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I was wondering if anyone has had some encounters (yes, of that sort) with any non-hard drive based players. I'm curious about them because battery life should be longer, should be more durable, possibly cheaper; draw back is of course storage space. Yeah yeah I've looked at reviews on line; just wanted some additional commentary. Or is everyone using ipod/iriver/iaudio/whateverthefuckles? I don't *think* 1 gig would leave me crapping, but having a partition on a portable player to boot some OS would be nice. ANYWAY |
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shit s/draw back/drawback/ |
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I've never considered installing an os like linux onto my ipod. It is a cool thought. |
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is the minidisc player I used to own. It is an asbsolutely incredible piece of gear. The unit also survived a year of intense use in Japan (About 4-6 hours of playtime a day). I must have dropped it (while on a bike) nearly 50 times onto the streets of Japan but it still keeps doin' its thang. |
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yo headphobes! I wouldn't actually run linux on it (or own an ipod, but anyway), but just have a linux partition which I could boot a PC off of. I get really irritable handling MDs, and the have lots of moving parts besides. Furthermore I don't have faith in this ATRAC shit, nor do I want to deal with converted my already lossy formats into it, nor will I probably be able to at all (since not using windows). Fuck. How much do you depend on the remote? I was thinking about getting one of for a bit, but damn I wouldn't want that remote around. It'll be cool when shit this side has a programmable firmware on it.. or rather EASILY programmable firmware, oh shit nevermind. What I'm saying is intelligent playlist which I wouldn't need a nice interface for. |
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That is better than an ipod because it can record. I never used the remote on my md player, and the remote/screen for that looks like shit noodles. |
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Fits most biceps! |
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i have a sony discman. i like it. |
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ha ha ha. They have a charcoal version too, I guess they wanted it to stand out. I think I'll try one at a store some day, I'm really curious how it handles (SHIT) without the remote (my opinion of it isn't as bad as yours, but I certainly don't want to carry it around!). I don't care much about the line in, though it may be handy sometimes. OGG is a must for me. What I'm wondering is why sony, who cares a lot about locking people into their products, hasn't made some hard drive player that can, for instance, connect to to your camera and download the images off of it. 40 gigs is a fucking shitload! Lots of good uses. |
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a cool invention that i'd like to see invented is a self-powered bluetooth hard drive. add that to a camera with bluetooth capabilities, throw the hard drive into a backpack, and you could be taking pictures forever. replace bluetooth camera with portable mp3 player and it'd be even nicer. then again, bluetooth's bandwidth sucks, but it /is/ low power. you could use some other wireless technology instead of bluetooth, though. |
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That's a good idea, some sort of personal data card, always with you and accessible from all devices.. It's also been mentioned a lot, so I'm curious why a company like sony with lots of different products hasn't jumped on that bandwagon yet. Note however that for the reasons in my initial post I think a hard drive would be an even worse match for this, and a ram or compact flash drive in a wifi (why bluetooth? wifi transmitters are getting TEENY) housing would be much better. but yeah, quibbleshits. |
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For anyone interested, I just blew a load of time poring over , and it wasn't pretty. Err, what I mean is that prices are high, battery life isn't as good as it should be, file transfer sometimes shitty (both interface and speed).. basically the competition frenzy is only just starting to reach these players. Fuck. Since they're more durable, I'm going to see if I can grab one cheap as shit off ebay. I honestly don't think the good ones are worth the money otherwise (and the cheap ones marinate penis). |
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PS It highly amuses me that they feel the need to combine words in 'micro hard drive', and 'hard drive' isn't joined, so they use 'microhard drive', totally fucking up the meaning. fuckers. |
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I'm going to try to get . It has ogg, can be accessed as a USB drive, has an alarm, can record, has a decent FM tuner, and seems to be comfortable to use. Drawbacks are price (holy fucking shit expensive!!) and the battery life isn't nearly what it should be (they have a new one, the g3, which has 50 hours!!!). I'll keep bumping this thread since there's so much interest. |
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iAUDIO U2 can create up to 1.2 trillion different sounds uhm. |
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FUCK, I didn't see that, now I can't buy it =( If anyone has first hand experience with this thing, comments would be much appreciated. I should add that in addition to the shorter-than-expected battery life, it also has a short gap between tracks (very very small apparently). It charges through USB but the whole point is I'll want to have lots of computer-off time and still be able to listen to music, so I'll get the ($9) charger. The device itself can be purchased for $211, though there will probably be a 100 gigabyte model out 14 seconds before I purchase this one, which I won't see until after I make the click, and then I really WILL fuck a cheese grater. |
