Word: mp3
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...remedy radio's dearth of originality and authenticity and make it on-demand and portable, Curry created the world's first podcast--a downloadable digital audio file (MP3)--a year ago. Since then, some 10,000 original podcasts most by amateurs talking about everything from their sex lives to their favorite Cabernetshave emerged, creating an entirely new medium. This summer podcasting became a full-blown craze, marked by the word's entry into the Oxford English Dictionary. Lance Armstrong has one. So does Donald Trump. "It's one of the quickest trends I've seen in 12 years," says Jeremy...
Archos' current motto is "On The Go" but it should be "For Tech's Sake." Everything the French firm creates seems to be more proof of concept than mass market gadget. It was among the first to launch a hard-drive based MP3 player, and it beat everyone to market with portable video. Now it promises a mobile digital video recorder, that is, a TiVo-and TV-that you can unplug and take with...
...these days of iPods, desktop stereos seem so 20th Century. Still, when I heard about RCA's new contraption, I was intrigued. Like VCR/DVD combos and camera-docking printers, it's an innovation designed not for early adopters but for late adopters. The stereo comes with a tiny 128MB MP3 player that connects at the top. Pop in a CD (or five), press Record and the songs load themselves onto the portable player as you listen to them...
...downside? Like a mix tape, the music isn't labeled when you record it to the MP3 player. The boombox has no way to identify CDs, and so it doesn't. Tracks, as they're recorded, are called things like "Disc2T13" (as in "disc 2, track 13"). You can see how that could get confusing after a while. Since you can only store about 2 hours of music on the player, I suppose you really just pick a few songs at a time, make your mix, get bored with it then spend time making another one. That's another thing...
...connect the MP3 player to your PC and look at the tracks. If you want, you can edit their tags with a music jukebox program like iTunes or Windows Media Player. More likely, you'd go the other way around: rip the CDs in MP3 format and then drag them over to the MP3 player. This defeats the purpose of the stereo...