[access-uk] Re: Anybody comment on this music player?
- From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:29:40 +0100
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Panasonic SD MP3 PlayerThis is a review of the Panasonic SD Audio Player
SV-SD300. The title mentions the SV-SD350V, which is a similar product, but
includes
a radio and the ability to record voice memos. I have included it here as it
uses the same software, and I believe the review will apply to that model
the same. The model number SV-SD300EB-W is I believe the UK model number,
which is branded as the SV-SD300. The player is part of the Panasonic D-snap
Audio range.
This is an SD based Audio Player. It does not have any internal memory or
hard disk for storing tracks, but instead uses an SD card (not supplied) to
store
the music on. The advantage of this is that you can add more memory by
buying relatively cheap SD cards. I also thought this would mean being able
to swap
cards with my
Akai 256MB MP3 Player with SD Slot,
this turns out to not be the case, which I?ll come to later. The player will
take SD cards up to 2GB in size. It is now possible to get SD cards up to
4GB,
and no doubt in future even bigger SD cards will be available, the maximum
size supported by the player is 2GB. By having multiple cards, the capacity
is effectively unlimited.
When getting the player out of the box it looks good. The combination of
silver and white works well, it?s also small, thin and light. With no
harddisk
to add weight and put a large drain on the battery, the player is extremely
light.
Once I?d charged the battery (3 hour charge time), I first tried to use the
SD card from my
Akai MP3 Player,
which was already loaded with MP3 files. It was not able to see any of the
tracks. The Panasonic player implements Digital Rights Management (DRM), but
the way that this is implemented means that you are not able to play MP3
files without first converting them to a Panasonic format. Although the
product
had stated it was for Windows only, if it allowed you to play MP3 file
directly like the
Akai MP3 Player,
then it would have worked with any operating system that could write to SD
cards, including Linux. This is unfortunately not the case.
The DRM implementation and accompanying software ties this player to Windows
only, and will not work on a Mac or under Linux.
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