I'm looking for a compact portable mp3 player with plenty of storage and decent organizing. Something to use with a whole MP3 library. Something with good battery life that isn't too bulky. Any suggestions?
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Anonymous2005-03-10 4:04
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Agreed, some other types of players (non-HD) are always a nice, less expensive alternative. I went with a MiniDisc player myself. It cost about $130 with complete car kit, and arm band case. I've seen them lower, though. Discs themselves cost about $2 a piece, and hold about 150 MB, much cheaper than Flash cards or the like, and about 5 hrs of music depending on the compression, and are re-writable like 10,000 times. Battery life is fantastic! I find myself replacing the single AA battery about once a month or so. My CD player by comparison ate batteries for breakfast.
The MAJOR drawback with MiniDisc, however, is that you have to use this REALLY convoluted software to convert and transfer songs.
No I'm not. I dont fucking want to pay $200 for the battery which lasts only 2 years. iPod is one of the hugest scam they put on the public just like Y2K shit. I do know what sage means. Do YOU know?
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Anonymous2005-03-11 11:43
All portable devices that run on internal rechargeable batteries will only last about two years before their battery needs replacing - many MP3 players, all laptops, almost all mobile phones, you name it. The cells in the battery steadily degrade (or sometimes go bad all of a sudden), meaning they can hold less energy and therefore don't last as long on each charge. The beef people have, or rather had, with iPods was that several years ago the only way to replace the battery was to send it back to Apple, who charged a small fortune to do it. But now you can find replacement batteries, and even higher-capacity third-party batteries, for sale at under $30, and they aren't too difficult to change yourself unless you're completely mechanically incompetent (and even then there are people who will do it for you at much lower cost than Apple). It might've been better had Apple designed the iPod so even a complete cretin could change the battery (like having it behind a screwed-down panel on the back). At least it would've prevented idiots from bitching about problems that were solved over two years ago.
Oh, and great comeback there, especially after you only discovered how to sage on your second attempt. "Do YOU know?". You totally don't sound like an enraged yet slow-witted twelve-year-old.
iPod is bringing digital music into the streets and down the halls like no other MP3 player or audio player has before. It's a great MP3 player, no matter which way you slice it, if not a bit overpriced. But you definitely get what you pay for when it comes to design, quality, and abilities. Hell, you can use it as a hard disk drive for christ sake.
Cheers. I use Windows, fucktard. I know it's terrible to like something that happens to work well and is -also- popular. Don't fag up this thread more.
Oh noes!!11! Teh thread iz ben fagged!!1! All those things you said are subjective, and thus your opinion. The only one fagging up anything is you.
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Anonymous2005-03-15 23:12
I think the Ipod is a total waste of money for a portable mp3 player. One of the most important things a portable device must have is long battery life. unfortunately, it doesn't have that. To top it off, it's supposed to be a portable sound device but lacks sound quality that the Zens and Carbons have, which are cheaper and contain 2-3 times more space on the same price. I've heard music from an iPod before, to tell you the truth, the music sounds flat. I don't know if it was his .mp3's bitrate (which most likely isn't), but it was flat. Makes me wonder why they dance so much on commercials with them.
The only thing I like about the iPod is the circle touch-pad navigation, very useful for navigating through a large library. Everything else is bad to me. It's the best , market wise. but tech wise? definitely not.
iPod Pros:
-Navigation.
-Simple.
-Easy to use.
-Has a wide selection of accessories.
-requires no drivers to install. Just plug and play.
iPod Cons:
-The LCD bit is low and doesn't show text well, especially on eastern-asian fonts.
-Sound quality is low.
-It scratches easily.
-It's expensive
-ridiculously low battery life
-requires no drivers to install. Meaning someone can steal it and use it right away.
So you might want to consider doing some research. Personally, I prefer Zens as I own a Zen Xtra 40GB which is $250 right now. I chose this because Creative, the creators of Zen, also make the well-known Sound-Blaster cards. And it's cheaper for twice the amount of space. Only downside is the jog-wheel navigation, size, and lack of ability to organize music in folders (uses Artist, Album, and Genre information to automatically organize files).
Zen Pros:
-high sound quality
-cheaper and cost-efficient
-you can change the hard drive (only if you know how)
-easily replaceable batteries that require no screws at all.
