 "quit whining" | 2007-06-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2UVDSYJB1J8IP |
| Ive owned this player for quite some time and love it. I use to listen to music and thats it. Sonicstage works fine. I even burn discs from it and if you have a car stereo that reads mp3s it will give you the name of the band ,track, or name of cds. It seems that everyone who doesnt like it wants something more than an mp3 player. the software has never caused me any problems. you can even update it for free. works just like windows media. piece of cake. remember...its for listening to music. Oh , and who needs more than 10 cds on one unit? |
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 "eh" | 2006-08-20 |
| - Reviewed By scrubbydoo |
| yea i had this thing for a year i payed 80 buks for it lasted a wile and played reall nice i hated thesoftware it came with suked so bad real difficult to use and plus it broke in half it so not sleek at all very fragile |
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 "Used it for 2 years! Great!" | 2005-05-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3KE46VUKOXF7A |
| It actually is really good, quality and other wise. Although the memory is a little small and its disk (blah! Download a new one from their site) is really bad. It is easy to use and its size is TINY. I never thought about changing an mp3 until 2005, when by ear phone started breaking. It could be brought on vacation and it has absolutly no skipbacks and its charge is lightweight. Although it is expansive it is durible, absolutly worth it. (I bought it at 299.99 USD) I still suggest you get something like iRiver because this is an expanzive device! |
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 "Why have you done this to me, Sony? Why?" | 2005-01-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1PXU00P27S2CE |
| I get the sense that Sony rushed to get this product into the market when they realized the inevitable ipod invasion. It seems that product testing was simply skipped altogether in order to sell as many units as possible before ipod completely took hold. I sincerely urge you to avoid this terrible product and wish the resulting frustration upon noone. I will admit that the sound quality is superior to Mp3, but the difference is not enormous and if I wanted the best quality I would play an uncompressed format on my home stereo (duh). As with all Sony products, aesthetically the product is beautiful with clean, smooth lines and innovative (though I fear somewhat breakable) controls. The software was blatantly Sony's last priority with countless flaws and a mind-numbing transfer rate. Atrac3 is not compatable with the rest of the civilized world and Sony Support is non-existent. Do not spend a cent on any of these players and with hope Sony will be forced discontinue this pathetic product line and get back to doing something they actually know about. Hopefully for mankind something that doesn't require software - like good ol' VHS. |
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| "Do Not Buy the Sony Network Walkman" | 2004-12-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3BEJPQJFZAJMH |
| I received the Network Walkman as a prize and it has made my life miserable. Contrary to what the box & Sony Customer service will tell you, it does not play MP3s. The computer will confirm that I downloaded the files, but the player displays "No Data" when I try to listen. Therefore, I need to use the SonicStage software, but the software does not work. Every time I try to load music into the music library, I get an error message and the program shuts down. Customer service was difficult to track down and could not help me when I got through to them. The Network Walkman looks good, but it is a very expensive paperweight. |
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| "Run for your lives" | 2004-12-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: A5G9CVA3ZV1VN |
| What a mess. Sony missed the boat big time with this one. The software is a mess, buggy and doesn't work well with Windows. My puter crashed a minimum of 15 times in 2 days. Support? I had to hunt them down and then it took, no lie, 6 hours on the phone. Seems the CD was missing a .dll file and windows would not recognize their .inf files. In addition, the unit itself had to have the memory reformatted, a manufacturing issue. Now that it works, beware, unless you rip your own CDs or want to buy from the Sony Music Store, which, by the way, uses a different version of the software and will also crash your puter, you are pretty limited. I wish I had purchased another product, the use of this will be very limited and I cannot recommend it to anyone for any reason. |
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 "Nice design, terrible software" | 2004-03-15 |
| - Reviewed By cjoenck |
| Yes, the design is nice and the battery live is good but the software is a disgrace. I also can not understand why Sony only supports USB 1.1 in this day and age. The disaster recovery - well the complete lack thereof - is a serious issue if you don't want to re-transfer all your CDs to a hard disk every time you experience hard disk problems or have to change machines. The SonicStage software is slow and not very user friendly. Why does the list of just recorded song keep refreshing every time a song is converted? Nice try Sony, but please package some usable software with your poducts. |
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| "Major Flaw !" | 2004-03-09 |
| - Reviewed By moore_ca |
| The Sony NW-MS70 sounds and looks amazing. I bought this product expecting that once I had uploaded my CD collection on my PC then I'd have many happy hours of listening. Sadly this is not the case! If like me, you suffer hard disk problems on your PC and you are away from your music collection, you've had it! When I bought my MD walkman I never thought about this eventuality but it has happened. Sony support say there's nothing they can or WILL do because it's down to copyright - so thank you SONY. As for my walkman, it did sound great but now it is useless! I think this is a fundamental flaw and if I'd known this at the time of purchase, I would NOT have bought this player. Some other points worth considering are the lack of USB2 so songs take an eternity to check in/out to-from the player and the fact that "SonicStage" is the worst piece of professional software I have ever used - it's slow, uses up heaps of resources and is not in the least bit user friendly. Sony should take a long hard look at iTunes because that is just so much better.
In the end, i've ditched my network walkman for a mini-iPod and I'm really happy I did this. My nework walkman was a waste of $300 but it was a learning experience. |
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| "Very good for the 105 days it lasted." | 2004-02-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A16DYZ8ABNZ1GG |
| This is a light weight, compact unit that's perfect for those who listen to their own CDs. I haven't had issues transferring WAV files since I record off of my own CDs. It doesn't skip with movement and the sound is very good. However my unit stopped working 105 days after I received it. Being that the full warranty is only for 90 days, I am now stuck with paying shipping and labor charges to get it fixed (Sony only covers parts for 1 year). This is an expensive unit and I was happy with it while it worked but the price works out to 3$ per day. No MP3 unit is worth this price regardless of size, features and sound. You expect to pay a lot for a Mercedes but you also expect it to run for longer than 3 & 1/2 months. |
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| "Fancy, yet feeble.........." | 2004-02-07 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
I've owned this for almost 1year. It looked Cool, yet after carrying and slighty bumped against a desk few times, it broke..
Design is fancy and the format type(ATRAC3) is good to save a memory. However, the software occupies immense system resources. Overall, it was nothing but a funny toy for me.
Although sound quality,design and portabilty are OK, durabilty makes this player as one of worst mp3 players i've owned... |
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