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Panasonic SD stereo system Who says you need a computer to rip music and transfer it to a tiny portable player? The SC-PM71SD minisystem ($400) looks like your average bookshelf five-CD player with AM/FM radio, cassette deck, and speakers (which sound surprisingly good). But it also has a 1-GB SD card and an SD slot for ripping music from CDs, the radio, or any external source. Using the high-speed recording mode, it took only 18 minutes to turn the 52-minute Ray Charles Genius Loves Company CD into 12 AAC-format songs on the SD card. I then played the card on the subway using the palm-size SV-SD90 portable player. Windows software is included so you can transfer music from your PC. - Michael Antonoff panasonic.com

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