The SONY Memory Stick Walkmans ARE nice, BUT they are a pain in the ass
(even more so than most of the MP3 players). First of all SONY uses a
special version of MP3's (for secure copyright tracking) so you have to
convert your MP3s. Also some machines are being made to play MP3s and WMAs
(which are about half the size with comparable quality) and SONY's are NOT
(as of now). Price? $299 for the non-upgradeable one (the cute little
clip-on) and I THINK $399 for the other one. Buy a minidisc walkman
instead...
Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
Groove Distribution
http://www.groovedis.com
Your Guide To The Underground
-----Original Message-----
From: Pekka Sundstrom [mailto:rekku@pacbell.net]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 10:01 AM
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: New wax and cutting wax
Off the topic...
Has anyone of you guys tried out the new walkman that sony has out, can
remember what they called it, but it has these memory sticks that hold
64Mb...
It does sound pretty neat, no moving parts, really small, don't know what
the pricing is though...
/P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hwileniu@cc.helsinki.fi [mailto:hwileniu@cc.helsinki.fi]
> Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 02:31
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: New wax and cutting wax
>
>
>
>
> > At 09:38 AM 3/3/00 +0200, Heikki J Wilenius wrote:
>
> > >MiniDisc players have a digital audio output. All you
> > >need is a sound card with a digital input, then you
> > >can record the MD to you hard drive for cd burning.
> > >Of course you can record it the non-digital way as
> > >well...
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Elson Trinidad corrected:
>
> > Incorrect, mostly. Just about all MD recorders have digital in
> but barely
> > any have digital out -- NO portable unit has digital out
> <insert big frown
> > icon here>. And this is an optical connection, which only some
> soundcards
> > support.
>
> Whoops, after checking my Sony MZ-R30 I realized this is true. =)
> Since my soundcard does not have digital inputs I've never realized
> this. Still, it *is* a really nice portable recorder. Weird that
> there's no digital out, I always took that for granted...
>
> Heikki
>
>
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