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Great transformation from CD's. Wish there was a connection from this MD player to your head unit in the car, since they don't make MD Receivers for cars.
As I said "sonic stage" 4.3 is easy to use and is readily available on Sony's website. According to Sony and some of the other people who have reviewed this unit it is also possible to use Real One Player (real network) to create discs for this player. It was virtually unusable. Let's hear it for simple, old school technology.
The 4.3 version is actually easy to use. I bought this minidisc player several years ago and ended up putting it in a drawer because the "sonic stage" software that came with the unit was beyond bad. And while this player will not store several GB's of music (like my Sandisk does) the discs it uses each hold several hours of music and plays them using one standard AA battery. I still like my Sandisk but Sony's new software has taken this player out of the drawer and put it back into my pocket.I would recommend this unit for anyone looking for something inexpensive, easy to use, and easy to "power" (those standard AA's are great). I tried to use it and was never able to access the required plugin.
There is something wonderful to be said for a minidisc player that runs for a long time on easily obtained, replaceable (I use rechargeable) batteries as opposed to players whose batteries are built in and have to be recharged while rendering the unit useless until recharging is complete. Media for this unit, MD 80s, are still very available, reasonably priced and they are reusable. Well, Sony has made vast improvements to "sonic stage". And I like being able to simply change discs to change what I am listening to. Real network support tried to help but they were not able to figure out why I could not get real player to work with this unit.
No matter. I don't have to hunt through a long menu of what's stored on my player to find something different. I prefer Sony discs but Memorex media is also good.
I am still working the MD and I am very pleased with the way I cam create dick and not have to worry about others in my office using my music anymore because I am the only one who has one and that makes it great. I will be buying another soon just in case I need it. it can never hurt to have a backup. just like my office , everything is always being backed up.thank YouPhil Murphy
While I'm a fan of Sony generally, I've long been disturbed with some of the 'walled garden' attitude that they show their own products.You should be aware that there is no 64-bit driver for the Net-MD under Windows XP. There is almost no support in third-party applications; a much touted solution using real player has pretty much disappeared. The software is abysmal, requiring that MP3s to be transferred to the device are CBR rather than VBR. A viable 'hack' is to 'burn' an audio iso and use the simple transfer utility on the mounted iso. It's unlikely that any third party solutions will appear in the future because of an extremely zealous legal department.Indeed, it's impossible to transfer recordings from minidisc back to the computer if they have been transferred from a different computer or minidisc recorder.I feel quite a bit of pain for what was a very promising format being shackled by overarching control of userspace.Generally the NE410 is a solid little unit, although the supplied earphones are the usual commodity quality. I wouldn't presume to comment on the audio quality due to hearing destroyed by years of very, very loud nightclubs.
GREAT BUT NOT ''THAT'' GREAT.Is a cool device but you CANNOT transfer audio files from the walkman to the PC via USB. You only can do this via headphone cable to mic of your PC.
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