Just curious, how many axim users out there use a separate MP3 player device?

[dellaximboy]

I use a Sony Mindisc Walkman: http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...N510CK&Dept=pa

[Dingo78]

The Axim is the only "portable audio device" I need..
I use my 512 Mb CF card for music, and it works great.

My work involves a lot of movement, sometimes climbing,(:hide:) so I wear my headphones with the cable hanging down my back.(usually under my shirt). It's never in my way.

I also have a camera bag that I use for storing my axim.
(modified to protect the screen better..)
It can be worn on the belt, as well as around the neck if needed. I will be doing some more with it, I want the ability to wear it on my arm to...

The ability to take my ax around everywhere, carry it anyway I want, and listen to music all day long while doing everyting I need to do. All in the same device.. PERFECT...

I gave away all my old mp3 players after getting the X5.
They never got used anyway..

[regmar]

Sounds like everyone has tried listening to mp3's on the ax. Mine seems to hang when I try to play tunes from the Sandisk 512mb CF card using Windows Media Player. The song will get about 30 seconds to a minute along then the player goes silent (keeps playing, though), and I can't get any sound even if I restart the song.
Main memory and wireless network files on my server work fine, but since main memory only holds a few songs the ax isn't practical for me when I'm not at home. Is it the card or Windows Media? Any ideas?

Originally posted by regmar
Sounds like everyone has tried listening to mp3's on the ax. Mine seems to hang when I try to play tunes from the Sandisk 512mb CF card using Windows Media Player. The song will get about 30 seconds to a minute along then the player goes silent (keeps playing, though), and I can't get any sound even if I restart the song.
Main memory and wireless network files on my server work fine, but since main memory only holds a few songs the ax isn't practical for me when I'm not at home. Is it the card or Windows Media? Any ideas?

The reason is, is that your cf card probally has a slow speed.;)
4x? 8x? or 24x?

If the card is slow, then it will be slow transfering data from the axim.;)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by regmar
Sounds like everyone has tried listening to mp3's on the ax. Mine seems to hang when I try to play tunes from the Sandisk 512mb CF card using Windows Media Player. The song will get about 30 seconds to a minute along then the player goes silent (keeps playing, though), and I can't get any sound even if I restart the song.
Main memory and wireless network files on my server work fine, but since main memory only holds a few songs the ax isn't practical for me when I'm not at home. Is it the card or Windows Media? Any ideas? [/QUOTE

You could also have a corrupted CF Card, so then the songs would be corrupted and not play properly. :rolling:

i doubt any company would make a 512MB CF that was rated less than 8x.....


ive heard of this problem before, but i dont remember the fix.


as for my mp3 player, that'd be my axim...i got a 512MB viking CF card recently and its full of music and videos. dont really see why anyone would want to carry an additional device around if theyre already carrying an axim. (unless, i suppose, your listening needs shift constantly and you need access to 1000s of songs...)

[regmar]

Can you be more specific? 4x,8x, 24x? What are these things?

[regmar]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by markprieb

Originally posted by regmar
Sounds like everyone has tried listening to mp3's on the ax. Mine seems to hang when I try to play tunes from the Sandisk 512mb CF card using Windows Media Player. The song will get about 30 seconds to a minute along then the player goes silent (keeps playing, though), and I can't get any sound even if I restart the song.
Main memory and wireless network files on my server work fine, but since main memory only holds a few songs the ax isn't practical for me when I'm not at home. Is it the card or Windows Media? Any ideas? [/QUOTE

You could also have a corrupted CF Card, so then the songs would be corrupted and not play properly. :rolling:

[stark23x]

I use my 30GB iPod for music. The sound quality coming out of the Axim is quite, and I mean *quite* inferior to that of the iPod. Plus, I prefer the powerful interface of the iPod, and I don't want to be limited to carrying a max of even 4GB of music.

In fact, I'm such a huge iPod fan, I bought my wife one of her own (30GB) and I might be buying a 40GB model and passing my 30 off to do house duty as the classical music repository.

Now, I *do* use my Axim to carry around a minimum of two episodes of one or another of my favorite TV shows on a spare SD card.... One never knows when one will be in a waiting room for 20 minutes or so! ;)

[SlimDady]

I hardly use my axim for mp3.. Mostly now i just listen to mp3s at home through my modded xbox and Xbox Media Player.


I do have plans to use it in my car shortly. Im just waiting to put in my deck so i have the aux input thing. Id rather do it that way then with a tape adapter or somthing

an "x" stands of a transfer rate of 150k/s (right?). 10x cards seem to be the most common at this point.

Originally posted by stark23x
I use my 30GB iPod for music. The sound quality coming out of the Axim is quite, and I mean *quite* inferior to that of the iPod.

through headphones or speaker?

[aviationwiz]

Not an Axim user, but am a PPC user. I have an iPod.

[cribbagewiz]

I use my Axim to listen to mp3's and wma's but I also have a Sony D-CS901 MP3 CD player. The Aximjust doesn't have enough memory (even with the 256MB SD card I have) for listening to audio books or keeping a decent selection of music around.

