Re:Or you can get a portable one today for 1/3 the
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Aiwa car CD-MP3 player
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Whaddya know, somebody beat me to the punch while I was proofreading, anyway, heh.
Or you can get a portable one today for 1/3 the $
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Aiwa car CD-MP3 player
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Why haven't I seen this anywhere else???: easybuy2000 has portable ones for $109 - they play ISO9660 CDR's with MP3's in any directory structure, as well as regular CD's... The construction's a bit cheap (it looks like your average discman from a few years back, but the buttons are chromed-over plastic things that push all the way through the cover to the main unit), but there are separate headphone and line outputs that pump out sound easily comparable with regular portable CD players. It includes random or single-directory play - the latter will keep you in the same subdirectory, but doesn't seem to work quite like the manual (which reads like a bad web translation) implies - i.e., trying to jump from the first track of one subdirectory to the next dir confuses it, requiring you to switch out of that mode and back. For some reason, it also has an absurd amount of memo space if you want to hook up a microphone to it - might have something to do with that 50 seconds of anti-skip...? The extra EQ settings aren't terribly impressive over the car stereo, but they help make cheap headphones sound a bit better. It even comes with an AC adapter that will charge Ni-Cads in the battery compartment. It decodes my 160K-encoded MP3's just fine - I don't think the manual says anything about what rates are supported (I've already misplaced it)....and it's OEM to boot, so no corporate logos. An insanely good deal despite its quirks, from my perspective. I'm baffled that I haven't been able to find anything about it anywhere else (and saddened that my story about it was rejected because it was too similar to this one \). fri-'net-ik
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Whaddya know, somebody beat me to the punch while I was proofreading, anyway, heh.
Why haven't I seen this anywhere else???: easybuy2000 has portable ones for $109 - they play ISO9660 CDR's with MP3's in any directory structure, as well as regular CD's... The construction's a bit cheap (it looks like your average discman from a few years back, but the buttons are chromed-over plastic things that push all the way through the cover to the main unit), but there are separate headphone and line outputs that pump out sound easily comparable with regular portable CD players. It includes random or single-directory play - the latter will keep you in the same subdirectory, but doesn't seem to work quite like the manual (which reads like a bad web translation) implies - i.e., trying to jump from the first track of one subdirectory to the next dir confuses it, requiring you to switch out of that mode and back. For some reason, it also has an absurd amount of memo space if you want to hook up a microphone to it - might have something to do with that 50 seconds of anti-skip...? The extra EQ settings aren't terribly impressive over the car stereo, but they help make cheap headphones sound a bit better. It even comes with an AC adapter that will charge Ni-Cads in the battery compartment. It decodes my 160K-encoded MP3's just fine - I don't think the manual says anything about what rates are supported (I've already misplaced it). ...and it's OEM to boot, so no corporate logos. An insanely good deal despite its quirks, from my perspective. I'm baffled that I haven't been able to find anything about it anywhere else (and saddened that my story about it was rejected because it was too similar to this one \). fri-'net-ik