Now this (http://www.mp3player.co.kr/indexk.html) is NICE.

What a nifty idea. Although I couldn't find any pics of it on that web site (it seems all they have is a patent for the idea at this time), it's a great concept. A miniature MP3 player the shape of an audio cassete that you insert into a casette player to use. I guess they'd have speed sensors on the little holes so that they can tell whether it's in stop/play/ff/rew mode.

Still, I like having the Empeg's kind of storage. I can't ever see owning one of the small ones. One day, they'll get storage technology small enough to do that kind of thing with gigs instead of megs.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144

There were several of these at C.E.S - cute, but I can't think of any practical value. The very limited capacity demands low bitrates, and the magnetic interface restricts the audio to a cassette response envelope.

I daresay the quality will be a little better than a regular cassette, but I think I would go for a C90 cassette and spend the money I save on some CD's to copy onto it.

Rob

I agree with Rob's analysis, but for anyone who still wants one, try looking here.

-v

I'm pretty much in agreement with this - it is basically a Geekbone, but -

- I remember how surprised I was at the quality of playback when I got a cassette playback adaptor for my portable CD player to allow me to use it in any of our cars (this was prior to the empeg, of course). I don't know whether it was just the signal level from the player driving the head, but I felt that I was getting quite excellent playback (better than I expected, anyway).

A mockup is shown on the "hardware" page.

>the magnetic interface restricts the audio to a cassette response envelope.
> I daresay the quality will be a little better than a regular cassette,

Actually, before I got an in-dash CD player, I used a cassette adapter tied to a portable CD player. It sounded _significantly_ better than a cassette tape. I'm not saying the sound was as nice as the setup I have now, but it will satisfy a lot of people.

Still, with only 32MB capacity this Rome player is pretty much worthless.

Michael