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Time for some more tech - mp3
May. 12th, 2005 08:41 pmI'm off on "holiday" to Elba with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geroge (well, a conference for me, holiday for George), weekend after next. What with all the bus travelling we'll be doing (Oxford->Gatwick, Pisa->Elba), I thought an mp3 player full of audio books would be a good thing to have. First step: get an mp3 player.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should look for? I don't really need a huge amount of memory (I'll have my laptop so can easily refill it), but would like something small. I'm no audiophile, so don't need high quality audio, even when I use it to listen to music. One feature is critical for listening to audio books: it must be able to easily fast-forward and rewind (I was flabbergasted when I tried out George's CD player and found you could only skip between tracks, so you couldn't rewind to hear what you missed while distracted by the pterodactyl that just zoomed past).
I also decided to go for something cheap and cheerful. Eventually I'll probably buy a PDA with mp3/camera/phone (maybe something like the Treo 650tinyjo has just got), since I'm mainly interested in the PDA functions, but it would be useful to have the others available when I need them. However I'm going to take my time deciding on that (maybe after drooling over Jo's - if she'll let me near it!), so need something in the meantime - and to see what features I like.
So far these two 256MB devices have caught my eye: Netac C620 (£40 from Amazon) SafeCom SMFD-256 (£34 from eBuyer). The former sounds better designed, the latter is cheaper and has a built-in radio (which might be nice for R4 when I'm in the UK).
geroge (well, a conference for me, holiday for George), weekend after next. What with all the bus travelling we'll be doing (Oxford->Gatwick, Pisa->Elba), I thought an mp3 player full of audio books would be a good thing to have. First step: get an mp3 player.Does anyone have any advice on what I should look for? I don't really need a huge amount of memory (I'll have my laptop so can easily refill it), but would like something small. I'm no audiophile, so don't need high quality audio, even when I use it to listen to music. One feature is critical for listening to audio books: it must be able to easily fast-forward and rewind (I was flabbergasted when I tried out George's CD player and found you could only skip between tracks, so you couldn't rewind to hear what you missed while distracted by the pterodactyl that just zoomed past).
I also decided to go for something cheap and cheerful. Eventually I'll probably buy a PDA with mp3/camera/phone (maybe something like the Treo 650
tinyjo has just got), since I'm mainly interested in the PDA functions, but it would be useful to have the others available when I need them. However I'm going to take my time deciding on that (maybe after drooling over Jo's - if she'll let me near it!), so need something in the meantime - and to see what features I like.So far these two 256MB devices have caught my eye: Netac C620 (£40 from Amazon) SafeCom SMFD-256 (£34 from eBuyer). The former sounds better designed, the latter is cheaper and has a built-in radio (which might be nice for R4 when I'm in the UK).
