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Portable Digital MP3 Players
and CD Players
Today's
sophisticated music enthusiast demands quality digital audio players at affordable
prices. Audio players that enhance music listening with less hustle, no moving
parts, purely digital! Products which are of the highest quality, yet value
priced.
Technology
Evaluation/Review Paper
April 16, 2001
The
first portable MP3 player, the Rio, was designed by Korean engineer Hwang
Jung Ha and came out in 1998 (Yoon, 2000.)MP3's became a popular format due to their ability to serve as
compressed audio files without noticeable audible difference to the
average listener.Online music
swapping services, such as Napster, also contributed to the file format's
popularity and fueled the demand for portable MP3 playing devices which
enabled listeners to "free" the music from their PC's.Over 3 million portable mp3 players were sold in 2000, with
estimates of 26 million to be sold by 2005 (Healey, 2001.)The process of finding/creating MP3 files and transferring them to
a portable MP3 player is considerably more involved than placing a CD in a
portable CD player, which may affect the growth of these devices with
consumers.
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Most
portable MP3 players use built in flash memory cards as a storage medium
and many allow for expansion.The
majority come with at least 32 MB of storage (about one-half hour of
music,) although the standard appears to be 64 MB.Each time a new set of songs is uploaded to the player from a PC,
the previous set of songs is overwritten.Due
to the cost of this memory (approx. $1/megabyte) some manufacturers
are trying different methods.Some
uses an actual hard drive for storage, which offers a much larger
capacity: 6 gigabytes (100 hours of music.)
In
order for the listener to use a portable player, music must be uploaded to
it from a PC.Although some players
use a parallel connection, the most popular and much faster connection is
USB.Before purchasing a portable
MP3 player that uses USB, you should make sure your PC has USB ports and
that your operating system supports USB.Most
newer PC's have USB ports and Windows 98 contains USB support.You can install a USB card in an older system if you are
comfortable adding expansion cards to a motherboard.
Some
MP3 players are actually CD players with the capability of reading MP3
encoding.One CD of MP3's can hold
up to 10 hours of music (an MP3 file is typically one-tenth the size of a
normal CD audio file).
and CD Players
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the latest products from jazPiper that bring you to new world of MP3 music
and multimedia. JazPiper MP3 players are technologically advanced, with unique features, cool functions,
sleek looks.