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scott
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response 50 of 65:
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Jan 6 05:58 UTC 2003 |
Dunno, but I can loan you a test CD with various tones at various frequencies.
It's the reason I didn't buy a Sony this time around.
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tpryan
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response 51 of 65:
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Jan 10 23:27 UTC 2003 |
I got the PSX100 RioVoit portable. The mostly silver with blue accents
one that plays CDs and MP3. If this is your model, maybe we can do a
side by side comparision to see if it is the unit or the model or maker.
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charcat
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response 52 of 65:
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Feb 3 09:36 UTC 2003 |
I recently bought a sony cd-mp3 walkman with g-protection and car kit
for around $100 and have been quite happy with it. No skips at all. It
is my 5th cd player and all the other skipped on gravel roads (first mp3
player). I just leave it on random play, better than radio and no
commercials.
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dbratman
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response 53 of 65:
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Feb 4 17:53 UTC 2003 |
My CD player with car kit has a skip-protection feature you can turn on
or off. When on, it loads ten seconds ahead into memory. When using
the player with batteries, as in sitting and listening when not in a
car, one can turn the feature off: you don't really need it, and it
eats up the batteries after 2 hours instead of 8.
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mcnally
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response 54 of 65:
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Feb 5 01:39 UTC 2003 |
Wow. I'm trying to figure out what about that feature could possibly
cause that much increased battery drain..
On newer hard-drive based music players like my iPod the memory buffer
is actually a battery savings feature. Of course it's a lit bigger --
32MB in the iPod's case, which is usually sufficient to allow it to
fill up the buffer and then put the hard drive to sleep for twenty
minutes or so.
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dbratman
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response 55 of 65:
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Feb 9 13:37 UTC 2003 |
Keeping an extra 10 seconds continuously loaded in memory, I suppose.
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mcnally
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response 56 of 65:
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Feb 9 15:02 UTC 2003 |
I don't see how 2 hours' worth of memory refresh could consume as much
battery power as running the motor, laser, and op-amp for another 6 hours.
That's what puzzles me..
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dbratman
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response 57 of 65:
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Feb 12 12:25 UTC 2003 |
I have no idea what activities consume how much power, so I am not
bothered by this. I have battery-operated devices that seem to run
forever, and others that run out of juice constantly. I have a little
voice tape recorder that runs faithfully on 2 AA batteries, and I have
flashlights that seem to die regularly on 3 or 4 D cells. I'd have
thought that keeping the tape running and recording my voice for hours,
together with rewinding, playback, etc., would take as much juice as
shining a tiny weak light occasionally, but apparently not.
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ball
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response 58 of 65:
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Sep 6 04:45 UTC 2006 |
Today I found myself window shopping for an MP3 player. I say "window
shopping" because it's a luxury item that I shouldn't buy at present
even though they're certainly more affordable than they used to be.
In the past I've thought about Proporta's MP3 player because I could
load up one or more multimedia cards (MMC) with MP3 files and it
should just play them...
http://www.proporta.com/F02/PPF02P05.php?t_id=1187&t_mode=des
...judging by the description it may even work directly with NetBSD.
Today though I've been looking at Sandisk's m2x0 series. The m250 (2
Gbytes) and m260 (4 Gbytes) both cost around 5 cents per megabyte,
which is about the same as blank MMC cards would cost me for the Pro-
porta. In effect I would be buying USB flash storage and getting a
free MP3 player with a backlit display.
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twenex
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response 59 of 65:
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Sep 6 13:15 UTC 2006 |
Stay away from Sandisk; they lock up, apparently, and when they do the company
is about as much use as chocolate fireguard.
Way to resurrect an old item, though ;-)
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nharmon
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response 60 of 65:
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Sep 6 15:49 UTC 2006 |
What is chocolate fireguard?
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twenex
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response 61 of 65:
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Sep 6 17:29 UTC 2006 |
Theoretically, a barrier put in front of a fireplace to protect
children and animals (especially) from a fire, but made of chocolate.
Therefore, in practice a metaphor for "a completely useless object
made to sound useful."
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naftee
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response 62 of 65:
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Sep 6 20:23 UTC 2006 |
chocolate face
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ball
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response 63 of 65:
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Sep 6 22:14 UTC 2006 |
Re #59: pants. I really quite fancied one of those.
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twenex
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response 64 of 65:
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Sep 6 22:33 UTC 2006 |
Sorry! But figure a moment's irritation is better than a stung wallet
;-)
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ball
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response 65 of 65:
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Sep 7 00:18 UTC 2006 |
Point.
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