Honestly, I would take a CD player over a MD, mainly the Sony D-NE920, however, this CD player, or any others like it have seem to have vanished. Minidisc players seem to be in a much higher supply. There is just something about having the hard copy of something that entices me. I have an MP3 player, I was looking to try something new. When I said I didn't want a player that could record I would like to record my CDs onto a disk.