Mp3 Players
As of late, there has been a new force arising in the music industry, this being Mp3. There has been an explosion of interest in Mp3 primarily thanks to the internet. People can easily download nearly any song they want for the price of a phone call. Mp3 (short for MPEG-1, Layer 3) is compressed digital audio. Songs can be 'Ripped' from a CD with ease. A typical .WAV (CD Audio) file would take up around 40 mb, whereas the compressed Mp3 version of the same song would take up a mere 4 mb. This is one of the reasons Mp3 is so popular. Until now Mp3 files have been confined to computers, which has been their major downfall, but over the last year the first generation of portable Mp3 players has arisen. These have been slow to take off in Australia but are experiencing huge sales internationally. One of the advantages in Mp3 players is that they have no moving parts, so there is none of the jumping or skipping found in CD players. Usually the player comes with a program designed to extract CD files, encode them to Mp3 then send them to the player. The Mp3 files are downloaded from the PC into the unit's memory. The type of memory is called Flash memory and the player typi
HardDisk players are a good initiative, but they have the problem of skipping, although not nearly as bad as the portable CD player. A 32 mb memory chip can only hold around 8 songs and when the cost of a larger chip is around two hundred dollars, this is a major downfall. Surprisingly Napster has a good chance of victory, which would cause uproar throughout the music industry. Of course there are the legal considerations. The future of Mp3 music is looking quite promising, although the outcome of the Napster case will prove important. Another form of Mp3 players are the new Mp3 CD players which play normal audio CDs and also CDs with Mp3 files on them. There will continue to be many developments in the field, and as popularity grows, so will the amount of attention major electronics companies give Mp3. In most countries (including Australia) copyright laws make downloading a copyrighted song from the Internet illegal, although it is legal to make Mp3 copies of you personal CD collection. The Creative Labs jukebox HD Mp3 player has 6 gig of memory that can hold on average 1500 songs and the possibility of a 12 gig upgrade. I feel that HardDisk players are the way to go. The internet will continue to be the major place of music swapping, no matter what happens in the Napster case. The units are generally small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and are very economical, running for up to 16 hours on the one AA battery. Napster allows PC to PC file sharing to take place over the Internet. The players are very robust, durable and reliable making them a good buy for an active person.
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