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What are MP3 & MP4 Players?
MP3 and MP4 players give you an easy way to take your music and videos with you. All you have to do is transfer the files from your computer (MP3 gives you music, MP4 gives you music and video) to the player and you can enjoy them anywhere using headphones, portable speakers or a built-in screen.
The most famous player is Apple's iPod, but there are many other MP3 and MP4 players available here at very competitive prices with a host of features.
MP3 Players
MP3 players allow you to put your music in your pocket. MP3 is a 'format' a method of storing music digitally. There are other formats, such as WMA and AAC, but they're all just different ways of doing the same thing.
Digital music files take up much less space than an average CD recording, so you can store lots more music on a player than on a CD even a small 2GB player can store up to a thousand songs, on a device much smaller than a portable CD player.
MP3 players arecompact, easy to use, and will play for hours (or even days!) on a single battery charge.
You can store a few albums, or your whole collection of music. The amount your MP3 player can store depends on how much memory it has.
The memory on MP3/MP4 players is measured in gigabytes (GB) units of a thousand megabytes (MB).
A 1GB MP3 player can store about 500 songs and still have room for some digital photos!
The figures below are a guide based on the space an average video, song or photo takes up. If you store a combination of video, songs and photos then the maximum for each will be less than that shown below.
Memory Hrs of Video No. of Songs No. of Photos
1GB 4 500 330
2GB 8 1000 660
4GB 16 2000 1330
8GB 32 4000 2660
16GB 64 8000 5320
80GB 320 40000 26600
160GB 640 80000 53000
MP4 Players (Portable Video Players)
MP4 players give you video on the go. MP4 players are like MP3, only for video and do everything that MP3 players do organise and play music in a variety of digital formats but they also have built-in LCD screens and play MP4 video files.
As with our MP3 players, all MP4 players come with headphones so you can listen as well as watch.
Larger screens make viewing funScreens on MP4 players go up to 7 inches big enough for viewing TV shows without eyestrain but you can also display content on your TV, so you're not limited to the player's screen when you want to share a clip. Some will even record directly from your TV or DVD player and store on the player's memory.
The bigger the memory, the more shows you can store. MP4 players tend to have larger memories than MP3 players, since video takes up more space than music! They usually use a small hard disk rather than a memory chip, to offer the biggest possible capacity.
How do I get music and video on my MP3/MP4 player?
You will need access to a computer or laptop to put songs onto your player.
Most computers with a CD or DVD drive will be able to copy, or rip the content from the CD and convert it to digital files. You then simply connect your player to the computer and transfer the music files across.
At Penny Smart UK the MP3/MP4 players come with their own software to make this quick and easy.
You can record over old tracks as many times as you like, so you can keep your music collection up to date.
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