Arnold Krille wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. November 2008 schrieb Bob van der Poel: > >> carmen wrote: >> >>> you want the 19 euro MP3 player from ALDI, next to the candy bars in the >>> checikout aisle >>> >> Yeah, you're probably right :) I was going to use my personal player, >> but the screen is quite small. I could probably get one of the $20 ones >> with a bigger screen. >> > > Note that the quality concerns of mp3 and laptop soundcards apply even more to > small and cheap mp3-players. They might be good for playing one short snippet > during a theater play or for the background music before the concert. But for > real music during the real show do yourself and your listeners a favor and > drop that idea. > If you really want to play from a small mobile device, try to get hold of a > minidisc player. At least they can work without compression. > > IPods have pretty reasonable sound quality. At least for playing back samples. The ipod touch would work. However getting a playback app that does exactly what you want may cost some bucks and someone will no doubt try to steal the device also. So basically take your big heavy sampler. At least no one will try to steal it and if beer gets spilt on it then you have less chance of breakage. Plus it makes you look retro cool and profeshional ;-) -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
