[email protected] (Floating Mind) wrote in @storefull-3118.bay.webtv.net:
As far as the WebTV vs. PC goes, well, I have 2 computers. One with
'98, and the other with XP. I use them quite a bit for digital
photography, storing & transferring audio to my MP3 players, and my
other internet activities, but the WebTV is a better tool for these
discussion groups.
I have 3 but have pretty much retired the old Win98SE machine only
accessing it on an old LCD display I watched way too long when I'm
looking for something old...(c;
MP3 players - Digital Mind Xclef 500 had 100GB drive, not upgraded to
120GB. The player has is NOT the one RIAA wanted you to have. Computers
just treat everything on it as an external hard drive, no DCA funny
business. Click and drag 800 MP3 files to it and it play them, even if
they only have filename.MP3. Has FM Radio, woowoo!, but no commercial
killer making it useless. Has direct-to-MP3 (your choice of speeds)
audio recorder with virtually unlimited record time because of its
massive hard drives. Runs 22 hours on a charge. Recharges in about 1.8
hours from dead.
www.digmind.com. Available in no drive, 20G, 40G, 80G,
100G, but some configurations unavailable most of the time. They can't
keep up with demand. Standard 2.5" notebook drives, standard Li-Ion
battery packs, no proprietary crap like the RIAAiPod has...Nice leather
case standard...
Old one is a 20GB Archos Studio 20, also funny business free, that's been
run so hard the pain all wore off exposing the aluminum case under it.
It must have 30,000 hard hours on it banging around in my truck. V 1.0
failed hard drive, Archos gave me this one, complete with new
accessories, about 4 years ago with a VERY rugged Toshiba drive in it.
Firmware in it is from a great bunch of hackers known as Rockbox, which
is much better than factory w/lots more features/functions/controls.
http://www.rockbox.org/ I haven't upgraded Rockbox in years and I see
they got tons of new stuff for it. It's a simple, rugged
MP3/wav/FLAC/wma player with a little LCD screen. I replaced the
original 750ma Ni-MH AA cells in it (4) with 2300ma Ni-MH cells. It
plays LOTS longer than you can stand to listen to it, now! Charging
takes forever on huge cells, but it's got all night..(c;
I also have a 400GB external Maxtor USB drive that plugs into the Gateway
AMD Turion 64 notebook, which drives a port on my DJ soundboard into a
QSC 1450W amp and 4 huge speaker boxes, 2 12", 2 15" bass horns.
I've collected near 22,000,000 MP3 files from Edison's first cylinder to
DJ music I see no point in. If you'd like to catalog your MP3
collection, the finest MP3 (only) catalog program on the planet is from
Russia, MP3 Catalog Pro.
http://www.wizetech.com/amc/
It will automatically catalog every MP3 file, extracting all fields from
the MP3 ID3 data tags into an extremely fast database as fast as your
hard drive can access them, an incredible feat. Once it has created its
catalog, you can search for any field or filename, say searching for
"Jimmy Buffett" songs over 4,000,000 songs on 6 hard drives. It will
display a neatly listed file of Jimmy's music you have across the whole
system in less than a second! Click and drag one or more or all the
songs to any MP3 player, like Winamp's playlist and let Winamp play them
in the sequence you want. If your collection is on CDR or DVDr, no
problem. Feed the catalogger each disk and let it strip the songs on the
disk. Name the disk, yourself, or just let the program feed you a disk
ID number so you can mount it from your disk filing cabinet when it needs
to play a song. The catalog now contains every MP3 stored on optical
discs (or even floppy disks), labeled for callup and mounting. If the
file you want to play isn't on hard drives or in a CDrom drive, the
program asks you to mount disk 18372 and click OK. It then selects and
feeds the song to your MP3 player program. Most efficient catalog
program on the planet...the pro DJs use it. $30, lifetime upgrades and
support.
I'm one of those MP3 collectors you mother warned you about...(c;
