Dithering about portable MP3s

[ciphergoth]

Anti-war march today, 2pm, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh.

Some time ago, the replacement 6GB hard drive in my Archos Jukebox Recorder MP3 player died. It's now out of warranty. I'm considering spending GBP 91.64 on getting a 40GB laptop-style hard drive from Simply and fitting it as per these instructions (also these). Having taken my old laptop apart and put it back together, I'm pretty confident I could pull this off, and I could use open source firmware. But on the other hand, I could just spend GBP 50 on an MP3 CD player. Help me decide! Update: I have sent off for the hard drive, and taken apart my Archos to remove the old drive which turned out to be really easy.

Incidentally, 40 GB works out by my calculations to be around three weeks of continuous, 24 hour music. Expect a visitation by the music slurping fairies. What's the best free LAME-based tool for ripping CDs under Windows?

Comments

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

IIRC it was about 8 quid. Which I thought was a lot for a screwdriver, but then I don't really drive a lot of screws...

Maplins and RS components should have them, but their websites are true marvels of unique design...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Turns out my socket set has the right thing, so I can do it...

[zotz]

Torx screws are excellent. I don't generally like proprietary gubbins like that, but for these I'll make an exception.

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

Maplin do a security hex bit set for a few quid which has every unusual bit. can be very handy indeed