Sony MZNH600D Hi-MD MiniDisc Walkman by Sony
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Digital camera reviews of Sony MZNH600D Hi-MD MiniDisc Walkman
Digital camera Review: It all works great for me!
Summary: 5 Stars
I Love this thing. The battery life is great. I used it at work for around six hours. Then I took it on a trip and listened to it for another 15 hours on the same rechargeable battery and it still had playing time left.
With the 1 gig minidisc I have 345 songs on my minidisk and still have 242.7mb free with the tracks recorded in HI-LP(ATRAC3plus 64kps).
To me the great thing about a minidisc player is I can just change the disc and I have another gig of music ready to go so it is very versatile and cheaper than an MP3 player. Plus to be honest a gig of music in HI-LP (ATRAC3) suits my needs just fine.
At first I did not like the idea of using a proprietary format like ATRAC but it works great and since the software is free and I plan on using an XP pc for sometime to come I did not think it was much of a risk especially since I could always put regular mp3 formatted songs on the minidisc if I want.
I also like the fact that my XP pro OS will pickup the walkman as an external storage device if the SonicStage software is not turned on. That was a nice feature.
I am using Sonicstage v2.0 and it has worked great on my XP pro (sp2) machine. The MD Simple Burner has worked flawlessly for me also.I have written, erased and rewritten songs to my HI-MD minidisc with no problem with this software. As for the minidiscs I have had no trouble finding the HI-MD minidisks or the 80min minidisc.
Bottom line for the money I don't think you can beat this player.
Digital camera Review: It is not really a mp3 player!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
After buying this for almost one, I decide to write a review for this machine.
FIRST, this is NOT a true mp3 player!!!
I was convinced to buy this from amazon.com mainly by the long battery life promised by SONY, and high capacity of the 1GB Hi-MD. This turned out to be true after I tried the machine.
However, the use of this machine is a painful process.
I have quite some collection of mp3 and wma music albums, and some mp3 audio books. At first, I thought I can just plug in this machince into my computer and transfer the files I need, and listen to the things I desire. In the end, I found, all of the mp3 or wma files must be first converted into SONY's special format(.omg) with the provided hassel software, then you can transfer and listen them. The conversion takes so much time, although the transfer of the converted files are pretty quick. In the end, I have to quit the using of this and replace it with a Creative MuVo TX FM 1 GB MP3 Player.
This is not a true mp3 player!!!
SONY's thought are very different from other mainstream mp3 companies!!!
Digital camera Review: It would deserve 6 stars, IF it had MIC & LINE inputs
Summary: 5 Stars
The sound in Hi-SP is as good as, if not better than, that of ANY OTHER minidisc recorder/player I have heard at any price (and my base of comparison is fairly extensive--15 or so other models from Sony and Sharp.) So about 7 hours of music can be recorded on a 1 gig disc and about 2.5 hours on a standard minidisc utilizing the Hi-SP mode. And this model has been selling CHEAP. The 1 gig disc can also be used to transport & transfer files of any sort. Also the latest Sony software for this seems to be an improvement over older versions. The aesthetics of this model could certainly be improved, and, of course, it would really be a bargain, if it had other inputs (for example, MIC and LINE).Digital camera Review: Just OK
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the second minidisc player I've owned. My first one (Sony MZ-R30) was exceptional in quality so maybe it isn't fair to compare the two... but this newer one is slow to respond, awkward to open, and the control panel is slightly hard to see. The sound is fine. My main complaint is the slow operating speed and clumsiness of opening it to insert the disc. I probably would not recommend this item unless you don't care about ease of use.Digital camera Review: Lots of bang for the buck.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have had this unit for 2 weeks and love it. It comes with all of the features that last years higher net-md players came with, including EQ, remote output (no remote though) and easy to navigate mini joystick and jog dial. Its very convenient to have a player that accepts AA batteries, since there are alot of good high capacity cells in this size, unlike the gum-stick batteries which are rare, low capacity and become usless in less than a year. The playtime is good too, even on a rechargable. No skips either, even with really rough use.
First thing I did was go to Sony's Connect website and download the latest version of SonicStage. It installed perfectly, saving all of the play lists I have accumulated from my Net-MD Walkman which used SonicStage 1.0. It works great for ripping songs from CD; it's fairly fast. It has a CD info database that blows away Windows Media Player's, no matter how obscure the title.
I was able to fit all 200 CD's, over 2000 songs onto 4 HI-MDs and 2 80 minutes discs, one for each genre of music. They all fit neatly into a compact 5 disc case.
I plugged the remote that cane with my MZ-N10, and it works great. I can easily change play modes and skip tracks with it.
The problems I had are:
Ultra slow MP3 conversion; it takes SonicStage hours to convert a whole HI-MD disc worth of Mp3's.
No song export from HI-MD disc; if you try to transfer a song from the recorder to SonicStage it will erase the track from the recorder, and disappear from the music library, possibly to a temp folder some where. (Just checked, they did get exported but are in a folder called Optimized Files, not to the music library like where they were supposed to go.) The discs are hard to come by, I tried 3 vendors and all were out of the discs.
Bottom line this is one of the best minidisc platers out there, if you dont need anything too ultra high end. there are tons of models out there and it turns out one of the most basic is also the best, cant say anything bad about the player its self.
Follow - up: I upgraded to an RH10 minidisc player to replace this one, and it turns out that the MP3 cpability of the RH10 doent work for VBR's plus all of my gumstick batteries died, so I stopped using it. Im back to this one afterall due to its better batery option.