I am a musician and could never afford any fancy recording equipment but was lucky enough to have use of a recording studio at my university. I am now out on my own so decided to buy a MD so I could be self-reliant in my music recordings. I have found the MD really easy to record on (you just press record) but a bitch to use oherwise (all this group stuff...? what is that about). Sonicstage was useless and I went to a lot of trouble to get the damn recording onto CD by paying a sound technician. I say Sony is stupid for keeping this product on and saying that it is great for musicians. I am not a technolgical buff but why can't they make a product that writes straight onto a CD (in walkman form) as they have done with the new DVD handycam product for god's sake. Lets just make it easy for a change. From disgruntled MD owner.