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[muninnhuginn]

DAB receivers have hit the under £50 mark--so I bought one in Tesco yesterday.

It's neat once you've mastered the controls. The reception's fine, better in FM than any of our other radios (bar the digital feed to the TV) and far clearer--for speech--in DAB than anything we have. It's light, portable, works on mains, batteries (standard or rechargeable) or it's own internally rechargeable ones.

Of course, what I really want is their DAB/MP3 player. I guess it'll be another gadget that's incompatible with our stone-age operating system.

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gosh!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

You're right, what you really want is the DAB/MP3 player (that can record radio to SD!) ... me too!

My first DAB radio was only £25. Admittedly it was the Goodmans one with the built-in CD player ... which I got from a returns stall in the Kempton Park market (where they were marked down from £99 to £50) ... this one had been returned *again* because the CD player wasn't working (and the remote was missing) ... so I ended up with a kitchen DAB radio for £25.

Perhaps it's time to upgrade?

Re: gosh!

[muninnhuginn]

It does really seem perfect. I use the FM radio on my little MP3 player rather a lot. (It cost me around £250 three years ago, so we can see how prices are going.)

I've this horrid feeling that it won't work with Win98--and I'm still debating whether to go Mac-wards with my putative laptop.

I emailed Pure about compatibility--and also the size of the SD.

But, yeah, I think I want this more than I want an iPod Nano, even tho' it's not in black (yes, the radio is).

I've just managed to get Looby Loo to go and tidy her room, becuase she can take the radio and listen to BBC7 while she does it. I'm listening downstairs.

indeed

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I have switched over to using my phone (SonyEricsson K750i) for my travel time music ... it's got a 2Gb memory card full of MP3s and an FM tuner!

If there's a USB socket on your PC, then you should be able to find a card reader for SD for around a tenner. If there isn't, then a USB card from Maplins can be had for under a tenner and should (I believe) come with a Win98 drivers disk (I'm pretty sure the 12.99 one I bought a couple of weeks back came with such a disk).

I'm currently listening to Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (episode 4, "A Journey to the Centre of Rick Wakeman") which, admittedly, has been on Radio 4 (listening on BBC streaming audio and recording it to MP3) but half the time I'm listening to BBC7 for things like the ISIHAC repeats.

SD card prices

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

1Gb £13.29 (http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=99101)

2Gb £34.99 (http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=100916)

Though I'd probably go for the MiniSD card with SD card adapter (so it will work in phones that use MiniSD as well as normal SD slots) *and* it's two pounds cheaper!
2Gb MiniSD with Adapter £32.99 (http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=100991)

[armb.livejournal.com]

> incompatible with our stone-age operating system

Even if it doesn't come with suitable USB drivers, presumably there are SD card reader/writers that work with your OS? (Windows 98?)

[muninnhuginn]

No idea. The time, additional cost and energy expended in getting things to work on Win98 has become almost too mcuh of a deterrent. There are sufficient things I can't do with Win98 now that I'd like to, e.g. Skype, and the upstairs PC is kaputt, so a new machine of some form or another is defintiely on the cards. (I was going to use the pittance from the potential acquisition of my nWhatsit shares to buy one for me--now it's got to come out of another pot.)