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What is Flash Based MP3 Player best for?
Since a flash based player is extremely light and portable,
it is ideally suited for active use such as jogging or exercising.
A flash based MP3 player is also completely skip free. Flash based
MP3 players are also popular for travelling, commuting and with
students as they will not weigh down your pocket and are normally
extremely stylish.
What is a Hard Drive MP3 Player?
Hard Drive MP3 Player: this form of MP3 player is becoming increasingly
popular. Often labelled as an “MP3 Jukebox”; a hard
drive MP3 player does have moving parts, but modern hard drive
players have a lot of skip protection to prevent jumps in playback.
Hard drive players have up to 60GB of storage space, which means
that they can store up to 15,000 songs. This type of MP3 player
is normally used to store your entire music collection. Hard Drive
MP3 players are typically larger, heavier and more bulky that
their flash counterparts. However, more expensive hard drive MP3
players such as the iRiver iHP-120 20GB Jukebox are actually fairly
lightweight and portable.
What is a Hard Drive MP3 Player best for?
Since hard drive based players are heavier, they are normally
used for listening to music at home or while travelling. This
type of MP3 player is ideally suited to be connected to your HIFI
or external speakers to form a high capacity music playback jukebox.
Hard drive players are also popular with people travelling for
long periods of time, where they do not have access to their music
collection to change files.
What is an MP3 CD Player?
MP3 CD Player: this form of MP3 player relies on the user having
a computer enabled with a CD Writer. You have to create or “burn”
a CD filled with MP3 files (since each MP3 file is around 4MB,
you can fit around 175 music files on an average CDR disk). This
form of MP3 player can also play normal audio CDs. The low price
of CDR/CDRW disks means that MP3 CD players are a very economical
form of music storage. They are however not as portable as a flash
based MP3 player.
What is an MP3 CD Player best for?
Since high end MP3 CD players such as the iRiver iMP-550 have
extremely advanced skip protection systems, and an extremely lightweight
construction, they can be used for active use as well as more
sedentary applications. MP3 CD players are an extremely versatile
form of MP3 player, but will not fit as easily in your pocket
due to the size limitations of the medium (a CD) that they use.
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