Can an MP3 portable digital music player do the same thing as an iPod?
The simple answer is “Yes and often more.” iPod is the brand name for the most popular portable MP3 digital music player. You can transfer your favourite music onto your computer’s hard drive and from there onto your iPod or download pre-recorded tracks from online music shops after paying a fee. iPods use a hard disk drive similar to PCs and laptops, often 20GB or bigger, allowing very many songs to be stored. Many other companies make portable MP3 digital music players using instead built-in flash memory. The models which we sell also function as digital recorders producing stereo recordings as well as merely playing files. The Olympus WS-110, WS-210S, WS-311M, WS-321M, WS331M, DS30, DS40 or DS50 recorders, Sanyo A181 and Philips 7890 and 7790 all let you transfer music to them from a computer and play it back via headphones. MP3 is the file format usually used but there are other, some say better formats such as WMA files (see FAQ 2.3 for more discussion on file formats). Most MP3 p
