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USB Key-Sized MP3 Player With LCD Display
nhahmada writes "The Muvo MP3 player/storage device from Creative has been out for awhile, but some have complained of its lack of a display or equalizer. Well, now Innogear has released the 128MB Duex mp302 with a backlit LCD supporting ID3 tags, a "multi-category" equalizer and a timer (Why?). The mp302 also has the ability to record/playback voice via its built-in microphone. It can be used for storing any type of file and plays MP3/WMA/WAV. Both the Muvo and mp302 run on one AAA, giving 12 hours of continuous playback. Running at $179, it's a little more expensive than the $169.99 128MB Muvo, but I am willing to shell out ten bucks for an LCD. Go here for a better look at the display."
LCD = Liquid Crystal Display. So that's Liquid Crystal Display Display.
From the department of redundancy department.
Now that could be a great device if it could have mobile phone built in. Or at least a connection to phone.
The most annoying thing about players today is that you can't hear when your mobile rings.
And I'll buy one!
It's playing Jenifer Lopez? .. wtf. i'm not getting one
I still think I'm going to hold out for the Creative Nomad Zen. A little more expensive. Lets see 20GB.... 128MB. Hmmmmmmmm.
olbigatory comment about not decoding ogg files.
yeesus, is it that hard to decode ogg files? all you have to do is implement it!
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If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. -George Carlin
What I want is an FM radio with MP3 recorder and programmable recording.
So I can record, say, Talk of the Nation on NPR in the morning and listen to it in the afternoon.
Why doesn't anybody make this yet???
Tivo for NPR. It would be great for saving stuff to listen to while driving, for those times when I want to actually use the time to learn something.
I wonder how much damage that LCD can take before it's trashed. Something that small would go everywhere with me. Anyone have any experence with anything like that?
this will push down the price of the Muvo. Sorrry, but it only holds 128MB. I think I can pretty well remember what MP3's I put on a 128MB player, so the LCD is pretty pointless (and probably actually shortens battery life). The equalizer might be nice, though.
See for example this car adapter: "Did you know you can use your MP3 Player in your car to enjoy through your car speakers? Play your portable CD players, Mini Disc and MP3 players through any audio cassette player! It is fully compatible with ALL our MP3 Players. This device is fully compatible with all our MP3 CD Players!" - has anyone actually used this or similar product? Does the thing have a dramatic effect on sound quality?
a timer (Why?).
Because when you're working out, you often want to know how long you've been going. "OK, good, i did my 5 minutes of hard running, time for a smoke!", etc. Joggers, treadmill junkies, and other people-who-move are a target audience for these things (remember anti-skip CD players? "Perfect for Runners!")
It'd surprise me if this didn't come with an armband of some sort, either out of the box or as an option.
LCD Display means Lopez Can't Dance..... Display.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Another cool use for things like this would be Bugs. You know - the cloak and dagger type.
I love these devices (usb key-chain storage)
I think they are fantastic - and cant wait till they get even more features backed into that little package...
MP3 players are wonderful things but the main thing putting me off is the lack of supporting hardware.
Before everyone gets upset - I understand that you can use your computer etc. and download music but what happens when someone decides they don't want to wait for their computer to do whatever.
How about a docking station that you put your CDs into and it compresses the CD (or track if thats what you want) and stores it on the player. Automagically like! This combined with an FM tuner or cassette player would save people having to buy / setup dodgy connections into their computer sound cards... Hell, DAB radio is taking off - why not have a DAB tuner?
Just a thought.
Iain
---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdnes
The article claims this has been out for a while now, I have to admit I new nothing about it. I don't keep up as much as I would like to on these type of things. After a little google-ing though I've found user testimonials to be quite positve. Anyone else own one have anything to add? Good or Bad.
if I cant read/write to it like I do my REX-II.... I.E. no drivers needed just place the files in a FAT-16 filesystem..... then it is junk.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
This really doesn't seem like enough room for any kind of serious travel. I don't want to have to load it up with new songs every time I go out, and this won't hold more than what, an hour? I really see these "little" MP3 players going away fast and the IPod like players coming in. I don't want to bring along A CD, I want to bring my whole jukebox!
