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  1. Other options, & Broadband for PC-less custome by Kaimelar · · Score: 1 · on Listen to Internet Radio over Wifi
    Existing products already do this, though they have a PC requirement: in particluar, seeSlim Devices' offerings. Phillips has an Internet Radio device as well: the FW-i1000. I'm not seeing how these new devices bring much in the way of added value (especially comparted to the Squeezebox by Slim) but then again, having more choices is better. I love Webcasts, and the more ways I have to listen to it, the better. And the more listeners, the better -- I wish more people knew that there is a lot more to listen to than ClearChannel.

    BTW, did anyone else find this quote odd? "Hutchison wouldn't say who he's been talking to, but he claimed to have received plenty of interest from ISPs looking to build products to sell on top of their broadband access offerings - particular those who want to target punters without a PC."

    ISPs wanting to sell broadband to folks w/o a PC? Does this market really exist?

  2. Re:choice by Frymaster · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Unhappy With HP's iTunes Decision
    I would pay for the mp3s I had if I wasn't required to have an iPod.

    where to start....

    • you can play mp3s on all sorts of stuff. there's a big list of 'em right here... i stopped counting after 40.
    • there are tonnes of sites that offer pay-for music downloads either via subscription or per-track. some use wma, some use aac, some even use... mp3s
    • if you buy music off itms you'll get an aac file. it does have some drm in it, yes, but that drm allows unlimited burning to cd. so, you can easily use a discman - or convert the aac to mp3 and use some other player.

  3. Re:Come on apple. We want iVideo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Open-Content GBA Movie Player Reviewed

    why wait? AV340!

  4. Re:Available? by Flabby+Boohoo · · Score: 3, Informative · on Review of the Archos AV320 Cinemabox

    Try google, it always does the trick.

  5. Re:Free Codecs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Non-MP3 Codecs?

    Why not use FLAC for lossless? That's what it is. Or was that a typo

    typo I'm afraid ;)

    The MP3 CD player I have is a kenwood portable. It does it's job and the only real reason to migrate to another player would be ogg compatability (but I have not had it for 6 months yet, so no reason to upgrade yet ;))

  6. MP3 boom box by Pope · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Review: Nex II CF MP3 Player

    Sony makes one, but it's CD-R/W based.

  7. Use your head..Get a Casio PZ-5000 instead. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 2 · on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players?



    Here's a good reccomendation for you:

    I love mine..got a Casio PZ-5000 about a month ago. Its an portable Audio CD + MP3 CD player , complete with digital shock absorbpion, car casette adapter, headphones, DC to AC converter for plugging into your car's lighter, two batteries and a normal wall-outlet AC adapter for $79.00 ... You can buy them off the rack at CompUSA. That way, you can burn your own Audio CDs, or burn an ISO9660 packed to the brim with MP3s. A remarkably cheap price for such a nice player, basically, an 800MB portable MP3 player for the price. Why anyone would want one of those shitty compact-flash powered MP3 players is beyond me. Then again, if you feel like spending $300 for an MP3 player with less features, be my guest. :)

    Cheers,

  8. Re:Just hide 'em on your camera! by friscolr · · Score: 2 · on Denmark Poised to Legalize Music Sharing
    good idea. you could even use steganographic techniques to hide the mp3's in the photos (check out outguess) - all those bad photos of your significant other are really there just to contain Bjork's latest in their lower bits.

    size would become an issue. you could use compact flash - ibm has that nice gig microdrive though im not sure what cameras that can be used in.

    -f

  9. A Comprehensive list by Carnage4Life · · Score: 5 · on Are There MP3/CD Player Combinations?

    Terratec CD/MP3 Player

    Mambox portable MP3/CD Player

    Pine Technology (MP3 Audio): D'music SM-200C Portable MP3/Audio CD Player

    netDrives CD/MP3 player Brujo



  10. Re:Yes, there is one...here's the link by ncc74656 · · Score: 1 · on 80 hour/4.6Gb Portable MP3 Player
    D'Music SM-200C. They're accepting pre-orders for it.

    This sounds like just the thing to get...but one question they left unanswered was what types of media it'll read. Pressed CDs and single-session CD-Rs are almost guaranteed to be readable, but what about multi-session CD-Rs and CD-RWs? Does someone have a link to the manufacturer's page or to some other page that would have this info?

  11. Yes, there is one...here's the link by (Score:+6) · · Score: 1 · on 80 hour/4.6Gb Portable MP3 Player

    D'Music SM-200C. They're accepting pre-orders for it.

  12. Things Are About To Get Much More Interesting by Effugas · · Score: 2 · on 80 hour/4.6Gb Portable MP3 Player

    If this continues, there aren't going to be many executives left in the music industry...they're all going to be in church, having seen the signs of the end of the world.

    OK, a bit apocalpytic, but no more than some of the wild eyed predictions we hear about all the time. Everyone else is allowed to make insane and unrealistic proclamations. Why not one more.

    In all seriousness, a 4.6GB MP3 player is a significant technological advance. Consider that, at those sizes, the device literally needs to be able to allow file upload/download--the fact that people can and will use this as their primary storage not only for their music data but all of their portable content is beyond likely--it's probable.

    Issues such as resilience to shock are worrisome, but should this product function as advertised it will cause shockwaves throughout the industry, if for no other reason that it will utterly eliminate the coming marketing flood backing WMA(forget security, it's twice the music on the same player, they'll say.)

    The Compaq involvement is critical--there are serious fortunes to be made, even in the short term. They plan to sell 10,000 of them(their stock for the year) at $810 apiece($10 an hour * 81 hours). That's $8,100,000 revenue in three months--combine that with the amount of venture capital(and outright purchase offers from media corporations looking to suppress the technology, thus increasing the value of the company) that these guys could get their hands on and you have some serious money involved.

    To say this should be interesting is an understatement. Now, all I need is to convince the company I'm worthy of a pre-release version to play with. You know, because I just don't listen to enough music as is or am in front of a computer enough as it stands...

    Oh well. All else fails, I'm getting this $279 MP3CD player the moment it comes out.

    Yours Truly,

    Dan Kaminsky
    DoxPara Research
    http://www.doxpara.com