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While I'm a total sucker for audio CDs, portable devices make little sense. They're always somewhat big due to media size and they're susceptible to shock, which is very common when carrying something... Though if you just carry it to use somewhere else, it's probably fine. But what I got from the article is that it's actually to be used on the go.
Anyhow, I welcome everything that helps CDs coming back into the mainstream...
As a kid who grew up taking a CD player to school before mp3 players got affordable, this is a solved problem. Anti skip where the player has a buffer (mine was 45 seconds) that fills up when it's stable and plays when it's shocked.
I don't know if this has it, but "CDs, portable devices make little sense" is totally wrong, I carried my CD player in my front jeans pocket for over a year and it was my jam.
I didn't write it's impossible to make portable CD players, I too owned one with similar buffer size, just that they make little sense nowadays, with the reasons being the following:
All these limitations lead to portable CD players vanishing from shelves because portable MP3 beat them in all of the above over 20 years ago. Today, you can just use your phone , which most people have with them most of the time, and if you're using a lossless format, you're not losing a single feature.