Mp3 Portable Player - Buying Guide

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written by : Robin Carlson

Mp3 Portable Player. Almost all people like music, and almost of them have their favorite music player. When they at home maybe you like to hear music from your digital mp3 player that connected to the loud speaker. But when you going for traveling by your bicycle, or jogging in the morning, you will need small mp3 player that can be brought easily anywhere. Nowadays many portable mp3 player brand sold anywhere. I ‘ll give you some tips that must be considered before you buy portable mp3 player.

1. Sound and earphone

This is the most important things from mp3 player. Because you want to enjoy your favorite music, you have to choose the best sound quality for your mp3 player. Some famous brand like creative, apple ipod have good sound quality. But if you have limited budget, you can buy cheaper mp3 player, but you have to buy high quality earphone. For famous brand mp3 players, give the earphone too.

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2. Battery

Its mp3 portable player, you will bring it to anywhere, so you have to buy mp3 player that have long life battery, so its unnecessary for you to charge your mp3 player more often. And also you will enjoy your favorite music longer.

3. Feature

Almost portable mp3 player have another feature than just play mp3 music. Some of them equipped with sound recorder, camera, video player etc. Know the reason why you have to buy mp3 player, almost people say more complete feature its better. But if you have limited money, the main feature that must exist in your mp3 player is mp3 player it self and sound recorder.

4. Compatibility

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You have to understand well with file compatibility, your mp3 player have to able to play mp3 format, WAV and AAC. If your mp3 player able to play video, its better, for video format many of them can’t be played on portable mp3 player. Famous video format for mp3 portable player is mp4 file and AMV file.

5. User friendly

Your new mp3 player must have user friendly menu, so you can play your music easily.

And also it can be connected to the computer easily, all of mp3 portable player equipped with usb port. For apple ipod, it equipped with itunes program, that be used to transfer mp3 music from your computer to your mp3 portable player. For another brand, just drag and drop file from your computer to your mp3 player.

6. Budget

This item also must be considered, I think you know what I mind.

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Mp3 Portable Players - Ipod Nano

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Mp3 portable Player, Ipod nano, that’s the most famous digital mp3 player today that produced by Apple Corp. This is a Mp3 portable player that you can bring it to anywhere you go because the it small size. The 1^st generation ipod was announced in the end of 2001. It was announced by Apple several month Itunes release, that the program to convert audio CD to compressed digital audio files.

Tony Fadell is the inventor of the ipod, that’s knows as ipod father. Tony Fadell was a former employee of General Magic and Phillips who wanted to invent a better MP3 player.

After being turned down by RealNetworks and Phillips, Fadell found support for his project with Apple. Tony Fadell went to work for Apple Computers in 2001 as an independent contractor, leading a team of thirty people to develop the new MP3 player.

Tony Fadell also partnered with a company called PortalPlayer who had been working on their own MP3 player to design the software for the new Apple player. Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Computers led the team that kept perfecting the ipod itself after Fadell’s team had finished their contract.

In the Wired article, Inside Look at Birth of the Ipod, Ben Knauss a former senior manager at PortalPlayer revealed that Fadell was familiar with PortalPlayer’s reference designs for a couple of MP3 players, including one about the size of a cigarette packet. And though the design was unfinished, several prototypes had been built and Fadell recognized the design’s potential.

Within eight months, Tony Fadell’s team and PortalPlayer completed a prototype ipod and Apple polished the user interface adding the famous scroll wheel.

• Apparently, Tony Fadell is quite a character. He was once asked where he would be in life if he’d grown up before computers were invented. Fadell’s response was “In jail.”
• What was the first song played using iTunes, Apple’s proprietary software? It was a house-music dance tune called Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love).
• The first generation ipods had scroll wheels that physically rotated. Post 2003 ipods (third generation) have touch sensitive wheels. Fourth generation (2004) ipods have buttons integrated onto the wheel.
• The ipod’s wheel technology can measure changes in position greater than 1/1,000th of an inch.

For present, ipod was developed continuously, from the first generation ipod that only can play mp3 format with 1GB capacity, till the newest version ipod that can play mp3 and video format with capacity 16 GB. And the latest version capacity upto 32 GB. So you will not get bored to listen your favorite music and watch your favorites video with this capacity.

Summarized by Robin Carlson from about.com.

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