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What players do you guys n gals have? (not computer based) I have a Rio Volt SP90 which is CD based, not memory. It has a good battery life, about 15 hours and you can fit more than 10 hours music on a CD I use it in my car too, plugged into the line-in of the stereo only £95 in Argos it plays WMAs too! |
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I have a Rio Volt as well, and an old Rio 500. I like both of these a lot - especially the 500 since it's so light and has a long battery life. |
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it's a shame that new mac one isn't pc compatible, it really looks the part. well overpriced too. doesn't play wma |
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Does anyone actually listen to wma? Lack of support wouldn't be a stopper for me. I believe there is a 3rd party product to allow a PC to connect to the iPod. |
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if i was going to add a cd to compilation cdrom i would use wma... a wma at the same bitrate as mp3 sounds better they are difficult to find on the internet though creative are meant to be making a new jukebox this year... |
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Rio Riot beats the iPod. |
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You think? |
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My mate has got a 6gb one, it's really heavy for some reason. Good though... |
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wma cuts off too much of the audio spectrum for my tastes. But if you can't hear the difference, don't pay the difference. |
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Ipod is pretty nice. |
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I'm lead to believe that my iPAQ will play them....but haven't tried yet. |
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I've got a crap 32mb LG one. I haven't used it in about a year as my MP3s are all 128kb/s = 30 min music :( |
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yeah capacity is the biggest drawback of solid state players it's strange how you can buy a 512MB DIMM but you can't buy MP£ players with that much memory it's not like a DIMM is huge either |
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Yeah, solid state is still really expensive, literally thousands of times more expensive than CDR media. |
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I've got a Philips EXP303 CDMP3 player.... Very nice...and pretty cheap (probably < 100 quid now)....it's so smooth to fit 10 or so near CD quality albums on there....I basically do one CD every 2 weeks that has all the tracks I know I'm gonna listed to....makes life so much easier.... Will tide me over til HD or mem based ones come down in price....those are def the phuture.... |
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And I always encode with LAME with the setting recomended at R3MIX.NET.... Those guys know their stuff and I get very smooth encodes done real quick....I don't think you can get better than LAME for encoding stuff...plud I like to have exllent copies for myself.... |
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i use the LAME dll from within Audiograbber, i've been pretty impressed with the results what are the recommended settings? |
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For recommended settings, But in summary: If you want to encode your mint copy of HAB2: --alt-preset insane For general use --alt-preset standard For portable devices with limited space --alt-preset 128 |
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Whale, where did you read that about WMA? I'm intereseted in what really is the best quality... What HiFi, a bristish hifi mag recently did a comparison of "psychoacoustic" compressed formats and they reckoned ATRAC (minidisc format) was best, then WMA then MP3 They compared a 128Kbit WMA to a 128Kbit MP3 |
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See for some recent listening tests of 128Kbit codecs. There is also another earlier test if you look on the main page of that site. I took part in these tests: I can actually hear some of the higher frequencies that wma can drop in softer passages of music. It just doesn't sound quite right to me in some cases. There's a nice of the different codecs at the site as well. Do you have the settings that HiFi magazine used? mp3 encoders vary wildly in quality so it's possible they used a poor one. |
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thats an interesting site, I'll have a good read... cheers Whale I'll also stay with LAME from now on Anyone tampered with MP3Pro? what are good encoders for that? |
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