Nintendo MP3 Player!
I was in a game shop the other week when I first noticed the Nintendo MP3 Player they had on sale. It was apparently for the DS (I later found out it's actually designed for the GBA (Micro especially), but it works in both) I was quite intrigued but didn't pick one up at the time, since it used SD Cards, which I didn't have an interface for (with my PC).
However, my old MP3 player had already developed a weird quirk, that it wouldn't play like, the bass or something, to a track. I mean... I'd hear music, but it'd be as if part of it was missing. Like, certain instruments, the vocals or whatever, would be absent, and only the background music would play. If I fiddled around with the connector for my headphones it would fix it, but only while I actually held the cable, which was kinda awkward. I thought it was a problem with the headphones at first, but I've only encountered it when using them with the player.
Anyway, I figured that I was using SD Cards for my Wii already, and Amazon was selling uber cheap 2 Gig SD Cards, so I thought I'd get a new card, and the Nintendo MP3 player. So I did that today on the way home, as well as picking up something to let me plug the SD Cards into my PC. It's quite funky. Obviously I couldn't do anything with it until I got home, but I've just been testing it and it's pretty good. It has a nice little interface that can be set to look like graphics from Mario for the NES. And I can actually browse music by folder and stuff (my last one had some complicated searching stuff, which usually resulted in it piling all the music in one place, in whatever order it felt like.
Oh, also, I'm home in Renfrew for the weekend, will be going out with family for lunch tomorrow, but free in evening. My bus back to Edinburgh is at quarter past three on Sunday.
However, my old MP3 player had already developed a weird quirk, that it wouldn't play like, the bass or something, to a track. I mean... I'd hear music, but it'd be as if part of it was missing. Like, certain instruments, the vocals or whatever, would be absent, and only the background music would play. If I fiddled around with the connector for my headphones it would fix it, but only while I actually held the cable, which was kinda awkward. I thought it was a problem with the headphones at first, but I've only encountered it when using them with the player.
Anyway, I figured that I was using SD Cards for my Wii already, and Amazon was selling uber cheap 2 Gig SD Cards, so I thought I'd get a new card, and the Nintendo MP3 player. So I did that today on the way home, as well as picking up something to let me plug the SD Cards into my PC. It's quite funky. Obviously I couldn't do anything with it until I got home, but I've just been testing it and it's pretty good. It has a nice little interface that can be set to look like graphics from Mario for the NES. And I can actually browse music by folder and stuff (my last one had some complicated searching stuff, which usually resulted in it piling all the music in one place, in whatever order it felt like.
Oh, also, I'm home in Renfrew for the weekend, will be going out with family for lunch tomorrow, but free in evening. My bus back to Edinburgh is at quarter past three on Sunday.