The principle was that to listen to your music in the car, you would download MP3’s onto your computer from the Internet and copy them on to a CD. Alternatively if you wanted to make your own mix then you could copy specific tracks off a number of CD’s and group them all together for recording onto a CD.
This seems to me slightly wasteful however. If you consider a guy in America who records a song from an uncopyrighted CD and compresses it down into MP3 format so that it can be transferred across the Internet but then as soon as you receive it you uncompress it again, converting it back into CD format so it can be transferred to your car. There is a lot of double handling going on and in addition, instead of having a nice little 4 Megabyte MP3 file that your computer recognises, it is necessary to convert it back into a huge 80 Megabyte file so that your CD player can understand it. In order to prevent this, there are a number of products coming onto the market that play MP3’s directly without the need to convert the music back into the clumsy CD format each working in a slightly different way.
Firstly, there’s the portable MP3 player. This is a small unit around the size of a portable minidisk player. Basically you plug the player into your home PC and the copy any MP3’s over that you think you may want to listen to whilst you’re out. Typically these players can store between 3 and 12 hours of music in their internal memory, although there are several on the market that contain a huge hard disk which can store 100’s of hours worth of CD quality music. Obviously it is preferable to have 10 albums worth of music all stored on the same player than to carry around 10 different CD’s and cases.
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