Michael Hoffman wrote:
> Comments please? My initial take is that mini-CD players
> will eclipse portable CD players, portable MP3 players,
> portable cassette players, and portable MiniDisc players.
I always thought that the main appeal of the MP3-CD players was that you
could also play your standard audio CDs. The mini-CD players lose that
ability; I think they're a step backwards. The 8cm CDs don't hold a
whole lot, and for a small MP3 player they should use something like the
500MB DataPlay. But regardless, I expect that that mini-CD players will
quickly "eclipse" the solid-state MP3 players, unless the price of their
memory drops WAY down. They won't disappear though, because athletes
will still want them for their shock-proof-ness. I also predict that
there will still be MP3-CD players that use the full-size CDs, for
audio-CD compatibility, for people like me who want that. (The new CD-CA
"MultiAudio" standard will help that along.
http://www.osta.org/multiaudio/ ) And there will still be hard-drive
players with their large though fixed capacity.
Having mentioned MultiAudio, it occurs to me that this might be a good
place to bring this up: I've been working on coding some libraries to
help create discs using the MultiAudio spec. But the OSTA is going to
make the verification tools available only to paying member
corporations, so it's kind of a shot in the dark. (I plan to write a
gripe about this for a friend's e-zine.) If any of y'all are interested
in also working on the coding, or helping gripe to/about the OSTA, drop
me an email. (Or maybe we'll start a MA-L, heh.)
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