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CD Conversion kits
On Thu, 01 May 2003 02:38:21 GMT, "Rich Frati" wrote: Being reliastic about it - you should forget wasting time setting up multi CD players - and instead put the effort into a hard drive based MP3 system. biggest problem with using CD's will be a few years down the track where the CD player fails and you need to replace it - only to find that the same model is incompatible with the setup you have in the juke, and it will be a big pain to fix this in software in the future. an MP3 player inside there will easily hold 100 cd's worth of music on a mere 10 gig hard drive - which is dirt cheap to buy. The songs can be downloaded to the juke fast fast by the users's pc. I hate to say it - but this is the way of the future, and the CD will inevitibly become the past. If you want to make the product even more appealing and more future proof - then also allow it to have the option to play MPEG video clips from the hard drive as well as audio. This sort of thing might annoy the purists - but it will be something that will be saleable to the general public - particularly in the future when 45s become impossible to buy - and people want more modern music. i do agree that this device should be made - if possible - to be connected without damaging the existing system in there, so as converting back to the 45 Record system is a trouble free - preferably "plug in" operation. a hard drive based MP3 system could be easily hidden in the machine too - as it would be smal - and there wouldnt be a need to remove the record mech to make space too. Most modern consumer goods like CD players too are rubbish quality and not made to last - and the models available change every year or more - with totally new internals and chipsets - which only makes things worse for the buyer as far as compatibility goes. Many too I have heard will not play burnt cd's now either - or have troubles doing some types. (If you are selling this for home use - for people to replace the 100 odd records that are in the machine - they will need to burn their own CD to match exactly the record titles that they have in there.) |
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Sound Leisure already do conversion kits...
"KLR" wrote in message ... On Thu, 01 May 2003 02:38:21 GMT, "Rich Frati" wrote: Being reliastic about it - you should forget wasting time setting up multi CD players - and instead put the effort into a hard drive based MP3 system. biggest problem with using CD's will be a few years down the track where the CD player fails and you need to replace it - only to find that the same model is incompatible with the setup you have in the juke, and it will be a big pain to fix this in software in the future. an MP3 player inside there will easily hold 100 cd's worth of music on a mere 10 gig hard drive - which is dirt cheap to buy. The songs can be downloaded to the juke fast fast by the users's pc. I hate to say it - but this is the way of the future, and the CD will inevitibly become the past. If you want to make the product even more appealing and more future proof - then also allow it to have the option to play MPEG video clips from the hard drive as well as audio. This sort of thing might annoy the purists - but it will be something that will be saleable to the general public - particularly in the future when 45s become impossible to buy - and people want more modern music. i do agree that this device should be made - if possible - to be connected without damaging the existing system in there, so as converting back to the 45 Record system is a trouble free - preferably "plug in" operation. a hard drive based MP3 system could be easily hidden in the machine too - as it would be smal - and there wouldnt be a need to remove the record mech to make space too. Most modern consumer goods like CD players too are rubbish quality and not made to last - and the models available change every year or more - with totally new internals and chipsets - which only makes things worse for the buyer as far as compatibility goes. Many too I have heard will not play burnt cd's now either - or have troubles doing some types. (If you are selling this for home use - for people to replace the 100 odd records that are in the machine - they will need to burn their own CD to match exactly the record titles that they have in there.) |
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