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Portable Mini-CD MP3 Player / Burner

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shopping-days-till-xmas dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Here is a neat new toy. It is an MP3/CD portable that not only plays music files, it burns them. Called the RipGO, it was just released by Imation and runs about $400. The article includes a photo of the player."

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  1. Sony by atrowe · · Score: 4, Informative
    Sony has had a similar product out for a while now.

    And their's is only $250.

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  2. It's weakness is USB by Mustang+Matt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you guys think USB is too slow for stuff like this? I know USB 2.0 is quicker but I assume this is using USB 1.0.

    It seems like devices like this would benefit a ton from firewire. USB 1.0 works great for mice and printers and other low bandwidth devices but in my experiences, it seems too slow for transferring large amounts of data.

    That being said, I have noticed that my Sony PIII 650 MHz laptop running WinME is quicker than my Athlon at 550 MHz running Win2k, so maybe chipset or OS has more to do with it than anything.

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    1. Re:It's weakness is USB by gorilla · · Score: 3, Informative

      I don't see it to be a problem. The bottleneck in terms of speed here will be the burner, not the host connection.

  3. Yep. by megaduck · · Score: 3, Informative

    I imagine that they disqualify 98 and NT because neither of those have USB support. Any Windows released after '98 should have the requisite USB support (that includes Windows 98 and Win2K).


    Of course USB is dog slow for this kind of product. For the same amount of scratch you can get an iPod with a five gig capacity and FireWire connectivity. Just my $0.02.

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  4. Where's the mic input!? by sadclown · · Score: 4, Informative
    Am I the only one who misses the audio input on these things? We haven't had a new portable digital recording device superior to the DAT walkman in 15 years! Why don't they just put 1 $15 analog mic input in this thing or the iPod and give musicians, audio engineers and reporters a fantastic new toy.


    I know, minidisc does it already, but minidisc players don't have digital output for PC post-production work and actually doesn't sound as good as plain old WAV files.


    If this had a mic input, you could burn directly to MP3 and have 6 hours of digital recording - 6 times that of a minidisc.


    If the iPod had a mic input, you could burn 10 hours of uncompressed audio or 100 hours of MP3s. Portable 2 track recording studio!