Re: [NTLK] Misc. ramblings...

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 21:00:26 EDT


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Tim wrote:

<snippity>
> Obviously I'm not an MP3 power user, but I am gradually getting more
> involved. Personally, I prefer the option of ripping a few CD's, having
> them ready immediately, and not needing a firewire hookup as one needs
> with the 'pod. To each his own. I've been living with Walkman CD-sized
> players for years now, so it's no big deal. I never liked anything in my
> shirt pocket anyway.

I swore to myself that I wouldn't get involved in this, but I can't stop
myself.

This past summer I bought a CD/MP3 player, as my 4 year old Sony Discman
had departed to a higher plane of consumer electronics existance. My Soul
Player (www.soulplayer.com) plays normal audio CDs. It also plays ISO9660
format CDs with MP3 or WMA audio files on it. It will read song
information form the ID3 tags in MP3 files. I arrange the files as I like
on my computer first, using normal directories, and then I can navigate
using the LCD on my player. I have a CD burner, of course :) I don't
have to worry about:

-multiple devices for multiple formats
-slow transfer rates to upload songs to my device
-my device becoming obsolete (well, I guess MP3s might go away, but I have
a lot of audio CDs as well. Besides, there are firmware upgrades)

This necessitates that I don't care about my device being super-small, of
course.

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