Originally published July 18 2005
BoomGear offers new digital mp3 music players
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
BoomGear's 256Mb flash-based MP3 players are about the size of a key and contain no moving parts. Drawbacks to the model include a hard-to-read screen and limited controls.
It looks like something you'd attach your house-keys to.
In fact, you can see from the screens that it really isn't that much bigger than a key itself.
I have pretty big hands, so the player can be concealed pretty easily, leaving others wondering what the little gadget is.
You see,up to this point, I've burned CD's and played them on a regular CD Player.
But when I loaded up a batch of random songs, and popped in my favorite earplugs, my eyes grew wide open with the sound this thing poured into my head.
It wasn't until I got used to the controls that I noticed the lack of play options.
The screen is hard to see in anything but direct light, so I find myself adjusting the volume for the "glow" of the screen to come back on when I want to read anything.
With a digital player, I expect to have the ability to make songs fade in from one to another for continuous play.
I'm looking for the player to cycle songs randomly within a given genre of music, or at least within a folder I create.
You can record a song while it plays on the tuner, but you'll have to wait until you're back on the PC's removable drive window to rename it with a recognizable "label", or to move it to a separate folder.
Until then it stays stored under the "data" tree of the player, along with any voice recordings that you can also make.
The player comes with a USB cord, which you'll need to add or delete songs to the system.
It also comes with a cord for recording from another source outside of FM or the mic, which should come in handy.
Surely, the designers assume we already have better plugs for our CD-players.
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