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while your idea is fine, i just think that would be too expensive and most people wouldn't buy it when they can "get by" with using a computer. that's what's holding your idea back.
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
Is LCD on a MP3 Player a big news item?
Is Slashdot trying a new ad format?
these came with almost all "car kits" back when the discman first came out. not a good choice for an adiophile, but not a bad adapter at all. actually sounded better than putting a real tape in.
They've had these things for years, you can get em for 10 bucks at radio shack. The sound quality is crap, as can be expected. They'll work with anything you can plug a headphone jack into.
A discman that plays MP3 CDs, has a SW/FM/AM, LCD TV, decodes OGG, downloads with Wireless Ethernet or IEEE1394, and runs off a Hydrogen Fuel Cell. Until this device is available, I refuse to support the crappy home electronics industry.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
This must be intended for that "active-geek" demographic coveted by marketers world wide (what is that....like 10 people?)
When tap into the "sedintary-geek" market and remove that pesky timer...thats when the big will start comin' in!
I run, sail, ski, and do other things. It would be great to have something like this with more memory (I rather not have my music on a hd when running or skiing- crash disk is no fun), 512 would be fairly good.
I would love to see one of these things also able to accept Winamp plugins (ogg, adx, etc).
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Ok, let me get this straight....
We are we supposed to be impressed by (yet another) MP3 player that...
1: has very low storage capacity.
2: has a crummy design (did you see the buttons!?)
3: has an easy to lose end cap.
Who is buying these pieces of crap?!?!
Holy crap, dude! This is amazing. The Muvo looks like that thing Spock used to have sticking out of his ear when he was at his science station on the bridge. Was he really working, or just listening to his Jimmy Eat World tracks?
See the subject line...
This could be a great device with some clever client-side software. I'm assuming that it currently appears to the host computer as a standard usb mass storage device... Great device, as an mp3 player. But imagine how much flexibility you would get if it appeared to the host as a usb hub, to which is connected a usb mass storage device, a usb audio input device (standard microphone driver), and a usb->serial port bridge to which a standard serial lcd is connected. All the hardware is there, it's just a matter of appearances... with these features, it would be just as great (indeed, identical) as an mp3 player, but you could also use it as a portable microphone (the microphones on both my ibook and picturebook suck), and you could use it as an additional display device when plugged in. I just can't see any downside (besides development time) to allowing this.
I've had this sig for three days.
Ohh, they are those things. Somehow that "old" invention put together with new stuff got me misleaded. Thanks :)
SUXOR MY DIXOR...
P.S. Of course the device is fully compatible with any player with standard output, not just THEIR MP3 CD players.
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Hey I've chatted with that girl on the InnoGear site. Met her on Match.com, I wonder if she knows that Microsoft switcher...
USB Key-Sized MP3 Player With LCD Display
Keypsized player? Gee that is smart. So it makes it so much easier now to lose it. When I want a player (walkman, mp3, etc), I want something big enough to fit in my hand and easly change the songs without looking at the buttons. Something made to fit in your had and where your finger end, should have the buttons.
And don't even get me going with the title. Does it come with two displays? I can brag to my friend then. "Hey guys, I got my new MP3 Liquid Crystal Display display. In the words of Dennis Leary what the fuck, get an education.
Ok I feel better now.
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Anyone know the transfer rates to devices like this?
Can you fill a 128 meg device in 10 seconds?
I used to use one of these for my car, to adapt my portable cd player to the cassette deck. I didn't notice much sound quality difference, it sounded a lot better than a standard tape would, in any case.
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Ok, what about the option to buy a docking station as seperates - like a HiFi...
