Nintendo DS official MP3 player is coming

[Steven W]

Nintendo are branching out with an official MP3 player for the DS.

Check out the Headline for more info.

[Steve B]

good idea to keep the cost as minimal as possible. Lots of people own SD cards already, and if they can utilise them for storing music, even better. It would be nice for Nintendo to now integrate the mp3 player into games, like the Xbox, so you can listen to your own music whilst playing

[Choo Choo]

Bleh. I think the DS (even the lite) is a bit too big for an MP3 player.

[tonkei]

if it does mpeg4 playback like the Japan only 'Play Yan' media player, then I'd be interested.
The only reason I didn't import the Play Yan was because the media encoding software was japanese language only :/

[EvilWeevil]

The "source" link says Gizmondo instead of Gizmodo. I know about three people were sad about it's death, but you have to move on

[skuzgib]

There is already a homebrew media player for the DS called Moonshell. And very good it is too.

However, this will be good for those people not into the homebrew scene.

[tehsucks]

yeah my friend got a crazy M3 addapter I think it's called, it's pretty good he's runnin linux on it and whatnot, he just downloads games onto a 4gb SD card (with games at ~20mb each), the sound quality isn't THAT great but it's not too bad either. They're bringing out one soon that fits snuggly into the DS lite's GBA port (it doesn't stick out at all) and uses Micro SD. As for me, I don't believe in that stuff, I'd rather support the company and actually BUY the games and stuff. I feel the same way about downloading Music and Movies and whatnot.