Re: Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Will a 486 cope with MP3s?  Thought you needed a Pentium?

 

Suppose you could buy one of those parallel port things or even a Dell DAR.

 

Like I say - if I had a spare PC I would use it.

 

M.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Brown, Andy [Infrastructure]

To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 5:18 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

You could nip down to a local computer fair and buy an old 486, stick an old Sound Blaster in it and run off of WinAmp.  Bet ya, it'll cost less than the DAP.

 

Andy

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 March 2001 17:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

Yeah...we'll be feeding into and amp.  We'll also be feeding it into our phone switch for music on hold (we're using a personal CD player for that at the moment).

 

Thanks

 

M.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Brown, Andy [Infrastructure]

To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 5:11 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

I think it does continuous (I'll check).  It will do random play as well, although to get to these features requires some hunting around in the menus!

 

I guess if you fully load it up with 150Cds, it'll take a while to get through them all any way.

 

Presumably, you'll be putting it through some kind of amp?  I bought a couple of cheapo passive speakers (£8!) and the sound was crap - not that I'd expect much from an ear piece output, but you'll definitely  need to boost it with something.

 

Andy

 

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 March 2001 17:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

We'd be using it on mains so battery life isn't an issue.  We'd also be playing through our lo-fi mono ceiling speakers setup on the shop floors.

 

Can you tell me if you can set it to play continous repeat?

 

I want to just download tracks onto it, turn it on and walk away.  I imagine I would only turn it off once a quater to change the tracks.

 

Pity I don't have a spare PC.

 

M.

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Brown, Andy [Infrastructure]

To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 4:58 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

I wouldn't bother with it, in this incarnation any way.

 

The software is pretty basic and fiddly, the battery life questionable, sound quality iffy (it has a lot of preset EQ sound effects like Auditorium, Concert hall etc - but I couldn't really tell any difference and resorted back to None!).

 

The transfer software's ok and it's quite quick at downloading songs (USB).

 

Each time a new track starts, the hard disk spins up, it buffers the track and then spins down again.  The spinning up / down can be quite noisy and I suspect this is what kills the batteries as well.

 

I don't know how it fairs with jogs etc as I've only really used it stationary.

 

May be I've got a duff one?

 

Having said all that - I've no idea how it compares with it's competitors.

 

Andy

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 March 2001 16:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player

Anyone got one of these yet?

http://www.europe.creative.com/jukebox/about/

 

Want one for background music at work but want a few questions answered first.

 

Anyone?

 

Thanks

 

M.

 

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