Mini Disc vs MP3 player

[Guest redbaron51]

for someone who doesn't really know the benefits for each one, can some one explain them to save a customer to look for one of those. Basically I want to have lots of music in with great quality for a good price.

[Guest El Satanico]

mp3 players are better without a doubt. As long as you buy a good one that has a large hard drive there's no comparison price wise.

 

If you're getting a MP3 player get the biggest hard drive size you can find. I've got a 6gb player and i have roughly 1200 songs on it.

 

I'm referring to portable mp3 players. I don't have a car or home mp3 player so can't comment on those

[Guest razazteca]

I have a Philips MP3 CD player it works good for me I can put 160 MP3 songs on one blank CD

 

Diamond Rio makes a similar CD MP3 Player that can play WMA files.

 

But beware as not to get tricked into buying the player that uses the small CDs which cost more.

[Guest Razor Roman]

I agree with the MP3 player theory.

 

I have an RCA Lyra2 player, and it came with a car kit (like the kind that you can use to hook a cd player up to your tape deck) but my stereo has a line in on the front of it anyway.

 

It was much cheaper than like those 6 gig ones, because it came with only 64 mb of ram, but it uses Compact Flash memory, like digital cameras, and I picked up a few other ones, and have different types of songs on each; one for the gym, one for the car, etc. When the 1 gig compact flash chips get cheap.. boo ya!

[Guest razazteca]

CDs is a cheaper media than Flash Memory + it plays more music

[Guest EricMM]

AFAIK CD-MP3 players are better because they are uber cheap.

 

Then Minidiscs are cheaper per song than mp3 players in the long run and they DO NOT skip and they're pretty durable

 

good big Mp3 players are great but expensive

[Guest red_file]

I prefer my MD player to my mp3 player, but I would probably recommend a good mp3 player (can't beat that iPod) if someone asked, which you did. I like the MD player because it's basically a CD player, but I can change around the songs on the MD if I don't like the order of them. This works for me because I very much like refining play lists until I get them exactly as I want them, and then keeping the perfect playlist for later use. The same can be done on an mp3 player, but usually you have to use a computer to do it.

 

Also, my MD player is the size of a pack of cigarettes, and it runs on one (1) AA battery for around ten hours. Most hard drive based mp3 players use a lithium battery which takes a while to charge and lasts only a few hours (my mp3 player, which was made by a company that didn't survive the dot.com meltdowm, had a battery that lasted an hour and a half).

 

Also you have to question audio quality. The compression algorithms for mp3 and ATRAC3 distort the audio quality in different ways. Mp3s sometimes make audio sound tinny; and I'm told MDs cause distortion, but I can't hear it. If you don't have a problem with the audio of mp3s, or if you're not an audiophile, an mp3 player might be the right choice.

 

Again, I love my MD player, and it works in the ways I want it to. But a good mp3 player will allow you to put more music on it, with comparable quality, and will probably be cheaper in the long run.

[Guest razazteca]

if you are concerned about sound distortion then get a player that can use the OGG or Monkeys Audio format since they are considered the best format for music.

 

my MP3-CD player can last about 8 hours on 2 AA batteries.

 

don't like the playlist just burn another CD, the cost of a single blank CD can cost below a dollar or if you buy spindles about $0.25