I have to have variety in what I listen to during the day. I keep videos and audio around on my Axim, for those unexpected lines or waiting rooms I end up in, but my primary listening device at work is the MP3/CD player.

[cribbagewiz]

Originally posted by Astounded EEG
an "x" stands of a transfer rate of 150k/s (right?)

I'm not certain, but I think that the definition of 'x' depends on the media. I know for a fact that a DVDR that burns at 2x is not 300k/s, it's more like 3000k/s.

[bbdh]

No way! Cards give as much if not more storage than any MP3 player on the market. WhatintheworldwouldIdothatfor?

Originally posted by bbdh
No way! Cards give as much if not more storage than any MP3 player on the market. WhatintheworldwouldIdothatfor?

youre being facetious right

[Mike Walker]

ARRGH! It's frustrating hearing know-it-all "audiophiles" talking about how mp3 destroys bass. Anyone who actually understands the science behind perceptual coding knows that mp3 does NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to bass information. It doesn't need to! Bass is very low in frequency, hence very few bits are required to encode it fully. Unlike analog tape (or lp) which has always had trouble with deep bass, digital systems, including HEAVILY COMPRESSED digital systems (such as Windows Media and Real Audio as low as 20kbps) have NO difficulty in reproducing FULLY extended bass.

There's a reason that surround sound systems are referred to as 5.1. The "point one" is for low bass...implying that it takes only a tenth as much information to fully encode low bass frequencies. Actually it takes considerably less than that. Bass below 100hz can be FULLY encoded with a sample frequency of 250hz (for instance).

Having said that, the perception of bass "slowness" or reduced "impact" CAN take place because of reduced upper-midrange information with mp3 (or other lossy codecs) at low bitrates. This is because it is at midrange and treble frequencies where we perceive "speed/impact/slam" of bass instruments. Remember, NO musical instrument reproduces JUST bass. If an instrument produced ONLY bass, it wouldn't be music at all. It would be a sine wave! The crispness and impact of pick against string on electric bass, the "whack" of beater against bass drum head, etc...these all occur at upper midrange frequencies.

Don't believe me? (I AM an engineer/producer and studio owner). Ask the engineer of your choice how to bring bass instruments forward in a mix, to make what they're playing more audible. If they know ANYTHING about mixing techniques, they'll tell you that boosting upper midrange/treble equalization (2-4khz) on the bass track will accomplish just that. It also will make it possible to hear what notes the bass player is playing even on unlikely devices such as table radios with 3" speakers, which obviously reproduce very little, if any of the "fundamental" frequency (the actual "note").

So many words are used subjectively describing what mp3 encoding removes from music. And there's simply no reason to settle for subjectivist b.s. when it's possible to objectively PROVE that mp3 removes almost nothing (when properly encoded). Use a "null" test. Rip your test track onto your computer's hard drive uncompressed. Open the uncompressed file on an instance of Cool Edit (Adobe Audition, or your favorite editing program). Now open another instance of your editor, and copy and paste the entire uncompressed wave into the window on your 2nd instance. Invert the phase (polarity actually, but it's often incorrectly referred to as "phase") of the entire file, and save as an mp3 file at, say, 256kbps using the built-in algorithm. Now close the 2nd instance of the program (where you've saved the compressed wave. Re-open the 2nd instance, and open the compressed (mp3) version of your file (closing and re-opening the program guarantees that you're actually opening the polarity-inverted, compressed version of the file). Now copy THE ENTIRE WAVEFORM from the 2nd (mp3 compressed) instance of the file, and mix-paste it (at 100 percent volume) on top of the uncompressed file in the 1st instance of the program. WHOOSH...almost all of the waveform disappears, doesn't it. Now, turn up your speakers, and listen CAREFULLY. Hear anything? No? Turn it up louder. At some point you may hear a slight "whisper" similar to the original content. Odds are you'll hear almost nothing. What does this prove? What is left is what mp3 removed from the file! ALMOST NOTHING...certainly less than ANY analog format. Repeat, NO ANALOG FORMAT ON EARTH CAN PASS THIS TEST! This is PROOF that mp3, at higher bitrates, removes almost nothing!

As I said, no need for subjectivist b.s on this subject, when objective SCIENCE can prove the emperor is "nekkid" (as we say in the south) :)

thats what i love about aximsite, you never know what you'll learn next...

[wmson2000]

I use my axim for listening to mp3's frequently when I'm travelling and love using it for that purpose. . .

BUT I wouldn't thinking of using it when I want to listen to some tunes while cycling (go Lance :nw: !). I wouldn't want to subject my Dell to possible damage, weather, etc.. Yes, I know I shoudn't be using headphones while riding bike but I keep the volume low and anyway, it helps me keep my "cadence" up.

When cycling I use a Creative Nomad II with a 64mb memory card (wish the card were bigger)

[manoosie]

Mike Walker is officially pissed...


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