Tag archive: Portable Media Players

Chances are if you have purchased a video for your iPod or PSP that it’s encoded in the Mp4 codec. If you would like to extract the audio for your music player, then converting the Mp4 file to an Mp3 is a must. Luckily the process is simple, and there’s an abundance of free converters on the web that will do almost all the work for you.

A pair of white gold cufflinks, a fine Swiss watch, and a set of stainless cutlery will last a century. An HDTV, a laptop, and an iPod will not – which makes knowing when to break out the high-limit American Express and invest in something nice, and when to make a trip to Wal-mart and buy the cheapest box on the shelf, a tricky game. On one hand, everyone would like to own a Dell Adamo, a Sonos music system, and a 50-inch Pioneer Kuro.… Read More

When Microsoft and Apple first started competing, Apple was differentiated by having a few products that did a comparatively few things very well. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple (which had clearly drifted from those roots in the 90s) he took the company back to having a few products that did fewer things but all of them very well and, particularly for the iPod, this made the market for them. But, if you look at the new Zune against the iPod… Read More

Face it – with well over 120 million units sold, no company even comes close to touching the extraordinary success that Apple has enjoyed with its iPod-branded portable media players. Between classic, nano, shuffle and touch models (not to mention nearly 35 million iPhones sold to date), the almighty iPod has become all but synonymous with MP3 players in just a few short years (and perhaps the first “Kleenex” or “Frisbee”… Read More

Full disclosure: Any roundup of MP3 or portable media players that claims to be a definitive “best of” collection isn't a roundup you should be reading. The truth is that there's simply far too much product variety in this category for any one critic – or legion of critics – to authoritatively rate them all, especially given the subjective way in which different features connect with different types of user. So instead,… Read More