I said I would get Kristen a mp3 player for her birthday but we’ve been waiting until we’re in the states before we get it as they are about 33% cheaper. Looking at the players, there didn’t seem to be many that would use compact flash cards, which is a shame as our camera and pda uses this format. Whilst we were in compusa we looked at the Sony NetMD minidisk players which for $100 (same price in pounds in the uk) gives you a lot more playing time on a single disk and the advantage is that you can have multiple disks with music on instead of having to format the drive and reload all your music each time you want a new playlist….thats the goodnews. The bad news is that the software that enables you to load the music onto the netMD does not work with Windows98 first edition (guess what we are running here!) – that is one major disadvantage (along with the fact that you need to load any software in the first place – thumbdrive mp3 players just appear as another disk). So we have to wait a couple of weeks before we can use it 🙁
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I just got a sony MD player today. I am a full-time music student, so money is very tight. I’m absolutely DEVESTATED to find that the software doesn’t work on my win98 first version. I’m on the net looking to see if there’s any patch or anything I can download. All my money went on the MD, so if there’s any advice you can give me, I would be really grateful….
Donna
I dont think that its a disadvantage that it doesent work on win98…I mean come on win98?? why not complain its not compatable with Apple II E’s…lol heck win98 was horrible with usb support as well so don’t expect to much connecting newer usb devices as well….
Just got an 1RiverAmerica MP3 390 for xmas. Guess what? It too has to have Win98SE or higher to work. Pre-loaded OEM files work just fine as does radio. Download looks like it works fine, but music will not play with Win98.