Discman

Well its not very hi-tech , but in the weekend I bought a Sony discman that plays mp3's for $150
I'm travelling for 6 weeks and couldnt stand the thought of being without personal music.
Its very good - using mp3 I can cram about 10 albums on to a CD. The LCD reads the mp3 tags so you can select by folders etc
They have software which can convert your audio CD's into a propritary format called ATRAC3 but I can be assed , mp3's work fine
Oh and I suppsedly get 60 hours play off 2 AA batteries - sweet !

damn peat, where did you get this marvel from? what brand is it? does it come with a car kit?

/me is looking for a discman for the car at present

Minidisk players are worth a look too - because they only spin up the (small) disk for a few seconds to read the whole track the battery lasts ages.

You can get diskmans like the one described above at almost any consumer electronics store. If you want a really high quality diskman/mp3 player, try iRiver ones at http://www.iriver.com

Nice work peat, it's a pretty cheap deal you got, I found Discman with MP3 play back a good substitute to the more expensive MP3 players around the market, one CD can roughly hold 150 songs, which is quite a lot for any one day

yeh just from Bond and Bond as commando says , no big deal, but does the trick fine-I think the reason it sounds so good coz of my very nice Technics headphones
Didnt come with car kit (I have motorbike haha dont ride with music tho would be cool I guess!)

Ta peat, I'll go find a Bond and Bond and check it out

Commando, mini-disc players are a good option in general but for me an Mp3 discman is better and cheaper

Yeah that's a good deal man.. I bought one from the USA 2 years ago & paid $400 NZ fot it !
I work in the bush so it's had bit of a hard life, I play it most days for 6-8 hrs & it's never missed a beat..untill the last 2 weeks it's just started to skip on some tracks ( I use cd-rw 's ).
But I've had good value for money out of it.

So I'm on the look out for another one....will check out Bond & Bond here in Roto-vagas