Newsgroups: rec.audio.tech
Subject: Re: USB cable
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"Poly"  writes:

> "Dion&Laura Lee"  wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > the MP3 player end is smaller than the standard usb cables
> 
>     You misunderstand me.
> 
> All USB cables have the same connector at the "computer end".  The
> "peripheral end"  is different for different equipment.   What you are
> calling the "standard usb cable" is just the most common type of peripheral
> connector.  

The actual USB standard defined two USB connector type A and B. 
One of them is for computer end and other is for the peripherals. 
Those are the connectors defined in standard, so they are 
the sandardised connectors. So the cables which use those 
connectors are are otherwise built to meed USB specifications 
can be called standard USB cables.

Unfortunately not all manufacturers have used those standard 
connectors for various reasons (reason could be anything 
in the line that standard connector was to big or they just want 
to be incompatible in connectors to be able to sell their 
special device specifica accessory cables).

> You have to buy the one that matches up with your equipment.

This unfortunately the case always.

>  One electronics place that I go to regularly has literally a wall full of
> USB cables and USB adapters.
> 
>  But if for some reason you can't find what you need, or you don't have such
> stores where you are, you can always buy a suitable cable or adapter  over
> the Web.
> 
> 

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