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This player is great and really worth the money. These things sell on the highstreet for around 250 or more, so you are saving about sixty pounds.
This may seem similar to an ipod, but is far better. It has far more battery life on its rechargeable cell, and can also use AA batteries. It has an ulimited capacity, using 1gb removeable minidiscs (which are about 5pounds for 3) and normal mds. It has a radio, and in-line remote, as well as an easy to use file layout. its software is very user-friendly and extremely easy to use.
each 1 gb disc can hold between 15 and 45 hours music depending on compression. hope this helps

I have spent quite some time researching which portable player to buy, as the last one I bought is an old cassette/fm radio player! As you can imagine this has been quite an education for me. I chose this one as I am going on a very long journey, and I can get by with one battery for over 24 hours play and carry replacement discs at not much storage space.
Not being brilliant on any computer (and using my work's one as I don't have one of my own!), I have managed to upload and use the software easily, except the CDDB (database information of cd names and track listing). I have typed these in by hand instead (no real hardship). I have read loads of reveiws about the sound quality, and recorded one CD in all the different recording formats to try them out. I couldn't hear the difference (probably through in-ear phones) between Hi-SP and Hi-LP, so have gone for the long play option and can't believe how much material I can get on one disc.
I am disappointed the display is not backlit, and have had to use some imaginative editing methods to get my music into groups, so that I can then play the "genre" I want in random order. Otherwise this does exactly what it says on the box. (P.S. I have managed to buy replacement discs on the internet, and intend to record all of my family's CD collections!)

I purchased this mini disc recorder because it has a radio. I have to say while the radio reception is ok it's not brilliant. Despite this I love this player. It's simple to use even for a first time buyer like myself. The joy is you can connect it to your hifi with the supplied optical cable & start recording straight away. Using your pc you can record directly to your recorder or you can edit then record using the supplied software. I was disgusted to find the case that came with it was just a soft cloth pouch which provides no protection except against dust. I gave only 4 stars because of the pouch and the radio reception. The price on amazon was excellent.

First of all it doesn't look like any of the images on the web, so was quite dissapointed when i received it.

-Looks more plastic then anything and at almost 3cm thick the player is bulky(due to the battey compartment at the back)
-Same applies to the inline remote which has the radio built into it,it's not the easiest thing to clip on.
-biggest dissapointment was the radio its self.The reception isn't good even if i'm just listening to it at home and its terrible on the bus

I bought it because its a hi-md player, and a bit of a novice at these mp3 things so i liked the option of recording from a hi-fi. Really wanted to like the thing but in the end wasn't happy with its size, style and radio reception so had to return it. Now i have to start looking for another mp3 player and already my head's hurting from all the choice out there, especially reading all these differnt reviews!

Hope this was of help.

I'll explain why i choose this. I am going travelling for 4 months and as i am taking batteries and a charger with me i didn't want to have to take something with a seperate charger, so no in-built batteries! reluctantly I found that Hi MD was the most suitable for me. I have recieved my player and I am very happy with it all.

Build - plastic but no obvious flaws
Menus - all seem fairly intuative thus far!
Head phones - pants (but you expect that by now surely!)
Remote - contains the radio making it bulky! (which I personally am not so happy about it's a bit of a monster to have clipped to you jacket etc) but the single line display is very efficient and gives me all the info i need and buttons are all fairly logical!
Software - I have only one problem with this! when I installed the software, as the manual described, only "simple burner" was installed (A program on the disc) but not the sonic stage! So I had to "explore" the disc and find the "setup" icon (went through a few files to find it) and click that to start the installation of sonic stage! A bit of an inconvenience! but could have been disasterous if i didn't have a fairly good grip on computers! Anyway that is over now and I have found the software great it just gets on with what you expect and all my files are on the MD exactly as they appear on my comp!

Anyway the software issue and the remote are the reason it doesn't get 5/5 but I'm convinced I made the right Choice and am VERY HAPPY with the player!

Should you buy one?? Hmmm I was tempted by the 1Gb flash players from sony and would have bought one of those if i thought 1Gb would be enough for 4 months (but i don't!)