On Sat 10 Nov 2018 at 07:41:21 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, November 10, 2018 06:49:02 AM Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 07:15:26 +0000 > > mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >that's what I wondered and what exactly is an "audio disc" ? > > >Can I make one from mp3 ? > > > > Certainly you can, but why bother? Just buy an mp3 player. They tend > > to be cheaper, have no moving mechanical parts and therefore less prone > > to problems. > > +1 > > And, on ebay, you can find some really inexpensive ones -- I think the last > one > I bought (as a spare, haven't used it yet) was less than $5 (but a long > delivery time from the far east). > > Some have built in memory (I'm using one with 1 GB built in), more modern > (cheap) ones use SD cards (or at least, the one I bought does). And the > cheap > ones don't have speakers -- they expect you to use headphones or ear thingies. > > Pay attention to batteries, some have them built-in (typically rechargable, > but not (easily) replaceable).
I had this problem when my old portable CD player had become unreliable and the Philips GoGear mp3 player had been discontinued. (Some of the cheap mp3 players couldn't handle multi-track music pieces (classical) in a sane way.) My solution was to buy an unlocked phone, a Galaxy Y. As an upgrade, it cost £25 (2013 flash sale, normally £40) though I've never actually used it regularly as a phone. It has an FM radio as well as being able to play audio and video files in a variety of formats. Storage is on a micro SD card which can be loaded from a computer through USB (cable, or by removing the card from the phone) or via Bluetooth. Of course, it has all the other facilities one would expect: stills and video camera, sound recorder (mono), WiFi (hence Internet browser), PDF viewer, audio output via 3.5mm etc. and apps, I suppose. The battery is replaceable, and these power bank thingies can be used to extend portable use in the field. Cheers, David.
