Sony MZ-N505 Net MD Walkman Player/Recorder
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Sony's MZ-N505 Net MD Walkman Recorder has everything you need to create great-sounding music mixes in record time. In addition to transferring your music in up to 32x speed, title and track information created in OpenMG Jukebox is transferred to the MiniDisc. With Easy Skip group folder function, you can arrange songs into groups or "albums" in OpenMG Jukebox and easily transfer them to the MZ-N505 Net MD Recorder. If you record five hours of music, you… Product details and pricing info |
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109 Customer Reviews Posted
- My favorite gadget
- I bought this as a Christmas present for myself. I needed something small & light to take to the gym with me. It's PERFECT.
It holds lots of music and doesn't weigh me down.
The software that it comes with is too confusing to use; very frustrating.
I use REALPLAYER ONE, to download and transfer clips onto the device. It is so unbelievably easy it's almost a crime.
I have to admit I was apprehensive at first being that I had little or no knowledge of Mini-disks and how they operate but I did my research and it's the best $ I ever spent.
I love the vibrant gold color, its sturdy too (dropped it several times by mistake, of course), the only drawback I can say is that it should have some kind of carrying case or something built into the back to secure it to the clothes you wear. Other than that I LOVE IT! - 2003-05-01, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not supported by Windows Xp
- 1) it is propriety, only sony mini disks work in it, no generic available.
2) Will only copy back to the original computer from which the mp3 files were copped from.
3) It worked as expected under Win98 SE with RealOne player. I up graded to XP and I haven't got it to work since. I have gone to sony website and down loaded every program and driver. None of them would install under XP. Microsoft has no drivers for it. That means everything I moved to mini disks before the XP upgrade can't be copied to a computer.
- 2003-04-28, 2 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Excellent!!
- I would recommend this to anyone. Easy to operate and download. It just takes time downloading. I do not use the earphone as provided with the product. I use sports walkman earphones. The upside is that it holds about five hours on one little disk. One battery last forever. Such a small product which makes it convenient to use while working out at the gym. This product is Well worth the money.
- 2003-04-10, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good player, miserable software
- I found this player affordable, which produces good, rich sound and was pretty amazed what this small thing can do. For sure Sony makes great electronics, but probably not software. Those who are going to use it as mp3, wav, wma player, don't buy on this. This is total Lie, because you'll never be able to upload these files to this player. These formats are supported by software only, which converts files to it's own stupid format called atrac, which is not used anywhere else and only then uploads to netmd. It wouldn't be so bad if THAT atrac format could support more that 132kbps bitrate. That's the highest bitrate you can use, no difference if you're copying from cd or higher bitrate mp3. And trust me, this player produces sound good enough for ear to distinguish lack of quality reduced by the compression. LP4/LP2 modes are just out of discussion. Not even Simple Stereo sounds good, because of stupid software, which encodes everything you feed to it to 132kbps at highest.
OpenMG software supplied on cd together with the player is just a mockery with it's copyright protection and the way this application built. It gives a feeling of a very slow, unreliable software.
I gave 4 stars for this product only because of it's software.
For whose who prefer quality to capacity the only way to get sound close to cd's is to use the optical or analog inputs within the player. It doesn't make recordings fast, only 1x, but after all you have a music pleasant to your ear. Also you should get some better headphones...
To sum up, just consider what are your requirements. If don't care about the 132kbps quality, then buy it, if you do, think once more. Though I reccomend to you to listen to player before buying. You can judge by yourself then :) - 2003-03-11, 8 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- No Mike Input????? Whose idea was that!
- In their eternal effort, it seems, to control customers, Sony has created the Net MD MA-N505. Looks cool, but if you want to take notes, record live music or interviews, FORGET IT. It will record LINE IN, but not MIC IN. And you can't tell from the packaging. Luckily, the store will take it back. Tomorrow. First thing. You betcha!
- 2003-02-16, 8 of 21 people found this review helpful, Rated:
