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RE: Help Needed buying a pen drive/mp3 player...Does Size Matter? ;)

My birthdday`s coming soon too but tho I`d like an iPod I can`t justify the cost...

I have been playing around wth MP3s for several years which I play on my PCs and various other machines...

I bought a couple of items off EBay in this regard. Delivery etc was fine... watch out for the heavy P&P and various other costs.

I bought a neat 128 kb player and it worked fine for a while then it started playing up... the little switches were `going off`. I kept it tho but now have lost it coz it was so small!

Second toy was a CD player - great fun since it also plays VCDs. This kept playing up too... worst thing about it was accessing the songs... when you have 200 MP3s on a CDR it can take ages to find that song you like. I have since got a Sony CDR player and that is better all round but still has the access problem.

Another toy I have is a Philips CD player portable music centre thingy... has a radio too... speakers etc. This sounds great but again accessing tracks is a pain but worst of all it lacks a headphone socket!

So, you might wonder what I am using now... a Panasonic MiniDisc player!

This was another EBay purchase and is one of the best things I have ever bought! Still has the access problem but you can record off the net - streamed audio etc. - record player, radio etc. Then plug it back into the PC to make MP3s.... lots of fun.

Conversely for around the house I set up a playlist on the PC and plug in the wireless headphones...

As a final thought I wonder how many people have a big enough legitimate MP3 collection to fill an iPod? IMHO the only advantage these HD machines have is being able to scroll through to locate your fave track.

Think ahead too and look at portable video as per the Archos range... in some respects music only iPods are already obsolescent.

My advice would be to get the cheapest portable you can find and try it out to see what features you really must have and those which are wasted.

Roy

DVD writing problem with Liteon 5005

I have had my machine for 6 months and for the most part have been impressed and satisfied with it.
But since the turn of the year (coincidence?) I have been plagued by a DVD writing problem with my Liteon 5005.
It is happy with VCDs but the TDK DVD+Rs I had been using fine up to now are not being accepted.
I have switched it off, unplugged it even... all to no avail.
I have no bought some new blanks to try it out....
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Roy