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Neuros - Portable MP3 player, FM radio, Digital Recorder

Posted by Hemos on from the make-the-pretty-noise dept.

KenMaier writes "Interesting new product in the portable MP3 player space -- this portable 'Neuros' from Digital Innovations comes with either 128MB or 20GB storage, built-in FM radio and a built-in digital recorder. Two interesting features -- you can record 30 seconds of music you hear and it will 'fingerprint' the song and tell you the title and artist. Also, a built-in wireless feature lets you beam music from one Neuros to another. Not really clear on the speed, but transferring 20 GB sounds like it might take a while. If anyone owns one of these care to post a review?"

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  1. How in the name of the lord.... by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Can someone request a review for something that in not even on sale yet!!!!!

    Until I can buy it, it is vaporware.

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  2. Transfer speed not an issue by flakac · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really clear on the speed, but transferring 20 GB sounds like it might take a while...

    Why does this really matter? So it might take a while to transfer the music, but it'll take significantly longer to listen to it. Your average user will probably transer music as necessary -- no need to shoot the entire collection over in one shot.

  3. System requirements by Zayin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OS: Microsoft® Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP



    This really annoys the h#!! out of me... Most mp3-player manufacturers do this. What is the problem with just making a player that acts as an USB hard drive? Why do we need Windows to transfer files through USB?

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  4. fingerprinting! by krazyninja · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Sonicblue introduced the fingerprinting functionality in its Rio series of players. It used Moodlogic database. That database had a good number of songs...But with this Neuros database, being proprietary, it has to be seen how much of use it can be, unless it has a large database it has. It is possible that they have a deal with some other fingerprinting companies.....

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  5. Re:Radio, wall of sound by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    too bad that this feature(very nifty feature though) can limit it's availability in several countries.

    why? because it's a transmitter capable of transmitting on fm frequencies you need a license for.. how unused frequencies or not they may be. and just being capable of doing this might be enough for getting ban on sale..

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  6. USB 1.1 by CharlesV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems like any new device coming out should be either firewire or usb 2.0. 20GB over USB 1.1 just seems unacceptable.

  7. But but but... by haeger · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This weekend I bought a CD. It was copy-controlled and as such unplayable on my Linux-machine. It had some windows-player that was supposed to play the cd if I had put it in a Win-machine. But naturally it wouldn't let me create mp3's from it.

    My question (that's actually related to this topic) is, "What should I use the portable mp3-player for?".
    Since all record companies are doing their best to prevent me from transfering my legally purchased music to this player, what is it good for?
    Won't the mp3-players be as useless as a betamax-player for the general public, as the copy-controlled cd's becomes more and more common?

    That raises another interesting question. How long will Sony or any other large company that makes mp3-players stand for this? If people can't use the players then they won't buy it, which would hurt Sony's sales.

    I'm sure someone can write some insightful comments about this.

    Oh, and I returned the CD. I'm not buying broken products. And I made sure that the store understood that the failed sale was due to the record companies bad customer policy.

    .haeger


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  8. missed xmas? by asv108 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Obviously if the player is not going to be available till after Jan 03, they were trying for this holiday season but missed, which is not a good sign especially in a lousy economy in a mp3 portable market that is already saturated with competitors. I looked at the company page, these guys are going from CD Cleaners to Mp3 portables? CD Cleaners are a dumb product, but I love the marketing strategy of these companies.

    I hate how every time I go in to EB, they try to push a "game doctor" on me. Like I'm going to Pay $30 for a device to clean CD's when I can do it myself for little or no cost.