[Gllug] "Open Standards" MP3 - sort of - player with radio

[M.Blackmore]

As I'm trying to build up my fitness after a long illness I'm having to
do a lot of walking every week, which on my own is getting a bit boring
midwinter, even though living now at the edge of the Cotswolds is better
than being in a city going around a park (even if we aren't in the
chocolate boxtop area of the Cotswolds but in the foothills). So I want
to take something with me to keep my mind off brooding over how
miserable it has all been and how much I am still hurting when being
active :-(( Cue strings etc.

Unfortunately radio reception on a cheap little radio thingy is lousy -
its hilly and we are a long way from the transmitter. Digital radio is
stone dead, unfortunately.

For ideological reasons wouldn't it be nice to avoid MP3 ... if this is
possible. Also I believe - if this is correct - from comments made
hereabouts over time, that MP3 is a very lossy compression, and what I
have heard of these little devices playing pop is that they do seem to
chop off the high frequencies and low frequencies. Which I don't like
the sound of - according to a recent hearing test last April I still
hear well at 22 khz frequencies a couple of k down on what I could hear
at 23 when I was doing research on bats at Uni back in the 70s. I could
hear some of the little b*****s calls, which only one other person could
at the time. But I digress.

What are the open standards? Is one of them (or the only one, or the
most common one - whatever) called Ogg??

What I'd like to do is to record stuff off radio into the appropriate
file on a pooter and then time shift it into something to carry around.
Some would be voice - I lurve Radio4 - some classical, some folk, some
jazz. Hate rock/pop nowadays tho' used to play it once.

How can I do this? What products are there?

Can it be done....?


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