mp3 on T/E

[xssjdjx]

Does anyone know what kind of memory card is best for quality (hopefully cd quality) for using my T/E as an mp3 player? And what size would be best for at least 2-3 hours of music at that high quality range and what's the best brand, or is there a difference?

[vegheadjones]

I don't think the type of card adds to the fidelity of the music, though someone may correct me on that.

I believe all brands of SD and MMC cards work with the Tung|E, but there had been problems with Sandisk cards and the Tungsten 3-- since Palm did an update I think that problem is gone.

Re: size: 2-3 hours will mean a 256 or 512 megabyte card, depending on the size (quality) of the songs. I use a 256 card, and put mostly 64bps songs on it, though I always use 128bps for Jazz music. I can get about 2-3 hours on the card.

[mercdeking]

Get a newer, name brand card, satisfied with a simple tech 10mbread/10mbwrite/ very fast good scares on vfsmark, above 340 I think. had a no-name generic (didn't even read a maker like another no-name generic I bought it was a 128mb the "make" was a sandisk, anyways the no-name 256mb card ended up reading as a mmc card and got worse scores for access than the 128mb sd card which hit 200. Was below 120 I think, which is really sad, wondering what a mmc card reads, the generic was a sd card, the people were nice enough to refund. Have the 256mb stech card as a dedicated mp3 and game card... still have some 12Xmb left over with 20 `4mb songs and some 15 games. (also used for backupman which takes about 10mb per auto save and another 10mb for a manual backup, so about 30mb there.... bigger is better in this case.
Don't really know if a faster card does mean better sound quality since once it loads it should just go... but I really felt that quality was suffering from that card since it didn't even read as an sd card that it was supposed to. But everything seems to jump a lot more with the simpletech than it did with the no name 256mb. Although, had I kept it for ebooks it probably would have worked, except for the fact that my usb sd/mmc card reader wouldn't "open" the card.. it would freeze, it worked fine for the generic 128mb sd and the now replacement 256mb simpletech sd card. .... think I gave st enough kudos here... they are expensive cost me 86.00 compared to the sheep 71.99 for the generic 256mb.