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It's not that ipods are bad, it's just that people are getting ripped off by them...I'm not aware of the exact price, but I think a regular 20 gb ipod is about 400 dollars. With Ipods, battery life sucks compared to so many other audio mp3 players. With iriver models, you can play videos and music with certain models, and all of the models come with an FM tuner. And if I'm not mistaken, certain models have about the same amount of battery life as a regular Ipod if not more, for about the same price as Ipod if not less. Iriver is not the only manufacturer like this. Archos and Creative are also companies that give you more for your money. I have a Creative Zen NOMAD Xtra that holds 40GB of files and has 14 hours of battery life, and I got it for $236.00 (USD). Of course the only reason why Ipod gets all of the sales is simply because they advertise more, and it looks better. So to those who are considering getting an Ipod, I ask you to please reconsider, because you will be dissappointed. That is of course you like spending too much money and getting a piece of crap...

iRiver?

everything you need to know about iRiver

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Originally posted by Earthsnail everything you need to know about iRiver

Nice...I want one. :D

i had minidisc for a while. unfortunately i had to go through three in three years because something about it always broke down. whether it was the volume/play button or the headphone jack, something always happened to it... still enjoyed it, but was getting frustrated with having to spring 200-300 each year for a new player

was a big fan of md back in the day but i just cant be arsed to carry discs round with me all the time so that was out of the picture.

Thought long n hard about gettin the new sony mp3 player but realised that converting to atrac would annoy me.

The iRiver just looks crap.

which brought me back to the ipod, it does have its faults but the fact is it has huge 3 party support for both hardware and software which imo automatically puts in first place. No case with it? arsed there are thousands of options availiable and yes u have to shell out more for them but pick the right one and its worth it. Don't like itunes? well theres plenty of 3rd party software to do the same thing, hell there's even a winamp plugin that will do it for you. as for most the extra features that other players have there is a substitute for almost all of them for the ipod of some sort. As for the battery life, yeah i suppose that can be off putting to some but i dont use it for more 12 hours generally anyway, if i do then i will take my charger with me.

Which is why i got an ipod and why im perfectly happy with it.

i'd take either..ipod or iriver...i dont have anything

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Originally posted by dj_mdma I was considering the Hi-MD range from Sony, but then i figured that 1 gig isnt' really enough its also quite expensive, but they do look good and they do have the excellent function of RECORDING! I don't like iRiver's because they just don't "look" that nice tbh, although of course, it is a matter of opinion. iPods are nice, but everyman and his dog has one, and why be like everyone else? also battery life has been said to be teh suxor. so i went and got this instead: battery life is up to 30hours at optimum performance, so i can see myself getting about 24 hours at my volume levels and file encoding. Atrac3 processing may be a bit of a bugger as it means you have to convert MP3's but the process isn't really that long. Atrac3 files are also better quality than mp3. And very few people have this, so i'm so much more elite than those ipod users

umm, im gonna have to disagree, maybe the battery life is longer, which I cant stand. But Atrac3(I had a NetMD walkman) is terriable sound quality, its encoded at 32kbs while normally Mp3s are at 96kbs.

sorry i meant to say that Atrac3PLUS the new type of coding with this player is better than MP3. A 64kbps Atrac3Plus is equivalent to 128kbps MP3, and the 256kbps encoding is damn near close enough to CD quality.

I had Net MD too, and when you compressed it to LP4, the sound quality was like that of tapes

whats the fastforwarding feature like on the iriver

i had anipod before.. (it got stolen unfortunately when my house was roobbeD)



and with ipods you can track to like any time in a long set in a matter of seconds


lets say your listening to a 200 minute set done by tiesto


in about 4 secons you can be at 141 minutes into the set




can i river do this?


just curious


or doyou have to hold fast forward for like 10 minutes

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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit and with ipods you can track to like any time in a long set in a matter of seconds

I LOVE the fact that you can fastforward, without interuppting the music on ipod.. same goes for browsing your tracks and sets for your next selection.

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Originally posted by DRM which brought me back to the ipod, it does have its faults but the fact is it has huge 3 party support for both hardware and software which imo automatically puts in first place.

Yes, it is extremely cool that ipod has 3 party support, and that's a great feature. But when you consider all of the faults in an Ipod, it's not worth it in my opnion:

[*]I'm a massive music nut, meaning I have a lot of music that I'm going to want to put on my player. I have 30 gb of music on my 40 gb player already and I've only had it for about a month.
[*]dishing out more shells is an understatement... ipods are WAAAAAY more expensive than they should be.
[*]The extra features must be purchased in addition to the already expensive player. For example, a case for your ipod must be purchased separately.
[*]The fact that it's only compatible with Mac and not PC sucks. In order to work with PC, I'm sure you know that you have to get a firewire, which also is more money and sucks
[*]I understand where you're coming from with battery life, however, if you can get a great deal more for cheaper, why not get it?

and last, I respect the fact that you don't like iRiver, and I don't like Sony. But there's still archos and creative, and a lot of other manufacturers that you could have considered when searching for a player.

