Newsgroups: jce.creative.general
Subject: [OT] Perception Digital PD-1000 first impressions
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:00:52 -0700

http://www.perceptiondigital.com/products/audio/1000/

.... for under $100 from buy.com (I see 
now they are a little more now).
First impressions are that it's a pretty slick little device. It has a 
1.5 GB 1" drive and claims up to 13.5 Hours of play time on it's LIon 
battery. It supports fast USB 2.0 transfers and the interface seems 
pretty intuitive. It also has line-in and mic (built in) recording to 
mp3 capability.
...it has a music library that allows 
browsing by artist, album, genre, and playlist like our bigger JBs do. 
It apparently does this by scanning for changes after being connected to 
a PC and building a database of the currently loaded music. This seems 
like a nice "best of both worlds" feature while having a driverless USB 
mass storage method of connecting to the PC.


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