| An Mp3 player is also known as a digital audio player, | | | | An Mp3 player with hard drive is good for travel or for |
| and it has become a regular fixture in our everyday | | | | those compelled to be away from their computers for |
| lives. Everybody seems to have one these days. | | | | long periods of time. It is ideal for listening in the living |
| Walking the dog, at the gym, traveling to work, the idea | | | | room, and it can be connected to external speakers. |
| that you can carry your entire music library with you | | | | An Mp3 player with flash memory is useful while |
| anywhere is extremely appealing to most people. | | | | jogging or at the gym because of its lightness. |
| MP3 players have made music easily accessible to | | | | Mp3 players were introduced in the early nineties, and |
| everyone. You can simply download the songs from | | | | ever since then, there has been a running argument |
| the free download sites and save them in your player | | | | over audio quality. A lot of people feel that Mp3 |
| and carry with you everywhere. Nothing could be | | | | compression has an adverse effect on the quality of |
| better when you are stuck in a massive traffic jam | | | | the sound; the others argue that the Mp3 audio format |
| and don`t know how to while away your time. | | | | just removes the frequency of audio data that cannot |
| Mp3 stands for Moving Picture Experts Group layer III, | | | | be possibly heard by people, so there is no real loss in |
| and can be seen as a technology which audio data | | | | the sound quality. |
| can fit smaller memory space, without any loss to | | | | More and more new features are being added to the |
| audio quality. Raw audio data is normally very large | | | | Mp3 player with advancing technology. Some have |
| and difficult to use on portable devices because of the | | | | built in digital photograph albums, as in the later |
| lack of available storage. A standard audio CD can | | | | generation iPod, and you can download and access |
| hold up to 80 minutes of audio data. With Mp3, about | | | | your pictures while you are on the move. Some have |
| ten times more audio data can be stored in memory | | | | analogue radio and digital radio receivers. |
| of the same size. | | | | It is usually believed that MP4 is just a modern and |
| Although you will find many mp3 player brands in the | | | | updated version of MP3. But it is not so at all. It is |
| market, there are mainly three Mp3 player types, | | | | something very different in its features. MP3 can be |
| mostly based on memory capacity. The Mp3 player | | | | considered to be of a particular category belonging to |
| with hard drive has the highest capacity and is often | | | | audio formats, whereas MP4 is considered to be in a |
| called a Jukebox Mp3 player. Examples are iPod video, | | | | container format. However in spite of these |
| Sony Walkman. The Micro Mp3 player with hard drive | | | | differences, mp3 files can be run in either of the |
| has a lower capacity and is lighter than an Mp3 player | | | | players. |
| with hard drive. Examples are iPod Mini, Zen Micro | | | | One thing you will do well to remember is that your |
| (Creative Labs). The Mp3 player with flash memory is | | | | Mp3 player sound quality is only as good as the |
| the smallest in size with the lowest capacity, and is | | | | headphones you are listening with. So do spend a little |
| very light. An example is iPod Nano. | | | | time and money on superior quality headphones. |