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Originally posted by Undertoad
Can you believe they actually read an analog signal embedded in a disk of plastic, with a diamond? It all seems so ridiculous.
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The diamond came later. When I was a kid we had to do it by hand.
Oh wait, no we didn't.
Anyway, technology is too young today to meet all your requirements. I have a RIO MP3-CD player which works great - 12 hours of music, or 50 hours of audio book on one disk. Works well on a bicycle, but will probably skip if you're jogging. Latest versions have an 8 MB buffer, good for 5-8 minutes of skip-proofing, but you might need to pause every 5-8 minutes to let the reader catch up.
A couple companies have small versions that take 3-inch disks.
Minidisc is small and skip-resistent, but expensive, and has lots of copy restrictions.
Now who can tell me where "groovy" came from?