[at-l] MP3's etc.

[wb4pan at mindspring.com (Chase Davidson)]

George,
	I have been enjoying a Sony mini disk player. The player weighs 6 oz 
complete with battery, a mini disk and earphones. They cost about $85. 
One AA battery runs the player for 50 hours. Mini disks are $2. each. 
They weigh .6 oz each and will hold 5 hours of music at 64kbs. AT CD 
quality they hold 2.5 hours music. I only use the CD quality for 
Holosync meditation. They can be recorded over and over again.  Note: 
you have music quality options with most mp3 players also. When they 
advertise how long the players will play it is usually at quality 
lower than CD quality. I understand Sony has a new mini disk model for 
twice the money that will record 3 or 4 times the music on a single disk!
	If cost didn't matter.  I would buy buy one of the lighter memory 
type players and lots of memory.
	I met one thru hiker that had a memory type player. He sent extra 
CD's and a CD player in his bump box. While in town this particular 
player allowed him to change music.

chase

Bradley M. Bishop wrote:
> I haven't used this specific MP3 player, but have used several. They are pretty awesome little inventions. Basically, you can load CDs converted to MP3 files or downloaded MP3 files onto the player for nice digital music anywhere you like. The FM tuner addition is a nice option. 1Gb would be a good size. Should hold several CDs worth of songs. Mine (Phillips/Nike model that straps on my arm for jogging) is either 128Mb or 256Mb and holds 30-something songs. My wife has a 15Gb iPod which is very nice. Holds many, many songs but is pretty heavy...
>  
> BB
> 
> "George (Tin Man) Andrews" <gwa@antigravitygear.com> wrote:
> I apologize in advance for this not being political in nature. Does anyone 
> have any experience with a SANDISK SDMX1-1024 1 GB MP3 player
> w/FM tuner? The weight is 1 ounce and it uses 1 AAA battery and will hold
> about 15 hours worth of MP3's. I don't really know what most of that means
> but would like some occasional tunes and news/weather on the trail and 
> besides, Santa told me to ask.
> Thanks,
> Tin Man
> 
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