Post by aquaduct on Dec 12, 2006 0:45:33 GMT -5
I've always been intrigued by MP3 players, but could never actually bring myself to own one because I've never owned a bunch of my own CDs and I hate the idea of wasting my energy researching music to buy and put onto the dang things.
Well, in a fit of pre-Christmas present openning over the weekend (one of the pitfalls of zero discipline), I got a Panasonic Inno from my wife. Don't know if you're familiar with it, but this is a hand held XM radio/MP3 player. And it just flat out rocks.
Like all satelite radios, its limitation is it's antenna and its ability to pick up signal. The intriguing thing is the way they've managed to work around it.
By itself when outside, reception is OK. I took it running tonight and reception can be kind of sketchy. But there are some headphones available that have auxilliary antenna included that I'll check into to improve that.
What it allows you to do, though, is plug it into the home base with its stronger stationary antenna and then record XM content into the unit. It's got 1M of memory that can be split between XM content and normal PC MP3 content, but I don't see any point in splitting it out. So it gives you something like 50 hours of XM storage.
So last night, I was just goofing and got about 7 or 8 hours of jazz, some Dixieland on the trad jazz channel and some modern funk on channel 72. Listened today at work. And while I was running. Damn is that cool.
You can continue to have recording sessions and eventually it will just start recording back over the oldest content. However, if there end up being tunes you like (some guy named Russell Gunn with a major swamp funk acoustic bass, hip hop scratching jam called Sibel's Blues), you can tag it so it won't get recorded over. You can then go to Napster and actually buy the music if you want it in the traditional format.
Right now, I'm recording a show about Grover Washington as well as some extra time with both jazz channels and the R&B "Groove" channel. I'll sort through them tomorrow at work while I'm typing those god-awful emails and trying to look busy. One thing I've missed since I left Detroit was that black music connection. I'm feeling my groove being revived already.
That's the way it should be. Someone else pick the stuff out for me and let me be surprised. Real radio combined with MP3 recording.
If'n y'all are stumped for Christmas wishes, this deserves a look.
Well, in a fit of pre-Christmas present openning over the weekend (one of the pitfalls of zero discipline), I got a Panasonic Inno from my wife. Don't know if you're familiar with it, but this is a hand held XM radio/MP3 player. And it just flat out rocks.
Like all satelite radios, its limitation is it's antenna and its ability to pick up signal. The intriguing thing is the way they've managed to work around it.
By itself when outside, reception is OK. I took it running tonight and reception can be kind of sketchy. But there are some headphones available that have auxilliary antenna included that I'll check into to improve that.
What it allows you to do, though, is plug it into the home base with its stronger stationary antenna and then record XM content into the unit. It's got 1M of memory that can be split between XM content and normal PC MP3 content, but I don't see any point in splitting it out. So it gives you something like 50 hours of XM storage.
So last night, I was just goofing and got about 7 or 8 hours of jazz, some Dixieland on the trad jazz channel and some modern funk on channel 72. Listened today at work. And while I was running. Damn is that cool.
You can continue to have recording sessions and eventually it will just start recording back over the oldest content. However, if there end up being tunes you like (some guy named Russell Gunn with a major swamp funk acoustic bass, hip hop scratching jam called Sibel's Blues), you can tag it so it won't get recorded over. You can then go to Napster and actually buy the music if you want it in the traditional format.
Right now, I'm recording a show about Grover Washington as well as some extra time with both jazz channels and the R&B "Groove" channel. I'll sort through them tomorrow at work while I'm typing those god-awful emails and trying to look busy. One thing I've missed since I left Detroit was that black music connection. I'm feeling my groove being revived already.
That's the way it should be. Someone else pick the stuff out for me and let me be surprised. Real radio combined with MP3 recording.
If'n y'all are stumped for Christmas wishes, this deserves a look.
