My music player is very efficient, it practically doesn't waste any milliwatt-hour from my laptop's battery. The audio quality is good to superb depending on the source material.
It can display the covers of albums with excellent resolution and clarity.
The compatibility with the music formats is excellent, supporting most of the formats designed for the music player. Actually i can play most music from 1948 to 2017 on it, without any change in configuration.
With optional hardware it can support 4-channel surround audio, as well, although this isn't an user-friendly setup.
Not everything is great -- my music player isn't portable at all. It is big and weights more than 10Kg. It also doesn't support remote operation. You need to be there at the user console to change tracks, etc.
Records are actually a very very long-lasting information storage medium, better than magnetic tapes (even when you put redundancy checks on them). So much that sometimes when music from the 1940s to 1960s is to be restored, restauration experts use the record rather than the master tape, which is more subject to degradation.
As for degradation, in theory there is degradation every time the record gets played. In practice tests done in the 60s show that records can be played over 1000 times without significant deterioration of audio quality.
However, the record surface is very susceptible to damage. This means that, play a record over a worn stylus, or under a turntable with a too heavy tracking force or a poor quality cartridge -in short, a bad turntable-, and the record will wear down rather quickly, sound quality will be degraded quickly.
Or, as is my experience, a piece of debris is missed when putting the record away, and scratches the surface significantly when put into its (usually too-tight-fitting) sleeve and cover.
It can display the covers of albums with excellent resolution and clarity.
The compatibility with the music formats is excellent, supporting most of the formats designed for the music player. Actually i can play most music from 1948 to 2017 on it, without any change in configuration.
With optional hardware it can support 4-channel surround audio, as well, although this isn't an user-friendly setup.
Not everything is great -- my music player isn't portable at all. It is big and weights more than 10Kg. It also doesn't support remote operation. You need to be there at the user console to change tracks, etc.
My music player is called a "Lenco L75".