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Bought one to take to mexico with me, it's a Rio. bought it at price club, paid about $140.00 it has 128meg built right in, bought a 512 card to go with it I now have about 200 songs on there, also it is an FM Reciever as well, Great piece of work.
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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I just bought one last week as an early Christmas present to me. Mine is a Creative Labs Nomad Zen. Can store up to 40 gigs worth of music and measures 4" x 3" x 1"
I have the equivelent of 600 cd's in mine already. Over 6,000 songs with room for another 6,000 more. Thats a hell of a lot of music.
The price for mine was $225.00 I feel its one of the best tech toys I have ever purchased.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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We bought a CD player for the shop that also plays MP3's. I like it that I can play one CD for over 10 hours. Amazing. I have several that I haven't heard the ends of... Hahahahaha!
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"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Mom wanted to get me one of those for Christmas to use while I skate but headphones/earphones drive me up the wall.. nevermind the fact I don't have a single MP3 anyway.
I remember about 10 years ago, one of the guys I knew in college worked at Best Buy, and the Rio had JUST come out. It was the first MP3 player out there. I remember him saying "It won't be long before these units are so popular and inexpensive, the music industry will embrace licensed, legal online downloading of music or at least distribute their music on solid state memory cards."
Scary... we're almost there.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Mine has 256 mgs, not sure how much will fit in it yet, but it should keep me entertained for an average job...which, btw, I should have left for already......
Paid $99, and I get a $20 mail in rebate....I hope I got a good price.
Mike, MP.3s files download real fast if you have cable or DSL.....
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I'm hoping to join in the MP3 technology someday soon. I don't need music on the go very often, other then on my truck's CD, but I love technology, I enjoy music enough to want to take advantages of delivering my music to myself in new ways. I don't yet know how I'll take full advantage of it, but I expect it will quickly become worth whatever it costs.
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My son has an ipod - 40 gigs, it can connect to his pc, transmits a crystal clear fm signal, and best of all; he can download and view photos directly from his D100. It's a 5 oz. monster.
Guess what I want for Christmas?
-------------------- Steve Purcell Purcell Woodcarving & Signmaking Cape Cod, MA
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A, yeah I've never had the desire to download music. CD's are higher quality and it's an audible difference on the audio equipment in my truck, which is the only place I take music with me (like I said, I can't stand earphones).
Now, if I could plug an ipod into the dSLR camera I plan on getting, to download photos so I can clear out the memory during events, that would definitely come in handy. I could fill up a 1Gig flash card in no time when the photos are 10MB each so a 40 gig drive would be great for temporary storage. I'll definitely have to look into that.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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I "read" with mine. I am a member of audible.com, where I get 2 books a month for 19.95. The books can be 50 + hour epics like Atlas shrugged, which may cost 50 bucks or more all by itself.
Or, whatever...
I signed up for year, and by doing that got their "Otis" player, normally costs about 110 or so, for free. I save trips to the library, and also money on books I would have bought in either audible or printed versions.
The great thing about the Otis is it is so tiny I can carry it in my bra and the wire just runs to my ear, and while I work I don't have accidents of wires catching on c-clamps and stuff.
I also have an ipod I bought on e-bay, it holds lots of books and music.
Would not want to live without them if at all possible.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
signslimited@triad.rr.com Posts: 1244 | From: Winston-Salem, NC USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Like Myra I had an old Rio that I used with my subscription to Audible.com Only a handful of players are compatible with that format though, Ipod being one.
I like the new Rio Carbon for a hard drive based player. It looks much better than the Archos "brick" my wife uses.
-------------------- Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Posts: 2785 | From: Wyandotte, MI USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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i have the Muvo Nomad NX 128mb. i really enjoy it (woulda gotten more memory now, but as a good buy last year, i still would recommend one). it's very handy to load up tunes onto, offers about 3 CDs worth of mp3s or more if i'd use the WMA format, lightweight, and has good sound, even comes with an extra (different) colored case. i also use it as a quick file/data storage or transfer unit since it's really a plug-n-play hard drive. also has built-in voiuce recorder, but you don't wanna hear my singing
ps. StickaPimp, they do have external harddrives for D-SLRs (let us know what/when you get, the Canon is on my wish list too.)
