>MP3 is hot because the internet is hot. I don't know anyone who has an MP3
>player, so I can't get any first-hand info, but I wouldn't be surprised if
a
>lot of people who buy one quit using it after a few weeks. Especially
>people who bought it as an audio device, vs. a computer toy. I could see
>hardcore computer users continuing to use them, but the person who is more
>an audio lover and not a computer lover might get frustrated pretty quickly
>by constantly having to download and transfer files. Does anyone else have
>a feel for the long-term satisfaction of MP3 users?
>
This is a very interesting idea that i was able to explore a while back. As
a private contractor i had to place a very large order of computer
components and i must have overspent enough because they didn't argue with
me when i was done when i told them that they should throw in a rio because
i spent so much. anyway after getting it i did a short review for
www.upgradecenter.com on portable MD vs MP3 (the review is long gone from
the site) anyway the rio just plain old sucks. It's laying around here
somewhere and never gets used. there are just tooooo many things wrong with
it that i dont like, the sound of it sucks mainly. that and the fact that
if you want more than 25 minutes of music on it that doesn't sound like AM
radio in a tunnel you have to pay an outragous amount of money for mem for
it. I'm not gonna go over everything here that i didn't like about it, that
would take way toooo long. As for long term MP3, i feel that i will be one,
but only listening to a song to see if i like it, if i do then i'll but the
CD :) other than that i personally really dont like the format that much. I
feel like when i come home and want my stero on, it's my stero that's on not
a computer playing a bunch of music that sounds worse than FM most of the
time. another thing if people complain 1 more time about not being able to
listen to a variety of music and wanting a whole jukebox at home i'm gonna
kill someone. I contend that it's that these people just dont have enough
cd's or do not have a descent cd changer, even a 20 cd changer will give you
enough music to last quite a long time, and with sony's 200 cd changer, if
you run out of music listening to that, then there is something wrong, these
people who have to have all thier cdr's filled with mp3's will never listen
to all these, they are just 3l33t little warez dorks.
sorry about that last little rant there.
Later
Matt
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