Q&A: Can I Store Pictures on an MP3 Player?
I read your article on Delkin's Picturepad in a recent newsletter, and I was wondering if I could use a hard drive MP3 player (like an Apple IPod) to do the same thing. That would sure come in handy for me: With high resolution photos, we frequently exceed our old Olympus camera's memory cards after just a few snaps.
--Lee Hamilton, Savannah, Georgia
It depends, Lee. There are a few hard drive-based MP3 players out there that accommodate all sorts of data files besides music. I use the Archos Jukebox Recorder, for instance. It's a 20GB portable player that can hold any sort of file. Apple's IPod, on the other hand, accepts music files only; there's no way to store JPEG images onboard.
Finding a portable player that works with run-of-the-mill photo files isn't quite enough, though: You need some way to get images from your camera into the MP3 player while you're on the road without a computer. Essentially, you need an MP3 player with a memory card slot that lets you copy data from the card to the device's hard drive. And I don't know any that work that way.
So the bottom line, Lee, is that while what you suggest is technically feasible, there simply aren't any MP3 players out there that let you pull it off.
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