Forum: The Classroom
Topic: Portable MP3 player
started by: smartsnake
Posted by smartsnake on Oct. 03 2000,21:15
Im thinking of buy ing this mp3 player (check the link) is it a good one give me your opinions.
< http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JSGF/qid=970610875/sr=1-1/103-9093358-1963818 >
Posted by marc c on Oct. 03 2000,21:49
Rios are totally cool for biking, working out, commuting or any other places you want a small, portable device and sound quality does not matter as much. But if you just want it for the car or something, I would go with an MP3 player with it's own hard drive or one of the MP3 CD players.But if its the Rio you want definetly go with it; they are cool and that's a pretty good price. Just don't forget to send in the rebate; I did and lost 50$ when I got mine.  ------------------
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Posted by j0eSmith on Oct. 03 2000,22:16
Whats this? It doesn't ship to Canada? Them bastards!------------------
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Posted by smartsnake on Oct. 03 2000,22:31
yeah well maybe they think canadas un technoligcly advanced.i plan on listening to it in school alot during study halls and other free periods
Posted by Bluu on Oct. 04 2000,00:31
Aaagh... No-mad... Jukebox...
I'm only hesitating to buy a player because the fact they can't always hold an entire CD, but I guess they're... fun.------------------
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Posted by Lordbrandon on Oct. 04 2000,06:18
i just got a mp3 cdplayer on ebay for 100 bucks though im still waiting for cdrs, each cd should hold about 125 songs thats alot more than rio. and ill be able to carry every song I have on like 10 cds. i used to carry around a modified cd spindle. so i lugged around like 60 cds and now i dont have to. tee hee. and i also got 700Mb cds so i can hold more a cd.
Posted by Greedo on Oct. 04 2000,10:07
I am a huge freak on portable music... I investigated mp3 players, and, in my opinion, found them to be a less than satisfactory value. Yes, no moving parts is cool, for totally anti-skip play, but flash cards are so damned expensive and just don't do it for me.
Instead, I went out and bought myself an Aiwa AM-F70 portable minidisc player/recorder, which I absolutely LOVE. No more buying AA batteries. I can title my tracks/discs. I have a funky remote. It very rarely skips. The disc's look super cool (think the matrix.."if you get caught using that...")., are all super durable, re-writeable, and cost about 5 bucks each, most holding 75 minutes of ANY quality audio. Just one bro's opinion.
Do your research before you get anything though... these things are pretty expensive. ------------------
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Posted by Keeps on Oct. 04 2000,15:24
MP3.com's review of the Rio 500 says it has crashing and freezing problems (http://www.mp3.com/news/351.html), which I wouldn't accept for a portable player. You might want to look over their reviews (http://hardware.mp3.com/hardware/featured/portable/?mc=hwlc01).I personally like my NEX player - it's got its own problems, but the manufacturer has been extremely responsive to bug reports, and the NEX II that should be out this month looks like it fixes everything I don't like about the NEX.
Posted by directhex on Oct. 04 2000,18:27
i've also been looking into getting an mp3 player. the one that's impressed me most is the macab dap96pro. that's 96 meg of space that can be used for mp3s (or you can transfer other filetypes to and from it as data files, making it useful for transporting files around). and it seems to have got some pretty good reviews.--directhex ------------------
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Posted by Lordbrandon on Oct. 05 2000,00:35
woo hoo i just got my mini cdrs in the mail. they're so cute! there little 3.5 inch cdrs with jewlcases to match. i burned almost my entire bjork collection on one mini cdr and it works great in my mp3 cdplayer it has 3hours and 17 miniuts on it. thats way more than a rio and thats not evan a quarter of a hole cd. cool my portable music problems are solved!
Posted by Hellraiser on Oct. 05 2000,00:56
The Philips Expanium is kickass except for one thing: it doesn't support playlists or the ID3 tag. But for 赨 to get the ability to play a disk with 10 hours of music is one hell of a deal. And the sound quality is far superior to any 32 or 64 or even 96 MB mp3 player I've ever heard. It even rivals WinAmp combined with an SB Live for sound reproduction. So far I've listened to over 15 hours of music on mine, it never skipped once, despite my doing everything short of jogging around the neighborhood with it.I'd recommend if you want to spend 赨 on a player, it's a great one to get. Plus it plays your regular CD's too. ------------------
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Posted by Observer on Oct. 05 2000,02:31
Or you could spend about 贓 on an MPTrip. Does basically all that an Expandium will do and it has like 50 minutes or voice recording capabilities (my number could be off here). Two of my friends got 'em and they love them.------------------
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Posted by smartsnake on Oct. 05 2000,18:07
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hellraiser:
[B]The Philips Expanium Where can i look for one
Posted by smartsnake on Oct. 05 2000,18:41
do you need a special burner to burn mini discs because iff you dont ill go with mini discbtw any recomendations try and stay under 200 dollars This message has been edited by smartsnake on October 05, 2000 at 01:45 PM
Posted by Greedo on Oct. 05 2000,22:36
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Originally posted by smartsnake:
do you need a special burner to burn mini discs because iff you dont ill go with mini disc
btw any recomendations try and stay under 200 dollars
well.. you have two choices:
a) get a portable minidisc player/recorder.. this is what i have.
b) get a portable minidisc player and buy a home deck recorder. you might have a little trouble finding a portable player/recorder for under 200.. you'd have to look for some of the older models. make sure you ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS before you buy. md's aren't for everyone. titling CAN be a tedious process, and depending on your soundcard, your recordings might not be great quality.
(i use a xitel storm platinum with optical output for 'true' digital recordings)
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Posted by Lordbrandon on Oct. 06 2000,05:14
they have em on ebay for 80 bucks now, the only thin i would change on mine is have it have a better display show you the song name ect.and have it not eat battries so much
Posted by Lordbrandon on Oct. 06 2000,05:20
and it doesnt sound as goos as my panasonic player
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