Hi, I was a good user for MD before. I got many MD players on the passed several years... Pioneer MD recorder, SHARP/SONY MDLP recorder, even I have a SONY MDLP car player on my car as well... ^^ I am now thinking to have a new Hi-MD player/recorder. The two reasons I didn't but it so far are the MP3 playback supports and the download speed (from PC). Anybody knows that can Hi-MD plays the MP3 file directly? My mean is if I do copy the MP3 files to Hi-MD from WinXP file manager directly without Sonicstage. And where can I find the transferring speed for it be use as USB storage devices?