can once again hear the sweetest sound I ever heard, my baby boy laughing!

The sound is still superb and you are given about 2 and a half hours worth os music

Okay, so the headphones are very very short (try wearing them and put the md player in your pocket - it won't reach!), but the sound is still great.

THE GOOD here, and there is good, is a well made bit of hardware with excellent sound, long battery life, compact size, etc

In the end I speak very highly of this product and recommend it to anyone who desires a small portable music player which is relatively to expan and delivers topnotch digital sound.

I bought this item 2 days ago and I am now enjoying great music

I highly reccomend this to anybody who wants portable music

5 hours per disc kicks any portable mp3 player in the pants.3

The DRM software has to convert MP3 or WMA files to ATRAC/ATRAC3 for download, dropping in quality vs. pure MP3

Sound quality even in LP2 mode is as good as an 256kbps mp3

So even in transcoding, it's not MP3 compliant (VBR is a requirement of the MP3 spec, and supported on virtually any player you'll find)

I have foun that the best way to get around the copyright protection is to use nero to mount a virtual Cd-drive and then use simple burner and record from the mounted image.

The sound quality is excellent both ways and there is good sound separation with a bi directional mike

The easiest way (I think) is through RealPlayer's "record from outside line" option.

This an excellent microphone, with good bidirectional separation and gives genuine stereo separation even though L and R Mic are close together

The sound quality is excellent both ways and there is good sound separation with a bi directional mike

This is a top notch audio editing software, which can amplify, reduce, adjust and remove or reduce any glitches, dead time etc., and separate your large audio file into single tracks, which may be saved as mp3 files to burn to cd.

For this, I use Cool Edit 2000 available at [...

For anyone who is as inexperienced at recording live music as I am, I highly recommend this device.

but you can alway purchase one on your own)TOS Link Optical CableLarger LCD Display (to see more of everything)It's a GREAT Package and a GREAT Electronic Device

Before buying this product, I was looking for portable MP3 players (discman)

Overall highly recommend it as a MP3 player and personal recorder as well.

I really LOVED the size of the player and the ease of it to fit into my shirt pocket.

THE GOOD here, and there is good, is a well made bit of hardware with excellent sound, long battery life, compact size, etc

The sound quality is excellent, the disc never skips, the unit is solid and light, and the media is [inexpensive]!

I found the perfect unit from Midwest Media Supply

I promise you two things: (1) you will get CD-quality sound recordings, and (2) if I can figure out how to get the music onto my computer and then onto a CD, you can!

The only bad thing I will say is that it doesn't come with a clip, so you can't clip it to a belt or pocket.

It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard

another great thing about this is that the battery life is really long

They constantly put out inferior hardware and buggy software.

This is a top notch audio editing software, which can amplify, reduce, adjust and remove or reduce any glitches, dead time etc., and separate your large audio file into single tracks, which may be saved as mp3 files to burn to cd.

The software isn't horrible, you just have to read the short manual to get the hang of it.

The software is very intuitive and has never given me any problems

Even though the software was a little annoying at first, it ended up being really great.

It would be nice if I could copy that to my hard disk ( any OS, since I use several, mostly NOT Windows ) and be able to make my edits and also to back up my audio on cheap data CD's for archival purposes

Here I can burn numerous disks with hours of music and get new disks for as low as [price] each

The only portable players that can match or even be considered a better buy are the hard disk based players

In my opinion, memory based players will perish soon and just the MD and the hard drive (5GB+) based will stay

After installing it, I had it search my hard drive and import all of my MP3's which were ripped at 100% VBR (variable bit rate).

Don't buy this thing...get one with a hard drive and that has been favorably reviewed.

Use Nero ImageDrive (from Nero Burning ROM 5.5) or some other application that can "burn" an Audio CD image to your hard drive or make an AUDIO CD from these files and then transfer using the Simple Burn Application