Music

I thought this mp3 thing was supposed to revolutionize music. Bring new bands to my attention, break down the corporate empires to give me more choice. So now it looks like just another way to pay for bands the record companies want you to buy.

NEXT... Sony. I can't stand their new "network welcoming". They'll tell you that you can play MP3's, but this isn't true. What Sony does in all their digital music players is have a conversion process to put mp3s (or wmas, etc) into their own format ATRAC. This is the same thing they did when I bought the minidisk for Peg.

Here was the conversion process at the time:

1. Plug the Sony minidisk's "microphone" jack into the "speaker" jack on the computer.
2. Press record on the minidisk.
3. Press play on your mp3 player on the computer.
4. Press stop on the minidisk when the song is done.

I argued with Sony for days on this point. Customer support just did not understand that you can't say it plays mp3's just because you can press record and capture it. I finally got a supervisor that would take it back, but not admit that it could not play mp3s.

The new "network walkman" does have a digital translator, so I'm told it is easier than before, but it's still not playing mp3s.

I know I'm not going to find out.