I want to torment myself for a bit by looking at electronics beyond my inability to afford them but first, I have to figure out what I want.
Despite my lovely portable CD player, I'm starting to see CD's as a bit of a limited media. They're bulky, fragile, and the associated equipment (said CD player) suffers the same problems. CD's have really become, in my mind, storage mediums. Great if you want a safe, long term format to keep music/data on but no longer really useful for day to day use.
So that leaves the two, small and portable options, Minidiscs and mp3 players. Minidiscs, from what I've seen, are popular over here in the UK and I am intrigued by them. Small, high quality, and the discs are cheap. You can carry several CD's worth of music in a pocket. Mp3's however, you can download easily off the Net or rip from a CD. So I'm not sure which one is better.
My ideal dream however is to get mp3's off of the Net, put them on minidisc for day to day use, and burn them to CD for safekeeping/use. Is this possible?
Despite my lovely portable CD player, I'm starting to see CD's as a bit of a limited media. They're bulky, fragile, and the associated equipment (said CD player) suffers the same problems. CD's have really become, in my mind, storage mediums. Great if you want a safe, long term format to keep music/data on but no longer really useful for day to day use.
So that leaves the two, small and portable options, Minidiscs and mp3 players. Minidiscs, from what I've seen, are popular over here in the UK and I am intrigued by them. Small, high quality, and the discs are cheap. You can carry several CD's worth of music in a pocket. Mp3's however, you can download easily off the Net or rip from a CD. So I'm not sure which one is better.
My ideal dream however is to get mp3's off of the Net, put them on minidisc for day to day use, and burn them to CD for safekeeping/use. Is this possible?
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