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Review 2 of 9
Price Paid:
$440.00
from Belgium Summary: Searching for a small, light weight portable player I found this MZ-N1. I was looking for a player that could handle my MP3's on my computer. A portable CD-player was my first opinion, but these are big and heavy and battery-life is not that great. Then I was watching out for memory-stick players like Muvo from Creative. Thesse are small, light-weight and have a great battery-life. But with memory-sticks you just have 128-256 Mb of memory, so not very much.
So, conclusion, my eye fell on this Sony MD-player. It's a light player, great battery-life and because of the low cost of MD's I can take all the music I like with me. One MD can contain +30 songs in LP2-mode (160Mb on 1 MD). The MD's are small so easy to take with me.
The process of recording is very easy. Just select the MP3's on the computer and press record. Of course, like you all know, the limitations of Sony are very stupid. You can only transfer an MP3 3 times on different MD's and then you have to "check in" the song before you can transfer it again (check out). By the way, there are already cracks on the internet... SonicStage is much better for recording than the delivered Jukebox programma. You can download the latest SonicStage from the internet.
Music that you record with a microphone or with the optical in or line in is not transferrable to your computer with USB. This is a shame, but it could be a hardware problem. Of course you can transfer the music with the line out, but this is analogue and not a digital transfer.
Question for other users: Are you also hearing a silent buzz when using the headphones with the remote control? When using the headphones without the remote, this buzz is gone! Strengths: -small, light player
-great sound in SP and LP2
-cheap MD's, so you can take a lot of music with you
-great battery-life
-fast transfer from MP3's to MD Weaknesses: -price of player
-check-in - check-out function to transfer MP3's to MD (3 times limitation)
-MP3's are first changed to omg files, because MD can't read MP3: takes a lot of hard disk space because all the songs are first saved, but of course you can delete the omg files later. Similar Products Used: /
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