mp3 player with a digital camera thrown in. Still quite small and light.
Transferring music in or out is a matter of plugging the CompactFlash card into an $8 PCMCIA card adapter (or a $25 USB CompactFlash card reader). I bought the version that comes with a 16MB CompactFlash card (way too small, of course), and replaced it with a 256MB card. The smaller card (and the bigger one, too, when you're not using it for music) is great for your other digital camera. This is a nice, fairly OS-independent way to deal with transfers, as long as your OS can understand an MS-DOS filesystem.
It also comes with a USB connection, but I've never used it.
The mc3 plays CBR and VBR mp3's, and has upgradeable firmware. I found an internet retailer with "nerds" in their name selling it (and its separate case) rather cheaply.
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The Kodak mc3 player is CF-based, and will play mp3's dumped onto it.
Well, they need to be in the "music" folder, so your test would fail, but that's a feature: it keeps your music separated from your pictures.
I think the Kodak mc3 is really underappreciated.
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/cameras/mc3/
mp3 player with a digital camera thrown in. Still quite small and light.
Transferring music in or out is a matter of plugging the CompactFlash card into an $8 PCMCIA card adapter (or a $25 USB CompactFlash card reader). I bought the version that comes with a 16MB CompactFlash card (way too small, of course), and replaced it with a 256MB card. The smaller card (and the bigger one, too, when you're not using it for music) is great for your other digital camera. This is a nice, fairly OS-independent way to deal with transfers, as long as your OS can understand an MS-DOS filesystem.
It also comes with a USB connection, but I've never used it.
The mc3 plays CBR and VBR mp3's, and has upgradeable firmware. I found an internet retailer with "nerds" in their name selling it (and its separate case) rather cheaply.