recommend me an mp3 player?

well i never had an ipod where i could adjust the eq settings. i dont know if the newer ones have these. i did have an ipod that i couldn't use with my old mac because i couldn't get the newest itunes without upgrading my OS, which meant my computer didn't even recognize the ipod. that is so ridiculous. this just plugs in and shows up as a usb device and i don't even have to bother with itunes bullshit, just drag the files in. this is what an mp3 player should be IMO, not some fancy white little bitch.

i've got a peeve about the newer ipods. they've got this kind of screensaver album art collage goin on, right? cool! but there's no way to actually LISTEN to one of these albums you're seeing the artwork of, short of exiting whatever screen you're on and digging down through all your mp3s. i've got loads of albums and singles whose covers i barely recognize; most of the time i don't even know what album is prancing around on the screensaver thingie but i'm often like "whoa what's that? i want to listen to that!" but there's no way to tell!

okay that graf was atrocious. but new, confusing technology requires new, confusing paragraphs.

btw is there any way of turning OFF the half-screen thing, and have menu options stretch all the way across the screen?

I am so mad at Apple right now - I want a small flash mp3 player and will probably get the 4GB nano (do not want a shuffle because they have no screen, wtf?), but it seems obscene to charge a third of the price of the entire product for the 2-year warranty. It's making me try to calculate how mad at myself I'll be if it breaks in a year and a half - mad enough to justify the $40 warranty?

Alternately, anyone know of one that's cheaper and Mac compatible to the extent of being able to play whatever format itunes changes your music to? Unfortunately all my music is there.

Maria I've recommended the Sansa Clip many times on this thread but I don't know what format you mean when you say "whatever format itunes changes your music to". If you search for Sansa Clip, the Sandisk website will give you all the specifications.

maria, the cowon iaudio that i just got was about $50 cheaper than the comparable nano (the 8 gb). the 4 gb one is about $115? i think it only has a 1 year warranty. the screen is much smaller than the nano's, so if you want to use it mainly for watching videos the ipod may be better.

itunes only plays mp3s, which im sure works with any player. just make sure it is compatible with your OS.

itunes only plays mp3s

Uh?

itunes plays quite a bit more than just mp3s!

like what?! i mean you can play .ogg and .wma using plug-ins

I actually had an earlier, smaller model of the Sansa player before my PC died and I got a Mac, it synced through Windows Media Player (there's a version for Mac, but it only plays .wma!). Regular Windows Media Player can play mp3s from CDs, but not ones from my itunes library, so I had to re-import the CDs into a different location to update the player. It seems that everything in itunes gets imported and automatically converted to "protected AAC," I guess that's the problematic format?

My worry about the cowon iaudio is that it says "data transfer only," and I do not know what it means, so if it caused problems I wouldn't know why. I will have to look more into this.

Itunes plays pretty much anything. Or, at least, will convert pretty much anything to an mp3.

well i never had an ipod where i could adjust the eq settings. i dont know if the newer ones have these.

All of them can.

i did have an ipod that i couldn't use with my old mac because i couldn't get the newest itunes without upgrading my OS,

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i want it

though the zooms are cheaper and h4 has xlr inputs

i know these are not mp3 players
i need to make a bunch of sound-related purchases (but i won't post like pics of amps here or anything)

kingfish, how's that sansa holding up? I'm seeing refurbs for under $30 like http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-sansa-e250-2gb-mp3-player-fm-tuner-fm-on-the-fly-recording/q/loc/111/205562657.html

I was looking for something with a card slot and a fm tuner. is the microphone any good?

I am happy with my 2GB Zen Stone. It works. I am easily pleased.

Ooops. I do not mean to imply it has an FM tuner or card slot. I was speaking in a more general way.

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Best looking (both externally and the video on screen) and sounding (and that's even before I tried any of the 36 equalizer settings + 4 user-defineable ones) mp3 player I've ever experienced. Watched 4 full length divx movies on it, listened to twenty albums, battery is still like 2/3 full. (up to 55 hours if you only listen to music, 12 if you only watch movies)

It looks spiff! How big is it?

