Suggestions for a cd walkman

THX758

Will have to try it one day...Can you upload the cd tracks in itunes onto a non apple mp3 player too?

RumRat

Without explaining how.....Yes.

googler

THX758 wrote: »

Will have to try it one day...Can you upload the cd tracks in itunes onto a non apple mp3 player too?

Yes.

You can also bypass iTunes altogether, ripping the CDs to FLAC or mp3, and store them in Windows folders according to your own preference.

If you store them as FLAC, you can buy players for £150 that will equal the quality of your CD walkman, and are far more compact. Such as this one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiiO-X3-Lossless-Portable-Digital/dp/B00VR5JHVK

googler

googler wrote: »

Yes.

You can also bypass iTunes altogether, ripping the CDs to FLAC or mp3, and store them in Windows folders according to your own preference.

If you store them as FLAC, you can buy players for £150 that will equal the quality of your CD walkman, and are far more compact. Such as this one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiiO-X3-Lossless-Portable-Digital/dp/B00VR5JHVK

mp3 achieves smaller file sizes by throwing some of your music away. FLAC doesn't.

grumbler

googler wrote: »

mp3 achieves smaller file sizes by throwing some of your music away. FLAC doesn't.

I guess the OP will need really good headphones to notice the difference.

agrinnall

Step 1: construct a time machine to take you 20 years in the past when the CD Walkman was the trendy way to listen to your music on the go...

grumbler

Why time machine? Argos are still selling even cassette players.

Bogof_Babe

Get an iPod. Saves your phone battery.

esuhl

grumbler wrote: »

I guess the OP will need really good headphones to notice the difference.

You probably won't notice the difference with a cheap £15 set of earphones, but you don't need to spend crazy money to be able to hear a significant improvement in FLAC over MP3.

Also, everyone's hearing is different. Despite wanting to use open source, non-proprietary codecs, I find that I much prefer the sound of a WMA file over an MP3 one of the same size. Others may find the opposite.

So, I have my CD collection stored as FLAC for playing locally, and convert it to WMA on the fly when I want to copy some tunes to my portable audio player.

Unless you have thousands of CDs, I reckon it's worth putting up with a bit of tedium to get them ripped. A portable MP3 player can possibly hold your entire CD collection, and be smaller, lighter, and less energy-hungry than a portable CD player. And it won't skip if you start running!

esuhl

agrinnall wrote: »

Step 1: construct a time machine to take you 20 years in the past when the CD Walkman was the trendy way to listen to your music on the go...

I don't think the main objective of the OP is to ensure that they appear "trendy".