tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post4889684998957570448..comments2023-07-11T04:42:54.056-07:00Comments on MonkeySpeak: Now my crappy music can go with me everywhere!Tom Lokovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16753426769149281003noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post-15663601600293853962002-07-29T09:09:31.000-07:002002-07-29T09:09:31.000-07:00Best Buy is currently offering a $40 mail in rebat...Best Buy is currently offering a $40 mail in rebate on the 20gb Archos player.<br>Mark VandeWetteringhttp://brainwagon.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post-59868573019871249052002-07-25T07:45:28.000-07:002002-07-25T07:45:28.000-07:00Oh, I forgot to mention the e.Digital players. I ...Oh, I forgot to mention the e.Digital players. I didn't give them much thought, since they look shoddy to me, though that's certainly a superficial judgement. They may be great, for all I know.<br>tdlhttp://www.monkeyspeak.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post-53534861153900875722002-07-25T07:40:15.000-07:002002-07-25T07:40:15.000-07:00> How did you decide on this particular player?...> How did you decide on this particular player?<br>Well, my first criterion was "big enough to hold all my music". Since I have about 14GB (not 12, as I previously thought) of music, only the most recent disk-based players fit that bill. I never paid attention to the memory based players, so I can't offer insight into them.<br>Among disk-based portables, the main contenders appear to be the iPod, the Creative Nomad, and the Archos Jukebox. (If anyone knows of other disk-based portables, let us know.) The iPod is sexy but expensive, and requires a Mac (though that's supposedly changing soon), so I never really considered it. I wouldn't be surprised if it's vastly better than the others, though.<br>The Nomad and the Archos seem comparable. The Nomad looks like it has a better on-unit interface, though I haven't used one myself, so I could be wrong. The Nomad is about the size of a CD player though, which makes it more unwieldy than the Archos (which is pretty hefty to start with).<br>As I mentioned in the article, Linux support is a big issue for me. Nomad support seems to be in progress, and might be usable for all I know, but I was sold on the Archos when I heard that it was supported natively in recent kernels (which means I didn't have to apply experimental patches and rebuild).<br>That about summarizes my shopping process. If anybody has more insight into the market, please feel free to make me feel bad about my purchase.<br>tdlhttp://www.monkeyspeak.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post-6802130473037809432002-07-25T07:04:31.000-07:002002-07-25T07:04:31.000-07:00How did you decide on this particular player?I hav...How did you decide on this particular player?<br>I have not really been thinking of getting an MP3 player - but I have looked at them and cannot image how I would decide which one I want if I did want one.<br>kjbeaulieunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post-22819607511263395612002-07-25T03:39:34.000-07:002002-07-25T03:39:34.000-07:00Hmmm. I set up a playlist containing every song f...Hmmm. I set up a playlist containing every song from every album I own--2622 tracks in all. This would be useful with "shuffle" play, which plays the tracks in random order.<br>But when I told it to play that list, it started reading the playlist (slowly!), and when it got to 999 songs, it stopped<br>reading the list and just started playing.<br>Can the player really only handle 1000 songs in a playlist?<br>While it's unlikely you'd ever sit through that many songs in one session (particularly on battery power), that limitation means a random "shuffle" of my music will never use anything past, say, "M" in the alphabet. That sucks!<br>Sure, I can generate smaller random playlists on the computer and transfer them over, but that's silly. I hate stupid arbitrary limitations. Grrrrr...<br>tdlhttp://www.monkeyspeak.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373365004388163061.post-54697588997771298242002-07-24T08:36:34.000-07:002002-07-24T08:36:34.000-07:00Cool! I'd been thinking about getting a CD pl...Cool! I'd been thinking about getting a CD player rather than the current ancient tape player for my car. I hadn't considered this as a snazzier option before, but it certainly seems to be... Guests can't easily bring their music into the car with them so you have total control over the selection, another bonus :-P<br>Noah Gibbshttp://www.angelbob.comnoreply@blogger.com