Zen or Ipod

[elroy]

Unsure which to get, anyone recommend either?? good/bad points about each. cheers

[Slash/ED]

iRiver is yer man, ignore those two. I've had it for a year and it's excellent.

[cullenswood]

iRiver is yer man, ignore those two. I've had it for a year and it's excellent.

Totally agree, iRiver beats the socks of either of them. Much better system

[elroy]

Someone told me theres a radio on that as well is that true?
whats the battery like on it? any problems downloading onto it etc?
price?
thanks for the help appreciate it.

[Babysis]

I bought a Rio Karma a few months back. I love it. Was reccommended to me by a mate in the know. Long life battery, but the key point is the sound quality, absolutely excellent. Not as well known, but its funky, and small. Its got a 20gig hard drive, and its really easy to use.

[Slash/ED]

Someone told me theres a radio on that as well is that true?
whats the battery like on it? any problems downloading onto it etc?
price?
thanks for the help appreciate it.

Yep radio on it and downloading is very very esay. Just drag your files onto it then right click on them and press "Add to DB", simple as that.

battery is around 12 hours or so I think, no problems there anyway.

[$Leon$]

go for the iRiver. got one myself and love it. this has come up before maybe a poll to c what people out there have??

[Eire06]

Was going to get an ipod in America but leaning more towards the iriver now.. Has a load of good reviews online for it.. iPod seems to to critised a lot battery ect..

Has anyone actually got an iPod so they can give us an actual review of it?

[Karlos]

Have a 20gb Ipod myself. Absolutely love it but then again it's all I've known in the world of MP3 players. I get about 9 hours or so battery time when I use it cointinuously. I-tunes is a nice piece of software too and very easy to use and I haven't encountered any of the supposed problems with it yet. Got it in August 2004.

[pete]

Does the IRiver have any restrictions on what files you can play? Does it care where you got the Mp3s?

[ken foree]

Have a 20gb Ipod myself. Absolutely love it but then again it's all I've known in the world of MP3 players. I get about 9 hours or so battery time when I use it cointinuously. I-tunes is a nice piece of software too and very easy to use and I haven't encountered any of the supposed problems with it yet. Got it in August 2004.

same here and here's my buckin contents, all full albums, what a machine:

[I'm pretty sure if people wanted your playlist, they'd have asked for it. --adam]

[dahamsta]

I've just sold my iRiver but that's because I'm not a big music person and it was just overkill for my needs. Can't say I wasn't sad to see it go though.

Be buying one of the latest iPod minis shortly.

adam

[James]

Be buying one of the latest iPod minis shortly.

adam

a quality purchase adam
i love me ipod shuffle
*see other thread on james's love for ipod shuffle*

i see too that sony have jumped on board and are releasing a flash based micro small mp3 player similar to the ipod shuffle..weird though they introducing it at $40 /5O more then apple which is unusual for apple having the lost cost item

[Slash/ED]

Does the IRiver have any restrictions on what files you can play? Does it care where you got the Mp3s?

I've never had trouble playing MP3s on it, it can play those windows media player files too (Well it says it can I've not tried it yet as all my songs are on mp3)

[Docboy]

Got a 60gb Creative Zen had it for about a 18 months now. No probs up until recently but that's mainly cos I bought on-line. Have heard a lot of good things things bout the i-river,good bit lighter aswell.

[harpskid]

Have a 20gb Ipod myself. Absolutely love it but then again it's all I've known in the world of MP3 players. I get about 9 hours or so battery time when I use it cointinuously. I-tunes is a nice piece of software too and very easy to use and I haven't encountered any of the supposed problems with it yet.

Likewise. I think the i-pod is the muts nuts

Have got a couple thousand tunes on it and no sign of me easing off on the downloading

[dahamsta]

weird though they introducing it at $40 /5O more then apple which is unusual for apple having the lost cost item

The prices went out on the wire incorrectly, but yeah, they're still a bit off. I'd say Apple has cut a lot out of the margin in an attempt to build the brand and push iTunes though. However the euro price is still numerically the same as the dollar price, so they're still screwing us royally over here.

adam

[Don Vito]

Go for the iPod, have a 20gig one myself. Its far lighter and looks far better than an iRiver. Was comparing my iPod to $Leon$'s iRiver recently when I met him and you just couldnt bring the iRiver jogging or walking to work-jus far too heavy and chunky. Well you could bring it jogging but it would be like carrying weights around

iTunes is a fantastic piece of software too, so easy to download and organise music.

[Eire06]

Go for the iPod, have a 20gig one myself. Its far lighter and looks far better than an iRiver. Was comparing my iPod to $Leon$'s iRiver recently when I met him and you just couldnt bring the iRiver jogging or walking to work-jus far too heavy and chunky. Well you could bring it jogging but it would be like carrying weights around

iTunes is a fantastic piece of software too, so easy to download and organise music.

I heard iTunes was hard to use in copying from cd's is this true?.. Theres a new iPod mini 6GB don't know wether to get that or the 20GB one..

The mini is nicer looking and smaller in size. but can save so much more on 20GB

[James]

I'd say Apple has cut a lot out of the margin in an attempt to build the brand and push iTunes though. However the euro price is still numerically the same as the dollar price, so they're still screwing us royally over here.

couldnt possible comment on such matters

i will though say that itunes and the whole ilife suite of itunes / imovie / iphoto / idvd are without doubt far and away the best software package i have ever used for sheer ease of use and functionality