{"id":8292,"date":"2004-05-10T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2004-05-10T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T08:06:18","slug":"sonys-20-gig-music-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8292","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s 20 Gig Music Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/SonyMP3.gif\" align=\"right\">Sony has finally released a hard-drive based music player, though for now it&#8217;s only in Japan. The device, which goes by the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaio.sony.co.jp\/Products\/VGF-AP1\/feat1.html\">VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1<\/a>, has a 20 gig hard-drive, transfers tunes via USB 2.0, and most impresssively a 2.2&#8243; QVGA+ 320\u00d7256 screen, on which photos can be viewed &#8212; unknown if it supports video. It&#8217;s not quite as slim as an iPod, but at 4.5&#8243; x 2.5&#8243; x 0.66&#8243; it&#8217;s pretty close. It also uses a cool-looking control called the G-Sense, which seems to be modelled on one of those rubber things you put in your bathtub. Oh, one more thing. Did I mention that it doesn&#8217;t look like it will play MP3?<\/p>\n<p> Like most music players from Sony, it seems the VAIO Pocket only plays ATRAC format tunes, and MP3s have to be translated by the included Music Move software. F&#8217;get it Sony. We don&#8217;t want your stinkin&#8217; HD player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has finally released a hard-drive based music player, though for now it&#8217;s only in Japan. The device, which goes by the name of VAIO Pocket VGF-AP1, has a 20 gig hard-drive, transfers tunes via USB 2.0, and most impresssively a 2.2&#8243; QVGA+ 320\u00d7256 screen, on which photos can be viewed &#8212; unknown if it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sony&#8217;s 20 Gig Music Player&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}