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I've been using my CD player on the bus the past couple days. I'd never actually used it much before. It's kinda fun. It's an A-Max Napa DAV310, I got it online from the Canadian MP3 Player Store. There is a slight click between MP3s on CD, but that's about the only drawback. MP3s on CD-R and CD-RW is kind of my intermediate step to seeing if I would use a full MP3 player like an iPod. Basically you get (multiple discs worth of) 650+ MB of MP3s. I have all of my Jane Siberry CDs on one MP3 CD. The DAV310 also plays VCDs (video CDs) through a video output jack. The current model is the DAV311, I don't know what new features it has over the 310. Anyway for the price, I think the features are very good. The iPod is nice, but the cheapest one (5 GB) is a five hundred bucks, versus $125 for the DAV311, which can have as much storage as you want (depending how many CDs you want to lug around with you).

Oh and a couple features of the 310 that I like is that it has a rechargeable battery, so you don't have to fiddle with little batteries all the time, and that in "energy saving" mode, it only spins the CD as often as it needs to read new chunks of the MP3, so most of the time the CD drive isn't spinning, so you get longer battery life. It's kind of cool to watch the CD spin for a few seconds and then stop, while you continue to listen to the music being played. posted by Richard at 12:44 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)