Squeak on Hard Drive MP3 Player/Recorders?

Peter Crowther peter.crowther at networkinference.com
Wed Jul 24 08:30:09 UTC 2002


> From: reic0024 at d.umn.edu [mailto:reic0024 at d.umn.edu] 
> Heck, on a Newton or iPAQ with the double PCMCIA sleeve,
> you could get 10 GB of MP3s, using two 5 GB Toshiba PCMCIA drives! :)
> And on WinCE at least, it  could be done all in Squeak. 

Aaron, if you're looking at this, check out power management as well.  I get
about 3 hours MP3 usage, tops, out of my 2G Toshiba drive in the *single*
iPAQ sleeve (the one with the extra battery) before the sleeve battery runs
flat.  This is simply because the built-in media player minimises RAM use by
decoding on the fly - which means the HDD is spinning all the time.  Find
some way to get round that and you have an instant convert :-).

		- Peter



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