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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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    -atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.

  2. 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!