2 Md In The Family?

[toekneeb]

Hi

My girlfriend has just bought 2 MZNH600Ds for a bargain £55 each inc a 1GB disc, one each :-)

Ok I was actually looking for a Mp3 player i had settled on an iriver but then a call at work gave me 5mins to change my mind, an 1GB flash iriver is £120 at its cheapest here so i figured i couldn't lose, it must be flash based as i plan 2 go running ruling MP3 HDs out.

I had looked at an Aiwa MD player but Hi-MD looks better and mines is in cool blue, GF wants the silver one.

But what is this ! after more research on this site i find that the MD doesn't play MP3 directly oh no, but hey i figure i have only 22 MP3s that i don't have the original CDs and i can always convert them to Atrac so thats not so bad,

i figure HI-SP over from orig CD = 8 hrs should be fine BUT as we have 2 MDs what happens if we want to swap files between walkmans for e.g we both have a track that we like and then we want 2 put it on each player, can we both swap it back to the PC and move the file over to another Hi-MD discs in the future? Or do we need 2 copies of each file?

I haven't seen the player yet as GF is away (back 2morrow) but can't wait to see what a MD can do. I know the Hi-MD maybe the last throw of the dice 4 MD but all i need is something smaller than my lovely sony CD player that plays music with good sound quality eqiv 2 Mp3 at 192K, i am worried about have loads of music on a non standard system so hopefully i'll get my hands on a MZ-RH910 in the future as it plays direct MP3s and attracs plus i'll still have access 2 the cheap HIMDs giving me the best of both worlds

Can anyone help me with the moving files between 2 MDs we have access 2 PCs at home if this helps

TIA

Tony

[The_Stamp]

unfortunately, you can't transfer music computer to computer using hi-mds gotta ove DRM.

but the sound quality is pretty damn good. damn good man. damn good. better than your 150 dollar cd player. much better.

[Ryzir]

If you just set up SonicStage on one of your pc's you can transfer songs imported into it to different Hi-Md's AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!

You cannot however Transfer songs from the Md to a different computer or even transfer songs from pc to pc (unless you use the backup tool).

Edited April 24, 2005 by Ryzir

[toekneeb]

So i can use one PC and transfer files between the PCs, I take it I can back up all my atrac files to a spare HI-MD if I wanted to ?

[Damage]

For files, you're not limited in transferring from one PC to another. That is, drag and dropped files using Windows Explorer isn't subject to any sort of limitation.

As for music from SonicStage, you're limited to the the device and the PC that file originated from. For instance, if you use computer A to transfer an album to your HiMD, you can only transfer it back to computer A only.

However, the disc itself is free for playback on any and all HiMD devices. For any music that you import on your own, you have unlimited transfer rights to unlimited number of devices. So you can use two, three, or several HiMD devices on a single PC to manage your music. I've done so with a NH900 and NH1 on one single PC, so it shouldn't be a problem with 2 NH600Ds.

As for SQ, I found that the comparable generation of HiMD and Sony PCDP devices sound very close to one another. The new generation of PCDPs with Digital Amp, however, gets rid of the low level hiss that is very apparent on devices without Digital Amp.

[zerodB]

Don't forget that HiMD has the adventage of removable media! So if travelling, for example, you and your girlfriend could just swap discs if you get tired of your own music!