Sony MiniDisc work with OS 9 or 10?
Hey, I really want to get a portable music player. Of course the iPod is ideal except I don't have that much money. Months ago, when I bought Windows XP (before I saw the light) Best Buy had this deal where you could get all this free stuff. Well I finally found the receipt and decided to go with the free mp3 player, a Rio 600. I really like it except that it only has 32 MB of internal memory. Even worse is that it uses proprietary and expensive "backpacks."
So I'm looking into <a href="http://www.sonystyle.com/electronics/prd.jsp?hierc=8627x8650x8647&catid=8647&pid=28901& type=p" target="_blank">this</a> Sony MiniDisc player because it's small, affordable (the player and the discs), and it's skip-free. The only problem is, does it work with the Mac OS? On Sony's site it doesn't mention anything about being Mac OS compatible but I've read reviews somewhere saying that it does. I've also read at MiniDisco.com that it isn't. Any personal experience with this player?
So I'm looking into <a href="http://www.sonystyle.com/electronics/prd.jsp?hierc=8627x8650x8647&catid=8647&pid=28901& type=p" target="_blank">this</a> Sony MiniDisc player because it's small, affordable (the player and the discs), and it's skip-free. The only problem is, does it work with the Mac OS? On Sony's site it doesn't mention anything about being Mac OS compatible but I've read reviews somewhere saying that it does. I've also read at MiniDisco.com that it isn't. Any personal experience with this player?
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<strong>So the MiniDisc Player will work it just doesn't utilize NetMD on Macs? Can you recommend an affordable mp3 player that doesn't have such limited space?</strong><hr></blockquote>
That is my understanding of the situation, but I havent looked into it for around 6 months (since I got my iPod ) so it could have changed... as for an MP3 player that isn't limited I would look into one of the flash based players that use industry standard cards (such as MMC/SD or CF) rather then the propraitary(Sp?) rios.... the iPaq (yuk) springs to mind... (my friend has one, its REALLY small--like the size of a big pack of matches... batt life is pretty bad tho, she was slipping in a new AAA batt every other day or so with heavy-ish (6+hrs or so a day) usage)
Or you could get a HD based player, but for the $ why not save up for an iPod? It is definately worth it...
hth
-Paul
Edit: typos, clarifications...
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I might actually take off. It has more capacity than MiniDisc (250 and 500MB discs) It supports MP3 formats and MD formats. Data, video, still pics. Pretty neat. I know 250-500 doesn't sound like much these days, but the things are the size of a 2 dollar coin. Very tiny and the drives are very low power (for long battery life) They supply about 1MBps data rate so the drive isn't constantly spinning either (kinda like the iPod principle) -- it only spins about 1/8th os the time when playing.
And...
Record Labels are actually releasing first party material to them starting next month (when the players will debut)
Still cameras, PDA's and hand-held video games to follow!
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