-------------------- Scott Pagan Admark Graphic Systems Admark Motorsports Graphics 9700 Metromont Ind Blvd Charlotte, NC 28269 www.admarkgraphics.com Posts: 325 | From: Charlotte, NC | Registered: Nov 2001
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Myra, do you require a special bra to do that? Obviosly the machine is not affected by heat. How do you turn it off when a customer walks in or the phone rings? I think you might be onto something.
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Scott, I'll probably just load up on 1Gig CF cards. I did come across a unit called "FlashTrax" that comes in 20,40 and 80 gig versions but realistically, I can spend less on 3 or 4 CF cards, have storage for 500 images in RAW format (enough for 1 day worth of shooting an event) then pop the CF card into my laptop and dump 'em all there in less time than it takes for one of those portable units to do it - without worrying about batteries going dead... I'd still need a couple CF cards if I used a portable unit anyway because I can't wait for one card to empty out before taking more pics.
Since I shoot race events the CF cards will write much faster than the hard drives, otherwise they would be on my wish list too.
Gotta spring for the camera and an assortment of "L" glass first though.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Rick - since I read books with the little thing -I don't need great sound. So I use a one ear plug from Radio Shack that is also very small. When the phone rings I flip it out of the ear and let it dangle from my neckline.
Then, I get the player out of the (ordinary) bra and turn it off as I start to speak.
Customers in person just see the cord disappear in my neckline, and they rarely ask. I have become adept at retrieving it and turning it off without any problems. At my age nobody cares.
For you a shirt pocket would work. Shorten the cord to the ear plug. I know I'm on to something. I get lots of books read.
-------------------- Myra A. Grozinger Signs Limited Winston-Salem, NC
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I have a Creative Muvo´4GB mp3 which holds about 1000 tunes have it at work playing through the NAD amp and old Acoustic Research speakers, don't notice a big difference to Cd's in the workshop.
I also bought a connector for my car a dummy tape plugs into the headphone socket and it sounds really good, I think as good as the car CD's. The system in the car (Land Rover Discovery 2) is the standard 11 speaker Harmon Kardon, system in ES models.
So unless you are a real "audiophile"....blah blah..we have minidisc too and thats supposed to be better than mp3 but not quite as good as CD, I don't hear such a difference.....maybe I'm deaf from years of being to close to large PA systems in younger years!
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I have 1 that looks like a walkman and I use a y cable to connect it to my shop stereo and a boom box I take to job sites. You can burn about 150 mp3s on a cd and play them this way, but now I want something like the others are suggesting. I like the one Bob posted. I thought about putting an I POD on my Christmas list, but 40 gigs would be real cool. Must be pricey, huh?
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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YIKES You guys have a lot more bucks than me...
I was really stretching it to put out 80 bucks for mine...but it would be cool to have so much music, I love to have my own tunes while working, makes work so much lighter don't ya think?
Used my player this weekend working here in Sacramento... Only problem was, they had hired a DJ to play really load music out front where I was painting not only could I not hear my music, it was 'Toys for tots' Sunday and the deafening roar of Harleys going by constantly drowned out any chance of enjoying my tunes.
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It gets even better. Belkin puts out a wireless FM transmitter that you plug into the headphone jack of your player. Set your cars FM radio to 88.1 and your radio plays all your songs from your MP3 player. Belkin also makes one that has a cassette tape you plug into your radio but I like the wireless one. And the sound is really good, all digital. They had two models, one for $20 and one for $30. I went with the more expensive one. My speakers suck so now I'm going to have some good ones installed.
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Camille if you have windows media player you can rip the music from your CD's into your computer. From there you can copy them to your player. Windows Media Player uses a .WMA (windows media audio) format. The files are bigger but the sound quality is great. I dont know about your player but mine plays the .wma files perfectly.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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Camille, Bob's suggestion with Windows Media Player works fine as most players will play WMAs as well as MP3s. But to copy your music to your computer as MP3s try the free MusicMatch Jukebox. Those who have Macs can't play WMAs the last I knew. But Windows Media Player will play WMAs and MP3s, so you might as well copy your songs as MP3s. There are settings on the jukebox to get CD quality recordings. I use a bitrate of 192, and that sounds great.
