iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection
iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection
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Load up an eight-centimeter mini-CD with all your favorite digital music files and plug it into the Compaq iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player for hours and hours of your favorite tunes. The perfect companion for people who travel, exercise, or commute, this ultra-compact player might be small on size, but it is big on music. Each tiny disc holds up to six hours of music, and the player offers an excellent anti-shock protection system for uninterrupted playback. When playing CD-DA material, you can count on a whopping 160 seconds of protection, and when playing MP3 files, the PM-1 delivers a staggering 480 seconds of protection. Run, jump, ski, cycle, this player will keep your favorite songs piped right into your ears no matter how strenuous the activity.
The PM-1 comes with rechargeable batteries. With the line-out jack, it is easy to connect the player to a home stereo system. The in-line remote control is fully-functional, complete with an LCD screen, and will keep you connected to your player even when you are across the room. With the power-saving function, saving precious battery power is breeze -- the auto-off button will power-off the player after thirty seconds in the stop or open mode.
Five equalizer settings give you the control of your sound quality, and with ID3 tag support, finding critical information about track, title, artist and album is at your fingertips. Multiple search possibilities are included in the player, assisting you in finding that one song or album you absolutely need to listen to. This kind of organization is a much-appreciated extra-special feature when trying to sort through six hours of music. The program mode will store thirty-two tracks to help you create an individualized play list. The player comes with MusicMatch Jukebox software to assist in using the player to its fullest extent.
What's in the Box
iPAQ PM-1 mini-CD player, inline remote control, headphones, AC adaptor, two rechargeable AAA batteries, three eight-centimeter discs, installation CD, and a user's manual.
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Your world never stops moving. So why should your music? Introducing the Compaq iPAQ Personal Audio Player PA-2 - the next generation in portable audio that's small, lightweight and better than ever. Load up the included 64 MB Multi Media Card with MP3 or WMA digital audio files. Then enjoy up to 2 hours of music with your comfortable athletic, foldable headphones. With Windows Media Player and MusicMatch Jukebox software, management of your digital audio couldn't be easier. With an extended battery life of up to 14 hours, you can go anywhere - and do anything - without missing a beat.
iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection
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iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection
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Product Description
Your world never stops moving. So why should your music? Introducing the Compaq iPAQ Personal Audio Player PA-2 - the next generation in portable audio that's small, lightweight and better than ever. Load up the included 64 MB Multi Media Card with MP3 or WMA digital audio files. Then enjoy up to 2 hours of music with your comfortable athletic, foldable headphones. With Windows Media Player and MusicMatch Jukebox software, management of your digital audio couldn't be easier. With an extended battery life of up to 14 hours, you can go anywhere - and do anything - without missing a beat.Amazon.com Product Description
Load up an eight-centimeter mini-CD with all your favorite digital music files and plug it into the Compaq iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player for hours and hours of your favorite tunes. The perfect companion for people who travel, exercise, or commute, this ultra-compact player might be small on size, but it is big on music. Each tiny disc holds up to six hours of music, and the player offers an excellent anti-shock protection system for uninterrupted playback. When playing CD-DA material, you can count on a whopping 160 seconds of protection, and when playing MP3 files, the PM-1 delivers a staggering 480 seconds of protection. Run, jump, ski, cycle, this player will keep your favorite songs piped right into your ears no matter how strenuous the activity.The PM-1 comes with rechargeable batteries. With the line-out jack, it is easy to connect the player to a home stereo system. The in-line remote control is fully-functional, complete with an LCD screen, and will keep you connected to your player even when you are across the room. With the power-saving function, saving precious battery power is breeze -- the auto-off button will power-off the player after thirty seconds in the stop or open mode.
Five equalizer settings give you the control of your sound quality, and with ID3 tag support, finding critical information about track, title, artist and album is at your fingertips. Multiple search possibilities are included in the player, assisting you in finding that one song or album you absolutely need to listen to. This kind of organization is a much-appreciated extra-special feature when trying to sort through six hours of music. The program mode will store thirty-two tracks to help you create an individualized play list. The player comes with MusicMatch Jukebox software to assist in using the player to its fullest extent.
What's in the Box
iPAQ PM-1 mini-CD player, inline remote control, headphones, AC adaptor, two rechargeable AAA batteries, three eight-centimeter discs, installation CD, and a user's manual.
Customer Reviews:
Great Travel Companion.......2003-07-27
I like old radio shows. One disk will hold over 20 hours of radio shows.
Tip #1: Ditch the supplied headphones. They didn't fit and have a limited range. Plus they let in too much outside noise.
Tip #2: If you fly a lot, invest in a pair of noise canceling headphones. I have found that the AIWA or Jensen perform equal or better than the BOSE and cost only a fraction.
Tip #3: Since the software supplied is very pedestrian, replace it with almost any free downloaded ripper and even the CD cutter that came with your CD-RW drive.
Tip #4: Buy the 3.5" disks in bulk. They are much cheaper that way.
