Sony MZ-N420D Psyc Net MD Walkman Digital Music Player

Fantastic Little Player. You will read plenty of reviews telling you how terrible the SonicStage software is. Don't believe it. SonicStage and the ATRAC sound system was the best music system ever made. The sound and compression ratios are greatly superior to MP3. The problem was that SONY devised a proprietary method for putting the music onto the Walkman device which in and of its self was not a bad idea. If you own the CD it is very easy to transfer the music to the Walkman device, if on the other hand you have swapped out a whole set of MP3's from your friends and never properly paid the artists for their work then you would have trouble transferring the MP3 to ATRAC also if you buy all of your music from iTunes and try to transfer to ATRAC there could be a problem. I've used the SonicStage ATRAC system for all of my music for years and have never had a problem. Anyway in my humble opinion ATRAC was and is the best sound system ever made. Enjoy :)

We bought this device for a gift and when they opened it, it did not work, when we asked about return or replace they gave a one line reply about it being outside of the return date of 30 days. they did not offer any technical support or even a sorry about it not working.

We had to spend another $10 to get a cord delivered.

Yes ! It was as he stated ,Very clean. Played a used mini disc from another sale and it sounds great.Will buy from this vendor again !

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 a MAC owner, and the software can only be used with PC's).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.

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.

The Walkman never worked. To add insult to injury, I paid $127.00 and they only reimbursed me $100.00I rate with a star because the survey does not allow me to submit it without any.

Very pleased