[2004] Which portable audio Player do u prefer?

[tl1029530921]

i WANT an iPod...but i have a MP3/CD player right now..^^. And yea...i also have a casette player in my car..haha...but it really doesnt matter cuz i have the adapter thingy, and even if we DID have a CD player in our car, i prolly wouldnt use it cuz all my CD's are Data CDs(mp3). but then...dont they have those special CD player thingies..??

[HanabiChick]

I like the mp3/CD player I have - best of both

[Chrono]

well, i have all 4 of them =P. Though the cassette player isn't very often used. haha. usually i use mp3 or cd players.

[SurrealDreams]

I use my portable MD recorder now. My CD discman is too bulky and skips easily. Mp3 players look good, but its features are not essential. By the time I feel I need a new portable player, probably in a few years time, i'd probably look into the now new Hi-MD more (mainly because it uses discs which I can take anywhere unlike things like i-pod).

[Unimatrix Prime™]

Unlike MD players, you can just plug in an MP3 player to your computer and add/delete songs as you would any other drive. Also, modern MP3 players can store well over 40GB of both music and data. If you're on a very long trip, you can play days worth of songs without having to change discs or worry about scratching the discs. Plus, if you've got an MP3 player with a video display, you can watch movies and play MP3s with 1 unit

[Luna Saisho]

I agree that MP3 players are much better then MD players, but MD has it's merits. It does have better sound quality (then 128k rips) and new software makes using it just like most MP3 players.

Did anyone get any benifit from my ripping guide?

[SurrealDreams]

Originally Posted by Luna Saisho

I agree that MP3 players are much better then MD players, but MD has it's merits. It does have better sound quality (then 128k rips) and new software makes using it just like most MP3 players.

I thought things like I-pods can store uncompressed aiff? or wav.

[mrAznnizeguy]

i bought the md player that ayumi advertised for her nwts theme song. it was pretty good, but the only problem i have is that i dont know how to get those portable speackers to light up while playing it=/ but yeaht i would choose md player, just that theyre kinda expensive

[Luna Saisho]

Originally Posted by SurrealDreams

I thought things like I-pods can store uncompressed aiff? or wav.

It all depends on the player. Some can, some can't. But why would you want to store an uncompressed version on any portable player? An uncompressed WAV or similar is literally 10 times larger then the compressed one, meaning a 4mb song would be 40mb. This turns a 128mb player into something that can store only 3 songs instead of 30.

My RioVolt will play WMA and MP3 and that's about all I care to put on a disc. ^_^

[Unimatrix Prime™]

Originally Posted by Luna Saisho

I agree that MP3 players are much better then MD players, but MD has it's merits. It does have better sound quality (then 128k rips) and new software makes using it just like most MP3 players.

Did anyone get any benifit from my ripping guide?

I don't have an MD player, obviously, but do they show ID3 tags like MP3 players do? I know I wouldn't want to browse thru songs and have them called "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. Also, aren't the discs themselves expensive? I've heard that you can compress them in such a way that they can store several times more than normal, but most MP3 players can store 10-100 times more than what the MD compression can offer

(btw, I'm not trying to make MDs seem bad or useless. I'm just wondering about a few things about it)

[SurrealDreams]

Luna - haha, i realise uncompressed files wont be practical on smaller storages like 128MB (3 songs on an mp3 player? haha), but arent the I-Pods have something like 20 or 40GB? then uncompressed would be alright. and yep, i would want that (call me audiophile geek, my ears are just sensitive)

Unimatrix Prime™ -

don't have an MD player, obviously, but do they show ID3 tags like MP3 players do? I know I wouldn't want to browse thru songs and have them called "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. Also, aren't the discs themselves expensive? I've heard that you can compress them in such a way that they can store several times more than normal, but most MP3 players can store 10-100 times more than what the MD compression can offer

Nope they dont have tags, but u can name each individual track manually via the buttons on the MD recorder, or if the minidisc is recorded optical digitally from a CD player, and that the CD itself has track/artist names on them, those names would be automatically transfered to the MD (however i think both the CD player and the MD player needs to have this text transfering feature - but mine are old they both dont).

the MDs comes in 60, 75 and 80 minutes varities, but it can record in mono and newer MD recorders can record 'long play' which each of them can halve the recording time. say it was recorded normal (short play) in stereo it's max 80 minutes on the disc - record in long play AND mono it can make it 240 minutes max.

the minidiscs arent expensive.

[Luna Saisho]

Surreal, I would recommend experimenting with compression in MP3. If I had the space, I'd post some examples of quality so you could hear the difference. A good rip in MP3 can sound astounding. ^_^

[leafyamazaki]

I chose CD player...

*hugs Panasonic portable cd player* ^^;;

[starr5245]

that's obvious..i want an mp3 player which can store up to 2000 songs!

[mrAznnizeguy]

Originally Posted by Unimatrix Prime™

I don't have an MD player, obviously, but do they show ID3 tags like MP3 players do? I know I wouldn't want to browse thru songs and have them called "Track 1", "Track 2", etc. Also, aren't the discs themselves expensive? I've heard that you can compress them in such a way that they can store several times more than normal, but most MP3 players can store 10-100 times more than what the MD compression can offer

(btw, I'm not trying to make MDs seem bad or useless. I'm just wondering about a few things about it)

my md player, you could name the songs, the artists, and name the disk. the disk themselves are not expensive at all, and usually when you buy md they come with pack of 5 disks, which is more than enough because one disk could store more than 30 songs.

[delerium]

iPod baby!

I listen to music mostly in my car... which makes the iPod ideal. The touch scroll wheel and interface makes track/playlist navigation a breeze while you are driving. Previously I was using a JVC in dash MP3-CD player. But it became a bit of pain because I was swapping discs so much. The plus was the JVC has a front input jack, so i can plug my ipod in directly... no FM modulation for me.

More thread regurgitation from AHS..? Hmm interesting...

[Miku]

i <3 my Mp3-player ^^
Creative Zen V

[Ryuuzaki]

mp3 player

[extepan]

mp 3 player of course. cd and casettes are so last century!