Need help choosing a Mp3 Player

**Kraellin** · 10-31-2004, 15:50

ipod is the one that set things off and running for mp3 players, but there are others out there. i know there are reviews out there, comparitive reviews as i've seen one on thescreensavers.com before, but you'd have to search their site. i dont have the link. and you could prolly also find other comparitive reviews on other sites. and, you shld also be aware that the ipod is one of those that does a little anti-piracy stuff.... or is that the itunes music that does that.... or both? someone that has one can tell you about that better than i can.

apple has also just recently put out the same kind of device, but for pictures.

K.

**Lemur** · 10-31-2004, 16:36

The consensus among the people I know, the geeky mags I read, and the even geekier web sites I troll, is that at the moment there's nothing that beats the iPod. That's not to say that there won't be an iPod-killer next week, but right now there is not.

The anti-piracy stuff with the iPod is minimal and easily defeated. Check out versiontracker.com if you need a little freeware help with your hacking. (Apple's DRM software is called FairPlay, and it's been thoroughly disassembled by helpful code monkeys.)

The only downside to the iPod that I've seen is that it won't support WMA files. But who the heck burns their music as WMA files anyway?

On a side note, Sony has just announced that they're going to support this newfangled "MP3" format that the kids seem to like.