clonmult said:
- She's got a Napa 256meg at the moment; with a cracked screen though.
- as for music, she listens to anything charts or RnB; and quantity - I have lots of MP3 cds that she'd look through.
- doesn't really care that much about sound quality - she mainly wants quantity.
I don't tend to use SonicStage on my MD.Net; I prefer the Nero/ImageDrive/Simpleburner solution - can you use SimpleBurner (1 or 2) on the NW-HD1/3/5?
Also, and this is definitely for me, could I use the remote from my MZ-N510; its one of the stick remotes, no display, with play/pause, stop, next/prev, next/prev group?
I've never heard of that player. But It does sound like time for a new one.
If she doesn't listen to actual albums but just single songs instead then she probably wouldn't care about gapless, so the Nano would be ok there.
She doesn't care about sound quality (as expected) so the Nano would be OK there as well.
THe problem is that if she wants quantity, the Nano is not so good there. 4 gig is not that much so the HD3's 20 gig drive would be better. Plus iPod dont use Atrac so you have to use a higher bitrate encoding to get the same quality and that would fit less songs and make the already low on juice battery drain quicker.
So you really have to work out, how many songs all up she would have, and it also depends whether she would want her whole collection on it instead of just the ones she currently likes.
No matter how much I hate to say it but I'd say the Nano is the one to go for, iPod just gets hold of most people and no matter what you tell them or show them regarding specs or flaws they still like it. What can you do.
The stock headphones are pretty good with the nano so you wont need to get new ones, although they dont sound that great with the iPod itself, they sound great on my HD5.
You might want to get a case as well to prevent the scratching, probably a screen protector is worth it.
I don't think you can use nero with the HD3, but the latest sonicstage is good, version 3.2, goto the Sony UK website. There are other programs like MP3 filemanager, and vaio transfer, but SS is better.
I have used a MiniDisk remote (no screen) with the HD5, but its not that functional. I dont think you can actually start to play but once its going you can skip tracks and stuff. I did a detailed review/test on the forum in the past, so you can go and search for it if you like, it had some pretty wierd things when you press different buttons made for the MD.
She's in her last year of school, and she's already talking about the Limo for the leavers ball. Her cousin is a year older, and he only just seems to have had the leavers ball. Kids, eh
I'm in my last year of school in Australia (year 12), my exams are in a few weeks. I got a limo from my school (graduation) to the formal, where we went on a dinner cruise through sydney harbour. The limo was about Aus $400 overall and it seated like 9 people or something (So it was cheap per person, well it probably would have cost more in petrol to drive there hehehe). It was new and looked stunning, it had neon lights on the side. The little bar wasn't stocked with alcohol though, damn. So yeah its a cool experience.
