Mini Disk: How good is it really?

[ProFingerSk8er]

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Originally posted by Christianiconone I had the Sony Minidisc player-I forget the model #,but it came out in the Summer 2001. On the plus side,it had good sound,and it was pretty convenient to carry around. On the downside, it took forever to download stuff from my computer,and it was really hard to get volume from them,and I couldn't edit on them the way I was told I'd be able to...so overall I was kinda disappointed. If I could suggest anything, it would be what some of the others have said-see if you can find some other ones to compare to. I wish I had followed that advice when I bought it.

you have a older models which 5 mins of music takes 5 mins to record. that's live recording, newer MDs recorders now has NetMD, which allows faster music transfer from your computer like a MP3 player.

also, im intersted what model you have...since all minidisc recorders can edit your music (title, play order, record volume, spilt ect....)

 

[banger]

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""Battery life on the Zen is better than the iPod, but still be prepared for poor battery life if you decide wave files are the way to go.""

Why do wave files cause the player to consume more power?

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

i cant anwer your question banger, but samething happens on ipod too. usually better sounding files eats up more battery life, even higher kbps eats more power then lower kbps on the same format

 

[D-EJ915]

there's an easy answer to this, MP3 files are much smaller (4MB) and wave files are large (44MB) for a 4 minute or so track, well...players only have so much room in their buffers for storage of the songs (ESP)...the solution is that the player can fit all of the MP3 into it's buffer, but with wave's, it has to keep accessing the HDD to get new information, thus depleting battery life, it's quite simple

-PC god strikes again

basically, the 'bigger' the song, the more time it accesses, and the worse the battery life

 

[gloco]

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Originally posted by banger quote: ""Battery life on the Zen is better than the iPod, but still be prepared for poor battery life if you decide wave files are the way to go."" Why do wave files cause the player to consume more power?

Has something to do with constantly accessing the wav file, since it's much larger than a mp3, i imagine a mp3 or any compressed file gets loaded into memory much quicker, hence, less time accessing the file and using up battery life. At least that's my understanding.

 

[blessingx]

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Originally posted by banger quote: ""Battery life on the Zen is better than the iPod, but still be prepared for poor battery life if you decide wave files are the way to go."" Why do wave files cause the player to consume more power?

Higher kps requires the player to use its processor more and the hard disk to be accessed more often (buffer less useful here). At least this is how it was explained to me. And you can't really get higher kps than WAV/AIFF files.

 

[D-EJ915]

just read my previous post

sorry about thread crapping

 

[fredpb]

I have been using HD jukeboxes and MD for years. The sound depends on the individual device. Also, MD best quality is the 74 or 80 min non LP format.

MD player is cheap. You drop it or lose it, you are out a bit and a few disks. You still have most of your music collection. You drop or lose a NJB3 you are out almost 4 times as much...and if you don't have the music backed up, you are out your music too. If you have music backed up, you have to reload.

Batteries are the big issue. The MD portable with 1 AA battery has 40 hours or more of battery life. Far more than a jukebox. Not to mention you can carry more AA batteries and get them anywhere.

Big advantage to jukeboxes is much music in the palm of your hand.

Soundwise, they should be similiar.

 

[MDDrew]

NETMD doesnt work for SP right?

 

[Braver]

nope.