Music while you run

[El Gordo]

MP3s are definitely the way to go, Richard. As SP says, tapes and CDs suffer from the disadvantage of moving parts, making them vulnerable... or let´s just say unsuitable, for running with. MP3 players are essentially just a small disk drive that contains digital data, a bit like a floppy disk, conceptually.

From a man-in-the-street perspective, the best ones are the Apple iPods because they are capable of storing huge amounts of digital information. I can´t recall what the mega-giga-stats are, but it amounts to several hundreds of, ahem, "LPs" (as we used to say in my youth). There are many cheaper MP3 players around of course though they´ll have smaller capacities. It´s an area where things are constantly changing, so what I´ve written is probably total rubbish by now. (Now that makes a change....)

Andy