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...next time students are jamming to 50 Cent on their MP3 players, they might want to refrain from blasting the song at full volume...
...This is your speed limit for your MP3 player,” said Cory Portnuff, a co-author of the study who is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado. “Every time you increase that level, you increase your risk of developing hearing loss even more...
...study looked at five different MP3 players and measured their absolute volumes with a microphone. Using existing criteria to determine the risk of hearing loss, researchers assessed how much damage each music player caused when played at increased volumes...
...Simon Hossell, European sales director of Gracenote, the company that codes and sorts music on Apple's iPod and most MP3 players, says the technology performs with better than 90% accuracy on a 3- to 5-second sample. "I have been in a bar that was so noisy all I could detect was a guitar chord - and that was enough," he says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind...
...much as it feels like a book, the Reader can still perform digital tricks. It is probably the first Sony product to read MP3 files that have been copied to an SD card, for instance. (It is one of the first Sony products to use SD cards as well as its own Memory Stick format.) I like to listen to classical music while I read ? here the book and the background music come in one device. The Reader can also handle photos, so throw a few photos into its internal memory if you must, but save your slideshows for your...