Is there a cheaper alternative to the IPOD?

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And am I right in thinking that the IPOD only works with Macs?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Portable MP3 CD discman.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

And am I right in thinking that the IPOD only works with Macs?

No, you are wrong. They've been available for Windows for a while now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

iPod works with Windows now, but it's still quite an investment. Mark OTM -- 700MB of mp3s on a disc is more than you need to leave the house with at any one time. I have a small mp3 player as well which holds... what... 256mb? About 50 songs. It gets reloaded a lot.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Switching discs > reloading

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

This is true, and you can even do it on the train.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Im moving countries soon, and as I only use my pc for music and the net, Iºd rather sell it here and get a cheap new one elsewhere than lug it around the planet. Obviously though I dont want to lose the thousands of tracks that Ive got on my pc. As I cant afford to buy a laptop an IPOD seems like a good solution, but I dont have the cash at the mo. Hence the query.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got an NexIIe mp3 player.
It is relatively cheap (prob. around 150USD), it's copywrite free (ie. there are no restrictions regarding song transfering), and it sounds really good.
It uses flashmemory so you can have a storage capacity of up to 2gb (might increase), a 256mb card is about 80USD.

― Jim Janse, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ps. at the moment Ive got about 10 gigs worth of music

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I read they were bringing out a smaller iPod for £65 which can fit about 800 "average" songs on. Anyone got any news on a release date for these?

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1117666,00.html This might be sthg like that

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Smaller in size, price £199

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nme.com/news/107171.htm

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe you could buy a hard drive for those 10 gigs, and take that with you?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Im not much of a hardware wizard, I mean in theory I could just take the drive out of my current machine and forget about selling it, or maybe replace it, but doesnt that involve quite a bit of work ie. would I need to configure it etc on a new pc afterwards?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Gatinha,
Your most affordable solution would be to back up your music on CDR's. Then you can either load them on a new machine when the time comes, or buy one of the portable cd players that supports mp3s (which are much cheaper than the I-Pod or any of the portables w/ big HDs)

― pete from the street, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Apple just released a mini Ipod which holds 1000 songs and is 249 dollars http://www.apple.com/ipodmini/
but why you would not go with the new 15 GB for $299 is beyond me...
(and in October i bought the 10 GB for that price, dammit)

― Meehan Ah Um (Meehan Ah Um), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought somebody a Seal player for a holiday present. Cost under $100, weighs about 3 oz, hangs on a necklace, holds 128megs, two inches long, and jabs into a usb port for refilling. Take a AAA battery, has a good interface. Basically, I asked myself the same question a month ago, and I'm really happy with this answer.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Gatinha, i recently moved countries in a pretty similar situation. You can buy portable, rubberised hard drives which are about half the size of a paperback novel and virtually indestructible. They come in any size from 10gb to 120gb and can be plugged into any machine. Much quicker than burning everything onto cds...

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 8 January 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i've read that Sony's next generation minidiscs will be able to contain up to 40 hours per minidisc, and will also be able to play the current minidiscs, so i'm waiting for that, being a MD user.

Have a look here

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 8 January 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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