[pct-l] hard drive based MP3 players

[Lawrence Beals]

Look at a mini-disc (MD) player from Sony, they are no longer cutting
edge but the newer ones will put 1 GIG of data on a disk about 2"
square , I have never been able to make them skip when I used them for
trail running or on the bike, they are much more compact and robust
than either a HD or CD player and depending on your tolerance for
compressional artifacts you can fit a ton of music on each disc.

hike safe

Bear

On 2/16/07, Paul Mitchell <paul at bluebrain.ca> wrote:
> Hmmmm, good points Bear and Alden
>
> It would be nice to be able to take a robust, energy efficient flash MP3
> player and update the contents in town, perhaps by sending a hard drive
> based player in a bounce box.  I'd guess it must be possible to transfer
> data from one ipod to another?  Expensive sollution though ... means buying
> two players, and insuring the bounce box for a high value each time it's
> shipped.
>
> The drawbacks to the disc player option are the bulky size and the low
> amount of content (relatively speaking) per disc, and a fairly significant
> time investement to get all the data onto discs.  I have audio books that
> wouldn't even fit on a single CD.  60 gigs of data would take up a huge
> spindle of CDs too, which then also needs to be shipped in the bounce box.
>
> Clearly the best solution is a jacket covered in an array of disposable
> flash MP3 players.  Listen to all eight gigs on one, then discard and start
> the next.  Might cost a couple thousand dollars, but hey, no pain no gain.
>
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