Re: MP3 players
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:34:42PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> Ken Weingold wrote:
> >
> > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica.
> > It looks like a discman, but plays audio CDs as well as CDR/CDRW's
> > with MP3's, so your limit is 650 megs. Great search features, too.
> > And here's the kicker: it's $100. 50 second anti-shock - and it
> > works.
>
> Any idea on what the availability of these things are? As in, do you know
> what, if any, retail-type stores might carry these? Or are they mail-order
> only? I looked around on Genica's web site but found nothing on how to
> actually buy one.
Radio Shit has one advertised in their current catalog (supposedly 'RCA"
made, but who -really- makes it is another question -- even the old
'minimus11' speakers, the only decent thing R/S has ever made now are
supposedly made by RCA). Grab a CueCat while you're there for grins.
Availability is another question: the Radio Shit drone insisted they
had no such thing and MP3's wouldn't work on CD's because "they come
on chips!" or something.... when I pointed it out to him in the
catalog, he insisted they not only didn't have one, they wouldn't
carry it. Perhaps you won't have such a fool at your local Radio
Shit.
Should be able to get one at any decent or cheap stereo store, in other
words.
(Though I love my pjbox.... More expensive, but a LOT smaller: it fits
into my shirt pocket and I get 4G and ten hours worth of music out of
it... Now I just need to find out how hard it is to upgrade the
drive... :))
--
CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall:
#!/usr/bin/perl -n
printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack
'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;
Reply to: