I have a few. I have only purchased Solid State (Flash RAM; no moving parts; starting with the Diamond Rio) players at retail price and bought one used Hard Disk (moving parts) based iPod from a friend.
Intent: To support only RAM, non-volitile RAM, Flash, etc. memory based portable devices with my monetary votes.
Unfortunately, only 4 to 8 Gig. The iPod Nano @ 4 Gig and I recently saw an 8 Gig USB drive so 8 Gig music players shouldn't be too far behind. So, they don't serve well as a go-to storage for all of your music as some of the larger iPods or hard disk based ones will (and even those can't support some people's ENTIRE music collection).
However, they are getting larger, and that's why those are the only ones I buy.
If you aren't away on a long trip then you can decide daily what you want on your 4 Gig'ish model. Supposedly, that's about 1000 songs. At 3 minutes a song, that's about a work week's worth of music -- continuous listening for 50 hours. The time of transfer to the device from your local storage is negligible to that total listening time. If you do a lot of trips like that, then you probably do need the larger storage device.
Anyhow, I just change *some* of my listening choices (music, podcasts, etc) some time during the week and I'm good.
that was my intent, back in the day when i had a rio diamond with a whopping 256 MB in it. flash memory has yet to keep up with the size of my portable music collection.
we also had a sony beta video casette recorder when i was young, and although we voted with our dollars with it and it was a more expensive and superior technology, you know how that one ended.
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Date: 2006-02-07 08:00 pm (UTC)Intent: To support only RAM, non-volitile RAM, Flash, etc. memory based portable devices with my monetary votes.
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Date: 2006-02-07 08:28 pm (UTC)However, they are getting larger, and that's why those are the only ones I buy.
If you aren't away on a long trip then you can decide daily what you want on your 4 Gig'ish model. Supposedly, that's about 1000 songs. At 3 minutes a song, that's about a work week's worth of music -- continuous listening for 50 hours. The time of transfer to the device from your local storage is negligible to that total listening time. If you do a lot of trips like that, then you probably do need the larger storage device.
Anyhow, I just change *some* of my listening choices (music, podcasts, etc) some time during the week and I'm good.
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Date: 2006-02-08 02:42 am (UTC)we also had a sony beta video casette recorder when i was young, and although we voted with our dollars with it and it was a more expensive and superior technology, you know how that one ended.
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