Some reviewers didn't think this machine was so friendly

the machine works very

So, if you want to time-shift NPR or Rush, it's a great little machine

This is truly a beautiful machine

Also keep in mind Minidiscs are very durable.

The colorful MiniDiscs makes your players stand out from the rest of the crowd

Also, Minidiscs are better than CDs because they have Groups

i love its relativly small size, music capacity (about 4 hours a disc) and battery life

The small size of this unit is also nice for running.

Also, battery life is great and it uses just normal AA's which you can buy anywhere -- a big advantage for travel

The battery life is also VERY nice

, LP4 will make itPlus, the battery life is so good, i listened to my MD on the trip from Atlanta to Casablanca, and it was just as sony Promissed

This product is fine if you want to transfer music copied to your PC straight from a CD, but it will not transfer any files downloaded from the most popular music services - Napster,MusicNow, etc

Sony wants you to get locked in a MD supports buying mode, and went to a great deal disabling useful product features by design

Sony wants you to get locked in a MD supports buying mode, and went to a great deal disabling useful product features by design

my girlfried bought this for my birthday, at first i was secptical why use an MD when you caould just use CD's, however i soon learned how great this product was, i have aboiut 5 cd's on one MD, its fast simple and easy to use, ripping Cd's and buring them on the min disc is awsome, not to mention its easyier to run with a mini disc player then a cd player it dosent skip!!

I love the product itself--very easy to use and perfect for carrying around a lot of music in a small package.

Awesome unit!It comes with everything you need and the best thing

The only bad thing about the player itself is that the battery compartment sticks out quite far

One terrific thing you can do with the MD is record off you favorite radio stations and then edit out the commercials and even move the songs around

Another bad thing is that it's quite pricey

i like this thing so much i use it all the time snowboardin and in the car all the time.get this it records fast and really good sound get this thing

Aside from being a little too big for some to hold in their hand comfortably (not a problem for me) and the software being a little confusing and freezing up at times, this is the perfect mp3 player

i hate the software and im really considering retuning this MD system and just buying a more user friendly albeit more unstable cd/mp3 player.

i hate the software and im really considering retuning this MD system and just buying a more user friendly albeit more unstable cd/mp3 player.

This is a great, cheap and durable MP3 player with unlimited capacity

My recommendation is to buy an MP3 player compatible with MS Media Player.

The booklet tells you to use LP2 (half as much data per mini disc) for the best sound quality, but after listening to both recording speeds, I can not distinguish between the two

The sound quality is excellent and burning a CD onto a mini disc is a total no brainer that only takes about 5 minutes to accomplish with the software included

Though the sound quality and other hardware features are good, I would seriuosly recommend users not to buy this product

Then, I pressed play, expecting the worst sound quality for having so many songs on one disc

The sound quality is excellent and burning a CD onto a mini disc is a total no brainer that only takes about 5 minutes to accomplish with the software included

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

This minidisc player offers the best of both worlds at an affordable price

The advantages of the Sony MD are that you can iterally keep a magazine of discs for a reasonable price when compared with the alternative jukebox style MP3 players

The price is a lot better than MP3 too.

I know MD is very popular in Asia and other parts of the world, but I just don't see how is that better then MP3 players especially when the price on the MP3 players are getting cheaper by the days

i like this thing so much i use it all the time snowboardin and in the car all the time.get this it records fast and really good sound get this thing

It's small, has very good sound, has an easy interface, and is very flexible

The standard headphones are the old design --the kind that go over the head-- and provide only marginal sound

Great sound in a small pkg

The sound is great!

If Sony had just written better software and hadn't crippled it, the MD player would be killer

Sony has a reputation for producing quality audio products

The MD could be one terrific tool for ripping your old LPs, or whatever, but Sony has made this impractical

i think sony has a deal thats gives you a free sony armband case with any minidisc player purchaseCons - the sad part :(no backlight - Youll have to pay about a 100 more to buy a better model if you want oneSeems very prone to falls - i previously had an mz-ne410 and i dropped it on very thick carpet about 9 times from a height of 3 feet

(the product im reviewing does and has two remotes included)Can't put recorded files onto your pc - trying to protect copyrights Sony wants to make sure that files you recorded can't leave the disk

I purchase this for one reason (descrete, portable recording), but ended up using it mostly for another reason (music playback)It's not perfect

At first I really liked it, the music played well, and it never skipped or anything

My ripped Atrac LP4 tracks (highest compression, thus more music on a MD) sound considerably better than 128 bit MP3.

If you are a music lover, and you have music in the thousands like me then I would go for the 20 or 60 GB harddrive mp3 players

I'm not afraid of breaking it, and I have all my music available in the car, jogging, and where ever else.

Sony wants you to get locked in a MD supports buying mode, and went to a great deal disabling useful product features by design

Sony wants you to get locked in a MD supports buying mode, and went to a great deal disabling useful product features by design

This is a good deal

, I think it's a good deal

if you have a P1 or P2 you might like burn time but my 1.8 P4 will burn a song in under 8 sec a songs about 3sec to convert to Atrac and 2-3 sec to burn.(you have the option to convert all tracks to

Just recently I took all my good songs off my old cds and transfered them all to 1 mini disk

It could only hold like 80 songs

One of the best features it has is the SonicStage software, which lets you erase songs and record new ones on to the same minidisk

You can burn approximately 20 songs a minute and 100 songs in 6 minutes

although they don't really bother me as much, is that it isn't backlight and that the software that comes with it isn't that great... but it gets the job done

The software is such a big hassle that you stop using it as a MP3 player

If Sony had just written better software and hadn't crippled it, the MD player would be killer

Aside from being a little too big for some to hold in their hand comfortably (not a problem for me) and the software being a little confusing and freezing up at times, this is the perfect mp3 player

the software works very well and i havent had a problem with it yet