Tip #5: Label all of your tracks. There is no ability to go directly to a track or select the sequence that I have found that consistently works. "Next" and "Back" are about all you get.
Tip #6: If you use MUSICMATCH Jukebox do not perform volume leveling on your music before you cut the CD-Rs. For some reason this blocks the iPAQ's ability to read the title and artist data.
Since the player, control unit, and headphones all fit nicely in your briefcase, it is truly a portable unit. Need sound for a group, add a pair of good travel speakers and you are all set.
Not ready for prime-time.......2002-07-26
The battery life is definitely not anywhere near the advertised 8 hours. I think I was able to get 4-5 hours out of a fully charged battery. Speaking of batteries, if yours run down, you're stuck - I wasn't able to make this player work off the regular over-the-counter AAAs. It seems to only accept it's bundled batteries.
The whole construction has a rather flimsy feel to it, especially the CD door and the battery door.
Interface is nothing to write home about either - there is no display on the main unit, and the remote isn't backlit. The battery indicator on the remote is so tiny, it will be difficult to figure out how much charge is left. Even though all the player buttons are duplicated on the remote, you can only "turn on" the player by pressing "play" on the main unit. Which ... if you have it in a bag, with "hold" turned on, and accidentally press "stop" on the remote. You have to extract the player, turn off hold and press play before you can use it.
The unit seems to rely entirely on buffering for skip protection, reading the whole song into memory at times. This is problematic because the CD will have to spin up before the next song can start playing, and if you are walking and have it in your pant pocket, you may have to stop so it can find and read the next track without being shaken.
The sound quality is acceptible for the applications, and if you are OK listening to MP3s as CD substitutes, this device won't disappoint. The little CDs are incredibly compact, and take less than 2 minutes to burn, making this by far the most convenient and inexpensive removable media on the market today. I think mini-CD mp3 players are a terrific idea with a great future ahead of them, but I'll be waiting for a better player to take advantage of it, and so should you.
Good Player, Headphone, BUT they don't match........2002-04-19
The most important part should be sound quality. I have read from amazon reviews that there is buzz background noise, and I did hear it and annoyed by it, and even intended to return it. However I tried to use a cheapist headphone for no reason, and the noise is complete gone. Then I put the original headphone back, and I heard the noise again. So I decided that the headphone must have been cheaper than the cheapist. Before I had threw it away, I plugged it in my computer and listened some music. Supprisingly there was no noise at all, and the sound quality was much better than my cheapist headphone. So I decided to keep it for other use except to use it with the mini CD player.
My concludsion is that both the player and the headphone are of high quality, BUT they don't match!!! What a mistake compaq made!
My personal feeling about it is that it's relatively cheap for its functions---value(5); the sound quality is good except they shipped with a mismatched headphone---performance(4);there is no LCD display on the play, making it unconvienient when not using inline remote---ease of use(4); and the average is rounded to 4. But for the player alone, 5 star.
I don't know?.......2002-03-19
First, the construction quality is marginally acceptable. Made entirely of plastic it probably won't survive many or any drops. The remote separated around the jack when I used my professional quality Headphones -- Sony MDR-7506's.
The sound quality is satisfactory. As mentioned in earlier reviews there is a slight buzz, which is only noticeable in quiet situations -- I've gotten used to it. Despite the buzz, the quality of the mp3's is fully reproduced at whatever bitrate they were encoded.
The product specs say 6 hours of music are possible on an 8 cm compact disc. This is only possible if your mp3's are encoded at a very low bitrate.
Another quirk that perturbed me was the fact the player would occasionally stop when my headphones were connected directly to the player, and not inline with the remote.
If you can deal with some of the quirks and the mediocre construction then this is an ideal player.
PM-1 Owner Update.......2002-03-07
It works fine with any mp3 file formats I've thrown at it including high bit rate CBR and VBR files. Reads ID3v1 tags flawlessly and deals with long filenames well. Too bad subdirectories/folders are just referred to by number as opposed to their names.
Shock protection is excellent, used it snowboarding without a single skip and batteries lasted just over 4 hours. I was initially worried that the long cord to the remote combined with the long cord from the remote to the headphone would be a royal pain but it acutally came in handy. I was able to put the PM-1 in the inside breast pocket of my Burton jacket, route the remote down my left sleeve and clip it to the inside of my wrist and route the headphone wire back up the sleeve and out the collar to my head. This left the remote well protected and warm (good thing b/c the cold temp will make the LCD display very sluggish and appear faded, wonder what the freezing temp of the LCD is?) yet still workable through my sleeve's fabric w/o taking off my gloves. Need to modify my jacket to have a transparent window and clip on pocket inside it for the remote for full functionality!
The "hiss" you hear when this thing is on is still a bit annoying but isn't noticable at all if you are in anything but a completely silent environment or active at all once the music gets going. Not exactly "Hi-Fi" but what the heck, we are talking about playing MP3's after all, not DVD-Audio or SACD's.
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