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Review: MP3 player or mini disc? I thought long and hard about this one. 2 days ago it arrived, shiney and sleek, a beautiful thing to behold. So far so good. Then I looked at the instruction manual.....panic! 24 hours before I realized I could pre-set radio stations! Ok, I've only had about 3 hours sleep trying to figure this thing out, let's put things simply. Pros:
1. Looks cool
2. Good sound quality - even in LP4 mode (better than FM)
3. Radio is excellent, more presets than you could ever need/want.
4. Good features: shuffle, groups, mic in, equalizers, virtual surround, etc.
5. Smaller than a CD walkman.
6. Longer battery life than mp3 players.
7. FM and AM radio. Cons:
1. Instruction manual.
2. The software is really, really, really, bad.
3. The software is terrible.
4 The software is awful. Imagine wanting to listen to something, but first having to translate it from French to Greek and then to Latin... That is how easy it is to transfer an mp3 file to ATRAC. The software jams regularly (my PC is top(ish) spec). It takes me approx 45 mins to transfer 6 mp3 albums from my jukebox through the software onto the minidisc. Why can't Sony accept that mp3/wma is what people use on their computers?! If you can by CD walkmans that play 30 albums on one CD, why can't you buy Minidisc players that do the same? I bought this as a "stop-gap" whilst waiting for hard-disc players to iron out their problems...I hope it's not going to be to long. | 
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