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- Bass Boost - Shortcut key gives you thumping low-end sounds
- Built-in Equaliser - Set your desired sound mode according to music genre
- ZAPPIN™ - One touch 'ZAP' button searches your music library for the perfect song
- Quick Charge - Plug in your Walkman® for 3 minutes and get 90 minutes playback
- 4GB memory - Ideal for an active lifestyle, stores approximately 1000 tracks (70 to 90 albums) thanks to a built-in memory
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Keep on moving with the ultraportable WALKMAN: Music Edition, which puts control of your music at the touch of your fingertips. 1-touch Bass Boost delivers thumping beats and natural
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Syncing and managing your music is quick, easy and wire free with the clever USB design. Just plug directly into your computer and transfer tracks using Drag and Drop. Then when you're out and about, ZAPPIN™ can help you find your favourite music in a flash. With a choice of 2GB and 4GB models offering storage for up to 1,000 tracks, that's enough to give every journey a different soundtrack.
Choose from black, red or blue and set your music free.
Music to your ears
If music makes your world go round, make sure you've got the WALKMAN: Music Edition with you. A combination of technologies work together to ensure you enjoy great sounds, no matter where you are. First up is 1-touch Bass Boost, which delivers thumping low-end sounds and full natural tones, even when the volume is low. That's complemented by a built-in equalizer, offering a choice of four preset modes and one customisable setting, so that you get the most out of different music genres.
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Charged up and ready to play
In a hurry? The WALKMAN: Music Edition offers a superfast quick charge for those times when you don't want to wait. Just plug it in for 3 minutes and you're ready to go, with up to 90 minutes of continuous music playback. A full charge gives you up to 18 hours playback, to keep you listening for longer. With that kind of battery life, you'll be able to take advantage of either of the two in-built memory sizes available. Choose 2GB to store approximately 500 of your favourite tracks, or go for the 4GB version to take up to 1,000 tracks with you on your travels.
Make a note
If you've got your WALKMAN: Music Edition with you, you won't need to remember anything else. Flick on the voice recorder and you've got an instant memory bank, there and then. Make notes, remember useful information, record lectures or just have fun with friends and family. Your WALKMAN will store all your messages, ready for playback when you get home.
Quick and easy transfers
With the WALKMAN: Music Edition you can forget the hassle of needing extra equipment for syncing and music transfers. Thanks to its direct USB design you can simply take the top off your WALKMAN, plug it in to a PC and have your entire music library at your disposal in seconds. Managing music is simple and hassle-free too. Using Windows Media Player 11®, just drag and drop to move music files and update playlists.
Find your music faster
Running, cycling, strolling or watching the world go by, you won't have to stop what you're doing to find the perfect music for the moment with ZAPPIN™. This unique search technology from Sony will scan through all your music while you're on the move. Just press the Zap button and you'll hear a short snippet of each song's chorus. When you recognise the track you want, press Zap again and the WALKMAN: Music Edition will play it from the beginning.
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Customer Reviews
Unlike some previous Sony Walkman products, that required specialist software (Sonic Stage) to upload music files, this mp3 player simply uses Windows Explorer or Windows Media Player, which is far easier if indeed you are using Windows. It's basically a pen drive that you can then play music portably from. Because of this, if you own a stereo system that enables you to put USB device in to play music, this Walkman should oblige and play through your system. Again, previous 'protected' versions of Walkmans did not allow this.
The bass boost is good, and gives decent quality sound to songs (especially when you listen to tracks that have strong basslines...) and makes them more complete than previous products may have done. I have tried the microphone and it is far more powerful than I thought it would be (don't speak too close to it...) but works fine, if you like quirky little extras like this. The unique quick charge is also very useful.
One minor criticism is the Shuffle function. Shuffling on the previous Walkman I had meant that if a track came on, it didn't come on again until you re-charged it (in other words, it never repeated a song unless you went through the entire music collection on the mp3 player). It now does repeat songs, and a few times I've listened to one song and ten minutes later the same song comes back on. Not, in my opinion, the true meaning of the term Shuffle but still - only a minor fault.
Basically, if you want an easy to use thing that plays music whilst you're going about your daily business, I'd recommend this product.
As for the other features
- Zappin: A way to quickly browse through the music collection. The player will play a short section of songs for you to choose. Personally, I find it rather annoying. There doesn't seem to be a clear way to cancel this mode and get out to the song that you're currently playing. Moreover the cheesy voice going "Zappin in" and "Zappin out" doesn't have much appeal to me.
- Quick charge: Now this is something I can appreciate. Extremely useful for someone forgetful, who will often fail to charge the player over night as I do. Being able to quickly charge it in the morning before going out is very convenient.
- Bass boost: This seems to work brilliantly with some songs, and kinda messes up some other. Not too badly though, for those that this mode doesn't bode well with, there seem to be an extra constant pitch in the background [edit: scratch that, after changing my earphones, this mode works brilliantly].
- File transfer: Really easy to use, since it is recognised by the computer (in this case, Vista) as USB storage device, so files can be copied onto the player directly. Also tried using Windows Media Player, and that works fine as well.
(NB: Haven't had the need to use the voice recorder or the other equilizer modes yet, so they're still unknown)
If the light around the play button gets to you like it did for me, that can be turned off. The only major annoyance that I have come across after a while, is how player is charged by attaching it to the computer. This is not ideal for taking it on holiday if you're not gonna drag your laptop everywhere with you. There are, however, USB power adapters that can be bought.
Final note, be aware of the misleading image of the product on both this site and Sony's own. This model does not include FM radio, only models with names ending in F (as far as I know) do.
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