As a base, a single-board computer (in a protective case) such as a Raspberry Pi or a small model Arduino would be needed. I’ve been thinking about the components I’d need to create it.
Flac player portable portable#
If successful, this new device could potentially revolutionise the portable media player industry.
Flac player portable software#
As a software programmer, I’m looking into starting a project to create a revolutionary portable media player – One capable of playing FLAC and storing large amounts of music. There’s essentially a gap in the market here – There’s nothing out there that allows me to store a large music library without sacrificing the quality of my songs. It also seems that there are very few media players capable of opening FLAC files without heavy modification, and even the ones which exist have less-than-desirable storage capacities – The Sansa clip being a perfect example. The largest current capacity for a media player comes with the Archos 5, which has no support for FLAC files and meagre 250gb of storage space – Not nearly enough for someone whose music library totals almost twenty thousand songs. As with all lossless media formats, songs in FLAC format take up a lot of space, which brings me on to another requirement for the portable media player – A large storage capacity.Īfter extensive research, I’ve been unable to find a device with a modestly sized hard drive – I’d have to make a compromise of either sound quality (By switching to MP3s) or storage quantity. My Curve 9320 isn’t capable of streaming music from my desktop, and, as an avid musician, I’m struggling to find a lightweight portable music player which supports FLAC. However, some of us (shockingly), don’t own state-of-the-art phones capable of this – As a BlackBerry user, I feel somewhat out of the loop with the latest apps such as Candy Crush and Temple Run, but I digress. After all, why wouldn’t you? It allows for a more diverse, larger library, it’s easy enough for anyone to do, and it saves you from having to carry around yet another device. With technology advances and increases in mobile internet (4G) speeds, more and more people are leaving behind their iPods and simply streaming music from their computer directly to their phones. That is to say, the quality of the recorded track is much higher.
A lesser-known file format, called FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is used by numerous audiophiles – As its name suggests, it’s lossless. At this point, you may be thinking, “Why did he call it a ‘portable media player’ in the title, rather than an MP3 player?” However, there’s a good reason behind that.
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