Sony Atrac CD/MP3 Walkman 64 MB

I've always liked the idea of music on the go. When I was just an ickle anklebiter, I confiscated my dear old dad's Walkman and claimed it as my own, and then when I was about 12 I got my first portable CD player. However, I learned soon enough how much battery power my new portable CD player needed. I was often lucky to have listened to one CD the whole way through before my CD player gave out on me and I had to insert a fresh pair of batteries before it would do anything else. Of course, this proved to be quite an expensive habit, and before long I just gave up using it and it lay gathering dust in my bedroom. At Uni, though, I often wished I had ...

£80 from DABS or £90 from Dixons D-NE511 Sony ATRAC3PLUS MP3 CD Walkman Plays CD's, MP3 CD's and ATRAC CD's This new CD player utilises the ATRAC Sony Minidisk compression software to enable you to record up to a maximum of approximately 490 tracks on to a normal CD-R or a CD-RW depending on which compression you choose ATRAC3plus stands for 'Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding3' compresses to about 1/20 th of it's original size and bit rates are 64 kbps or 48 kbps I have now recorded 3 CD-R's full of all my favourite CD's in my collection to play at work that's about 30 hours of music per CD ...