Digital Mp3 Player

All about Mp3 portable Players

By now, you've probably heard about the wild popularity of MP3s -- tiny audio files that you can easily download from the Web. This year, portable MP3 players -- imagine a Walkman that plays MP3 tunes, only smaller, lighter and with no moving parts -- are all the rage, particularly with Web-savvy teens and college-age students. ¹

Price: Since CD based MP3 portable players have been around a while, the prices have dropped significantly even on high quality units. Instead of paying several hundred dollars for an Ipod, other hard drive based player, or a memory based on, a CD based player can be purchased for $40-$50. ²

We would very much like our Visitors to test their MP3 Portable Players' suitability for listening Audio Books and email us their conclusions to ToUs@AudioBooksForFree.com. ³

Below are some reasons to buy MP3 player cases and some considerations to keep in mind when you do. ⁴

Samsung's line of portable MP3 player includes the stylish Hip Hop Yepp, Mini Yepp, the Techno Yepp and many more of its Yepp products. ⁵

The MP3 audio format is the type I use the most. Its quality is near CD quality (16 bit Stereo 44.1 kHz) at 128 kbps when encoded using a good quality encoder such as LAME. Some encoders put a watery sound in the encoded track. ⁶

Kb/s is ideal as Audio Books 6-7 hours long could neatly fit onto the 64MB onboard memory of a typical MP3 Portable Player. Unfortunately, there is a very big problem with the 16Kb/s format. There are two different versions of "frames" in MP3 formats of less than 24Kb/s: version 2.0 and version 2.5. ⁷

An MP3 player is a portable digital audio player that stores and plays audio files. Flash based players hold digital audio files on their internal flash memory. Hard drive based players read audio files from a hard disk drive. These players come with massive memories. ⁸

MP3 portable players are the trend in music-listening technology. These players do not include any mechanical movements, thereby making them ideal for listening to music during any type of activity. MP3 is a digital compression technique based on MPEG Layer 3 which stores music in a lot less space than current CD technology. ⁹

This was an important question to ask. There's been a significant shift in the buying patterns among young consumers. MP3 portable players are growing in popularity, threatening to supplant CD players as the portable of choice. ¹⁰