[access-uk] Re: Anybody comment on this music player?
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:06:59 +0100
Thank you Peter; makes me wonder why anybody would want one of these, given
what else is already available? -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Logue" <plsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 11:29 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Anybody comment on this music player?
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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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