-Long battery life. 12 hours on my Xtra, and a crazy 24 hours on the new Zen Touch.
-uses an aluminum casing. Hardly gets scratches.
-Higher bit on LCD and can display text better than an iPod.
Zen Cons:
-definetly the size
-Weight
-navigation
-firmware is buggy on new models such as the Zen Micro
-lack of accessories
-lacks the ability to organize music.
If you want more info, go to nomadness.net. Yeah, these guys are Creative-based, but they have a lot of information on other players too, such as Carbons, Karmas, etc. etc. in their forums. Go look for topics that compare players. You can also go to ipodlounge.com, but most of the forum is composed of ‘I luv my iPod’ or ‘help on my iPod!’ topics.
Battery life will last me from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed at night without the screen lit, easily. Aftermarker batteries will go even longer. The player plays the music at whatever quality the mp3 is, the chip inside isn't taking anything away from it. Possible that he was just using a 128 kbps or lower sound file.
You pay for more than the quality though, you also pay for the brand. iPod is trendy and cool, so the price reflects it (see: Gucci). Other mp3 players, such as the Zen, get the job done in spades...but the support for the iPod and the HDD aspects of it make me think it was the right choice for me. My only problem with it is the earbuds that are included are easily blown out at high listening levels. And, contrary to many opinions, I enjoy the ease and flexibility of iTunes. Macs in general though can go right straight to hell.
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Shin Kudo2005-04-20 4:11
I'm very pleased with my iRiver H320. Great price (paid $260 at Best Buy, brand new), beautiful screen, good battery life, great sound quality. The one and only downside is navigation. It scrolls slowly, so if you've got a crapload of albums or artists to go through, it can take a while. Still, I'd recommend it.
Hell, it even has a decent set of included earbuds, sennheisers, although I hate "standard" shaped earbuds, so I dont' use them.
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Anonymous2005-05-01 20:02
I think what iPod has really going for it is ease-of-use. It has the most original and easy user interface ever especially with that circle touch-pad navigation. It that touch pad thats got iPod going for as long as it is. And because there is no way to another player to copy that without Apple suing them (unlike jogdial), iPod remains unique.
All other features of iPod (for the price) is just bloated. You can find so many other players with the same capacity but with more features for a lower price.
Take for instance the iAudio M3. It smaller than the iPod. Design is sleek. Has both voice recording and radio. And supports all the audio codecs. Thats makes it superior than the iPod. The only thing that stops it from ever beating the iPod down is its user interface. The iAudio M3 has the worse user interface ever. A nightmare to navigate to files with it.
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Spiffy Hamster@spammera2005-05-13 18:56
I have a Rio Carbon. Little did I know when I bought it that my music folder was about 20 GB in size...
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Anonymous2005-05-16 13:28
When people buy an iPod, they are merely rewarding Apple for its quirky design and marketing thats all. As opposed to a money-value product.
Should the other manufacturers be at least smarter marketing-wise than iPOd I am sure they would doing so much better.
And probably as a result, iTunes and its followers wouldn;t had been so successful.
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Anonymous2007-02-26 3:00 ID:UDdIoIOA
Zen Vision : M
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Anonymous2007-02-26 12:47 ID:N/HU0FNg
Creative Zen Microphoto best buy 200 dollars 8 gigs and acts as a secondary hard drive. Plus replacable lithium ion battieris.
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Anonymous2007-02-28 9:34 ID:ZKF3Y8jZ
I think the iPod shuffle is quite cool. That's what I use, as I have no real use for anything else like storage or "wow apps". All that shit is on my phone anyways. I'd get a Zen if I did need anything more.
i got an ipod nano and 30g ipod but recently bought the new Sony NW-S706F mp3 player its so far better then ipod i let u find the lil details out but compare them and sony will bit the f****n s**T out Apple it the best mp3 u can get at the mo!!!!!
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Anonymous2007-03-04 13:59 ID:zO1NJeEW
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>harddrive vs solidstate is the real question
Exactly. If I were to buy an mp3 player, it'd be a flash player for sure. I don't want my shit skipping when I run.
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Anonymous2007-03-05 2:32 ID:1P0K/jFW
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In like three years of owning iPods, that has never happened to me.
PROTIP: The iPod's storage is a harddrive, but when it plays a song, it is playing it out of RAM, of which it has enough to load mutltiple songs.