[Fists] MP3 Player Tip

[Bill Evans]

In response to Jeff Davis report that Winamp worked fine
with the ARRL files, I tried it last night.  Winamp plays
the ARRL files just fine.  So much for the great Windoze V
7.1 Media Player!

Bill VE4UD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Evans" <bevans@ebsys.mb.ca>
To: "Jeff Davis" <n9avg@att.net>; <fists@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] MP3 Player Tip


> When I play the ARRL MP-3 files on my PC with Windows
Media
> Player 7.1 the keying is very "hard" and produces clicks
in
> the audio to my speakers that I find unacceptable.  Is
> anyone else having this problem with the ARRL files?  Is
> there a "fix"?
>
> Bill Evans  VE4UD
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Davis" <n9avg@att.net>
> To: <fists@mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:43 AM
> Subject: [Fists] MP3 Player Tip
>
>
> > Friends.
> >
> > I drive one hour each way to work everyday. I don't
> operate mobile from my
> > car. But I have recently picked up a handy little device
> that lets me get in
> > some code practice while driving.
> >
> > These little MP3 players have gotten pretty cheap. I
> picked up a Rio400 at
> > Best Buy for $39 a few weeks ago. It is slightly smaller
> than a pack of
> > cigarettes and runs on batteries. It even came with
> ear-bud style
> > headphones. It has 64MB of storage so it holds hours of
> MP3 files. It
> > connects to my PC via USB for transferring files. I also
> noticed at least a
> > dozen other similar players but the Rio400 was the
> cheapest on the table.
> >
> > The ARRL Web site makes W1AW code practice files
available
> in MP3 format
> > from 5wpm to 40wpm. And they are new and fresh each
week.
> I download a lot
> > of them and then transfer them to the MP3 player.
Because
> there are no
> > moving parts in the player, the files never skip or mess
> up. It just makes
> > for nice code practice while you are driving, jogging,
> exercising, or riding
> > a bike. Like a tape player you can skip one file and
> select another, etc.
> >
> > In addition, the weekly ARRL Audio News is now in MP3
> format as is Newsline.
> > I download those each week and now make use of my "idle"
> drive time
> > listening to amateur radio news as well as code practice
> on the little MP3
> > player. This seems to be much more useful, and less
> expensive than the MFJ
> > code practice generator type devices.
> >
> > Just thought I'd pass that info along. I've included
links
> to places on the
> > Web to download MP3 files of interest.
> >
> > http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/morse.html
> >
> > http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/audio/
> >
> > http://www.tapr.org/newsline/
> >
> > --
> > Vy 73 de Jeff, N9AVG
> > FISTS #6641
> >
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