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I've got a song mini disc player, and I'm pretty pleased with it. had it for 2 or 3 years now, usiing it almost everyday when walking to and from school/work/uni. Only problem is that some of the screws get loose a bit too easy, but it still works :) |
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; OLED, 40 hour battery, multiple formats (no ogg but hopefully forthcoming). I'm posting this below. It seems some tidbits have leaked regarding the speculated ipod flash, and the old rumors are possibly true--no fucking screen. ipods are pieces of shit and I hate how successful the hype is. The are the most exorbitantly priced and least featureful players on the market. Even if it has a screen I bet it will still suck dicks. |
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I love this thread. |
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if your'e buying the expensive-as-fuck, small-as-a-lighter, usb-charging this-sentence-has-a-misplaced-apostrophe player, ripoff deal thingey, you are i-n-s-a-n-e. |
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well not really but i'd get a very cheap thing because i break everything |
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I just ordered it; my dad offered to pay, which is how this thread got started in the first place. I felt like having an uncharacteristic splurge; I'm usually ridiculously calculated regarding cost efficiency. |
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I'm going to be very careful.. and what I mean by cost efficiency in my previous post is that most items are praced on an exponential sort of curve where at one extreme minor price difference incurs major quality change and the other has exorbitant price changes yielding minor quality improvement; anyway the point is to find the 'hump' which maximizes bang/buck. Usually pretty simple. BUT since I'm being funded on this, I feel like giving myself a treat. Hell the iaudio G3 is possibly a better purchase, I'm just following my dick on this one. |
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the time independent schrodinger equation is driving me insane. (hbar/2m)*(second derivative to x of phi) + U(x)phi = E*phi if yer dad's paying, ill shupup.. i exploit my parents money reserve wherever i can. |
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never seen it before. I like discrete math much more than 'engineering math' and its applications. I'll post some pictures when I get the U2; should come this week. The main point will be that I can now power off my computer more (since I use it as my audio player) and hopefully decrease internet time / increase productivity. It has a clock/alarm function, sweet.. and bookmarks to within tracks, so I can jump to the best shit instead of always fast-forwarding. instant boner. The ogg support was of course a must, so my decision came down to iaudio g3 vs. iaudio u2. |
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shit you called me on that one. I'll eat my words for the rest of my life.. |
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Alllllssssooooo I'd like to point out that it's a bad time for ram players; they're still young on their feet and the next year will bring ridiculous improvements (of course the ones after that too, but my point is that one year will be enough to solidify them and render them a good purchase). I would wait but with all the time I spend at school I am crapping for one. I think 1 gig is enough. |
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This is my live journal thread. Today a hot girl was excited to see me and I remembered neither her name nor her existence. I also clipped a toenail into a funky pattern which allows me to stab unwitting critters (humans). persian. |
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where did my motivation go? |
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I've lost mine too =( can't get anything done (or started!) at all. |
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i got a sony mp3 discman the 130 advertised battery life is if you use the internal batteries as well as the external battery case at the same time. lying fuckers. don't get one. also i cant fucking hear the thing. apparently there is some shit eu rule that has limited the volume on portable music players. my hearing isn't that good, so i can't fucking listen to my music properly. waste of money it was. |
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holy fucking shit. first thing: it's small--ridiculously small. Sound quality good, lots of playback features (easy to seek and loop). Carefully designed interface (buttons have different functions based on long or short presses, and all sorts of different shit in each screen). Recording, radio.. something none of the reviews mentioned--the playlist management is the shit. I can step through tracks by name or by order on the ram, or I can browse through it as a set of directories/folders (whatever structure you made when you copied them over, that's what you see!). It's really easy to browse through this and make a playlist.. that's right, it's a nice library/playlist split. I haven't tried the badass bookmark-within-song feature yet. holy fucking shit. Took no time to set up. I just plugged it in to the usb port (on a _linux_ machine), copied shit over (_ogg_ files), and am listening. fuck |
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wow, still got that lego model :) |
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what the fuck, someone posted in this thread? asshole. |
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I use my Creative 128mb religiously. I put the music I want to listen to on for the day and it lasts me no problem. |
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fuck I'm already panicking that a gig is too little =( |
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portable music players are the fedoras of the 21st century |
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