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To: puborectalis who wrote (14759)	9/14/2000 1:41:24 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Steve Karasick, I read your post on the newer MP3 jukebox devices with built in hard drives. The article you posted gets into some of the limitations... mercurycenter.com In Red Herring this month (the one with the special section on Asia) there is mention that the Sony MiniDisc players are popular for MP3 because the diskettes are only $2.00 a piece. MP3 is breathing new life into MiniDisc sales. They interviewed a guy who sells MD players on-line at a site called minidisco.com which I logged onto today. It would appear that actually converting files from MP3 into a MD format is difficult. You need some type of a coaxial to optical converter. To be frank, I was unclear about the whole process. Below is a link to a guy who has both a Diamond Rio! and a Sony MD player. His review seems candid and balanced. He predicts that solid state is the wave of the future... amulation.com Another instructional post I found is here... t-station.net It seems kind of complex to me and you need 1 minute of record time for every minute of play time. Kind of reminds me of the days I spent recording from vinyl to cassette tape!!! I still believe that MP3 will be the common currency for trading and sharing. Recording from MP3 to an optical/MD format seems arduous. I am also not sure that you can send a digital MD recording via the Internet. Flash has a bright future, I think. The bottom line is that MMC has to come down in price. I saw 32 MB MultiMediaCards on sale today at BestBuy for $99.99 a piece. I think a 64 MB card on sale for $49.99 would be a more reasonable price given most of these players are purchased by young adults with more limited budgets. Eli said some time ago that MP3 players should get down to $99.99 to $149.99 with time. Media costs will need to be some fraction of that cost, perhaps 50% for at least an hour of music. Ausdauer