New mp3 Hardware

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 10, 1999 @04:27AM from the stuff-to-hear dept.

rbb writes "Another new hardware based mp3 player, the mozart music box for $499, has arrived. Their Dutch reseller offers other hardware based MP3 players too, such as the Trackz! player. I'm not going to get too excited about this one though, since it's anything but portable. However the price of $299 for the do-it-yourself-kit or $449 for either of the two pre-built kits sounds more like we're getting somewhere in hardwarebased MP3 land. " I think we mentioned the Mozart awhile ago, but I'd never seen Trackz! before.

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Re:really annoying by John+Campbell · 1999-06-09 23:55 · Score: 2

Annoying, yes, but if that's the _most_ annoying thing you've seen on the web, you need to get out more... :)

My vote for most annoying goes to an Intel banner ad done in Java (not Javascript, _Java_) that was about a 500k download and prevented the rest of the page from rendering until it was loaded.

I've seen a couple of home pages that were much more annoying in and of themselves... heavy use of animated GIFs, Shockwave, huge JPEGs, bad MIDI music in the background, horribly clashing flourescent colors, BLINK and MARQUEE tags to annoy those of either major browseral preference, text forced into no-wrap and all on one incredibly long line, incorrectly done frames too small for their content and with no scroll bars, broken IMGs everywhere, pop-up windows with useless Javascript crap in them, unclosed quotes forcing chunks of text to appear inside HREFs... and that's all on _one page_.

The Intel banner gets my vote, though, because it was actually preventing me from seeing something worth seeing, whereas the other stuff was a general offense against good taste, but didn't limit access to anything worthwhile...
Re:MP3 Clock Radio!!! by John+Campbell · 1999-06-10 04:37 · Score: 2

I'm actually doing that... I find at to be handier than cron, however, because I don't always get up at the same time... meetings and such'll require me to get in to work earlier some days, and there's no regular schedule to them... and then there's three-day weekends... Those aren't a problem with at, but I do have to remember to set it every night.

I've got a script (alarm) set up that kicks up the volume and starts splay on shuffle-play through my all my MP3s... I'm thinking I should restrict it to a subset of the collection, though, because Steppenwolf or Republica are likely to get me out of bed much faster than Jethro Tull or Concrete Blonde... :)

cybil:~$ at 0830 /home/jcampbel/bin/alarm ^D cybil:~$