The ShoqBox is a flash memory-based

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from

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with attached speakers. Its name is formed from a

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". The Philips ShoqBox PSS110 has 256 mb of built in memor
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The ShoqBox has line-in and radio inputs in addition to the integrated MP3 player. The

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interface for music transfer only supports version 1.1 (2.0 in the European version), which provides much lower maximum bandwidth resulting in longer transfer times. The ShoqBox is a USB mass storage class device and therefore supports driverless file transfer on most systems; however, files transferred via this method will not be available for playback on the device as they must also be added to an

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database. This is done automatically by a customized version of

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included with the player, but alternative software has been developed to update the database.

External links

MP3 ShoqBox website
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