Why a business traveler needs a decent MP3 player.
If you are on the road much, you'll want one of these new MP3 music players. The players pack in a ton of music in a surprisingly small, portable and self-contained music package.
Having access to your own music on demand can take the sting out of long mass transit commutes, for flight times and while waiting for delayed flights, for quiet evenings in your hotel room, or for any times you'd like to carve a bit of personal space in your hectic working day. You can plug just about any player to the stereo in your car, too. I now wonder how I lived without one.
With an MP3 Player, you don't need to carry around CDs and their cases, nor even a CD player/walkman. There's nothing to scratch or break. You can download music for cheap or free from your computer, iTunes and from many music sites on the Internet.
Resistance is Futile
If you have a portable CD player, you'll probably want to keep using it, but I expect eventually you'll get sucked in by the allure of the MP3 tractor beam. If you have any stirrings of interest to change over to an MP3 player - or if for some reason you hate them - you'll want to read this discussion and perhaps add your two cents on the pros and cons of each.
All you have to deal with is a cell phone-sized handheld electronic device, and a set of decent earphones. And now some cellular phones even eliminate the need for a separate MP3 player, integrating phone and music in one electronic machine instead. You just toss your wireless phone/MP3 player combo in your carry-on and go.
I personally am waiting for these combo phone/MP3 players to evolve a little before I invest. The first iterations of convergence handheld electronics usually have some bugs to work out, and of course, the price will only drop for late adopters, anyway.
