Ron Johnson posted on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:58:50 -0500 as excerpted: > I don't understand this. > > A PC can store all your FLACs organized by artist and album, using > symlinks to create playlists, and also "echo" them into low-bitrate MP3s > for you to regularly copy into your MP3 player+earbuds, burn WAVs onto > CDs for your car, or even create high-bitrate MP3s if your car sound > system is so equipped. > > And managing huge a music library from your PC is so much easier than > from the tiny window of your MP3 player.
But if it's all there on the MP3 player, there's no need to worry about trying to decide just /what/ to copy over, and then finding you're in a totally different mood, and it's the /wrong/ thing for your new mood, when you're on your trip and don't have access to just go grab something else. Or as I've mentioned, if you for instance get talking to someone about a band from two decades ago that you have a half dozen albums of... sitting at home on the computer! If the media aka MP3 player layout is well organized, and don't forget, we're talking customized firmware/software for it here, so symlinks and all that sort of thing should be equally doable on it as on the home system (even more so on a netbook, with full OS and full if a bit size constrained keyboard/touchpad/display, again a bonus of the netbook over a plain mp3 player for that), navigation works pretty much the same way as it would on the home system. Of course a new thought I mentioned in a different reply, but new to me during this discussion, is that a netbook gives you the best of both worlds, then, because it's still possible to grab a now even smaller and cheaper mp3 player, thus getting all the size and longer playtime benefits it offers for short term use, while still having the netbook tucked away in the bag, in case something does come up and you want to reload something right then. Sort of the scout and mother ship concept... That's not doable with just the mp3 player alone, unless it's the huge 100-gig-plus version, and that's still less convenient than the netbook plus mp3 player option. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
