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Review: I should start by saying that the Sony MZ-N505 Silver Net MiniDisc Walkman itself has great sound quality, it's small and light and just about anything you expect from a MD player. But the name NetMD might be a little misleading. The player itself does not support or playback mp3 or wma files at all. The bundled software will import the files you choose and convert them to ATRAC3 files (making a copy of the new file) before transferring them to the MD. When you are trying to transfer quite a few songs this can take ages. It supposedly does this to stop illegal distribution of songs to other PCs/MDs etc. Aswell as this long waiting time it also eats away lots of space on your HD if you don't continually delete the extra files it creates, this should be done manually because the software has a tendency to delete the copied files aswell as your original mp3 files. I think I should also point out that the player is plastic and not metal, the screen might be too small for some and you'll eventually end up wishing you got a player with a screen on the remote. The manuals would be better described as pamphlets which fail to answer any serious questions you might have so you should'nt rely on them to sort out any problems. You might also encounter some difficulty recording at LP4 at times, because the software refuses to transfer some mp3 files at that rate. So overall if you don't mind waiting about for the transfer and converting times and have a large HD then this could be for you. Just don't expect an mp3 playing Minidisc recorder, because it's not. | 
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