pritch Posted March 14, 2003 The addition of cable to the pritch dynasty means mp3's galore. I currently have a Sony MZR750 MD player, but I am now approaching the market looking for a really decent portable mp3 player with at least 64mb on-board RAM and support for WMA etc. So what do you have and what would you recommend? 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted March 14, 2003 Pff. Wait for a player with OGG support, now that OGG has non-floating-point compatibility. 0 Share this post Link to post
Psyonisis Posted March 14, 2003 AndrewB said:Pff. Wait for a player with OGG support, now that OGG has non-floating-point compatibility. Ya, cause OGG is such a popular format. It's like what beta was to VHS. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted March 14, 2003 The Movo is my fave ya can get more info here http://www.americas.creative.com/products/product.asp?product=432 0 Share this post Link to post
Remilia Scarlet Posted March 14, 2003 While it doesn't have onboard RAM, I know that the RCA Lyra has support for WMA, Real G2, and Mp3 files. And it uses CompactFlash cards. I have one that came with a 64meg card, but you could go up to 512mb. I like my Lyra (even if it is the really old one, but they have newer ones). 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted March 14, 2003 AndrewB said:Pff. Wait for a player with OGG support, now that OGG has non-floating-point compatibility. A lot of music I have is in ogg now, to be honest the quality difference isn't really noticable given the equipment I have. I just want an mp3 player that plays 128kbps or higher mp3s and I don't want to spend the Earth (£100 or $150ish). And I don't want to wait, heh One that supports the addition of smart media cards would be welcome, as I could interchange between that and my digital camera. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted March 14, 2003 The cool thing about the movo is that ti dubbles as a memorie stick. Ya can save up to 128megs.It realy good for moveing stuff form one comp to the other. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted March 14, 2003 Or you can get one of those archos boxes with a miniature 10 or 20 gig hard drive. They're much more storage for the amount of space and ultimately lighter and easier to carry around than a player and a stack of memory sticks or CDs. It can handle VBR MP3s. Plus there are models with USB2 connectivity so you can transfer MP3s faster. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted March 15, 2003 deadnail's sent me over 100k of text in the last 3 months regarding how much he loves his Nomad 40GB model, I guess you could look into that. 0 Share this post Link to post
læmænt Posted March 15, 2003 Heh, i'm waiting for a programmable mp3 player with at least 20 gb space and ogg support 0 Share this post Link to post
læmænt Posted March 15, 2003 Fredrik said:lament: you'd get far with a Zaurus. heh, that thing would be so much cooler without the retarded built-in keyboard 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted March 15, 2003 Archos is the way. I love mine. They are kind of heavy though (actually this is not due to the battery but the 4 AA batteries inside) 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted March 15, 2003 lament said:heh, that thing would be so much cooler without the retarded built-in keyboard Yeah but check out The new Zaurus. All the benefits of a keyboard in proper PDA style. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted March 15, 2003 Where's the Dvorak model? All of the music on my hard drive is variable bitrate OGG, so I'd pretty much demand OGG support in any portable player. Besides, it's not like one has to actually choose one format the way they did with VHS and Betamax. It's extremely easy to manufacture a portable music player with support for as many formats as needed. This was not the case with Betamax/VHS. So with MP3/WMA/OGG there's no fear that a superior format will be fizzled out. Doesn't really matter to me anyway. I find that music vastly pales in comparison to movies and games. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doom-Child Posted March 15, 2003 AndrewB said:Doesn't really matter to me anyway. I find that music vastly pales in comparison to movies and games. Isn't that like saying that cheese pales in comparison to a cheeseburger? That whole argument about the whole being the sum of its parts... With the exception of some Hitchcock (and probably a few other movies I don't know about), music is a part. Ergo... DC 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted March 15, 2003 I have a six gig creative D.A.P jukebox. Bow down. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted March 15, 2003 fraggle said:Archos is the way. I love mine. They are kind of heavy though (actually this is not due to the battery but the 4 AA batteries inside) Are they paying you to go to Soton or something? Heh, there's no way I can afford that baby at the moment, even the basic 128MB mp3 model is pricey at £175. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted March 15, 2003 Doom-Child said:Isn't that like saying that cheese pales in comparison to a cheeseburger? That whole argument about the whole being the sum of its parts... With the exception of some Hitchcock (and probably a few other movies I don't know about), music is a part. Ergo... DC Something like that. I find that simple stereo audio provides an extremely limited form of entertainment. Movies are so much more worthwhile, considering they can be about twice as long as a CD, have video as well as audio, and usually cost about the same as a CD. Music serves its purpose in my life, but I still consider it to be generally inferior to movies. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted March 15, 2003 What the fuck? Music is the greatest thing in life. If there was no music, I'd have killed myself by now. 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted March 15, 2003 The nice thing about music is, unless you're obsessed, it doesn't require 100% of your attention. You're not gonna load up a movie to accompany you while you study or drive, for example. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted March 15, 2003 Exactly, though I do like to lie there and listen to just music about once a day or so. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted March 15, 2003 I have my MP3s playing in the background while I do work on the computer(s). Sometimes it's soothing. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
zark Posted March 16, 2003 I've got a Sony D-CJ01 CD/MP3 CD player. It's damn good, I've got 9 albums on one CD and it's really light. Only £150. 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted March 16, 2003 ZarcyB said:I've got a Sony D-CJ01 CD/MP3 CD player. It's damn good, I've got 9 albums on one CD and it's really light. Only £150. After just watching my Sony MD player literally fall to bits in my hands after loads of problems, I'm so worried bout their build quality I'm considering ditching my lifelong use of their products.. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted March 16, 2003 Sony hardware is apparently very shoddy. A entire series of their DVD players have a fuse problem where if used for "too long" the DVD player just burns out and becomes useless. 0 Share this post Link to post
sargebaldy Posted March 17, 2003 heh i have an sb live! but that doesn't help me because all i have is a crappy pair of speakers (with only one speaker functional) and a pair of cheap headphones (dead in on ear) 0 Share this post Link to post
Peter Heinemann Posted March 17, 2003 I just bought a 386sx "Blackmate" notepad on ebay for 5 Euro, it was made by the german firm "Escom" in 1991. Very slim, just 4 pounds, has monochrome display, 16mhz, came with Win 3.11. I think, I will upgrade it to any Linux or a nice DosShell, like Seal or Deskwork. I doubt this will make a decent mp3 player :D But, Deskwork actually has the ability to play mp3 files and its free. It was made in Dortmund, Germany by an computer science student and it makes the best of the oldest computer, like 386 or 486. http://www.deskwork.de/ 0 Share this post Link to post