Iain
---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdnes
1) does it work with linux?
2) can you run linux on it?
3) can you imagine a cluster of these!
4) its a SlashAd(TM)
5) ????
6) Profit!
i was honestly thinking of writing just #1, but well, the rest just seem to be missing from the posts
If you want to test your sound card you can get this program to see how your sound card stacks up to the muvo. muvo specs here You'll need to run a cable from your speaker out to your stereo input on your soundcard...
But if your headphones suck, it really won't matter will it :D
Feel free to mod my previous post down - it seems the "interesting product" I referred to is just the dull old cassette adapter trick. Sorry :)
See the "Flipster"...
Now you too can watch 11 minutes of highly compressed video on a tiny 160x234 screen....starting at $399.
This is just an mpio dmk repackaged.
The player has been around for around a year.
Irivers 180T is much better than this.
The future is here, folks
Gaaahh! How could you forget DVD, cell phone and digital camera! Oh and a GPS! ;)
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
It doesn't support Vorbis.. so it won't be useful for me.
I wish these stupid car adapters would play on BOTH SIDES! My car's tape deck is screwed up and only plays the B side when the weather is cold but all tape adapters only play on the A side! Anyone know of a better adapter that does this?
Does anyone know what type of batteries do these things take? Are they the small watch-battery kind? Is it a recharable Li-Ion battery? An interesting concept would be for it to be able to recharge while plugged into a USB socket...
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My problem is having too much stuff to carry. I'm not a fan of having 4 things in my pockets and 4 more strapped to my belt, so I don't do it. This product is great, because it's small (I recently replaced my phone with a Treo, since I had stopped carrying my beloved Visor due to space constraints).
My problem is headphones. Even earbuds are fairly large, and easily broken in your pocket. Carrying my music with me everywhere is of no use if I can't listen to it. Are there any good solutions for carrying around headphones in a safe but non-huge way?
Similarly, there needs to be a stereo hands-free kit for my phone (I much prefer hands free) with a 1/8 jack which doubles as headphones for this thing (yes, stereo is useless for the cell). Does such a thing exist?
I guess the truth is I'm just another person waiting for convergence, when I can have my phone, mp3/ogg player, networked PDA, digital wallet, etc. all embedded in one false tooth and hooked wirelessly to the other relevant parts of my head. I guess the problems there start happening when people see me talking to myself in the street, or I accidentally answer the phone by piping Eminem into it at high volume.
Thus endeth the rambling.
-Puk
Same reason my blender has a clock.
People who disagree with you are not automatically evil, greedy, or stupid.
Nice device, but would it have been all that hard for them to replace the AAA battery with a rechargeable one and let it recharge from the +5V on the USB connector?
11*43+456^2
The MPIO-DMK is a better alternative for people wanting someone small and durable. While I agree having the built in USB port is nice, it also means that you have a removeable piece: the cover. And I guarantee over time and use, you're going to lose, break, bend, or damage the cover to the point of worthlessness, and once you don't have a cover, your USB port is going to get trashed.
Check out the MPIO-DMK
ATM Machine... NIC Card... whatever.
Creative is dancing to MS' jingle, so most likely it's loaded with DRM software. Perhaps it will be
featured together with their other products on the hall of shame.
How about a USB jukebox at the ski resorts?
25 cents a downloaded song?
Nope, bad idea, too many stoned boarders bumming quarters from everyone.
Ah! DVD+/RW burner, stupid me. Cell phone and phonic capture were implied I thought.... ;-)
Sedentary geeks can use the timer to tell when their ramen noodles lunch is done boiling.
Why wouldn't someone get a minidisc device instead? I can get a portable minidisc recorder that is barely bigger than the disk itslef, lasts over 50 hours on battery, and uses CD-quality disks that only cost $1 or $2 each. The price is less than this keychain device!
