Best mp3 player?

morfeumorfeu Lisbon, Portugal
edited August 2003 in Hardware
Hello ppl!

Well, i'm confused, dunno what to buy, i see a lot of players from Creative Muvo 128mg (only 128mg) to regular CD players wich can read CD-RW with mp3, about the same price and the astronomic monsters of 20Gb and more of Creative but so expensive..

Do you have any mp3 player? Are you happy? I need advices.

Thx! :thumbsup:

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    This is possibly the only time where I'll say this... and I swear someone's gonna take it out of context and I'm gonna hear about it later, but... get an Apple iPod... they're the best mp3 players around, and the only Apple product that I'd consider buying.
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited July 2003
    I'm a fan of my Edigital (http://www.edig.com) MXP100. I got it for really cheap. (I bought the model with the 340 Microdrive then sold the microdrive for ~90) It uses standard CF Cards. The interface software is a bit buggy and a bit slow (USB 1.1) but the player itself works like a charm.
  • morfeumorfeu Lisbon, Portugal
    edited July 2003
    Geeky1.. humm eheh I tought those babies only worked with Mac.. dumb me, i will check them.

    and MoXon, thx for the tip, i have a Digital Camera wich use CF cards... that would be an interesting buy.

    Thx both! :)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Geeky1 said
    This is possibly the only time where I'll say this... and I swear someone's gonna take it out of context and I'm gonna hear about it later, but... get an Apple iPod... they're the best mp3 players around, and the only Apple product that I'd consider buying.

    MAC LOVER!
  • teflemingtefleming
    edited July 2003
    morfeu said
    and MoXon, thx for the tip, i have a Digital Camera wich use CF cards... that would be an interesting buy.

    Thx both! :)

    That's why I bought mine. I'm hoping it will be easier to get a 512 (or a Gig :-)) CF Card since I can use it with either my camera or my MP3 Player.

    It's the best one I found for CF. There was another one (I don't recall the name, but it was about 40) but it wouldn't read a card bigger than 64MB.

    The battery life on the MXP is good. It's firmware upgradable. I haven't tried the voice recognition really.

    But like I said the software sucks.

    Best of luck!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    *Geeky1 goes to grab sledgehammer from shed to smak Thrax over teh head with*

    They came out with a PC one a while back; it supports usb2 and firewire... and the itunes service is supposedly coming to PCs this fall...
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited July 2003
    I've got an old Creative Nomad Jukebox 6 GB. Works great where-ever I take it. The only down side: navigating the unit can be a little difficult if your tags aren't all up to snuff and the software Creative supplies with it is pretty shoddy at best.
  • XyphusXyphus South Bend, Indiana
    edited August 2003
    I've got the RCA Lyra RD1080 and have been quite pleased with it. It comes with 128MB built in, and can use MMC to expand your storage ability. So far, I think it is one of the few players that support MP3Pro. (I know many people don't seem to like MP3Pro, but this *is* an RCA (aka Thompson) player, so the MP3Pro support is a given, and the sound quality is top notch, not to mention you can get twice as much music to fit in MP3Pro format than you can in standard MP3)

    Anyway.. My 2 cents.. :)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2003
    ...on what you'll be using it for, and where you'll be using it.

    If you're into jogging, or want to wear it everywhere you go, I'd look into some of the built-in memory/memory card options which others have mentioned. I do a lot of traveling in my car, and I love my CD-based Sony Walkman D-CJ506CK.

    Here's why: It cost about $100, plays CD-RW discs, and came with a car kit (cigarette lighter power plug & cassette adapter). I can burn 700MB to a disc, and easily carry 10 discs in the little case I bought for it. If someone swipes it or it gets broken I'm out about $110. In order to hold 7GB of mp3's in one of the built-in memory/memory card players, I'd have had to buy one of those $300 (and up) babies. It plays regular CD's too (obviously) which can be handy. Since I don't want to have dozens of $18 CD's in the car (in case it gets broken into) I have burned CDR's of my entire music collection. If I wanted to, I could carry my whole collection on about $20 worth of blank CD's.

    One other nice feature is the nice backlit display, which shows you Track & Artist. It also resumes where you left off, so if you have to stop it for a while you don't have to scan through the entire disc to find the place you want to resume.

    The biggest drawbacks are size (though it is small, even by CD player standards, it's still bigger than the built-in memory players) and the fact that if you're jogging it might skip.


    Prof
  • morfeumorfeu Lisbon, Portugal
    edited August 2003
    profdlp said
    ...on what you'll be using it for, and where you'll be using it.

    If you're into jogging, or want to wear it everywhere you go, I'd look into some of the built-in memory/memory card options which others have mentioned. I do a lot of traveling in my car, and I love my CD-based Sony Walkman D-CJ506CK.

    Here's why: It cost about $100, plays CD-RW discs, and came with a car kit (cigarette lighter power plug & cassette adapter). I can burn 700MB to a disc, and easily carry 10 discs in the little case I bought for it. If someone swipes it or it gets broken I'm out about $110. In order to hold 7GB of mp3's in one of the built-in memory/memory card players, I'd have had to buy one of those $300 (and up) babies. It plays regular CD's too (obviously) which can be handy. Since I don't want to have dozens of $18 CD's in the car (in case it gets broken into) I have burned CDR's of my entire music collection. If I wanted to, I could carry my whole collection on about $20 worth of blank CD's.

    One other nice feature is the nice backlit display, which shows you Track & Artist. It also resumes where you left off, so if you have to stop it for a while you don't have to scan through the entire disc to find the place you want to resume.

    The biggest drawbacks are size (though it is small, even by CD player standards, it's still bigger than the built-in memory players) and the fact that if you're jogging it might skip.


    Prof


    I've seen some Sony and Panasonic, etc CD-MP3 players and its really that, that im going to buy, not expensive and with a bunch of CD-RW's i can put a lot of mp3 on them and i can still read my normal cd's with out the need of burning them to mp3.

    Thx all for the tips.. :):thumbsup:
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    i personally like minidisks...its like a mp3 player with a removeable harddrive....also its getting pretty up there with houres of music/disc
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited August 2003
    Minidisks are very propriatary, but they are very very effective at what they do, but they are expensive.
    The iPod is a wonderful little thing, but expensive as hell.

    MP3 Cd player is the way to go right now, sure it's bulky, but it's cheap and very effective
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