FatKat wrote:
Dred wrote:

why would you buy a cd/mp3 player? choose one or the other. personally,
if you have a computer i can't imagine why you would want a cd player
unless you like carrying around the extra weight.


I think he means a CD player that plays mp3-encoded disks. I have a
Panasonic - a cheap one. The point is that it will play music off a CD
holding about 700 mb of MP3 music for less than the price of a 512mb
player. You don't have to reload music - just swap burnt CD-R's which
you'd probably burn anyway even if you had an iPod, since you'd want to
archive your music. As for weight...the other day I stumbled on my
first CD player, a circa 1987 monster which ran on 4 AA batteries. Now
that was extra weight. Ofcourse there's still the problem that on (at
least some) CD players, you won't get ID tags, you won't be able to
skip w/i MP3 files, and you can only play your files in order rather
than suffle between them as you probably could on a flash player.
Personally, it's a small price to pay for paying the smaller price for
one of those players.


Really? I've owned an MpTrip, a RioVolt SP250 and a Sony D-NE720. Only
the ancient MpTrip lacks ID3 support. All of the three allow you to
fast-forward and rewind through MP3's. And again all three have a
Shuffle function.

Then again, these are more "high-end" than your Pana. I won't bother
mentioning the price of the MpTrip or the RioVolt, since they were more
expensive then than they would be now... but the Sony costs about
$135usd I think.

- NRen2k5