Hardware MP3 Player, SPDIF, and Girlfriend.

[PapillonIrl]

Okay, significant other's Birthday coming up. She has hinted about wanting a good walkman/discman/MP3 player (if hinted is the right word ), and I'm thinking that an MP3 player would be a good idea, as I have about 10GB of archived music already, many of which came from her own (and her Fathers') cool vinyl collection.

I know nothing about these gizmos though, so here goes...

I have a Delta 44, no optical out...I'm assuming thats how you get the data from PC to player, no ? So could someone suggest a cheap consumer card that has the required connection ?

I have a cool pair Sennheiser cans which I am willing to give her also, assuming she doesn't mind looking like a test pilot down in the gym...but I'm thinking if I can get a couple hundred tracks, or more, which I know she digs, onto the player and throw in the headphones, I'ma get me some hot lovin'...


Nathan

 

[xalien]

I have a Delta 44, no optical out...I'm assuming thats how you get the data from PC to player, no ?

Actually not usually. Typcially you'll load MP3s onto an MP3 player through an interface like USB. The MP3 player will either show up as another disk drive (and you just copy files to it) or you'll use a custom piece of software that will come with your player.

Note that while USB is pretty common some players will use other interfaces (Apple's iPod uses FireWire, and my old clunky MP3 player uses the parallel port!). Just check the box on whatever you're considering buying.

 

[PapillonIrl]

USB you say...that's handy.

Dammit, I can't use my girlfriends birthday as an excuse to get a S/PDIF connection for my J-Station, now.


Cheers,

pAp

 

[Lucid Light]

I would buy mp3 player based on CD. So you can just take some 15 CD-Rs, and put all your 10Gb on it! This kind of players usualy can read Audio CDs too. And they are not such expensive toys, like HDD-inside-models.