Rating  - MD Player
I am someone who has to have all of the new stuff, but I happen to like the idea being able to change out the music on a whim. I don't need a computer - as long as I've made several disks. It reminds me of making those millions of cassettes for my car in the 80's!!
Rating  - amazing
I bought this netmd because my ipod died few months ago. I didn't want to buy another ipod because they last, under the best circumstances, only one year. So I decided to go back to netmd minidisc player. I owned one before Ipod came out to the market. They are just great, the sound and everything is so good. The minidiscs are cheap and under lp2 format you can store lots of music in them and the quality isn't affected. It was shipped from electronica and it was damaged, I sent it back and two days later they replaced it and sent it on ups. Very good service from electronica I'd buy from them again. Thanks!
Rating - Quality Product
This is a quality product. I received an earlier version of this MD player as a gift about 4 years ago and instantly loved it. I dropped it three times and it still played! It still plays now but there's no display. I searched all over for another one and was disappointed to learn that SONY doesn't even make MD players anymore. Finally I found the TV/WEATHER/FM Net MD on Amazon, and like the earlier version, it is a quality product.
Rating  - Not an MP3 player
This player DOES NOT PLAY MP3s/WMAs/etc. Do not be fooled by the labeling. It converts these formats into ATRAC, this becomes a problem when you try to transfer over protected file formats that you might download off of iTunes and such. It's better to say this is an ATRAC player.
Rating  - Nice, but Limited
Bottom Line:
This is a great unit for the price, but for people with an expansive library of music or for those who use multiple computers, I would not recommend it.
I've had this player for almost two years and would describe it as durable with great music playback, but that darn ATRAC format puts a real damper on things. It always converts my mp3s to this format which is a waste time (Granted it's only a few minutes, but I like to get things done as quick as possible). And though I haven't checked for recent updates of the software(SonicStage), the version I have is not very user-friendly and took me a while to get used to.
But my biggest gripe is that in Sony's attempt to reduce music piracy, they've put protection on this thing that prevents you from uploading music on computers other than the one your unit is registered on. Granted, this is not a big deal for most consumers, but I travel a lot and find it very frustrating when I can't remix my music while at a different computer.
Lastly, the capacity is limited (Room for about 35 songs in standard quality) and no one likes carrying around extra minidiscs, regardless of how small they are.
Bottom, bottom line:
This is a great little machine...Though I wouldn't recommend it for those of us in 2005. Go for the ipod, I know everyone has it and you'll be part of the "trendy" crowd, but it's popular for a reason- it's superior to everything else out there (I have a nano and feel just like those dancing silhouette people in the commercials).
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