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5 Reviews for Sony NWDB105FB 2GB drag & drop Mp3 player with FM tuner
Mediocre sound, crashes constantly, and broke after just 2 months. - 23 Feb 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
I loved the old sony minidisc walkmans for their great build and sound quality. This mp3 player no longer supports sony's own atrac codec, which is annoying for people who have a lot of their collection encoded in this format, but that could be forgiven if this player was up to the job. But it isn't.
Poor sound quality - I had to encode using lame at 320kbps to get good sound on mp3, and you can forget about wma (supported up to a max of 192kbps) on complex music. So, with everything at such a high bit rate, you can't fit a whole lot on with only 2 gb to play with.
Unstable - the damn thing had to be reset with a paperclip regularly when it crashed/froze. At other times it would 'forget' two thirds of what was on there, necessitating a refresh of the folder by connecting it to the PC again - very useful when you've already left the house and want to listen to it on the train.
Poor battery life - just 3 hours max, but more like 1.5-2 hours at higher bitrates, so you have to charge it pretty much every night or risk running out of power. I still ran out at least once a week, and it's no good trying to go out hiking with it even for a day - just leave it at home!
USB charge only - fairly useless really, but depends on your lifestyle i guess. I'm sure this is fine for a lot of people.
And finally, the bloody thing just plain broke. Computer no longer recognises it and it won't boot. But it WILL charge, which is amusing really.
Frankly, Sony have a lot of changes to make to their business plan before I buy their products again. I am not impressed.
Well priced player with some quirks - 20 Jan 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
I was looking for a small digital music player, and was attracted to this player due to its relatively low price, the fact that it comes with a radio, and that it also has a screen.
It's easy to transfer mp3s across to the player using drag and drop. You can search your music on the device via lists of album, or artist, or song name. However you can't store playlists on the player.
You can shake the player quite a lot without it skipping, so it would be good to go to the gym or go running with.
The player that I got does have some quirks though:
- It takes twenty five seconds to start up when filled with songs.
- Every few days, it will freeze whilst playing the radio or playing a song, and have to be reset using a pin or a pencil. (but resetting it doesn't mean that you have to load the songs back on again!)
- The clock on the player doesn't keep time accurately.
- The battery indicator goes from showing half full to empty almost immediately
- I think that the screen may scratch fairly easily - I had it in my pocket with a couple of coins for a day, and it got two small scratches on it.
- It only charges via USB - there's no mains charger included, meaning that it might be difficult to charge it on holiday, for instance. There is a USB mains charger available that Amazon is offering, but this has had bad reviews with respect to its electrical safety.
Overall, I think at £33-36, it's probably one of the best MP3 players available at this price. But be prepared for it to not be as high quality as you may expect from Sony. These quirks don't bother me that much, so overall I'll be keeping the player!
Absolute Joke - 16 Jan 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful.
The NWD-B105F plays mp3s fine and allows you to transfer mp3s onto it with no hassle, but it does not come with SonicStage.
My previous mp3 player NW-E013 did all this and came with SonicStage so I could simply place a cd into my drive and the software would convert into mp3 and transfer no problem.
Even if you download SonicStage 3.3 or 4.3 the NWD-B105F does not obtain a drive letter, meaning that you cannot transfer files from cds.
It looks like Sony are forcing you to buy mp3s of music that you might already own on cd, so what a rip-off. If I wanted to be ripped off I'd buy an ipod. So my advice to you is do not touch this with a fifty foot barge pole and insist that when purchasing an mp3 player that it comes with software that allows copying from cd to the mp3 player.
By the way if you want to mess up Sony's plans of ripping you off then you can download EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip the cd and then download SCMPX to convert to mp3 and put two fingers up at Sony.
Buying it again - 03 Jan 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful.
Loved it!
I normally use a hard disk iPod. I needed a lighter mp3 player to use while I am skating. I normally avoid Sony mp3 players because I am a Mac user.
Recognizes the player as a usb mass storage on my Powerbook allowing me to drag and drop the mp3 files.
What I liked -- size, weight and decent sound. I use ER6i headphones that I use with my iPod.
What I didn't like -- start up time is long as it scans the database every time I turn on the mp3 player. In the iPod, I am used to being able to resume podcasts from where I had left earlier, Sony player isn't able to do this.
Overall, I liked it. In fact, I use my iPod less frequently. Also being able to use as an usb memory stick helps.
I put mine in the wash and it has stopped working. I am buying another one.
Don't upgrade from an older Sony MP3 Player - 28 Dec 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful.
Previously had older Sony MP3 players - these converted ripped CD's into ATRAC format and used the SonicStage software for music file management (building playlists, copying files etc)
Upgraded to the newest Sony MP3 player - but it is not backwardly compatible - SonicStage does not recognise the device, and the device does not support ATRAC-format files
So we now have a massive library of ATRAC files organized in SonicStage but which are useless on the 'new and improved' player! There is also no way apparently of converting files from ATRAC to MP3 - and even if you could, you surely need some sort of software for organizing 2GB of music files over and above Windows Explorer!
We are sending ours back and sticking to our old player!