I have one of these as well. The one I bought was made by Phillips and looks
like your typical shitty cd player. It may be shitty looking but it brings
me such joy :-)
It seems like most people are willing to sacrifice storage space for size
but I wouldn't got that route at all. Having 125 songs per disc is
incredible, even better is the fact that what may look like a normal 10 cd
wallet can now contain something like 1500 songs.
I've taken mine to clubs and plugged it in and used it as a dj supplement,
brought it on trips, plug it in at home so I don't have to have my computer
running. It was only $200 which is cheaper than most of those 64 mg deals. I
can't imagine having a large library of mp3s and only being able to listen
to 64 mgs at a time, that would just suck.
Anyway, the next step up is one of those portable harddrive thingies that
hold 12 gigs, they're pretty expensive but the upside is that you can use it
as a portable storage device as well, so if you're at a friends house and he
offers you a large and tasty 200 mg folder full of porn you can just pop it
onto your mp3 playa!
-----Original Message-----
From: Irene McC [mailto:substar@iafrica.com]
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 4:16 AM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] mp3 discman
On 12 Apr 2001, at 23:03, Static Beats wrote:
quoted 1 line (think liquid audio and sony's mp3 walkmans)> (think liquid audio and sony's mp3 walkmans)
just a quick word here : my gadget-loving husband was recently
mailed a fax advertising a cute little toy, and just had to order one...
and it's quite brilliant!
It's a Compro MP3 Spinner (MP3 Audio CD Player, MPCD-455) -
bright electric blue and looks like any other recent portable disc
player) and it's come in wonderfully handy, since I've just returned
from a 5-day stay in hospital, and before going in, I made myself
one CD-R comprising 117 floaty, drifty ambient MP3 tracks (from my
collection) which came to a total of 11:20 hours (!!!). I basically
needed to take along nothing else but this one CD-R, put it on
random play, and lie there in a post-anaesthetic daze, letting Global
Communication, Kenny Larkin and early Speedy J gently swoosh
over me. Highly recommended.
This same device was reviewed in our local SA Computer Magazine
last month, and got very well rated on outstanding sound quality (it
comes with rechargeable batteries as well as mains plug, and also
has a line-out to play through your hi-fi system, and sounds really
decent on headphones too).
It was also handy to have around, since friends popped in to visit
me, and brought along CD's to cheer me up, and I had the means to
play them immediately without waiting to go home first.
So I'd chime in here with "God bless technology" and wish you all a
good holiday weekend.
I
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np : MuslimGauze - Occupied Territories
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