, 25 to 30 of your favorite albums, all on a single CD, and have the ability to organize them by album, play them in random order, play the ones you chose to bookmark, pause, fast forward, or rewind in mid-song (rare in non-Sony Mp3 CD players), and be using next to no batteries as you do so. Atrac 3 is a must have, it's so nice to be able to put your favorite books, nearly 25 hours of stand-up comedy, or just all your favorite music, on 1 CD, and have it sound as good as high bitrate Mp3s. If you don't get this model, get the $99 model with the 3-line display. Though really, so long as you organize your tracks by folder, 2-line is plenty. I bought this for a vacation to Orlando, a 15 hour ride. After using it the entire trip there, entire trip back, 30 hours, I still have all 4 bars left on the battery meter, it's amazing. This is one of the best purchases I've -ever- made, of any kind, and the only one I felt deserving enough of a positive online review.
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