With minidisc you can record at double-capacity and get 160 minutes on a disk and it still sounds perfect. If you don't mind a bit of sound degradation you can jam 320 minutes per disk.
anyone have the specs on the recording capability?
If this picture is accurate, I'm not sure it competes with the muvo. Look at the size of it!
Kind of cool, but what if you don't have 1)A Desktop USB hub or 2)Front USB ports? Seems kind of inconvenient.
I was going to say the same thing...
But I didn't want to be modded down by the millions of female slashdot readers.
duex is way too close to durex.
there needs to be a warning on the player:
"This device is not meant for internal use."
nbfn
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those..
in your pocket !
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
OTOH, the feature I need is FM Out, so it can work with the marine Radio/CD player in the boat. Radio Shack has these as a separate device, which is Ok, but ideal would be an integrated very low power FM transmitter.
Cause its smaller, cheaper, has a better battery life, holds what I need, and has NO MOVING PARTS. Contrary to all the Baywatch episodes I've watched, having stuff bounce around in not always a good thing.
How about an option for you to shut the fuck up!
Well, you could try to find an adapter that lets you change the side the wire comes out on, so you can flip over the tape. I used to have one like this, back before I got a cd player for my car.
You might also look at the fm broadcast type adapters (like this), although in my experience (about 5 years ago), they don't work very well. Maybe they've improved since then.
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remember anti-skip CD players? "Perfect for Runners!")
The newer ones with longer antiskip anyhow. My older player has Anti-Skip, it still chirps and clips when I'm blading.
Memory-based players are nice because they don't skip and also have no (powered) moving parts to break or drain battery.
The timer is also useful for track-times, to see if you can get around a little faster next time (i.e. if your fitness is "improving"). I prefer to set my pace to a particular song though, fast upbeat music for harder work, and shorter songs for trying to make a sprint
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I remember when my NomadII MG was the cat's ass... *sigh
For use as a tiny, portable MP3 player and recorder it's excellent. It's cheap, lightweight and low power - what more could you ask for with those requirements.
Stop bashing it because it doesn't support OGG, or FM radio, or rechargeable internal battery. It's not what it's meant for.
I own an iPod and it's great for what I wanted - a large storage portable mp3 player, rechargeable, fast uploads.
There will be/are three classes of portable music players - CD style, mini hard disk, and embedded memory/memory stick.
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I've had mine for a month or so... ecost.com was the cheapest price. It is a very good thing - I have music and radio programs on it (check out http://www.theshadowfan.com for copies of the old radio show - perfect for a car ride).
Sound quality is excellent - and the cassette adapter works fine in my car.
It also is usable as a normal thumb drive.
Since newer BIOSes allow USB boot, you could set it up as a rescue disk (same as any other thumb drive - but since you can listen to MP3s you will probably have this one with you.
Get the 128 model, you will use it.
Anyone else see the picture and the name and read "Durex"?
That was helpful info. I don't have an fm card but I do have a constant connection, and will be trying this tonight.
Website says it has full support for Windows.
What about Linux?-
So what is the deal with Bluetooth, anyway?
Rumour and innuendo suggests it's problems might be:
- hardware's too expensive
- standard is too complicated (but more secure)
- standard came too late
is any of this true?"Provided by the management for your protection."
MP3 player + PalmOS PDA + phone.
Coming soon - Rumor has it that "soon" could be Nov. 15. A few people have gotten their hands on beta units and it's schweet.
http://www.kyocera.com/
If you're worried about the phone/PDA integration - I have the 7135's predecessor, the 6035. It rocks. The integration is wonderfully done.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Hell, I mixed up those sentences. I can't do anything right.
What I don't like about the Muvo is that they have
the control features integrated into the storage device. The problem with this is that it makes it
difficult to upgrade to a larger storage device. WTF?!
I would guess the 12 hour battery life depends on the sound volume being at the lowest setting. Realistically it'll last 3-4 hours with normal use. I have a RCA Kazoo mp3 player which lasts about 5 hours with 2 AAA batteries.
