Buy Sony MZ-N510CK NetMD Walkman/Recorder with Car KitSony MZ-N510CK NetMD Walkman/Recorder with Car Kit Product Description:
- Stores more than five hours of music on an 80-minute minidisc; speedy USB connection minimizes recording time
- Compatible with MP3, WMA, and WAV music files as well as with the pressplay.com online music subscription service
- Bundled software helps you organize your music by artist, song, style, or tempo
- Bookmark function lets you "mark" or program your favorite songs on the disc in real time during playback
- Includes a remote control, AC adapter, and car-kit accessories; offers up to 56 hours of playback from a single AA battery
Product Description
You'll be up to speed with this Sony High Speed Net Mini Disc Walkman Recorder that records your MP3s or CDs at up to 32x regular speed. Record from multiple sources and take your tunes on the road with handy car accessories. Features: remote control, bookmark function, play back in ATRAC3, MDLP long time stereo play back, SonicStage software, Net MD burner application, RealOne compatibility, Easy-Skip group/folder function, digital sound preset, multiple playback modes, skip-free G-protection, AC adapter, LCD display with battery life and play remaining time information, stereo headphones, USB cable and carrying case. Availble storage capacity may vary.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Wish I had this years ago!
By Richard G. Amirault
Great product. I wish I had discovered minidisc technology years ago. I purchase this for one reason (descrete, portable recording), but ended up using it mostly for another reason (music playback)
It's not perfect. I wish it had the AM/FM turer, but I was not willing to pay the $70 extra for the model with the tuner. I would also have been nice to record off a mike, but it has a line input and you can run your mike(s) thru a mixer if you really need to record "live".
Recordings made thru the line-input cannot be uploaded to your computer either.
But what it does it does very, very well. A single 80 min disc can hold (at maximum compression) well over 5 hours of music! It only needs a single AA cell, and that lasts for over 50 hours on playback. Well worth the money.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
I love it and I hate it
By Toomuchnoise
TWO YEAR UPDATE:After two years of use, I love it more and hate it less.It is worked WIHOUT FAIL on daily use. I can't say this about most of my electronic gear. I use it mostly for "time shifting" of my favorite radio programs. I also use it to listen to books on tape (which I've dubbed over)... again it is a great product for this. The bookmarking feature is wonderful for keeping track where you're at in the book.I now have the SonicStage version 2 and it is much better. Still not great... but much more useable.--------------I use my MD player every day so, obviously, something is right about it. I actually own two!But I also want to write a cranky email to this engineer at Sony signed off on the software! It is AMAZINGLY bad! SonicStage (1.5 is my version) is SO counter-intuitive that I just can't use it... and I'm pretty savvy with computer stuff. LITERALLY -- I can't use it.I can't figure out any way to just drag-and-drop songs to the player in the SonicStage software. Why in the world not? It's baffling.Instead Sony makes you go through this ridiculous "check in check out" process. (or is it "check out - check in"?) It makes no sense to me. Maybe if you grew up on right-brained computer games like Mario Brothers, you could just let go of the need for logic.FORTUNATELY, you can get a plug-in for RealAudio which is better but still not that great. The SimpleBurner isn't too bad either -- it's just limited to copying your CDs.The Sony MD player is terrific at recording stuff off the radio for time-shifting. However, Sony won't let you transfer it back on to your computer for safe-keeping. The only way to do this is real time dubbing through your sound card. How FRUSThttps://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlTcxregH7wz9aILhBCJEQ1jWoQHl8xtfySawez32Ug94mLFGCnoD7Rve2LmGQieIGue2MWISctZbWsufGgqaSig-2lmSJWmjZNRO7VIopwAN8_nB8NWkRMKzMvbHdjxKAVseXwYNz1Y/s1600/rating+4.png! The MD could be one terrific tool for ripping your old LPs, or whatever, but Sony has made this impractical. This crippling of functions by Sony makes it useless for lots of people, I'm sure.The compression and audio quality are terrific and it sounds great to my ears, even at the highest compression rates.One terrific thing you can do with the MD is record off you favorite radio stations and then edit out the commercials and even move the songs around. This is so easy to do, that I do this while on my evening walks! You end up with a custom "best of" tape. But, then it's a pain-in-the-neck if you want to get that back on your computer.The price is a deal for such a great piece of hardware and the MD disks are cheap, sturdy and hold a lot. I take mine on trips all over the world and even 5 MDs is plenty. I take my MD places that I would be nervous to take an IPod or some other higher-priced MP3 player. Also, battery life is great and it uses just normal AA's which you can buy anywhere -- a big advantage for travel.Even though it is marketed as "speedy" it doesn't seem that fast to me. I haven't' actually timed it, but I think you could burn an MP3 CD quite a bit faster.So, if you want to time-shift NPR or Rush, it's a great little machine. I havne't seen anything around that can beat it. But I wouldn't recommend it for listening to MP3s.If Sony had just written better software and hadn't crippled it, the MD player would be killer. But, it's good for some functions like time shifting.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Walkman is great
By Sameep Tandon
This is a great MiniDisc Recorder/Player, but I highly discourage people from running with it. It's quite big, and a little bulky, even though it does fit in a palm of somebody older than 13. It's pros definetly outweigh the cons. So heres my list of pros and cons.
ProsGreat Software- I dont see what the complaining is about. If you follow the directions you'll be done in less than 2 minutes!Recording Speeds- Really nice if your in a hurry. You can burn approximately 20 songs a minute and 100 songs in 6 minutes.Memory/Data in a MiniDisc- Although the minidisc claims to be 74 minutes, you can alter the quality of the song (Lp4, Lp2) modes and gets incredible amounts of songs. In LP4 mode (66k) you can get nearly 5 hours of music (4 hours 59 minutes to be precise) and in Lp2 (132k) you can get approx. half of that. Although I said "Alter the quality) there is really no way you can tell the difference between standard and LP4. The only difference I have picked up is that you have to raise the volume a little bit.Battery Life- 1AA battery can run for 56 hours continually (but its more if you turn it on and off) I've had my MiniDisc Player for 2 weeks now and I listen to it atleast 3/4 hours a day and still is at FULL battery.
ConsSearching for songs- Searching for songs often can be a pain, especially if you don't figure it out (READ THE MANUAL! IT REALLY WORKS)
There aren't many cons to this player.
Overall I would give this player a high rating of 4.5/5 stars. It's really good and I don't see what the complaining is about.
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