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Originally Posted by Astec123
While I accept the pros of a CDP deck have one on sale at the minute and its a trusty work horse. I dont accept the power side as we have proved that wrong with portable power packs. The particular model in question is 120pounds if my memory is correct about half of the cost of A h series. then there is the off setted problem of storage, CDs are not small, a cd box is a pain and if lost its a pain to re-rip them, loose one and there you have a problem again to work out what was on it.
Therefore I suggest the compromise of a Flash based player examples such as the Nex Ia have near limitless capacity taking flash cards and for the same price you could get a good 2gbs if not more with some searching, most cameras also use the medium too. These players also have huge battery lives and also are AA type or AAA.
In the end its the OPs decision but thats my 2 cents
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I was thinking of getting a flash-based player, but then decided against it because 1 GB is just too little (I'd prefer the iFP-1099 for its camera) to hold music & photos for a few days of non-stop listening (I'd rather have more on me than less, and 1 GB in just MP3 alone, at my most minimal settings with LAME (--alt-preset cbr 80), is still only about 32 hours). I can't see listening to just 32 hours of music on a 2-week holiday trip, no matter what kind of battery life, blah blah.
So CDs are best for me. Switchable content (discs) on-demand, can buy new music and play right away, AA-battery-usage (even though I always carry fully-charged 2500-mAh AAs anyway), sometimes an FM tuner (on the higher-end iMP-units), etc.