Does anyone knows? Does it look like as a usd-hdd from the os's point of view?
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Your BLENDER has a timer? What kind of blender do you have?
Iriver IFP-180 is a similar device.
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With 128MB of fixed flash memory.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/iriver.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/373/373575p1.html
I use Total Recorder to capture the audio, which is the only method I've found. Unfortunately, quality is lost in the conversion, and its one of the few programs that keeps me booting windows. Here's hoping someone uses the recently release realaudio source to come up with a better Linux solution.
All these shows take up a lot of space though. The Bantam BA350 holds 128mb + a 128mb flash card. Recharges from the USB port and works well. My favorite MP3 player to date, though it has a windows only interface.
This thing can't help republicans kill mexican undocumented immigrants, so the republicans have no use for it.
Now I can have an expensive player that has too-small-to-push-with-out-searching-for-them buttons and memory to hold all of 3 medium quality CDs worth of music. Jeez, get an iPod.
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God damn.. how big are your keys?
I love it just for the coolness factor, but I don't see a tether on that cap that covers the USB connector.
I wonder how many nanoseconds it would take to lose it?
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... I'd be happy to have one of these to review, in fact, or even to keep, but no manufacturer yet has figured out how to bribe me :))
siskbc: Not sure where you get this idea, but it's not true.
I posted this story because I thought it was a neat piece of technology. I'd never heard of it before I read / approved the submission, and am unlikely to see one in person in the near future. Kickbacks? Paid stories? Ha! Slashdot stories are posted by real people, not X-files conspirators (or even bribed weasels
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Doesn't it even say "Durex" on it?
Those tape adapters are terrible, I used to use one with my minidisc player. I always ended up screwing with the volumes on both to minimize his while also minimizing bass distortion (which is rather extreme). Sometimes you can even hear some sort of repeating clicking which gets obnoxious fast once you've noticed it.
People buy these players because they are small and light. A laptop HD still sucks up power, mainly due to the small, moving head.
A solid state mp3 player may not have as much capacity, but its tiny and as you can see from the advertispage - 12hrs off a AAA battery.
Yay me!
I meant to say minimize hiss.
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"Both the Muvo and mp302 run on one AAA, giving 12 hours of continuous playback."
"Innogear has released the 128MB Duex mp302"
I don't get it. Sure you get 12 hours of playback, but even at the mediocre MP3 quality of 128kbps, audio is a megabyte a minute. So at 128MB, you just get to hear the same 2 albums over and over again for 12 hours, and if you want to listen to other albums, you have to upload them. The price for these memory units/sticks/cards/whatever-a particular-device-uses is just inexorably stupid to settle for as a consumer. I couldn't be happier with my $119.00 CD-Based MP3 Player . It has never skipped on me (it loads 8 minutes of track [longer than 99% of tracks] straight to memory, then the disc stops spinning.) and with it , I get over ten hours of 128kbps music per disc and carry as many discs as I want, and because the disc only spins to read, I get 10-12 hours of listening time per battery set, and the unit I have has a built-in recharger.
Until these trinkets come with 512MB of memory, there's no way they can compete with my 25 cent 700MB storage units for the same quality experience. Sure, if you dont want to stick a CD-player in your pocket to jog (which I do with no problems), then the little guys are fine. But if you're just gonna use it to jog, get an earbud radio for $25 bucks.
The only people who buy these trinket MP3 players seem to me to be the people who get them as some sort of status symbol. I can really see no other good popular reasons.
Why not just make it a SuperDrive, and get CDRW too?
