mp3 player that uses CF for external memory?

[TimH]

Does anyone know if such a player exists? I've been considering for a while getting an iPOD but since my wife is into digital photography I figured if I could just get a really big CF card for both the mp3 player and her camera, that'd be more intelligent for us.

Thanks!

[Jason Dunn]

They're really rare - I bought one off of eBay about two years ago for my mother-in-law, but I haven't seen an MP3 player that uses CF since about 2002. CF cards are too big to make a small MP3 player - the ones that are big enough to take CF are using 5 GB micro drives instead. ;-)

[checks ebay...]

Yup, there are some older models still kicking around:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48686&item=5742415281&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=48686&item=5743191961&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3281&item=5740115688&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V

[TimH]

cool. Thanks J.

[RWC_Zippy]

Does anyone know if such a player exists? I've been considering for a while getting an iPOD but since my wife is into digital photography I figured if I could just get a really big CF card for both the mp3 player and her camera, that'd be more intelligent for us.

Thanks!

I think that RCA makes such a device... the Lyra if I'm not mistaken. But according to their website they use SD now... maybe older generation Lyra models would be CF.

This site has a pretty good looking list of CF players:
http://hardware.dmusic.com/browse.php?section=Portable+MP3+Players&subsection=Compact+Flash

Also, I heard rumor of micro drives being used in CF media devices... that would really expand the capacity of my old digital camera! and think of the capabilities of using a micro drive with a digital audio player! Look out iPod! :lol: