Posted by iws on 04/10/06 04:25

<gamefan72@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hello. I was just wondering if anybody knows of a personal MP3 player
> that works with regular old Windows 98 that has at least 1GB of
> (preferably built-in) storage? I ordered one online the other week only
> to find out after I received it that it would only work with Windows
> 2000. No driver or anything to get 98 to recognize it. Had to get a
> refund. Then, went to Circuit City and asked the question I'm asking
> here now and the young man helping me out said all the ones they sell
> only work with Win 2000. He said it had something to do with the port.
> I really don't understand this stuff. I bought my wife one about a year
> ago that works with 98, but the built in storage was very small and I
> think the highest external storage you can go up to is 512MB. The
> reason I want at least 1GB is because I want to start listening to my
> favorite 3 hour radio program on MP3 (they let you download the show to
> MP3 format, including archives) and I want to be able to put like a
> week's worth of shows on there at a time. It would be too much of a
> pain to erase and download one show daily. Thank you!
>
Well, you have a few possibilities I think. First, why restrict it to
built-in storage? I also record a radio show but I put it onto SD-cards.
That way I can listen to it either on my mp3 player that takes sd-cards or
my iPaq or my PC or my laptop whichever happens to be more convenient. It's
far easier to pop an SD-card in and out than transfer files to various
machines or always rely on your mp3 player alone. Obviously, as long as you
have a card reader that will work on WIN98 - common enough - you are all
set.

Another possibility is to shrink your files. If you are recording talk
radio, you can get by with a low mp3 bit rate that should allow you to fit a
lot in a small space. The show I record winds up taking about 10 MB per
hour. There are programs that will shrink your mp3's fairly easily - I have
used the free version of switch http://nch.com.au/switch/index.html

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