Re: OT - Music on the Road
So far, I've found a good quality set of headphones more satisfactory than speakers suitable for travel. Friend has devise that allows use of more than one set of headsets while maintaining impedance match for player -- forget the brand. Just my experience. In my opinion, IPOD and the like are great travel/walking/outdoor event companions. Otis Wright Shel Belinkoff wrote: Hi Gang Call me slow, but I just discovered how easy it is to copy CD's to the hard drive using the Win Media Player. It's pretty much all automatic, and it astounds me how much info is on the disk. This opens the door to copying music to some sort of portable device for use in the car and while travelling. What sorts of devices, apart from an iPod, can be used for this purpose? Does MP3 or MP4 (that's the format, right?) sound pretty good compared to a home system or a good sound system on the computer? What do you do for speakers on the road? Thanks for any help or suggestions. Shel Belinkoff
Re: OT - Music on the Road
Alle 10:10, venerdì 28 maggio 2004, Dan Zaharevitz ha scritto: > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > Hi Gang > > > > Call me slow, but I just discovered how easy it is to copy CD's to the > > hard drive using the Win Media Player. It's pretty much all automatic, > > and it astounds me how much info is on the disk. This opens the door to > > copying music to some sort of portable device for use in the car and > > while travelling. > And you have never seen (yet) the Konqueror audiocd:/ plugin... ah... those windows users ;) Danilo.
Re: OT - Music on the Road
Neither of our vehicles has a CD player, but I play my CD's using a portable CD player and an adapter for the cassette player in both vehicles. Bill > > Hi Gang > > > > Call me slow, but I just discovered how easy it is to copy CD's to the hard > > drive using the Win Media Player. It's pretty much all automatic, and it > > astounds me how much info is on the disk. This opens the door to copying > > music to some sort of portable device for use in the car and while > > travelling. What sorts of devices, apart from an iPod, can be used for > > this purpose? Does MP3 or MP4 (that's the format, right?) sound pretty > > good compared to a home system or a good sound system on the computer? > > What do you do for speakers on the road? > > > > Thanks for any help or suggestions. > > > > > > Shel Belinkoff > > > > > > > > -- > graywolf > http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html > > >
Re: OT - Music on the Road
I am currently copying many of my small collection of CD's to MP3. In my case I am doing it because it is much cheaper to do that than to buy a CD changer. Basically I find I can get about 7 CD's onto one MP3 encoded CD that I play in the DVD deck. I will someday replace the stereo in the truck with one that will play MP3 CD's as well. You can get a portable MP3 capable CD player at Wal-Mart for under $30 as well, a cheap alternative for an expensive (but smaller) MP3 player. 7-8 hours of music without having to change CD's. It works for me... -- Shel Belinkoff wrote: Hi Gang Call me slow, but I just discovered how easy it is to copy CD's to the hard drive using the Win Media Player. It's pretty much all automatic, and it astounds me how much info is on the disk. This opens the door to copying music to some sort of portable device for use in the car and while travelling. What sorts of devices, apart from an iPod, can be used for this purpose? Does MP3 or MP4 (that's the format, right?) sound pretty good compared to a home system or a good sound system on the computer? What do you do for speakers on the road? Thanks for any help or suggestions. Shel Belinkoff -- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
Re: OT - Music on the Road
Shel Belinkoff wrote: Hi Gang Call me slow, but I just discovered how easy it is to copy CD's to the hard drive using the Win Media Player. It's pretty much all automatic, and it astounds me how much info is on the disk. This opens the door to copying music to some sort of portable device for use in the car and while travelling. I've found that it can open up even more than that. It allows you to manage all your music on the computer. I copy the CD and store it away, no need for racks and racks of CDs to be accessible. With a home network (wireless network that you can set up for $150 or less), you can stream the music to your stereo system and even control what is playing via a web interface. What sorts of devices, apart from an iPod, can be used for this purpose? Amazon.com and all the other usual places have big lists under MP3 and Digital Media Players. They range from tiny things with under 32MB and cost less than $100 to "jukeboxes" with 40GB or more costing over $500. I have a 20 GB Rio Karma which I've put about 275 CDs on and I've been very happy with it. Does MP3 or MP4 (that's the format, right?) sound pretty good compared to a home system or a good sound system on the computer? That is the subject of flame wars that combine the worst of both audio and computer flame wars! As someone else mentioned, there a lots of choices, both in the method of compression and the extent of compression. The "standard" MP3 is 128 Kb/sec which results in about a factor of 10-15 space savings. I think most people can hear a difference between music compressed at this level and the uncompressed version if played side by side, but a good many people don't consider the difference to be particularly significant. If you are more picky you can compress less but of course your space savings goes down. It seems a fair number of people that are relatively picky about sound can live with compression at the level of 192-256 Kb/sec. DanZ -- * Dan Zaharevitz * Camp Springs, MD * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - Music on the Road
On May 28, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: This opens the door to copying music to some sort of portable device for use in the car and while travelling. What sorts of devices, apart from an iPod, can be used for this purpose? There are loads and loads of portable mp3 players around. You can get accessories for some players which can transmit the music via a short-range FM signal to your existing car radio (no good for me as mine's AM only!). Does MP3 or MP4 (that's the format, right?) sound pretty good compared to a home system or a good sound system on the computer? Its alright... it depends on what you call "pretty good" ;) When creating the mp3 file you can specify a bitrate - 128kbit/second is pretty much standard, and that should be just fine for most listening. If you're fussy like me you can go for a higher bitrate but you'll fit less music in a given space. And you'd need a quiet environment to tell the difference (ie not a car!). There is also a variable bitrate option where the bit rate continuously changes depending on the complexity of the music. This means you preserve extra detail when necessary but without increasing the file size in parts where the extra data isn't needed. BTW you may also be interested to know that many new car CD players can play mp3 files off a CD-R. As for me, I'm waiting for July when the iPod mini is released here. Then I'll be able to make up my mind whether to buy the mini or the standard iPod. And which colour to get :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
