Well I’m feeling unusually… Not lazy, so I might as well take advantage of this. Here be my theories on the Digital Music Players. Notice I didn’t write “MP3 Players” because amazingly, people, there are more Digital Music out there than just Mp3s.
Anway, here are the types of Digital Music Players there is.. There’s the Hard Drive Players – like the IPods it’s also called Digital Jukebox. There’s the Flash/SD/CF/CD/built in RAM players, which is the most common one you see. Finally, there’s the Mini Disc players…
Hmm, where to begin. Well basically, each of these types have their own pros and cons, but of course what I do here is not compare these pros and cons and come up with what I think is the best, and defend it like heck, just as I’m blasting the rest… Well maybe not the rest, but at least the ones I think are the most useless.
Let’s start with that. Hard Drive Players… USELESS. USELESS. USELESS. USELESS. USELESS. And again I say, USELESS. It’s as simple as this, WHO NEEDS 30 GIGABYTES OF MUSIC??? 30 GIGS! That’s how big my hard drive is. And even if it was bigger (when I didn’t have my hard drive and I was using my dad’s computer), I still didn’t have that much music. At my peak, I probably had 10 gigabytes of music on my computer.. 2 Gigabytes of Mp3, and the rest in WMA format (Windows Media Player), which I pumped up the quality, which meant each song was about 10-15 megs each… So yeah. Why? I mean, I love music and all, really I do… I would be a Music Major right now in Calgary if God hasn’t called me a different way… But if you have 30 gigs of music, and actually *listen* to all of it, then dang, you have problems.
Ok fine, I’ll admit, I own in excess of… 50 cds. And that’s just what I personally own, that doesn’t include some cds that my bro and my parents have that I listen to… But I don’t listen to them all.. In fact, some of those cds in there, I listen to maybe twice a month, if even that.
Comon, be honest to yourself. If you have that much songs, do you *really* listen to all of those? Yeh… Useless..
So what would be better? Right now, I personally have an MD player… Ok here’s the deal. MD players and the Flash players (Which by deffinition doesn’t go past 512 megabytes of memory space) are about the same. The difference is ofcourse, the MD has cartridges that you change, while the Flash players either have built in memory, or removable flash cards. This is the level of space that I would need… here’s the breakdown.
MD players can have up to 80 minutes of Music, which, multiplied by Sony’s MDLP technology, means that each disc can actually hold 320 minutes of music. This translates to about 70-90 songs, depending on how long the songs are, or 210-270 megabytes of memory space, again depending on how long the songs are. That’s *one* md, which is about 5 bucks each, or 3 if you buy it somewhere cheap.
Contrast that with MP3 players, which go from 64 (very rare now) right up to 512 megs (SUPER EXPENSIVE)… The average Mp3 Player would have 128 or 256 Megabytes.. This translates to about… 40-80 songs per mp3 player.. Unless you have extra memory cards, which go for 40 bucks for 64 megs, $50 for 128, $60 for 256… and I think… $150 for 512.. Don’t quote me on those prices, but those sound about right..
Now in terms of the units themselves, the lowest priced MD player $150 dollars. while the high end ones, can go up to $500 dollars. Size, weight and strenght of the MD player is affected by the price, but all of the md players have the same memory capacity. Comparing that to the Flash Players, which go from about 80 dollars for a 64 mb player, to about 250 dolalrs for a 256 mb player… (By the way, all these prices are in Canadian).