The new AVC Soul Player II! is MP3 technology at its best! It is Awesome !!! With ID3 Tag Support -Displays Song title, Artist and Album in an advanced backlit LCD display. This player is the best quality in its class. Listen to your MP3 CD's and audio CD's in style! Up to 15 hours battery life and 120 seconds of anti-skip. EASILY navigate directory by folder name. $69 and includes a remote ! I travel with this on my motorcycle and the remote snaps in a convienient location. There are switches to lock buttons on the player so you can have the player stored in its carrying case which has a belt loop ... or store it in a backpack as it plays while you jog. The ultra-bass boost equalizer setting makes the small ear bud earphones sound fantastic. This is very slim and built better than any portable CD player I've ever seen. A complete car cassette adapter kit is reasonably priced at $8.75 and makes a great player even more fantastic. Have your entire CD collection available in your car on a couple of disks ! I encode my disks at CD quality 128 kbs and fit about 175-200 songs on each CD (13 hours of music on 80 min CD-R disks). Includes free Media Jukebox software... (but I found this more cumbersome than the Free Musicmatch software featured below... I'd recomend using Musicmatch to encode your CD's to MP3 and then any CD burning software you received with your burner to make your disks... [Adaptec, etc.] Place each artist or CD into a separate folder on your MP3 disk your burning. This player will advance to the next folder or advance 10 songs with one press of a button ! 30 day money back and 1 year warranty ! Click on photo to see features or to purchase.
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DVD and CD-R Burner $99.99 with software ! Plays and burns CD's and DVD's
Creative Labs NOMAD Jukebox MP3 Recorder Now In Stock! Another way
to take your entire music library wherever you go! The incredible 6GB NOMAD Jukebox
from Creative Labs is here! No bigger than a portable CD player, the NOMAD
Jukebox will store well over 100 hours of digital music on an internal 6 GB hard drive (I would't jog with this!) Lists $499.99. On sale $299.99 and refurbished available for $119 ! Comments:Pros:
6 GB of storage is massive--over 1,000 songs
Several methods for selecting playlist songs (artist, album, and genre)
Line-out for connecting to stereo systems, and line-in for recording
Cons:
Battery power is sucked up quickly
Prone to skipping/stalling when used in heavy activity
How would you like to listen to your CD's on your
computer, Organized by artists, CD, genre (music style) or any category you like ? What if you could take all your
vinyl records and place them onto your computer and then make them into
digital CDs that cost 79 cents each ? Or how would you like to make a CD
of your band without expensive recording equipment ? Or would you
like to send digital audio of your family singing to your online friends.
Or would you like to listen to some the thousands of radio stations and
programs from all over the world which send a digital signal to the internet
? How would you like to have your entire CD collection
in a digital walkman that you can connect to your cars stereo system via
a cassette adapter and leave all your CDs home. All of this is possible
by technologies which produce store and transmit digital audio signals.
MP3 (MPEG- layer 3 ) is a compressed digital audio format. [ An
example- I have 48 cds "ripped" (encoded) to MP3 files on my computer,
530 songs, 38 hours of music- the first MP3 CD I made ("burned") held 197
of these songs. All my music will fit on 3 cds.- If my original CDs get
damaged I can make replacements that are of equal CD audio digital quality].The
best way to learn more about MP3 is to download your own Musicmatch
jukebox and install to your computer. There is a free version.
The tutorial/help section is excellent and the web site has much information
as well. To download, click on the image below.
1.) A computer with a sound card, speakers, and an internet connection.
( You probably already have this).
2.) MP3 Jukebox software- Our favorite is MUSICMATCH ( A free
download- and an awesome program). You don't need anything more to get
started storing your CDs music to CD quality digital MP3 format on your
computer.
3.)CD-R/RW Drive(CD-recordable/rewritable). Every home computer should have a CD-R/RW drive installed in it. You create (burn) CD's on your computer ! You can make duplicates of your audio CD's that can be played on any CD player. Not only CD's of your favorite songs, but any data from your computer can be stored on CD-R or CD-RW disks which hold 650 MB each. Installation is easy and the cost is less than $200 (see below).
This will allow you to duplicate your current
audio CD's to CD-R disks WHICH CAN BE PLAYED IN ANY AUDIO CD PLAYER at
70 minutes of music per CD. Or store in MP3 format at 10 hours of music
per CD to be played in any computer or the newly released MP3/Audio CD
players featured here.
4.) (Optional)You can put your vinyl albums, cassettes or
voice to digital format. Adapter cable(s) are needed (cost<$10) to plug your stereo turntable, microphone or cassette deck into the computers sound card (aux or line
input jack).
Further information - MP3 Sound quality
Bit rate - Compression ratio- Sound Quality;
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8 kbps - 96:1 - Telephone quality (mono)
56-64 kbps - 26-24:1 - Similar to FM radio quality
96 kbps - 16:1 - Near-CD quality
112-128 kbps- 14-12:1 - CD quality
Encoding- Converting a CD or other sound source to the compressed smaller mp3 files. The amout of compression effects the quality of the sound and the space used on the hard drive, floppy or CD-R disk where the file is stored. When encoding you have a choice of bit rates. The Musicmatch free software download is fully functional and will encode up to 96kbs (kilo-bytes-per-second). Users who pay $29 to register are upgraded to be able to encode at 128 kbs. A single CD-R disk has 650 Mbytes of storage and will hold 10 hours of mp3 music encoded at a CD quality bit rate of 128 kbs. Twice as much music would fit if a FM radio quality bit rate of 64kbs was chosen.I cannot hear a difference between 64kbs and 128kbs encoding but choose to encode at 128kbs simply because with Musicmatch I can convert the mp3's back to CD audio disks for any CD player and want the highest quality. The MusicMatch Jukebox software will also allow Variable bit rate (VBR) encoding which some players here support. See the Musicmatch help files for details.
Look at these great prices for more memory !
Questions,(or if I can help you) email me.
Thank You,
Jim Corliss
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