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Sony Network Walkman NW-MS9

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Sony has upped the style and functionality of its Network Walkman range to create an even better digital music player.
The NW-MS9 is small, thin and light and leaves plenty of room in your pocket for other things. The unit takes one long, thin Memory Stick and one long, thin rechargable battery. The rest Is Just a casing wrapper to house the two, but a well-designed one-handed wrapper it is. The main control button has a see-saw design — rock forward or back to skip tracks, and push the lot in to stop or play tracks.
The player abides by the SDMI (secure digital music initiative) guidelines to prevent piracy. You can play as many MP3s on the Walkman as you want — regardless of where you obtained them — but they have to be converted to Sony’s own secure music format first.
This ATRAC3 format is a lossy compression codec, which is fine when ripping from CD, but when converting MP3s you’re running a second lossy compression codec over an already lossy compressed file which drops the audio quality.
The player comes with OpenMG jukebox software, which is used to ‘check-in’ and ‘check-out’ music to the player. Files can only be downloaded back off the player onto the system on which they were originally uploaded.
The NW-MS9 is one of the best players APC has played with. The audio is crystal clear and deep, and the supplied ear bud headphones are of high quality — but its clarity and 64M capacity will set you back a lot of cash.

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