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Just a quick note on MP3-CD Players...
They are on the market right now.
I haven't put much research into them but they were selling them in Costco
for something like $150.
They had LCD Displays so you could see the filename and they also could
play standard audio cds.
At 06:02 AM 7/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
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>Michael Hoffman wrote:
>> Comments please? My initial take is that mini-CD players
>> will eclipse portable CD players, portable MP3 players,
>> portable cassette players, and portable MiniDisc players.
>
>I always thought that the main appeal of the MP3-CD players was that you
>could also play your standard audio CDs. The mini-CD players lose that
>ability; I think they're a step backwards. The 8cm CDs don't hold a
>whole lot, and for a small MP3 player they should use something like the
>500MB DataPlay. But regardless, I expect that that mini-CD players will
>quickly "eclipse" the solid-state MP3 players, unless the price of their
>memory drops WAY down. They won't disappear though, because athletes
>will still want them for their shock-proof-ness. I also predict that
>there will still be MP3-CD players that use the full-size CDs, for
>audio-CD compatibility, for people like me who want that. (The new CD-CA
>"MultiAudio" standard will help that along.
>http://www.osta.org/multiaudio/ ) And there will still be hard-drive
>players with their large though fixed capacity.
>
>Having mentioned MultiAudio, it occurs to me that this might be a good
>place to bring this up: I've been working on coding some libraries to
>help create discs using the MultiAudio spec. But the OSTA is going to
>make the verification tools available only to paying member
>corporations, so it's kind of a shot in the dark. (I plan to write a
>gripe about this for a friend's e-zine.) If any of y'all are interested
>in also working on the coding, or helping gripe to/about the OSTA, drop
>me an email. (Or maybe we'll start a MA-L, heh.)
>
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