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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:02 pmby Randa france •
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Oh how I hate technology.
As we have all our music on a couple of large USB's and can play our entire collection in the car, we thought it might be a good idea to buy a cheap and cheerful MP3 Portable Stereo System for the Eriba.
We didn't want anything too expensive or too sophisticated and certainly didn't want anything built in. The other day we came across this:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/August-MB300-Por...e/dp/B0031NF116
It arrived today and it's a lovely little bit of kit. The size of a double block of butter and colours to match the Eriba interior. Plenty of volume for a small space and mains/rechargeable battery powered. It's got a built in alarm clock and will take either USB's or SD cards. It doesn't have a track display but we can live with that.
Big snag. It would only play a small quantity of our music. After a lot of head scratching we realised that the majority of our music is formatted as WAV files and not MP3's and this little player will only read MP3's (many more expensive ones will play either 
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We're not sending it back now so Mrs R is re-burning a lot of our favourites as MP3 files.
Randa
1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match
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Oh I like that Paul's got lots of our music on tiny Walkman with pop out speakers that charge vibr8 xt but we are lacking a clock and I can't do ticking clocks at the best of times .so that's perfect and the price is great he will be straight on fleabay.
Caz and Paul 
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As far as I remember .mp3 are smaller than .wav files so you should get more on the usb sticks ......... sounds like you can play them from camera cards too.
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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:25 pmby Randa france •
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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:38 pmby Pepé Le Pew •
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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:13 pmby Julie Grafo •
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I got lost at the very beginning. 
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I got lost ten minutes ago!!!
Quote: Julie Grafo wrote in post #7
I got lost at the very beginning.
Usb refers to a storage stick that can be plugged into lots of things like computers, tablets, music players car radio's and so on.
They can be used to store anything that can be stored on a computers built in hard drive, things like programs, photographs, and digital music.
Music on a cd can be altered on a computer to digital format and stored on these storage sticks which when plugged into a music player will read the digital information and play the music.
Going back a number of years this digital music was made in different types of files by different companies rather like video was either vhs or betamax,
digital music was either wav or mp3 (and a few other minor types) wav was an older type than mp3 (which along with mp4 its improved version are used as the sound part of dvd's)
As with betamax wav format has pretty much fallen by the wayside with mp3 being the standard for digital music and as Roger has found out support among the newer players for wav is falling away too.
This little gadget is a Usb storage stick which with miniaturisation moving along at a lightening pace is bigger storage wise than 15 computer drives when I first started
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It is 2 inches long (including the plug) and is capable of storing about 5200 music tracks give or take a few, I had one quarter that size in the pickup truck a couple of years ago and in 6 months never heard the same track twice
I can just about get my entire music collection on there,
I use one to transfer files and photographs backwards and forwards between my main pc and my laptop between trips in the eriba.
The sd card Roger mentions is the type most used these days in digital camera's
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which can store as much information as the Usb storage sticks can.
Im going to have to give this stuff up I'm sounding too much like a nurd.
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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:54 pmby Randa france •
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Yes I saw that but you can get a huge amount of material on a 4GB SD card or memory stick
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Yes I saw that but you can get a huge amount of material on a 4GB SD card or memory stick
As long as you are aware
the one in my post above is 16 Gb and they make them bigger than that now Forum moderator
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in Anything that's not Eriba-related. Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:11 pmby Randa france •
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Quote: A guest wrote in post #12
[ As long as you are aware
Yes, because my old faithful laptop stopped working a couple of weeks ago and I'm now having to use an ageing Asus Eee notebook I was given a present of a 64GB stick to use for storing a lot of my files.
By using it almost like an external hard drive it's amazing how much better this little computer works.
Randa
1999 Eriba Troll 530 pushing a VW Touran 2L TDi Match
My first desktop had a hard drive that was less than 1 Gb ............... I have an external backup drive that is 1000 times bigger than that now ..........and another inside the desktop
Scary stuff in a way, makes you wonder where it will lead to in the near future? artificial intelligence maybe? or are we already in the matrix
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