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Originally posted by sooper I LOVE the fact that you can fastforward, without interuppting the music on ipod.. same goes for browsing your tracks and sets for your next selection.

that's the same for any player

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Originally posted by Earthsnail [*]The fact that it's only compatible with Mac and not PC sucks. In order to work with PC, I'm sure you know that you have to get a firewire, which also is more money and sucks

How long ago did you get yours? The reason I ask, is that I use a PC, and my ipod is compatible, and I didn't have to get fire wire... the ipod came with a USB cable.. so simple!

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Originally posted by Earthsnail that's the same for any player

oh,

well with my old mini disc, to fast forward, i had to hold down the fast forward button, and listen to the music in fast forward speed.

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Originally posted by Earthsnail It's not that ipods are bad, it's just that people are getting ripped off by them...I'm not aware of the exact price, but I think a regular 20 gb ipod is about 400 dollars. With Ipods, battery life sucks compared to so many other audio mp3 players. With iriver models, you can play videos and music with certain models, and all of the models come with an FM tuner. And if I'm not mistaken, certain models have about the same amount of battery life as a regular Ipod if not more, for about the same price as Ipod if not less. Iriver is not the only manufacturer like this. Archos and Creative are also companies that give you more for your money. I have a Creative Zen NOMAD Xtra that holds 40GB of files and has 14 hours of battery life, and I got it for $236.00 (USD). Of course the only reason why Ipod gets all of the sales is simply because they advertise more, and it looks better. So to those who are considering getting an Ipod, I ask you to please reconsider, because you will be dissappointed. That is of course you like spending too much money and getting a piece of crap...

Honestly, if you have 20 + Gigs of the music YOU want, why would you want a radio tuner to listen to crappy quality reception and horrible pop music? The fact that it has a radio tuner is a null point. I've owned portable CD Players with radio tuners and i honestly only listened to them when A. i had no more CD's left with me. or B. i wanted the battery to last as it was almost dead but i still wanted some music.

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Originally posted by sooper How long ago did you get yours? The reason I ask, is that I use a PC, and my ipod is compatible, and I didn't have to get fire wire... the ipod came with a USB cable.. so simple!

My bad. I stand corrected. But my friend had an ipod when they first came out and he said that he had to buy a firewire because he didn't look at the fact that it was only worked with macs

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Originally posted by sooper oh, well with my old mini disc, to fast forward, i had to hold down the fast forward button, and listen to the music in fast forward speed.

I'm sure the iriver is like that too, as i see no way that the player can judge the pace you want to search as the iPod can with the clickwheel. I love being able to go to the middle of a set or wherever instantly. I just wish CUE files worked with the iPod.

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Originally posted by getfoul I'm sure the iriver is like that too, as i see no way that the player can judge the pace you want to search as the iPod can with the clickwheel. I love being able to go to the middle of a set or wherever instantly. I just wish CUE files worked with the iPod.

actually, the way it works with most players is if you hold down the button for a certain lengh of time, it FF's faster, then if you hold down longer than that, it goes to an even higher speed...and so on

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Originally posted by ierxium I had sex with my iRiver a couple of months ago and it didn't get pregnant. Good stuff.

ahahahahaha. beautiful post.

anywho, i must get one of these. lol just yesterdaY my friend was telling me about his new 20gb ipod.. its "only 300 bucks" and blah blah blah.. hehehe. i was like uh.. ill pass...

still not as fast as the instant scrolling i would imagine. That, along with the playlists and great organization of finding things is what deems it a better player for me. Browse by song, artist, rating, genre, album, composer blah blah blah. It's all there at your fingertips.

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Originally posted by getfoul Honestly, if you have 20 + Gigs of the music YOU want, why would you want a radio tuner to listen to crappy quality reception and horrible pop music? The fact that it has a radio tuner is a null point. I've owned portable CD Players with radio tuners and i honestly only listened to them when A. i had no more CD's left with me. or B. i wanted the battery to last as it was almost dead but i still wanted some music.

you have a point. But the radio plays things that you might not have on your player. For example, a radio talk show, a football game, or just a song that you like. That's why a radio is useful

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Originally posted by getfoul still not as fast as the instant scrolling i would imagine. That, along with the playlists and great organization of finding things is what deems it a better player for me. Browse by song, artist, rating, genre, album, composer blah blah blah. It's all there at your fingertips.

yes it's not as fast. But as for the oranization, playlists, etc... you can do all that with most other players (my NOMAD does all that) and if you are that impatient to where you want to spend 300 or 400 bucks so you can fast foward a few seconds faster than other players, by all means go ahead

20gig 4g ipod = free, and looks classy despite how popular, and overhyped it is. It does look nice.

iriver = not free, and doesnt look as good.

Dell Jukebox > (iPod + iRiver)^2


Im not a big dell fan but the jukebox owns. 15 gigs for 290 bucks canadian. Its the most durable mp3 player i have ever had. Backround Blue lit screen. You can store Data files and even record audio. Its a pretty solid mp3 to have .

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