:)
And then let's add a processor, keyboard, and a couple of USB ports, and.... oh wait, they already have something that can do all that. These newfangled things called laptops
Creative did a little advertising campaign where they went around from college to college, giving away free stuff (muvos, t-shirts, etc.) about a month ago. I had the oppurtunity to try one of these out and was pretty impressed. It does have a few flaws; lack of storage, no LCD (not a big deal), lack of EQ, no OGG support, but it also could be a really handy gadget to have, especially for college students. At my school, where we're required to have laptops, this means that you no longer need a disk drive, zip drive, whatever, to transfer small (or large) files from laptop to laptop/desktop. If I weren't the stereotypical poor college student, I would have grabbed this right away, even if only for the USB Key storage. The fact that it's an MP3 player too, and is about the size of my thumb, makes it even better.
If this Duex is everything the Muvo is and more, I don't see why this can't be an even better replacement, for MP3 players, disk drives, etc, for any college student, or anyone else for that matter.
Just my two cents.
Doesn't matter when it came in. Never will.
Every time I see one of these devices come out, I always ask myself how come people don't like MiniDisc players.
They cost about 200 bux a pop for recordable portables, can store 80 minutes of music on a 2 dollar disc at a quality roughly equivalent to a 196bit mp3, or HOURS at a slight loss of quality, 10-20 hours of battery life, and most importantly can actually be used independent of a computer.
i.e. this is a pure audio device, you can hook up microphones, plug it into a stereo, anything you want.
Your music is stored in an editable manner, which gives you random access to data, edit tracks, move tracks around, etc.
They are really convenient for travelling - if you're going on a plane you can grab a stack of discs (2 bux each, remember) so you never run out of music.
Or you can go the portable mp3 player route, which means you can either listen to the same songs over and over again, or you could try to bring along a bunch of $50.00 memory sticks.
Do some reading - here and maybe you guys will be as underwhelmed by portable mp3 players as I am.
These things are GREAT for jogging, or taking to the gym. Sure, you can jog with a discman or walkman style player, but odds are you're gonna end up carrying it in your hand, and risk dropping it. Some of these kinds of devices come with neck-ties, so you can wear them around your neck while you work out. Or stick em in your pocket. They're light enough they won't bounce when you jog. There's nothing worse than having your shorts fall down in public due to jogging with overly-heavy electronics in your pocket. No, I don't speak from experience.
p roduct_name=iFP-180T). As far as I can tell, it has an FM tuner, can record your voice, and will potentially support .ogg in the future if they can get the codec small enough.
The reason they're expensive is because they're compact. The reason they only come with 128 MB ram is because they're compact, and to keep the price down. Yeah, 128 MB isn't that much room, but how often do you find yourself jogging for more than 2 hours?
Personally, I'm looking at the IRiver IFP-180T (http://www.iriver.com/product/detail.asp?idx=10&
It's not as dumb a question as it sounds, I already have a MP3 player that I can only download to, and that the software restricts to MP3 files. If this is a MP3 player and 128 megs of memory available for file transfer, then it would be pretty handy. That and, of course, the timer.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
... is what a beowulf cluster of these would sound like.
Fluffy rabbit named George.
Oh, and a girlfriend!
Oh wait, that'll never happen... This is slashdot.
Not just "does it appear as a USB Mass Storage device with a convenient filesystem format", but also:
Is the recorded audio (e.g. voice recordings) in a format easily accessible using Open Source tools?
If the answer to both of those was yes then I'd probably buy one without hestitation. Does anyone have one they're willing to post a review of?
"Included with the Duex mp302 are: headphone/neckstrap, USB cable, software CD, manual, and one AAA battery."
duh.
Just $0.02 (plus two hundred bucks, give or take).
"Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more."
Go iPod, Firewire means faster transfers and it works in Linux, MacOS, and winshit.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
There's a review (with extra pics) over at IGN Gear.
It's already configured for runners. You insert it like a suppository. You can then excercise large muscle groups and practice being anal retentive.
Timers are being included on a number of portable MP3 players, the newest Rios among them. Their small formfactor and high stability make them ideal for working out with, and manufacturers are capitalizing on this. Even Nike sells the things now. A few even come with armbands.
