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Ipod and MP3
MP3 players are for everyone. Anyone can carry with them the music they love. Most people have a type or style of music that they favor, but most also have an eclectic niche. Few people like only one type of music. Even musicians change their venues (Kenny Rogers made very famous acid rock, "I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.") With a MP3 player you can mix any music you enjoy (I have Sousa, Hendrix, Hootie, Willie and Waylon, and Beethoven on mine) and take it with you wherever you go.
An MP3 player is a small (fits in your pocket or attaches to your belt) that stores music in a digital format and replays it on demand either in order, randomly, or in a programmed order, and on some you can select the song. MP3 format is a compressed format that makes the digital file size smaller. MP3 music has a very clean sound because there is no added interference from the degradation of the media caring the information, like scratched records, stretched tape, or warped CDs.
MP3 players have been around several years, are a stable, and tested method of saving music. The challenge over the years of the MP3 players was to have a small device with a good user interface both to enter and to read information. The other challenge is to keep the devices small as possible and have as much memory as possible to be able to hold more songs. Companies have come a long way and come up with different methods to achieve large memory.
Size Matters
If you've been wondering how all MBs and GBs compare when it comes to storing music, it's a common question. "MB" is the abbreviation for megabyte "GB" is the abbreviation for gigabyte, which are units for measurement of data. There are 1024 megabytes in a single gigabyte.
To help you compare, here's how music and megabytes match up:
Storage Capacity
128MB 2 hours Hours of MP3 Music at near-CD sound quality
256MB 4 hours
4GB 66 hours
20GB 333 hours
40GB 666 hours
MP3 music is available several different ways; it can be stored on your computer to be placed in to your MP3 player later. MP3 music is easily downloadable over the Internet and from several different sources. Amazon MP3 is an excellent store for large variety of new music and old favorites. The best thing is you can buy signal songs or whole albums.
MP3 players have two types of memories, what is a solid state memory called flash drive that has no moving parts and is very durable and recently the size of memory has increased dramatically and the price of the flash drive has come down dramatically. The other side of memory is a hard drive. Like anything with moving parts there could be problems with shock, in other words like movements and impact might damage the drive for damage the data on the guest. Hard drives have an advantage in the amount they can store, but the flash drives are quickly catching up to that. It all depends on the amount of information that you need to store on your player.
The new trend in players is to also be able to play video. 40 GBs of the music is almost four weeks 24 hours a day, no repeat music but less than 75 hours (3 days) of video. That is about 1 Hour of video for 2 GBs. It depends on what you'll use your player for as to how much memory want. Players are not limited to 40 GBs; large players go up to 80 GB and more.
I like the smaller MP3 players 512 MB to 1 GB because it is easy to keep organized, but there is plenty of room for lots of music.
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