Don't people buy Portable CD players any more? I have one that can play MP3s
that have been burned onto a CD. I think you can even get them with built in
Memory, unless I dreamt that..... Would be a good idea if it hasn't already
been done.

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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Stimpy wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

In addition, sticking with MP3 allows the use of players other than
iTunes.

True, plus MP3 car stereos. But hopefully, over time, AAC will become
more widely supported. A lot of people even seem to think it's
Apple's own format, which it aint.

Really?? Blimey, I always assumed it was Apple's own format as well
- I live and learn! :-)


Nope, it started out as MPEG-2 "NBC" (non-backward compatible) and now
it's MPEG-4:

http://www.vialicensing.com/products.../standard.html

There's a good article about it he

http://www.telos-systems.com/techtal...er_2/AAC_3.PDF (3.6 MB)

or a briefer, less technical version of the article he

http://www.telos-systems.com/news/re...092601_aac.pdf


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Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

DAB sounds worse than FM, Freeview, digital satellite, cable and
broadband internet radio

The EggKing wrote:
Don't people buy Portable CD players any more?

I can't see the benefit of them anymore to be honest. If you listen to a
lot of music in the car or on the move, a digital player wins hands down
everytime

"Stimpy" wrote in message
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The EggKing wrote:
Don't people buy Portable CD players any more?

I can't see the benefit of them anymore to be honest. If you listen to a
lot of music in the car or on the move, a digital player wins hands down
everytime




Hmmmmmmm, maybe I'm just too lazy to dub it all across. I listen to so much
so frequently that there really is no point in going through my whole
collection. It's too daunting.

The EggKing wrote:

Don't people buy Portable CD players any more?

I can't see the benefit of them anymore to be honest. If you listen
to a lot of music in the car or on the move, a digital player wins
hands down everytime

Hmmmmmmm, maybe I'm just too lazy to dub it all across. I listen to
so much so frequently that there really is no point in going through
my whole collection. It's too daunting.

I thought that about 18 months ago but decided to give it a go as a few
friends had already done the job. It took me 14 months of work to rip the
whole lot across but it was definitely worth it. I now have a Dell server
with all my music at 320kbps which wirelessly streams random tracks around
the house 24/7. If I don't want to hear it, I just turn the volume down in
that room :-)

A useful side effect is I have a copy of the whole lot (240GB so far) on a
portable hard disk as an 'off site backup'. This lives at work - enabling
me (or anyone else on the office network) to listen to music at work as
well.

Finally, I load a constantly changing random selection of around 5000 tracks
onto an iPod for use in the car

The whole project has totally changed the way I listen to music!