Hi Gary,
Can't help you with your love life, but I really appreciate the input about Rio.
MD has been around for about 8 years now. Although I'm the only person in the MD
world that finds the quality of Sony's MZ-1 acceptable, in 8 years MD
manufactures have not sat on their hands.
By the time that they got to ATRAC 3.4 or 4, they had it down pretty well.
Aside from the no moving parts issue, I find no advantage to solid state storage
if it still involves compression. ATRAC and magneto/optical digital storage have
proven themselves.
And 74 or 80 minutes of storage on an MD costs a lot less then using "solid
state".
If you don't want compression, get a CD Writer. But if you are looking for a
more "perfect media, I say MD wins. I have never had an MD (disc) that would no
longer work because it was scratched. I have a load of CD that are useless.
Just my 2 cents.
Larry
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> That's the mp3 player, not the country singer. I don't know what came over
> me, but I went out and bought a Rio player at Comp USA today. Well, I do
> know what came over me, and if you must know, I subconsciously thought that a
> new gadget would soothe the problems in my love life. Anywho, I was not very
> impressed. I bought the thing because it is the only player out there that
> uses Smartmedia flash cards instead of the more popular compact flash. I
> already had a couple of these cards on hand for my digital camera. The card
> needed to be formatted to be used in the Rio, so I formatted. I tried to put
> several tracks from the free internet-only album by the greatest band on
> earth, Self (www.dreamworksrecords.com/self). However, little Mr. Rio told
> me that the files were "first generation copies" and could not be placed on
> the player. Rubbish, I say! The tracks were meant to be freely
> distributed!! When I finally got a different track recorded, I was also none
> too impressed with the sound. And the volume was absolutley pitiful. I'm
> returning the Rio tommorrow (grumbling all the way about CompUSA's 15% open
> box charge). But you wanna know the best part? The $99 Smartmedia card I
> formatted is now pemanently unusable in anything other than a Rio player, a
> fact that the instructions failed to mention. Wonderful, n'est-ce pas? I
> sent a letter to Diamond tech support and am eagerly awaiting to see what
> there reply will be. If the words "new smartmedia card" are not included, I
> am going to be ROYALLY pissed off. The moral of this story? Stick to
> minidisc, and bash Diamond execs with sticks if you ever see them.
>
> Gary
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