Advantages: Better value than many of the smaller mp3 players. Disadvantages: Doesn't play wma or ogg-vorbis files.
...CD player. I'd had an Alba personal stereo in the past, and for £19.99 from Argos (later reduced to £13.31 and almost certainly now out of stock) the PCD604 looked good value. It certainly has been - it's been filling my life with music for the last four months.
For the uninitiated, an mp3 CD player does exactly what it says on the box: as well as playing ordinary audio CDs, it plays mp3 files from a CD. This means you can cram lots of albums onto ... ...the mp3 files are, but we're talking a dozen or more. (For example, I recently burned 761 minutes worth of music onto a single 700MB disc at at the 'near-CD quality' rate of 128kbps; while at 48kbps - which I find adequate for audiobooks - I've managed to squeeze just over 30 hours onto one 650MB disc.)
The mp3 files can be on any ordinary recordable CD-R disc - even mixed data CDs work - it will find any mp3 files on the disc even inside nested ...
PJE_ 26.09.2005
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