MP3 players c/d?

In terms of flexibility, the CD-based ones may be the best bet, because you can fit 700MB per platter, and the media is fairly cheap. The only thing is: they skip. If you get really cheap media or a player that's not quite up to par, forget the idea of walking to work with it, because it won't be able to track properly. If you're just planning to plop it down beside the workstation, you should be safe with almost any of the most popular CD-based players, as long as you don't go TOO cheap.

I'm a convert to the Creative Nomad Jukebox, because they're huge (either 6 or 20 gigs), don't skip, and have a great indexing system for location of tracks. The only problem I have with them right now is that boot-up can take a long time, especially if you have any playlists on the device. If you update the player a lot, removing tracks and adding others, your playlists become outdated, causing a lot of delay while it re-indexes on bootup. I just removed the playlists, though, and now it takes under 2 minutes to boot...still a long time, but I can turn the player on just before I get ready to head out, and it's ready to go by the time I get my coat on. The new version of the Nomad Jukebox is supposed to dispense with all of the boot-up delays, though, and it'll add FireWire transfer, so you don't have to wait forever to get your 20 gigs onto the Jukebox. I can't wait to see that one.

Which player did you get, and what was the memory format?

My friend, on the other hand, has a nifty unit from Dlink that is actually a harddrive in disguise. But unlike the Nomad or the iPod, it is very, very easy to connect to a computer through USB, and Windows sees it as an additional drive, so basically you can just stick whatever you want on it, and it'll play. Plus it's waaaay smaller than a Nomad. It's about iPod size, only without the proprietary iTune format that the iPod requires. The best part is that it takes any ole laptop 2.5" hd. There may be some catches, but besides the fact that I wish it were Firewire, it seems pretty neat.

I am just resurrecting a decade old thread to enthuse about my new mp3 player. It's name ryhmes with santa, it has 8gb memory and it cost me 50 quid. Its the best cheap piece of shit money can buy. I also got a 32 gb micro card for 15 quid so that is 65 quid for a 40 gb mp3 player. It has arguably better sound quality than the ipod and can go very loud. It has an exceptional battery life as well, it ticks every box apart from style and sophistication. I am just putting this on here because I have wasted a lot of money on overpriced shit in the last three years. This little beauty is giving me the same buzz I got when I got my first mp3 player a decade ago. Just the simple pleasure of carrying my music collection in my pocket.

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It rhymes with prancer!I sound like a bloody spammer, oh dear.

I think the easier thing to do would be to actually say the name of it rather than allude to it through cryptic guessing games. If only because Santa and Prancer do not rhyme.

Sansa!!

My original aim was not to sound like a typical asinine amazon review. I fucking failed!

ive had 3 sansa clips- they are great for what they are. good battery, good clipping, a screen to tell you what you're hearing or going to hear, fm radio, durability (i've dropped it into a spinning bike wheel at 20 miles an hour, which ejected it down the street, and it was fine), and cheap enough to lose without tears.

i think i've written this elsewhere on ilx.

Yeah they are very good. I have wasted a fortune on various Sony's that are too quiet or Cowon's that break too easily. The one I have got is a sansa clip zip. Awful name but an amazing player.

Gregor Sansa woke up one morning to find himself transformed into a vermin variable bitrate MP3 player...

I've ordered a 20g Ruizu sport mp3 player. It looks like a very well done reverse engineered ripoff of the Sansa clipzip, that is sd expandable as well, and with a very similar interface, more memory and with bluetooth as well. I'll see how it goes, worth a try for £26.

AGPTEK mp3/wav/flac/yadda yadda player I bought last year for under $30 is the best cheap tech purchase I've made in a long time.

they look pretty good, do they have decent sound on them? (I'm not an audiophile, but some of the cheap ones I've tried in the past are too quiet).

I noticed for an extra 20 quid above their cheap model they do a metal cased mp3 player which looks very nice tbh

it looks a bit like a Cowon one I used to have about 10 years ago.

I still see people using their sansa players. I just use my phone. More than good enough for out and about.

But sports use may require separate player

AGPTEK sound is very good but you def have to boost some frequencies w/the on board EQ if you like some low end in your music. One thing I miss about my old iPods (Classic) was their nice, full sound.