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There are a lot of people out there who still think vinyl is a million times better than digital music in terms of sound quality. Martin Skelly<\/a> believes that digital music is lacking in the tactile satisfaction department. To remedy this egregious problem, Skelly designed the Playlist Player<\/a>, a delightfully backwards sort of music player.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of people out there who still think vinyl is a million times better than digital music in terms of sound quality. Martin Skelly believes that digital music is lacking in the tactile satisfaction department. To remedy this egregious problem, Skelly designed the Playlist Player, a delightfully backwards sort of music player. The Playlist Player looks like a record player but works like an MP3 player. After creating playlists on your computer, you load the lists into the player via a memory stick. Each of the color-coded \u201crecords\u201d represents a different playlist. 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