Call me old fashioned but I just can't get into touchscreens. My 120gb two-buttons-and-a-"zunepad" Zune is my favorite thing on the planet

Smaller than I expected, just a little bit bigger than and about half as thin as my cell phone, a normal size sony-ericsson. :-)

idle research about a month ago pointed toward either the samsung p3, the cowon or a lower-end sony walkman. expensive choice would be either x-series walkman or maybe that creative egg thing if it gets a full release

S9's first accessory ordered: anti-fingerprint screen protector thing, since this attracts fingerprints like crazy.

so my (rather expensive) creative zen bought in 2006 is about to give up the ghost. i need a replacement. what's the best thing? i was thinking an itouch, but then i'm not very current with these things. are iphones still ridiculously expensive? what's the average GB on an iphone and is it worth it or do i just stick to a regular mp3 player? any decent non-apple contenders out there?

still like the creative zen tbh, but gf has an itouch and it's great too- wasn't expensive but i think it's only 16gb so do the research if you need more.

the market is glutted - you'll need to provide us with more criteria in order to narrow the field

just in general though this site is pretty reliable for tech stuff ime

http://www.trustedreviews.com/

just get a Sansa Clip for like £15 and be done with it - they weigh nothing, hold a lot of music and sound great

dog latin, did you have the 60gb vision m?
i have this it's been great, could do with something similar, but haven't found anything yet that'll do the same job, movies/ external hard drive etc.

30gb vision m. i was very happy with it but a lack of available accessories on the market meant i kept forgetting to seek out a protective case, hence why it keeps going into rebuild mode and the screen's gone funny.

what do you mean by external hd?

i found that with the zen, while it was fairly reliable, it would often malfunction if i tried to fill it to capacity.

i like the idea of being able to go online etc with the itouch.

ipod touches go up to 64GB and going online, playing games, using apps is very nice. also no moving parts so you probably won't lose data by dropping it (however you might break the screen).

in the extras, there's a removable disc option for storage and usb host option.

Mine still works fine (just jinxed it, it'll brake in 3 mins), is a little scratched, but not enough to ruin watching stuff on it.
I've just looked on Amazon when I actually bought it, 3 years ago this week and I've used it pretty much every day.
£200 quid at the time, well worth the money I'd say.

This is kinda to do with this thread. I've been looking for something a bit like a iPad, but not really. This is my wishlist:

Gotta play videos (x264 and avi)
7-10 inch screen
Surf web
Wi-fi (not bothered with 3G)
Ideally HDMI output, but I can live without it.

Any ideas? Everything I've seen seems either overspecced or tiny - I guess I'm slap in the middle.

Samsung's Galaxy Tab covers all yr requirements - I've not used one myself, but it's getting decent reviews (with a few caveats). Might be worth trying one instore?

I saw the tab and it looks kinda cool and yeh, ticks all the boxes. I was hoping for something a tad cheaper (£500 is a lot of cash in anyone's book) but I'll prob. end up with something like that. Or I might just spend £40 on a new laptop battery and lug my monster about.

Best option by miles is to wait a few weeks and buy a Tab for £350. No way can Samsung maintain that ridiculous price point.

hello does anyone have a recommendation for an mp3 player that:

- has at least 30 gig storage
- has bluetooth
- plays all files inc m4as
- is not an apple product

(is not for me, is for a friend)

Last requirement rules out most of them, but I guess there's the Samsung Player 5 fitted with a 32gb microSD card. An Android device, their competitor to the iPod touch though it hasn't been updated for awhile. Plays AAC - does that = M4A?

Any MP3 player recommendations? Relatively cheap (for a bus commute).

Anyone?

SanDisk Clip Zip motherfucker.

I have a Clip Jam for the gym and its fairly quiet. Is the Clip Zip an ok volume?

they all have the same volume setup, you need the brexit option for full volume!

Follow the steps to increase the volume output of your Sansa player:

Clip Jam
1. Reset the Sansa player to factory settings: Settings > System Settings > Restore
2. Set the region as Rest of World.
3. Change volume setting to High: Settings > System Settings > Volume > High

using an mp3 player for music, instead of your phone, is a stroke of genius. for so many reasons. i thought it was my own little secret.

w/ SD card capacities now you can get like 32gb or 64gb in a fairly small form factor I'd think. But what's the real advantage of not using your phone? Just size?

conserves space on your phone for apps/photoes etc; cleaner/more direct interface for playing music; saves some battery; allows you to have portable music in a very small, lightweight device without having to lug phone around (esp nice if you're a runner/walker); mp3 players often play louder...

Thanks Calzino!