MZ-NH600D Question?

[gujarati]

Hi,

Is it possible to play MZ-NH600D while being powered up by car USB? Does it even get USB powered by non-computer USB power source?

I have MZ-S1 which gets powered by car dc and plays at the same time. It does not charge the battery at all and I am used to that. Being dc powered I do not have to constantly change batteries or worry about forgetting to shut off the player.

Thanks

[sfbp]

I don't think so. Part of this may depend on exactly what is in the car circuitry (I recall that some resistor is needed to prove to the RH1 that it is/isnot a source or a sink or vice-versa). However when my 600D is connected to the charger left in my car after GPS was stolen, it behaves exactly as it does when I connect to the USB from the computer, namely that if playing, it continues to play until you press stop. However no power is coming from the USB in either case.

In both cases, if you now press stop (whilst playing and with the USB already connected), the screen of the 600D now says "PC <--> MD" and in the case of the computer, you get the duh-dih noise from the PC sound system showing that the USB connection came up and online.

The 600D has no yellow socket for +3 or you could buy a cigarette lighter charger made by Sony and it would work. I already tried that with the 600, I suppose you could try modification but I have no idea about what's in the electronics inside. I know that they are basically the same and the most likely difference is that (only) the socket is missing.

In addition the 600D and 600 have no charging circuitry to recharge the NiMH AA, unlike the 700/800.

However you want to talk to someone who has a CDX-GT610UI (with USB port). MDane does, maybe he has some HiMD player that he has already tried or is willing to try. If it doesn't play back through that I guess there's no hope. That's not a bad unit to have, it plays Atrac CD's too, the last (most advanced?) unit that does so, subsequent ones do not.