Wo hen hao

Loaded up the new Sony NW-MS9 with music overnight for the subway ride to NYU. I found that another downside of the way it's powered (solely by rechargable battery ..charger being a separate item) is that I ran down the battery simply loading music on to the two cards I have (64Mb and 128Mb). The sound quality is excellent though and in general I'm happy with the player.

The software to load the player runs on MS Windows only though (I'm hoping to find a way to load the memory stick from my mac since that's where my mp3 collection is). This software, OpenMG, is circa 1999-2000 and only reads ID3V1 tags, unfortunately Apple's iTunes only saves ID3V2 tags. Argh.