Sony ICDSX46 - 128MB Digital Voice Recorder w/ MP3 Playback
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Customer Review: Decent devise, terrible software.
Summary: 2 Stars
I have had this for a year now. The unit itself is pretty high quality. Many options. The problem is the software. The digital voice editor software that comes with it is very limited and never was great. But, what's worst of all is you need to keep the disk with you and not lose it, because if the software has a glitch (like mine just did) and you are on the road, and you don't have the disk, you cannot hope to find the software to re-download to reinstall. Sony only posts updates to it, as if the software itself here was some valuable product to protect. It's a little proprietary player that also happens to be the ONLY way you can transfer the files to your computer. So, if it stops working, and you don't have disk, you are screwed. This is unacceptable in this day and age. It's not like ANYONE in the world would want to download and use this software for anything other than if you were using one of these units. It's essentially barely more than the driver you need to transfer (and you need it to convert) the files. Typical proprietary Sony, overprotecting things to the hurt of the customers who want just to use their product. (This is how Beta lost to VHS, in so many ways).
I would NOT buy this unit again for this reason.
Customer Review: Still No Vista Drivers
Summary: 2 Stars
It works, but just no excuse for not having Vista drivers out. It's 8 months since Vista came out, and the only drivers out there are in Japanese. For the last 7 months, I called their tech support and got nowhere, then finally found info on their web site. Then they pushed their release back from June until the end of JulyCustomer Review: Too small but software works great.
Summary: 2 Stars
This recorder is just to small. Its hard to get through the menu options and hard to use the buttons. The software and the USB interface works great. The reception range is limited and the play back quality is not very good. I guess if all you wanted was something real small it would be OK, but it just is not user friendly.Customer Review: Save your money
Summary: 1 Stars
Get an olympus that plugs directly into your comptuer instead!
The original recorder that I ordered back in August was this Sony. In order to hook it up to your computer you need the software that comes with the recorder and a cable. If you misplace the CD and need to load it onto your computer again then you are out of luck because it is very difficult to find the software on-line (I am good at finding that kind of stuff and I never found it). The recording quality was ok (not as good as the Olympus). After a few months and a lot of time spent transferring the files to my computer and then converting them to MP3 format (if you don't convert them then the file size is huge), I ended up borrowing my mom's (cheap in comparison) "Olympus Digital Voice Recorder with Direct PC Link as a back up and I have not gone back. My $150 (I think I paid more over the summer) Sony recorder now sits in my bag and I only use the $79.99 "Olympus Digital Voice Recorder with Direct PC Link". I would give it away but it is such a pain I don't think people would put up with it for long even if it was free.
Switching to the Olympus has saved me so much time and the end recordings are so much better.
I highly recomend an Olympus instead!
Customer Review: Good recorder... if you get it to work with your PC.
Summary: 1 Stars
This recorder is a sleek little device and has good features that I won't bother repeating here.
What is *very annoying* is the Digital Voice Editor software and the USB connectivity. I've re-installed the software numerous times without getting it to work. The recorder shows PC Link, the DVE software shows my recordings, but as 0.00.00 length! Clicking on a recording just gives an error.
Sony has a Windows Media Player plug-in, but WMP fails to recognize the recorder.
Dragon Naturally Pro 9 fails to recognize the recorder too. (This same model is sold with this software as ICD-SX46VTP)
USB connections (under Device Manager) shows the recorder but it doesn't show up anywhere else??
Sony support for this model is non-existent. Not even drivers in its support section.
After my frustrations with this recorder (and googling for answers), I've read that pretty much all the Sony Digital Recorders use the crappy DVE software. I would recommend that everyone stay away from Sony recorders just because of this DVE software.
Imagine the silliness of spending a big chunk of money on "digital" recorder, that will not even connect successfully to your PC?! I'd