MP3 players

[discovery1]

I'm looking to buy to buy an mp3 player. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions, although I think that the only things we have around here are iPods. Thank you for your aid.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

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The Iriver H140-Best pure music player on the market in my opinion, far better than the ipod and the one I use myself. File-tree style file organistation, rather than DB, although you can use that if you want to, Drag-and-drop music addition, optical and line in and out, recording support for MP3 and WAVs, and Ogg Vorbis, WMA, MP3 and WAV playback. There's also a full function remote, which is truly awesome-you can access ALL of the player's features from it

The only problem you're going to have is that it's been discontinued, but you should be able to find one. If you can't, its successor, the H340, is basically the same, but with a colour screen and movie playback support. However, it lacks the remote and the optical in/out, and is more pricey.

[edyzmedieval]

Try an iRiver... Good mp3 player, moderate price and also with a colour display and the ability to store and view photos... It comes with a 20GB hard disk...

www.iriver.com

[Dutch_guy]

Well I have an 20GB ipod and IMHO it is really good, it helped me survive my dialy bike trips
Also the quality is good, though I have never compared it to other MP3 players.

Only downside is that your standard earphones don't last long when you turn the volume on it's highest for a long time.
Still you can use other earphones if you like.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Only downside is that your standard earphones don't last long when you turn the volume on it's highest for a long time.
Still you can use other earphones if you like.

You'd have to be insane to use the iPod bundled 'phones, they're terrible. Of course, so are most bundled phones-but the iPod ones don't even have a wrap-around. Yeesh.

When talking about sound quality with digital Jukeboxes though, the importance of bit-rate cannot be overstated. I rip at 320KbS^-1 myself, to Ogg, and I get a great sound. For albums that are really well produced, I use WAV. I'd advise calculating how much you intend to put on there, and then ripping at the highest bit-rate you can while still having it all fit.

[The Wizard]

I use the iPod mini 4 GB... does the job for someone who doesn't have thousands upon thousands of songs (only about 1000) but doesn't want one of those tiny Philips things... besides, you'll be fly... for a white guy

And BKS... wrap-around? WTF? I have never used those things. Terrible. Even though they came with my iPod. The in-ear earphones are the best earphones on the market, as far as I'm concerned.

Only thing is, Apple is damn smart in marketing -- so be ready to dish out €20,- (or was that 40?) for them in-ear earphones.



~Wiz