http://www.walrus.com/~raphael/html/mp3.html Here's another compact flash based MP3 player. This person also sells the kits for about $125.
I've never really seen the point of these homemade mp3 players IMO you spend a fair bit of money for a project that might not work if you mess it up even slightly plus they're ugly. Why not just spend your money on a proper made mp3 player which does look nice and you know for a fact when you part with your money you know its gonna work?
Why do we all mod our cases with the possibility of it not looking perfect when we could just buy a premod?
I'm going to up that expression from an opinion to a hact! They sure are! The desired end resutt of taking on such a project is not simply to have an MP3 player. If it were they I agree that one would be better off buying a full featured well constructed good looking unit with a warranty against defects. But there is a certain satisfaction that comes from knowing that something was brought into existence by your own volition and formed from your own hands. In my case the Mp3 player is not the true end being targetted but a step towards something much bigger (in another post I mentioned that I am deviating away from the online designs and using a 68k proc that will run a software MP3 decode that I code).
NO you have totally missed the point i'm makeing here !!! Theres a world of difference between "not looking perfect" and just being a circuit board if they had some packaging then maybe they wouldnt be so damn ugly and actually LOOK like an mp3 player at least if you build your own case or buy a professionally pre-modded one at least they look like what they're supposed to be!
Most of the people I know have created some form of enclosure for their homemade mp3 player, but as alcedes said, it's not just about having an mp3 player, its about learning/developing and getting satisfaction about building something with a relative degree of complexity for yourself. We build stuff all the time that you can already get on the shelf. All those guys that spend ages (and lots of dosh) building audio amplifiers rarely end up with a professional looking unit, but they know that they're probably used some high quality components and taken more care over the amplifier than a mass manufacturer might. So does the iPod Shuffle tbh.
Atmel's got some very nice solutions. Just needs a few support chips. They have some devices with integrated UART, MPEG decoding, Flash device I/O, keyboard I/O and some with built-in audio DACs. Cheap, too. IIRC, The Animus made his own MP3 player using one.
yes only it wasn't worth carrying round with me and was dismantaled and i had to give part of it back i'm trying to get another atmel board actually to have a go at making something vastly supior to those i would waste money on that you can buy in shops atm (docks via eithernet, can use POE etc.)
