Jeff -
Re: the Zip 250 audio player
It might work just fine. The heads of a Zip drive are kept away from the media by a little low-friction pad, which always maintains perfect spacing, so head crashes are not a problem.
By using MP3 compression, you could get MORE than a whole CD on one Zip 250 disk, with excellent sound quality. As someone else said, it would sure beat tape.
Pop your CD into your CD-ROM drive, copy just the tunes you want to the Zip disk in MP3 format, slip the disk into the Zipster portable, and away you go.
On the other hand, I like my Sony MiniDisc player just fine. I get excellent recording quality with the newest version of the home deck, and the player is wonderfully small and light, with excellent battery life.
MiniDiscs only hold 128MB of data, by the way. And of course, the recorders and players are more expensive to build than Zip drives.
I wonder if there might not be a market for the Zipster after all.
- Allen |