MusicMatch also has internet radio and there are different levels you can purchase. Here's the site http://musicmatch.com/
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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Jane I bought mine online through ZipZoomFly.com 40 gig for $232 with shipping and you can get $20 back with the rebate. I can't be bothered filling out the stuff though.
-------------------- Bob Stephens Skywatch Signs Zephyrhills, FL
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you can also buy the mp3 add-on ($10.00 download fee) from Microsoft. i use windows media player to manage all my CDs converted to mp3 at 128 bitrate. the mp3 is a slightly larger fileover the newer formats, but it's also more accepted by older devices. wma (windows) and aac (apple ipod/itunes) is smaller than mp3 even at higher bitrates.
in windows media player go to Tools>Options>Copy Music and "Learn more about mp3 formats" to get the download instructions. the higher the bitrate (better sound) the larger the file, the less you can put on your portable devices.
-------------------- Scott Pagan Admark Graphic Systems Admark Motorsports Graphics 9700 Metromont Ind Blvd Charlotte, NC 28269 www.admarkgraphics.com Posts: 325 | From: Charlotte, NC | Registered: Nov 2001
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This encoder takes *.wav files and converts them to MP3`s
Good luck. -Rich
-------------------- Richard Bustamante Signs in the Pines www.signsinthepines.com Posts: 781 | From: Nevada City, California | Registered: Nov 1998
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I am planning on buying an iPod for myself for christmas. I can get the 20 gig through the local university for $269.00
Several of my friends have them and they all love them. They load their entire collectioni of CD's, store photos and data files. One friend is backing up his CD collection on an external hard drive and then putting them all on the iPod......selling off the un-needed CD's.
The ipods touch sensitive click wheel makes finding files or song lists easy. The device links up with Apples iTunes (Downloads available for PC and MAC), where you can buy songs for .99 (they have sold over a million downloads so far) or most albums for $9.99. Currently my itunes library has 2.7 gigs of music on my laptop...or 1.7 days of music.
There is also an FM transmitter available that you plug into your cars cig lighter and the iPod charges and broadcasts a signal through your car stereo. No more dragging a pile of CD's into each of my vehicles!!!
Apple has the whole system in place and I already download songs onto my laptop, so I'm going to take the easy route.
Can't wait to get this new toy....gotta have music.....must have!
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OK, from an old guy that has had a 40 gb iPod since they came out . . . first of all, most people only need a 20 gb player, 5000 songs are about all most people can find that they like. I'm an extensive collector and currently I maintain about 7800 in the library and probably 12000 in my storage HD.
The best manager Application is Apple's iTunes (free download @ Apple.com-PCs or Mac) It's so far superior to anything else out there it isn't funny, easier to use, easier to burn CD's and DVDs from, everything.
The optional stuff available for the iPod and a couple of it's clones are astounding, Monster makes an adapter for your car that plugs into your cig. lighter, and the other end into your iPod (or whatever), you select a FM channel on your car's Sound system thats the same as the deal on your adapter, Voila! . . TUNES! Great sound, it's all digital. You want tunes in your workplace, just go get a cheap set of computer speakers (or expensive ones if you want) plug 'em in to the top of yer iPod and again, Voila! Digital tunes!
They also have readers for electronic books, the new iPods have color capabilities, so photos can be stored and viewed, and the iPod has a calendar, clock, notepad and all the stuff that's compatable with Palm, so actually it's not only a music machine, but a personal companion if you would.
Incidentally, most of my music comes from a News source. As far as I know it's paid for, I pay for the service . . .
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mp4 (or MPEG-4) is still in the infancy stages. there are a few devices out using that technology. it's actually a sucessor to MPEG-2, meaning it will handle video as well as audio. i think the new Apple QuickTime version 6 supports it. others will adopt the format as it gains popularity and more content is distributed using mp4.
-------------------- Scott Pagan Admark Graphic Systems Admark Motorsports Graphics 9700 Metromont Ind Blvd Charlotte, NC 28269 www.admarkgraphics.com Posts: 325 | From: Charlotte, NC | Registered: Nov 2001
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