SD MP3 player for background music in store outlet

On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:32:11 -0600, DevilsPGD
<spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote:

>In message <of8s53t8mm7kkmgdgrqhum47ggbm7hk9i5@4ax.com> kony
><spam@spam.com> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:36:37 -0600, DevilsPGD
>><spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote:
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>>>In message <m2vc53p77a093l0n3hfvh352dm2vseefm4@4ax.com> kony
>>><spam@spam.com> wrote:
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>>>>It seems "large enough" has everything to do with the
>>>>available capacity at the time, as today it's 8GB and if you
>>>>bought a player with 4GB internal, 50% improvement is not
>>>>too shabby.
>>>
>>>And that's part of my point -- Down the road, when 4GB is considered
>>>tiny, why would I want an additional 4GB added to my 32GB SD card?
>>
>>Why would you wait to have the capacity, not buying the card
>>now but instead buying it 'down the road' ?
>
>Because 32GB SD cards don't exist yet.
>
>When I have multiple 32GB SD cards, and put the entire collection on
>random, I'll end up with the few songs on the 4GB playlist always
>playing, and the 32GB ones playing only when that card is in the player.

I suppose, but do you really plan to carry around 64+GB
worth of flash cards with you? It seems like a bit much,
especially since a playlist that always included the 4GB
contents would merely mean they're played once every few
days... 32GB is quite a few songs.



>
>I just can't see the upside, other then some marginal bit of additional
>flash at a cost higher then an equivalent SD card.
>
>That being said, I'm more of a drive based player myself.

As already stated, it's not "some marginal bit", it is a
significant fraction of total capacity you can expect to use
if only you choose to buy a player that isn't minimally
endowed. Also as stated, if you buy a player now you can't
necessarily assume it will support a 32GB flash card nor
even that it won't have broken by that point in time.

The possibility of it breaking IS a factor making it
desirable to have less or no integrated memory since it is
just a further loss when it's less likely the SD card would
simultaneously be damaged by the event that broke the
player, but on the other hand it wouldn't cover theft or
loss.

In message <qhls531b1pqncbnif7v7m6pcgn4do7sd30@4ax.com> kony
<spam@spam.com> wrote:

>I suppose, but do you really plan to carry around 64+GB
>worth of flash cards with you? It seems like a bit much,
>especially since a playlist that always included the 4GB
>contents would merely mean they're played once every few
>days... 32GB is quite a few songs.

I remember thinking the same thing about 2GB cards when they appeared on
the horizon when my digital camera and flash media player were both on
32MB smartmedia cards (with an upper maximum of 128MB and 64MB
respectively for those two devices)

Yes, I do plan to carry around 64GB+ worth of flash cards as soon as
they're under $100 per card. In fact, I probably plan to carry around
the largest card with decent performance I can find under $100 for the
remainder of my life or the life of flash in this implementation.

I am fairly insistent that all my devices use the same flash format
(Kiss my *** Sony. Join the rest of the world, or you're still not on
my buying list), being able to toss the same card in my camera, laptop,
PDA, and micro-card-reader has become invaluable, dropping the extra
cable to connect up my MP3 player without a huge drop in capacity would
be nice too.

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