mp3 playback off SD card.

[rogue]

I recently purchased a iPAQ 1930, and I was really suprised by the sound quality put out by it. I use Sennheiser headphones and the sound output from mp3 was great, comparable to my desktop sound card(GametheaterXP). It got me thinking, if I get myself a SD card for it, I can use it as a mp3 player. What I need to know, is if the read rates on the SD card would be sufficent to play mp3's. If I've done my math correctly it should be fine, but I would like to get this confirmed by somebody who has done it, before I go spending money. Any help appreciated.

[Pat Logsdon]

You'll be fine. I play music stored on an SD card all the time, as do countless others across the globe.

Enjoy! 8)

[Trimac20]

If many MP3 players use SD Cards to store music, then there should't be a problem using it in PPC! Well, anyway I've got about 65 songs stored on my SD Card and apart from one little incident I haven't had any problems.

[duncanhbrown]

:!: SD card is just fine for music- I've tested three different cards, 2 from SanDisk and one from PNY on two different IPAQs and ranging from 64MB to 128MB to 256MB. Each worked flawlessly with MP3 files of varying sizes and bitrates.
Warning: you'll fill your card up quickly with music! 256MB or 512MB is recommended. 50 MP3s on my 256MB card and I've got 87MB left. :roll:

[Ripper014]

Reading music files from a SD Card is not a problem... and encoding the files into another format is sometimes even better... I myself like to use ogg... especially at low bitrates... I can pack in a lot of audio with ogg... my hour long audio books encoded at 64kbps and 44.1khz are only about 18mb each...