They're becoming more common. USB ports on the front make plugging in those occasional devices much easier. Things like memory sticks, the camera you borrowed off a friend, etc.
Yay me!
Hmmm... 128M --> $179 5GB --> $200 I'll keep my little iPod! :)
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Does anyone else think this looks like a slightly higher-tech pregancy test?
Just wondering.
I was going to buy my wife a iPOD for Christmas. It will hold our whole collection. She has the Sony NW-E3 right now (but its software is messed up and it does not work on a Mac). She uses her MP3 player while she skateboards. I don't think that a iPOD will take that type of abuse. It would be trashed in a day. This player would be perfect. No more stupid Sony software. I wonder if it will work on a Mac?
The above is not worth reading.
It's bigger than all my keys put together. It's kinda cool, but why not describe things accurately?
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InnoGear claim their player is the smallest in the world. I haven't found the exact dimensions on the website, but this appears to be smaller (and much cooler!)
/ sd80.html
Dimensions: 42.2mm x 41.6mm x 15.8mm This has been available in Japan for at least the last 6 months:
http://www.panasonic.co.jp/products/audio/sd/sd80
Isn't that the OpenGL Logo reversed?
To facilitate this, there are posters at all stations showing the *exact* (not estimated!) travel time from the current location to all other destinations. So you look at the poster, set your timer, start it when you get on the train, doze off to your favorite music, and hopefully get woken up a minute or so before you reach your destination.
...teacher to cry out over dat one!
You can easily set it up to run automagically...
But doing it with CLI and not running "startx" while the Microsoft zombies are around makes you look way more l33t.
Then wait until they start talking like this guy, and call up a desktop and say," yea, we got that dumb GUI crap for the clueless, but nobody really uses it."
Don't all ATX motherboards have USB ports on the back? The fact that I'd have to lean around the back of my computer, avoid all the other cables and grope for a couple of small rectangular holes...
Makes it a big no-no for me.
why not just make a nice mp3 playing watch?
I'm sure somebody will, just in time for christmas. I know I'd much rather have the mp3 player strapped onto my wrist then in a cramped pocket getting torn up by my keys.
The CBC (cbc.ca) has some great science and culture shows, and they're all ready to go in mp3 format and usually archived. Apply your favorite tool (e.g. wget) and off you go. Our politics aren't really as entertaining though. :-)
As another poster mentioned, a fm card or a sound card connected to a normal radio is another way to go, as well. It's all about cron. I've done this with TV as well, I drive a lot.
128mb rio == one whola hella pile of radio talk shows @ 64kbit.
..don't panic
Another gaget that's small enough for me to lose
My good sig is in the laundry
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!
if you've got 20-30 songs on there that you hand-selected and transfered to the device, why exactly would you need the lcd? to remember the names of the songs that you already liked enough to dl/rip, catalog and transfer to your mp3 player? track time it not particularly neccessary, as the player would probably be in your pocket most of the time. volume? that would be pretty obvious to the user anyways. the only potential use for an lcd screen IMO would be to gauge battery charge... but we all know how inaccurate most battery indicators are anyways. the only promising aspect of this player is the EQ... but then again how much difference can a tiny software EQ make on those earbud headphones anyways? as for the voice recording, it is not a feature that I would use very much (I hate hearing my voice anyways). With the Creative you're getting a product that has been tried and true, plus many retailers are now listing it at $139.99 after rebate. I'm waiting for my paycheck on Friday to go pick up my MuVo. Can't believe that I paid over $225 for a 64MB RIO just a couple of years ago
. SLASHDOT: Home of the vicious nerd.
I want to know what the transfer rate is for this device. I heard that Muvo has a slow rate. Is this faster? I don't want to wait all day to get my 3 hours of mp3's on my thumb device. C
The iRive iFP-180T has 128 MB of memory as well as a 90 dB S/N ratio and a LCD for about $140 at Best Buy. I don't own one...but if the specs tell anything, as well as the one review I read, this product seems like a great one. I wonder why it has hardly been noticed by the mp3 community?
