snathanb

Update: SOLD Hello! My wife bought me a HiMD player and 10 HiMD 1GB blanks. After filling them all, I decided i'd rather have a hard disk player, so I returned it. I already filled all the disks and forgot to reformat them before returning the 600D, so they currently have a whole lot of music on them. If you are into Queen, every studio album in LP2. Every Styx Album in LP2, Every Journey album in LP2, ever Police Album in LP2, every Sting Album in LP2, and whole lot of Elton John, Billy Joel, etc, etc. (For demonstration purposes only, you should reformat these when you get them..) Paid $6.99 plus shipping and tax for them... since they have been recorded on, I'll let the lot go for $55. That's quite a deal. They are all less than 1 month old. I'll pick up the shipping (USPS) in the continental US. The items would be shipped from the Dallas, Texas area. If you are in that area, we can arrange pick up, instead. If you buy the lot, I'll through in 20 Lucir Translucent Blue 74 Min Discs with individual cases/lables for an extra $5.00. Paypal preferred. Please email me at snathanb@yahoo.com You may get an email stating that I have spam blocking on... just ignore it, I'll still get your message!

Some stores still have them... In the Dallas area, only one store did, but that store (Grapevine, TX) had over a hundred of them... If you search on item 282866 on the Sam's Club web site, it still comes up, and you can check from there which stores have it locally.

I only paid $129.95 US for my 600D, and that included an arm band case and a box of 5 80minute MDs. (As well as a 1GB and the typical accessories) They were all packaged together that way at Sam's Club.

Try using Sonic Stage or SimpleBurner to reformat the disc. I had the exact same thing happen yesterday, when I was trying to copy 1 GB of music all at one time. I got the same message. I even got some error message on the unit while reformatting via SS, but it still worked fine.

JandR.com carries them for $6.99. I ordered a few from them before Christmas, when they were offering free shipping (and no tax for me...) My local Fry's has plenty of them on the shelf for $6.99.

I wonder why it doesn't list the MZ-NH600D as a compatible device...

I would hold off on making a decision until Sony announces any new models at the CES show next week....

I did quite a bit of ripping and comparing side by side of HiSP, LP2 and HiLP trying to decide what to use on my new HiMD player. After several days of listening in various environments, etc. I decided on LP2. Unfortunately, Sony doesn't make it easy... The MP3 Bulk convert tool doesn't support LP2, and SimpleBurner will not write LP2 to a HiMD formatted MD. I was able to bulk convert my whole 5000+ MP3 library to LP2 at once using SonicStage, but it took 24 hours.

I find HiLP too compressed for my tastes and listening environment, so I am still using LP2 for most things. The only thing I use HiLP for is for workout mixes for noisy environments. Unfortunately, The MP3 bulk convert tool only works for AtracPlus codecs, and SimpleBurner will not let you use LP2 on a HiMD formatted disc. I did find that in SonicStage, you can switch from Album View to View All tracks, select all, and convert you entirely library to LP2 all in one shot. It took about 24 hours on my PC to convert 5000 songs.

Susan, Just use any old rechargable double AAs. I use a NIMH in mine.

After having applied the hack, the timer menu is right after R-Mode, It says MTimer.

I have a stock US unit, no remote. I notice that I change the melodie, sort of. If I turn the Melodie Timer on, with headphones plugged in, I get Beethoven, ode to Joy If I turn the Melodie Timer on, with headphones unplugged, I get Twinkle-Twinkle little star...