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Article: DOWNLOADED MUSIC TO YOUR EARS, ALMOST MP3-SAVVY CD PLAYERS ARE PORTABLE AND AFFORDABLE BUT NOT THAT RELIABLE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2002
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If MP3 players and portable CD players were capable of mating and
giving birth, their digital offspring would bear an uncanny
resemblance to the new MP3-decoding CD players. These players, which
retail between $100 and $200, play run-of-the-mill audio CDs, plus
recordable and rewritable audio CDs used for home burning. But the
appeal is their ability to read data files.
The result is a device that can play more than 10 hours of music
from a single disc. Unlike standard MP3 players, which hold about two
hours of music, the MP3-decoding CD players can handily get you
through a car trip to Montreal and back on a single disc. They're
also less expensive than $400 jukebox-style MP3 players that ...