This is the coolest looking thing I have ever seen! I was at Best Buy the other day with a big gift certificate and couldn’t decide what to get. I have a lot of computer equipment at home, so I wandered on over to that section. Immediately the Sony Music Clip caught my eye.
This is by far and away the smallest, easiest to carry portable music player that I have ever seen. It’s about the length of a pencil and weighs about as much as a heavy pen. In fact that is just what it looks like, some kind of futuristic pen. It’s little clip makes it a perfect fit to put into your pocket or clip onto your belt.
The price was the other thing that caught my eye right away. At 300 dollars, it isn’t cheap. But you get what you pay for, it isn’t cheaply made either. It also saves so much time when you already have so many songs saved on your computer as MP3s and you can just upload them right onto a portable digital music player.
This brings me to what I hate about this player. Sony, in it’s own little Microsoft way will not let you upload music to the player unless it is in it’s own special little format.....which in not MP3! Had I known that before I bought it, I definatly would not have. They make you convert all of your MP3s over to their format before you can load them on the player! Why bother, it would be so much easier if you could just put them right on the player in MP3 format. But Sony is worried about piracy, and they themselves are trying to single-handedly do something about it. I think that is really stupid. Because as soon as people find out that this player doesn’t play mp3s, who is going to want it? Sony should have waited for the industry to come up with a way to protect the music before going off and making their own way, which I’m sure won’t be supported by anyone else anytime soon.
This RUINS what would otherwise be a great player! I like everything else about it. One suggestion I have is to somehow make the buttons a little bigger, but they are still fine when you get used to them. The display thing is pretty neat, and works fine for what it does. The storage is excellent for a player this size. When compacted it can hold over 2 hours of music! The battery life competes with any other digital music player and is very impressive. Like I said, everything else on the player is great.
Sony should not have tried to stop the people from making MP3s all alone. This otherwise fantastic player will take all the backlash for it.