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Key MP3 player words
- Storage capacity or song capacity or memory - deals
with how much music the MP3 player can store the rule of thumb is
approximately 4MB per song or 1GB will
hold approximately 250 songs
- Battery life - approximately 10 hours to 50
hours some MP3 players have a rechargeable battery that can be removed
- Audio file formats. Here are some of the file formats
for MP3 players:
AAC - Advanced Audio Coding (AAC)
ADPCM - Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ASF - Advanced Streaming Format
MIDI - Music Instrument Digital Interface.
Ogg Vorbis - A free, open, and un-patented music format
WAV - Waveform Audio
WMA - Windows Media Audio
VQF - Vector Quantization Format
mp3PRO, MP3, AAC, and MP2 - All members of the same technological
family and depend on roughly similar psychoacoustic models.
- USB or FireWire - cable that is used to download
music from a computer to a MP3 player
- FM receiver and record on the fly - FM receiver picks
up FM radio and allows user to record at the same time as listening to
music
- Photo viewer - some MP3 players have a enough memory
to also store pictures
- Download music - download music from a computer or
online
- Voice recorder - allows the user to record voice
messages
- Docking station - allows the user to put the MP3
player in
a unit that holds the MP3 player and allows the user to hook in into a
home sound system or car sound system
- Charger for the car - allows the user to charge the
MP3 player in the car
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