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MP3 Players: Which one should i buy

ok i got $500 with me now and i wanna get a new mp3 player cause my old one is only 64MB and the memory is not expandable. im thinking about getting this one
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...5&newdeptid=19#

which do u think i should get?

for that price why not get an ipod?
i dont' like em very much though

I've been very happy with my iRiver iHP-120.

ipod of course, but if there was a mp3 player that had a search function i would get trade my ipod for that

What, doesnt Ipod have a search function ?! Thats silly.
If you have that amount of money, I'd surely go for a hdd based player. 256 MB is not enough, eventually you'll want More

Personal I have a Creative Nomad Zen NX 30GB, which is a very good player, and has good battery capacity of 14 hours.
Or, get yourself the Zen Touch (which I would) Destroy my old one, and get the other one for free

http://www.nomadworld.com/products/zentouch/

i meant search function as in enter in search strings
like 'armin' finds all songs with the word armin in them

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I've been very happy with my iRiver iHP-120.

I've got one of those also. Sound quality is good, holds lots of music and is a nice overall player. Price recently dropped from $458 to $398 at canada computers.

With that budget, go either with an iPod or Nomad. Both have gigs of storage space, good battery times, etc.

The Nomad is cheaper, but the iPod still (IMO) has a superior user interface. And on devices like these, trust me user interface counts for A LOT.

Why don't you try them out in person? For that amount of money, you should definitely test play them.

What? You have to think about functionality. With a search function, how are you going to type in the search letters? A Portable keyboard? I certainly think not. You would either have to use the scroll wheel to select, ABC etc. Not time efficient. With the iPod i think they do it the best where you can organize it by rating, Artist (all controlable on the computer who is in the artist column), Album, Song, Genre and other ways.

iPods are now cheaper by 100 dollasr but if you hold out a month or two the 60 gig iPod will be released for 4xx dollars. If you have lots of music and DJ sets I would recommend doing this. Buf if you can't wait, go to your local apple store and try to get one of the remaining 3g 40 gig iPods. I got my friend the hook up with a brand new one for 269 now that the 4g iPods are out.

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Originally posted by Brown Gino ok i got $500 with me now and i wanna get a new mp3 player cause my old one is only 64MB and the memory is not expandable. im thinking about getting this one http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...5&newdeptid=19# which do u think i should get?

Why would you spend 269 for 256 megs, when you could spend 40 more dolalrs and get 20 GIGS. Doesn't seem cost efficient to me. With the kind of budget you have, test out a Hard Drive player instead of flash.

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Originally posted by getfoul What? You have to think about functionality. With a search function, how are you going to type in the search letters? A Portable keyboard? I certainly think not. You would either have to use the scroll wheel to select, ABC etc. Not time efficient. With the iPod i think they do it the best where you can organize it by rating, Artist (all controlable on the computer who is in the artist column), Album, Song, Genre and other ways. iPods are now cheaper by 100 dollasr but if you hold out a month or two the 60 gig iPod will be released for 4xx dollars. If you have lots of music and DJ sets I would recommend doing this. Buf if you can't wait, go to your local apple store and try to get one of the remaining 3g 40 gig iPods. I got my friend the hook up with a brand new one for 269 now that the 4g iPods are out.

very time efficient if you actually have 20 gigs or more of songs, I get so many new songs daily I can't remember the entire names of all the tracks.
for example Habersham and Numinous - Leaving Tifton (Digital Witchcraft Remix)
I might only remember "digital witchcraft" or "tifton"

If I were you, I get one of those portable mp3 cd players, The reason, Having other mp3 players that require you to connect it to the computer just to transfer the files, Is just a hassle, Since from time to time you have to change your library of tracks on it due to its limited space, With an mp3 cd player, All you need to do is burn a cdr as a data cd with mp3 files in it, And then you'll be able to play that cd on the mp3 cd player, It reads it like an audio cd, Only, You will have 50 or more tunes on it depending on the size of the files.

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Originally posted by TigerClaw If I were you, I get one of those portable mp3 cd players, The reason, Having other mp3 players that require you to connect it to the computer just to transfer the files, Is just a hassle, Since from time to time you have to change your library of tracks on it due to its limited space, With an mp3 cd player, All you need to do is burn a cdr as a data cd with mp3 files in it, And then you'll be able to play that cd on the mp3 cd player, It reads it like an audio cd, Only, You will have 50 or more tunes on it depending on the size of the files.

Also...you can play regular CD's

-Clovis

I transfer to my iPod 20 gigs in 8 minutes. As opposed to burning a CD which would take just about as long for a 800 meg CD.

Time to transfer shouldn't be a reason, It's all about personal preference. IF you want to play CD's and lug around a bunch of CD's then get the mp3 CD player. If you want all those CD's and live sets and whatnot right at your fingertips, then get the portable MP3 player. The iPod is VERY easy to use and fast.

I have an IRiver IFP0-195T. It's sort of spendy as far as RAM-driven players go, but it's 512MB, plays MP3/WMA, is great on batteries, and is about as small as MP3 players get. I'd reccomend it to anyone. I've had it for about eight months, and love it to death. Coupled with my Grado SR80 headphones (which I'd also suggest buying for PC and/or portable music), you can't beat it for the price.

Ipod. End of discussion

I have one, and they own everything else.

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Originally posted by th0m Ipod. End of discussion I have one, and they own everything else.

Except for the whole thing about it being a hard drive. Which dies. And the batteries. Which die. And the fact that it skips like hell if you try to do any kind of sport/exercise while wearing it.

Otherwise, yeah. They own.

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Originally posted by wwu.punisher Except for the whole thing about it being a hard drive. Which dies. And the batteries. Which die. And the fact that it skips like hell if you try to do any kind of sport/exercise while wearing it. Otherwise, yeah. They own.

have you ever heard an iPod skip? No, end of story. Battery, which is rechargable.

40 dollars extended coverage takes away the hard drive "issues" and the battery "issues"

Your post is extremely uneducated. nobody listen to what he just said.

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Originally posted by wwu.punisher Except for the whole thing about it being a hard drive. Which dies. And the batteries. Which die. And the fact that it skips like hell if you try to do any kind of sport/exercise while wearing it. Otherwise, yeah. They own.

So you cant dance with it like they do in the commercials?

I have two of those big case logic cd wallets filled with mp3 cds in them, Huge amount of hours there to listen to on your mp3 cds, Also great if you have a DVD Player with mp3 playback.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?family=iPodmini

this is all you need buddy

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Originally posted by getfoul have you ever heard an iPod skip? No, end of story. Battery, which is rechargable. 40 dollars extended coverage takes away the hard drive "issues" and the battery "issues" Your post is extremely uneducated. nobody listen to what he just said.

I've been through two IPods, to date.

Trust me... I know what I'm talking about.

Why the fuck should you have to pay $40 for extended coverage? IRiver guarantees their shit. Period. And it doesn't break. Ever.

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Originally posted by MaxTO I've got one of those also. Sound quality is good, holds lots of music and is a nice overall player. Price recently dropped from $458 to $398 at canada computers.

I was just going to recommend the iHP-120.

"buy" an MP3 player? don't you know they're giving iPods away????

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Originally posted by TigerClaw I have two of those big case logic cd wallets filled with mp3 cds in them, Huge amount of hours there to listen to on your mp3 cds, Also great if you have a DVD Player with mp3 playback.

Good point.

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