Most Valued MP3 Players for Christmas 2006
Dec 12, 2006 Deals, MP3 Players, Tips & Tricks
Ho, ho, hooo…. the white x’mas is coming soon. Have you order your x’mas present for your loving one? No? Let see some MP3 players that worth for every cent you spent!
1. Creative Zen Vision:M 30Gb vs Apple iPod 5.5G 30GB
Don’t limit yourself just look for Apple iPod. Instead, Creative Zen Vision:M may be a good choice if you want to play media in most of the formats! Though it doesn’t look that sexy as an iPod. It still do its job, plays pretty music and it is about $40 cheaper than an iPod.
2. Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB vs Apple iPod Nano 2G 8GB
Sandisk has just slashed the pricing of its Sansa e200 series. Sansa e280 8Gb is only $188 at Walmart! Fruthermore, with that such attractive price, you can get a Griffin black leather vizor for free. The new price is about $50 cheaper than an iPod Nano 2G 8GB!
With the extra money through these deals, you can spend it for second X’mas present or just get an extra pair for portable speaker like Creative Labs SBS Vivid 60. Hurry up, get your stuffs shipped on time
DIY MP3 Player Dock Stand for $1
Nov 24, 2006 Accessories, Tips & Tricks
What you can do with these binder clips? A dock stand for your MP3 player, believe me. If you don’t wanna spend anymore money during the seasonal sales period, here’s a guide to make a dock stand for your MP3 player for less than $1 or maybe at no cost! All you need is 3 binder clips Read the rest of this entry »
How to disassemble iPod Shuffle 2
Nov 4, 2006 Apple, MP3 Players, Tips & Tricks
iFixit recently published a complete guide on how to disassemble the world smallest MP3 player – iPod Shuffle 2
Well, let skip all the dissassembling process. What I want to know is what the heck inside this tiny thing!
On the top of its circuit logic board, you can see five button sensors, ARM chip and data cable ribbon. No idea about the ARM chip, but it has the number: 337S3300 844A N05WDK01 0642 ARM
The bottom of the board has a Li-ion polymer battery and headphone jack plug, which is most impressive part of iPod Shuffle 2. The plug is multi-modal and switches between USB, analog audio, and possibly power modes. Read the rest of this entry »
Firmware Fix for SIREN / ILO MP3 Player
Oct 11, 2006 MP3 Players, Others Players, Software, Tips & Tricks
If you are one of the Siren or ILO owner, you might be driven crazy about their crappy firmware. One of my reader has got it fixed with upgrading its firmware. He had left a solution on my old post (Siren MP3 Player: Q&A)
My Siren 512MB Mp3 player was caught in a continuous loop on boot up. I
contacted the support department and they sent me a link to the firmware
installer. After running the software my Mp3 player is functional once
again.
Here is the instruction for the fix:
Tags: ILO, MP3 Players, Siren
MobiBLU Cube Hacking Guide
Jan 19, 2006 MobiBLU, Tips & Tricks
Get bored with the stock screen animation of your mobiBLU Cube? Guillermito has published a detailed step-by-step hacking guide of the MobiBLU Cube DAH-1500/1500i. The firmware hack allows you to modify the startup screen and also other animations within the Cube.
Looks interesting huh? Remember, hack the Cube at your own risk and don’t forget to make a backup copy of the original firmware.
{ [Guillermito ->http://www.guillermito2.net/code/cube/index.html] via [AnythingButiPod -> http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2006/01/hack-the-mobiblu-cube.php] }
Know Your MP3 Players: Part 3
Aug 18, 2005 Tips & Tricks
Most of the Korean prefer made in Korea in any kind of stuffs, even a small component insides MP3 players. Because of this strong sense of nationalism, they come out with a reputable brand, Telechips, in the digital audio player industry.
Generally, its position is between Sigmatel and Philips‘ decoders. It has better sound quality than Sigmatel and yet it can still maintain lower price than Philips. Due to the stragegic position, Telechips has the supports from many Korean manufacturers, such as DATUM, DEC, WEWA, and so on. Thus, it makes Telechips a reputable brand in the industry.
The most common model of Telechips’ solution is TCC73x series.
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Know Your MP3 Players: Part 2
Aug 8, 2005 Tips & Tricks
Last few days, we had discussed about the Sigmatel. Now it’s the turn of another techonology leader of audio decoder – Philips. How good is Philips decoder? Just have a look on how well do the iRiver and MPIO perform.
The popularPhilips decoder on the market are SAA775x and PNX010x series. These audio decoders are embedded with a 24 bits DSP core and 32bits ARM processor. The ARM is to process the calculation of audio decompression algorithms of various formats such as MP3, AAC and WMA. On the other hand, the DSP core is to process the audio enrichment algorithms that supports Philips’ LifeVibes.Read the rest of this entry »
Know Your MP3 Players: Part 1
Aug 3, 2005 MP3 Players, Tips & Tricks
Today we gonna to learn more on the core of MP3 player, digital audio decoder. MP3 is a lossy compression audio format. Thus, the audio decoder of the MP3 players take an important role. A decent audio decoder should minimize signal distortion compare to its source during the reproduction. And we will look at few big brands in popular in the market. The first will be SigmaTel, the one that just taken over Rio.
SigmaTel have gained the first place in the flash-based MP3 player market segment with its STMP34XX and STMP35XX series. SigmaTel is the first to provide single chip solution. With all-in-one features and “not that bad” sound quality, SigmaTel’s chips have gained lots of favors of many manufacturers. It minimizes the cost of production and also allows smaller size to be done!
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DIY MP3 Player
Jul 7, 2005 MP3 Players, Tips & Tricks
Get bored with your current branded MP3 player? How about make one by yourself? I’d found some interesting projects when I’m googling about MP3 players. With a little money, you can get some parts online and make your own unique MP3 player. Come on, let’s have fun!
I found Minty MP3 when I was googling. The project was carried by MIT grad Limor Fried. It’s a DIY MP3 player insides an altoids box! Awesome huh? It’s without LCD display just like an iPod Shuffle!
It may just cost you a little as US$50 for you to make your own MP3 player! Most of the parts can be found at PJRC Store.
Have no idea on electronics? Don’t worry, PJRC has detailed techinical documents that covers all you’ll need to know. Take some times on the guides, and you can make your own MP3 player!
This is the assembled MP3 player that made with PJRC’s kits.
{ [Minty MP3 Project ->http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/index.html]; [PJRC Project -> http://www.pjrc.com/tech/mp3/] }
No more hidden files in iPod
Jun 1, 2005 Digital Music, Tips & Tricks
If you are the iPod fans, you should know that Apple purposely keeps your music files hidden. It is only visible to the Apple iTunes. Unfair for for those who don’t want to use iTunes, right? Don’t worry, with a little hack, your favourite songs is accessible by other PC or Mac programs.
Apple intentionally make this to prevent illegal files transfer to another machines. Even you have activated the iPod’s Disk Mode, the Macintosh Finder or the Windows File Manager are also not able to view the music files. However, some iPod/iTunes enthusiasts had done a little hack to enable your PC or Mac to access your favourite songs without iTunes. So now, you can transfer the music files to your machine from your iPod. And you can enjoy them without iPod on your hands!
The hack is publish by [eCoustics.com -> http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/34579/138629.html]. But remember, only do make the legal music files transfer! The MP3 Players do not hold any responsibility on illegal trials by the users.{ via [NFHQ -> http://www.nforcershq.com/article3055.html] }
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