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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. Really? by usermilk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As far as I can tell, this device sells for $400 (same price as the iPod) and holds 185 MB per cd versus the iPod's 5 GB. I am not saying that the iPod is worth it's price but it can also be used as a portable FW hard drive. I think that this device is much less useful than an iPod. I personally use a 16x FW CD burner and my Rio Volt and am fine with that, this device like the iPod is a little overpriced.

  2. Bah, I'd rather have the iPod... by Nijika · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although it's still too expensive as well. My portable MP3 player right now consists of a 10 year old walkman with a tape deck.

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  3. And this is better than iPod, how? by dnorman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Posts slamming Apple for releasing a $399US 5GB Firewire hard drive-based MP3 player that weighs 6 ounces...

    Posts lauding a mini-CD-burning 160MB player that does... Oh, wait, that's all it does. For $400US...

    I'll gladly take an iPod, thanks... And thanks to the Firewire Disk mode, I can write it off as capital equipment that I can use while consulting... Tax writeoff = free... Wait, I guess I could do that with this teeny CD burner, too... Or is it MP3 only?

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  4. Someone show me a decent MP3 player by Scutter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh goody. Another over-priced MP3 player with too many bells and whistles. And a price that's way higher than it should be.

    All I want is a decent MP3 player. I want one that supports some sort of smart media card, supports at least 128MB, and has USB. And most importantly, doesn't cost $400! Is that too much to ask? The Diamond Rio 500 came closest to that, but of course it's not made anymore (and cost too much anyway). Instead, SonicBlue produces the vastly inferior Rio 600 or the way over-priced 800. If I can buy a camcorder for $300, a freaking MP3 player oughta be under $100.

    I don't need a built-in CD player (that's why I have MP3's fer crissakes!) I don't need a built-in hard drive. I don't need a goddamn built-in toaster oven. I just want a little MP3 player that holds more than 5 songs that I can stick in my pocket when I go for a walk. I certainly don't need to put my entire MP3 collection on it all at once.

    Let's see a cheap MP3 player that does one thing exceptionally well, instead of an overpriced MP3 player that does half a dozen things poorly.

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    1. Re:Someone show me a decent MP3 player by Deslock · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The RioVolt is reasonably priced. Personally, I bought a new RIO500 for $70 on Ebay and a 128MB Smartmedia card for $40 (techbargains.com). It's a great little device:

      1. solid state!
      2. lightweight: 3 oz
      3. small size: 0.6x3.5x2.4"
      4. 13 hour battery life on a single AA
      5. 192 MB!

      Sure I can't store my whole collection on it, but I can fit 2.5 hours using VBR or 3+ hours at 128 kbps. That's more than adequate for most uses and doesn't require any screwing around with CDRs or Minidiscs.

      As far as the RipGo goes, are they on crack? It's a cool device, but at $400 I'll pass. Recording abilities or not, this thing is way overpriced... since most users don't need recording, they should come out with a player-only unit similar in price to the RIO-Volt.

  5. Re:It burns mini CDs... by Bonker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ranging from $0.79 each (100 on a spindle for $79) to $1.09

    Hmmm... Regular 700MB CDR costs about $20.00/100 (or free, if you can find a good enough rebate). A MP3 CDrom player costs around $99.00 at BestBuy and a decent CDRW Drive costs about the same at the same place.

    Sure, this new toy is possibly more convenient, but not $200 convenient, especially when you figure in a higher 'cost of ownership' per MB of storage.

    Sorry, please play again.

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