As for the accessories, battery life is so good an A/C car adapter is pretty unecessary

battery life is excellent, 48 hours of playback in lp2 (2nd level of music compression) mode

I got this MD player about 10 months ago and it is still working as great as when i first got it.

And the battery life is awesome: the package says 56 hours on on the box, and that is not a lie.

*Low price compared to other models, *easy to use, *excellent sound quality in SP mode (thanks to ATRAC Type-R), *phenominal battery life, *up to 5 hours of music on an 80-minute disc (about $2), *supports MP3 and WMA, *small size, *the "coolness factor"CONS

*Low price compared to other models, *easy to use, *excellent sound quality in SP mode (thanks to ATRAC Type-R), *phenominal battery life, *up to 5 hours of music on an 80-minute disc (about $2), *supports MP3 and WMA, *small size, *the "coolness factor"CONS

The price is great also!

Great price and great value.

$2 each beats paying for CF or SD/MMC at much greater prices

Otherwise, a great product at a superb price.

Sony is a very good brand, I like this walkman, I bought this walkman for a friend that works in a radio studio.

I got this MD player about 10 months ago and it is still working as great as when i first got it.

sony is a good brand, trust it...

I got this MD player about 10 months ago and it is still working as great as when i first got it.

Though it doesn't ship with a docking cradle and the remote, I vouch value for money when it comes to this product

It has a very cool design, also it is cheap and of great value considering

u cannot erase mp3 tracks on ur player, but u can delete the cd ones u burned in there

overcome the trial-and-error period and you'll realize what a great value this little machine is

Overall, this is a nice little MiniDisc player & i plan to buy another one when this one dies.

Then, I think, the ability to transfer up to five hours of music onto a single, (relatively) inexpensive minidisc would have held greater appeal

With the minidisc-compatible technology that has been created since 2002, when I purchased this item, there is so much that you can still

The final insult came afer a year of owning the minidisc player - the unit (not the software) simply refused to record new tracks, and would totally erase the minidisc you were trying to record to.

Let me start off by saying that this in general is a very good minidisc player.

This Minidisk Player is by far the best option when it comes to portable music

, sony's MD players are in my opinion the best portable music players you can find

I suggest looking into this if you're into portable music players.

u cannot erase mp3 tracks on ur player, but u can delete the cd ones u burned in there

Per hour, that cost is a tiny fraction of any portable music player that uses flash memory.

Even though there are forums and even on line petitions where countless other people have complained of the same problems, Sony refuse to acknowledge that their product is shoddy - you shouldn't have this much hassle with a consumer electronic product so soon after purchase, especially a Sony product

I can't believe that Sony would include this junk into such an otherwise fine product

I researched models online and sony is the clear winner and has made a durable and worthy product.

u cannot erase mp3 tracks on ur player, but u can delete the cd ones u burned in there

This product is far superior to any mp3 player for many reasons:1

Now it is almost impossible to get clean sound from the unit.

u cannot erase mp3 tracks on ur player, but u can delete the cd ones u burned in there

Sound is excellent, DOES NOT skip, and it pretty sturdy

I found this player affordable, which produces good, rich sound and was pretty amazed what this small thing can do

And trust me, this player produces sound good enough for ear to distinguish lack of quality reduced by the compression

If you want your music to sound fairly good, you'll only get about 2 hours and 40 minutes on one minidisc, which is still good, but definitely not as great as 5 hours.

It is extremely small and compact, and I have gotten great battery life, about 40 hours on one AA battery.

u cannot erase mp3 tracks on ur player, but u can delete the cd ones u burned in there

battery life is excellent, 48 hours of playback in lp2 (2nd level of music compression) mode

People asked me why I didn't just use my CD burner...first off, who wants to spend hours converting and burning CDs when you can just download and transfer them onto a MiniDisc in seconds!?

I am very impressed with recording capacity of this sweet little thing

This thing is just fantastic, and I recommend that those who want it should go and grab one ASAP.

This device is the best thing that has come up to me since i got my new computer

I have found one horrible thing thus far.

One of the great things about this format is that you can record virtually anything

The sound quality is flawless and the software that it requires is very easy to use

additionally, the sound quality is awesome - the audio format for mini-disc, atrac, blows away mp3 & wma formatsthere is a learning curve if you don't have prior experience in recording mini-discs either from a pc or audio component.

I dont record in that mode because its hard to enjoy the music when the quality is so bad

For whose who prefer quality to capacity the only way to get sound close to cd's is to use the optical or analog inputs within the player

But I do like and highly recommend the MZ-N505 minidisc recorder for excellent quality sound on the go!!

If the terrible software weren't bad enough, all MP3's, WAV's, etc. are converted to LP2 ATRAC3 files, so your hard drive space gets wasted

The software is designed NOT for ease of use, but to protect the music publisher's copyright

What I really think is crazy is that Sony has ruined this player by forcing you to use their software, all to protect music copyrights

The software its very easy to use and it also transfers music really fast via USB

The software you must use to transfer music to the disc player is so hard to use, and so goofy, that I have pretty much given up on the player

If the terrible software weren't bad enough, all MP3's, WAV's, etc. are converted to LP2 ATRAC3 files, so your hard drive space gets wasted

I even uninstalled all sony programs off my hard drive and scoured all my folders and when I reinstalled the tracks still came up "optimized in LP2"

im your looking for a portable device the only reason why you would not want this is if yu want some hard drive player liek 10 gb or 20 gb, then you wont get it.

good]. It converts every file that you put on the minidisc into 'atrac3' format which eats up valuable hard drive space

You can make a CD image of your MP3s with Ahead's Nero Burning Rom program, then mount the CD image to your hard drive with Nero's ImageDrive, then burn the image with Simple Burner.

It uses temporal files in your hard disk that eventually get erased so it doesn't clutter it.- Reusability

Almost three years ago I bought a Sony NET MD Walkman, and even then, if I remember correctly, it was already loosing ground to MP3, flash and hard-disk, based players.

I think something like NetMD would have been utterly fantastic three years ago, when USB-enabled computers were starting to gain mainstream adoption, and before hard disk and cd-r burner prices hadn't dropped low enough for more people to rip and burn their music collection.

The disks are cheap and they hold a lot of music, at least compared to flash memory players

That said, once you fast forward to 2002, where more people than not have gigabytes of existing mp3's on her or his hard disk, you have to wonder whether it's more convenient to rely on a solid state mp3 player to take small sections of this content without any further format-shifting, or dump them en masse to CD-R/W's for use with 3" or 5" disc-based mp3 players.