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Review: Cabrio PR 1Low End Mac Reader SpecialsMemory To Go Special: New 2008 iMac 2GB $42 / iMac Intel Core2 DUO & MacBook Pro 2GB $36 - 1GB $20. MacPro 8 Core Memory 8GB kit $286 / 4GB kit $143 / 2GB kit $93 -- Free shipping available. LIfetime warranty. Download Typestyler, still the Ultimate Styling Tool for Internet, Print and Video Graphics. Works great in Classic with a Native OS X Version on the way. Free Tryout: www.typestyler.com
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Compare products like desktop computers, laptops, and LCD TVs side by side! All the information and reviews to make the best purchasing decision for a new cell phone GPS products or MP3 players. The Ciao network makes searching products easy for you. - 2001.01.17 Melonsoft's Cabrio is a new and innovative Mac-only MP3 audio player. Realtor's NightmareCabrio's window uses  Memory LossPerhaps the most easily ignored part of Cabrio is its RAM requirements (or significant lack thereof). With virtual memory on, Cabrio rarely uses more than 1.3 megabytes of its allocated RAM. No other available MP3 player can come close to this, not even - you guessed it - MoviePlayer 2.5, which uses about 1.6. (Both of these figures go up slightly with virtual memory off on PowerPC-based Macs.) The download size is also quite slim at 880 kilobytes. Silky SmoothCabrio uses Subband's Millennium MP3 playback engine, which features full skip protection and works well when multitasking with high-horsepower applications. (Some MP3 players with inferior engines will skip when running large programs or cause those programs to slow down significantly.) The PlaylistCabrio's playlist function is basic but quite space-saving. When you open an MP3 file, it gets stored in the playlist. The next song you open goes in the playlist below the previous one, and so on. There's no means to rearrange or delete individual songs in the playlist once they're added. There are random and repeat modes, though. You can choose to have the song you open play immediately or simply be stored in the playlist. The big benefit of this simplicity is that the entire playlist is contained in a single popup menu. You don't have to have another window floating around to see the tracks in your playlist.  Miss Anything?What do you miss with Cabrio that you get with other players? A waveform analyzer (for those who don't know, it's the bouncy bar graph thing), a track timeline, and fast forward and rewind controls. Most portable MP3 players don't have them either. Also, since it's a beta-level product, it's not without its bugs. Or not - I could not find a single bug in Cabrio! Also, I've been using it almost continuously since its release, and the program has not crashed a single time. Cabrio's tiny size puts even legacy programs and Mac OS X Beta's Music Player to shame, and its minimal memory footprint makes it incredibly friendly with lower-end computers. And, beta-level release or not, it's stunningly polished. Cabrio gets my vote as the best everyday MP3 player for the Mac.
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an incredibly small amount of
screen real estate. Collapsed, the player window takes up even less
space than Apple's years-old MoviePlayer version 2.5. You can also
use one of ten included alternate window themes, called "skins."
One of these, "Long John Silver," is even smaller. It takes up only
as much vertical space as the control strip - with no loss of
functionality! You can also create your own skins very easily with
a utility called Skinventor or download more skins from their web
site.
