Re: MD: Sony doesn't seem to have a portable MP3 player

[Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor]

Dave Kimmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > Before this post I did a little research to see if I could find a Sony MP3
> > player similar to a Rio.  From my research, I have found that Sony doesn't
> > seem to make an actual MP3 player.
> 
> This is true, to the extent that they don't make an MP3 walkman-style
> device.  However, they do make an MP3 player.  The Sony CDX-MP450X is a
> car AM/FM/CD/MP3 player.  It plays MP3 files that are burned onto a CD-R
> or CD-RW, along with audio CDs and the radio.  Unlike the music clip, it
> requires no special software apart from a CD burning program and something
> to make/get MP3s with.

Actually they do make a portable solid-state MP3 player: The Clie!
(okay, it's a handheld PDA running PalmOS with MP3 playback
capability, see: http://www.sonystyle.com/vaio/clie/index.html). The
funny thing is this note:

     *A standard 8 MB purple Memory Stick(Reg) is included with your
     CLIE (TM) handheld. This is adequate for storing a few,
     non-secure, music tracks at a time. To carry more than a few
     tracks at once, or to download and play secure music (ATRAC3
     audio content), requires a larger MagicGate(TM) Memory
     Stick. (sold separately).

So, you can't use a bigger, non-MG memory stick to hold your
non-secure MP3s? Looks like Sony wants to snooker you into having the
capability to hold secure audio whether you need it or not!

Rick

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