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The first thing i thought of when i saw the picture of the Duex was ``.. hmm, that's one nifty condom holder.''
Duex. Durex. Can't be a coincidence :)
Why on earth would you buy this thing? Who wants to pay 200 bucks to listen to the same 2 (maybe 3) CDs over and over for 12 hours? If this thing was $50 I might deem it cool, but it's not.
For another $100 bucks you can snag a 5gig FireWire iPod half the size of a deck of cards, which doubles as an external harddisk, address book, calender, device to play Break-Out on, etc.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
There are PVR like devices coming out on the market now that will let you RIP CD's into the unit to be listened to later. If there were some type of High Speed data transfer standard between all the MP3 players, then something like this could work. But what kind of world do we live in? Not that one. At least not yet.
Being called a dork on Slashdot must be like being called the retard in special ed.
Plus it's firmware upgradeble. Feels like you get a new player everytime you upgrade firmware. I have a Slim-X (IMP-350) myself. Best buy I've EVER done.
I have a Nokia 5510 phone and it combines a lot of common Nokia functions along with a QWERTY key layout and a built-in 64Mb MP3 player. I got it mainly for the MP3 player, but I've had nothing but trouble with it since I got it. It quite frequently hangs, the software to get the music on the phone is crap and the case is easily broken.
I think the only positive aspects I can say to go along with this thread is that it does have a selectable equaliser depending on what style you are listening to, and with the hands-free kit on, the phone puts a 'beep' when a text comes through or fades the music and plays your ringtone when you get a call.
In closing (:-P), mixing an mp3 player with a phone in my experience, is not a good thing....in fact, I've just ordered one of the 128Mb players that this thread is all about, even if the postage was $44.00!!
My home Sony MD recorder has a "Time Machine" option, same idea. It is always storing the last six (I think) seconds in memory and when you hit "record" it starts by putting those six seconds on the MD and speeds up catching up with the live input so it records "before" you press the button.
Olympus have the same thing in some of their digital cameras, it is always storing the picture in memory and when you press the shutter button it can deduct your reaction time and take the picture "just before" you pressed the button.
Another company (Nikon?) have a similar multishot system that works the other way around, you press down the button and it starts writing pictures into memory as quickly as it can, when you release the button the last five images are stored to your memory card.
...I find a post I'd use them all on. Thanks. This is a great tip.
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
"Maybe he got that (mistaken) idea [that story placement can be purchased as an advertisement] from this?
Hmmm. Well, the answer is still No :)
The related links thing (labeled "Ad") has nothing to do with the acceptance of a given submission; the links in it are generated automatically, whether the story is about Lego, the moon, privacy in the Ukraine, etc etc. In approving a submission, I cannot choose anything about what links that service finds, or turn it off. The truth is, I've basically ignored it until you mentioned it in this comment.
Now, though, I've poked that link for a few stories, and notice that the "related" items it finds are very hit-or-miss, to put it lightly.
The conspiracy theories are much more interesting than the pedestrian truth though -- I should make a bribe list, like a wedding registry :)
- 300 pounds of titanium
- personal (habitable) island
- really, that's enough. really.
Cheers,timothy
p.s. End of thread, at least for me :)
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confirmed. Just (today) purchased the Muvo at J&R in NY for $130 (after $20 mail in rebate.)
I was going to buy the MUVO but I found this MPIO player instead: http://www.shoptronics.com/mpidmktinsil.html And it is the same size as the MUVO and it has an LCD DISPLAY better sound quality and is around the same pirce!What do you think of it? On a side note is DATAPLAY going to be popular?
The iRiver iFP-180T lets you record FM radio, but I'm not sure if it's programmable.
It does look like a great mp3 player though.
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