Sony MZ-N420D Psyc Net MD Walkman Digital Music Player – Customer Reviews
I'm glad that Amazon describes this unit as a "Player"
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Unlike earlier Sony Minidisc portables,this unit can't record directly from a CD player.It can only record via a computer and with a computer initiating the recording process.Fortunately,I have a hifi component Minidisc recorder to record on.More troubling is that the first unit I got of this model failed immediately.It powered up,but could never start playing a disc,and the unit made mechanical noise as it struggled to spin the disc.I opted to send the unit back to Sony instead of the Amazon marketplace merchant.Don't repeat my mistake.Sony exchanges for a reconditioned(not new) unit,though I never got one second of playback out of the original unit.Sony's recoditioned unit plays fine,but the piece of computer CD-Rom software supplied has a few scratches(I don't know if there will ever be occasion for me to use it since I'm not presently a computer owner.My internet access is via MSNTV2 on my T.V.).It would seem that the phasing out of Minidisc portables that can copy directly from a CD player is a music industry power play to get more control over how,or if music can be copied onto Minidisc.I bought this unit only because I have a substantial existing collection of homemade Minidiscs.For newcomers,I would say,buy a portable CD player and forget Minidisc.
5/25/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
good product but a few questions need to be aksed......
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good sony minidisc player,
but a few things need to be asked.. you need to hook this machine up to a computer ..I have onwed a sony minidisc in the past..and the computer thing is fine no problems about that,
but when I try to play my older minidiscs on the computer they wont play..
I figured out the answer..the older discs are "analog' and the new recorded discs are "digital' and thats fine but I have a standard minidisc player for my stereo and when I try to play a disc in from the computer..again.. no playback...the stereo machine reads.. " no music"
my question is for sony....
why couldnt sony think of a way to make everything work togetherand configure right ?? perhaps make software that can configure older discs to the new digital format??
I now have discs that play on the computer and then I have discs that play from the older minidisc player.. oh well.this is the only thing that bothers me about sony...
but still a good minidisc player for its price..it has speeds now that you can add alot more music on the discs as wellI got a total of 48 songs on one alone..its a great space saverwith all that music on one discyou dont need to carry around a ton of discs..I also own an "ipod" but still love my minidiscs too.
the software for sony is now "3.4" if you have not updated your software just go to sony.com ..or sony connect.it is better for the system and your computer.enjoy..2/5/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Great Gadget
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I was given this as a gift and especially since it was given to me, I love this thing. It's the poor man's ipod, who wants to spend $200+ when they could get this for like $60-80. It holds up to50- *almost* 80 songs per disk I believe (each of my disks have a different amount-depending on the length of the songs),is skip proof, sound is great, and it's easy to transfer music onto. I find no fault with it. I've had it for over a year and it's held up beautifully, even with being dropped. So personally I think it's a great gadget to have if you can't afford or don't want to splurge on the oh so hyped ipod.
11/5/2005 12:00 AM | Rating:
Awsome Product
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This little product is the best ever! Some of the rewiews I've seen for this has been good but some bad.
Well the player itself is flawless, it almost seemes that I get even more than just 56 hours of playback. I have dropped mine twice and still it keeps on running(that doesn't happen often). Now the sound quality itself is just amazing. I play the drums and I most of the time play to music, so I use this, It's what I bought it for. I'll tell you now it hasn't let me down yet for 2 years. Now they could do a little improvement on the software, It's easy to use but on my computer it kept incountering errors. But I found out that if you have a Sony computer you'll never havea problem.10/7/2005 12:00 AM | Rating:
Mis-Leading
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First I am a huge Sony Minidisc fan and have used md's for a long time. Entering the mp3 and wma time, I decided to get a net md to play these files. Unfortunetly Sony forgot to give their users an easy way to transfer their files to the net md. Here's why;
First even though the package says it plays mp3's and wma's, it actually means it will convert them to Atrac then store it to the player. Taking too much of your time.
Second it doesn't even convert all wma's or mp's. Most of my files are wma and it didn't even convert 75% of them.
Third the device soemtimes thinks it's full when not and heres the kicker, you must use batteries to to do any tranfers. Most mp3 player uses the power of your computer to do that.
Honestly I have never been so mad at sony. I do still love most of their products but they should have put more effort into this.
Sorry customers, but if you want an easy to use and better quality mp3 player look at anything other than net md. If Sony was smart they would have made the Net MD like a mass storage device and let the customer decide if they want to convert their music to atrac.
I ended up buying a 40gb Creative Labs Zen. Very easy and also lets me store files other than music too.2/14/2005 12:00 AM | Rating:
