[Arny Krueger]

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But I'm open to suggestions from anyone with non-iPods.
They just more easily integrate into my workflow and
computerflow. They (mp3 players in general) are such a
boon for work to listen to music I'm working on during my
commute to make decisions on that saves me the time of
doing it at the studio when I could be tweaking
(naturally I'm not talking about sound or mix decisions).


I'm just soured on teeny hard drives.

Lately, the size/price ratio of flash-based memory seems to be improving a
lot faster than the "doubles performance every 2-3 years" that has been the
historical rule.

One consequence is that hard drives have lost a lot of the economic
advantages that made us want to tolerate them.

In fact, if my
Zoom H2 didn't make such a wonky mp3 player (great $200
recorder, though) I'd just fill up extra SD cards and use
that.

Ditto for the Microtrack 2496.

The playback library features of this class of devices is near non-existent.
It's all just firmware.

My NJB3 was reasonably-priced, a credible line-input recorder and had
decent playback library features as well. Nobody seems to want to run with
that concept any more. :-(