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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. It burns mini CDs... by swordboy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I haven't seen any mini CD-R media laying around but I would imagine that it costs more than regular sized CD-R media. At this point, you'd be better off buying a portable CD burner and getting a separate MP3 player. Neat concept though.

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  2. RIAA will have their panties in a bunch over this! by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 2, Interesting
    This is the development I have been waiting for. Imagine, you take this thing round to your friends house, and he/she lets you loose on his/her CD collection. In the space of a couple of hours, the damn machine has paid for itself in the savings you could make by ripping CDs instead of buying them.

    No doubt the morons at the RIAA will complain that this device violates the DMCA, but in reality it will encourage people to buy CDs, because they will listen to the music in very low quality MP3 format, and later on they will buy the genuine CD, to get the extra sound quality.

    I just hope these guys stay under the RIAA's radar.

  3. Sounds like it has potential by blumpy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But 185mb doesn't sound like it's enough to really hold that much. Also a CD-RW version would be a little nicer. They're probably saving that for v2.

  4. Durability? by KosovoYankee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How long will the writer last if it is constantly being dropped, banged against your thigh when you walk/jog, or piled under a stack of books on a desk or a schoolbag? I mean, the mechanism to write cd's must be fairly delicate....

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  5. i'll wait until the reviews come out, thanks by krog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    seeing the issues all the current portable mp3 tech seems to have (some combination of: not enough space, not fast enough to reload, 2-sec gap between songs, bitrate restrictions, etc), i would certainly recommend waiting for a few reviews to come out.

    i hate thinking, "this would have been so cool had they taken another four days to design it!"

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  6. Fragility and Utility by nyquist_theorem · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First thing, its a CDR drive. In my experience, CDR drives are fragile and flaky and prone to sudden death even while standing still (I'm on my 8th in 5 years). MP3 players are also fragile and flaky and prone to sudden death (scratch two PMP300s and two NJBs - my RioVolt shows up next week along with the replacement HD for my NJB).

    Second thing, related to the first. Who makes it? Assuming IMation has OEM'd the thing out, who did the fab? I would suspect the thing is far from durable.

    Third thing, I have seen mini CDR media but no mini CDRW. Who wants to backup their stuff onto a 180MB mini CDR? I mean once in a while its cool, but if you can't use your CDR to back up CDs, whats the point? The mini media is nice, but a mini burner that wont take fullsize media at all is useless IMHO.

    Fourth thing, its $400. That's enough for an NJB($220), a RioVolt 90 ($89, for when the NJB breaks) and an internal CDR for your computer ($89).

    Based on point four - what advantage does this thing really have over the NJB+Riovolt+CDR-in-your-computer? And if you don't have room in your computer for a CDR, and you're gonna buy this contraption, could you not just buy a USB CDRW and a Riovolt for less? Of course you could. And that way you're not banging your CDR drive around.

    Seems like a silly idea to me. Now if only it had restrictive rights management! :)

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  7. Obligitory MiniDisc Plug by FatRatBastard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You might as well go the MiniDisc route. Cheaper/Available media, etc. Yeah yeah yeah, I know its a closed format and such, but the damn thing works, and it works well. They're (finally) making a bit of a dent here thanks to some Mp3->ATRAC software.

    I love the MD!

  8. Re:Does it work with Win2k? by CmdrPaco · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It doesn't (yet) work with Linux, BSD, QNX, or Amiga, it seems...

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