I thought netmd was a great idea in concept - shame sony have done such a shit job of putting it into practice. The OpenMG (Open in what sense?) software is almost a textbook example of how NOT to design software, and because the ATRAC encoding is handled externally there's not a lot of chance that any 3rd-party people can release anything.

My brother has very recently bought a new minidisc player and the new version of the software is even worse. It's really hard to put into words just how bad it is. Lots of dodgy animations, no clear idea what to click to do what (concepts such as 'put this mp3 on this minidisc' are hidden behind more abstract music management crap).

I just got a lovely error : 'Import failed'. No idea why.