MP3 Players

[Arsene About]

I’m thinking of buying an MP3 player and have been looking at I-pods recently. Just wondering if anyone could recommend which type of player is best as im not too well up on the subject! Also, my mate id going to the states in a few weeks so would it be better to get one over there price wise, or what would happen if a problem developed with it over here. Thanks

[Drumcondra Red]

I have an iPod, 20GB, and I have say I've never had any problems with it at all, love always use it and couldn't recommend it more!!! I know 2 lads that got an iRiver, both had to be returned for repair sharpish!!!

[Peadar]

Go with an iPod if you want all its limitations or go with one of the coolest products on the market.
The Sony HDD Network WALKMAN NW-HD3

[sligoman]

I bought a 1GB MP3 player off e-bay about three months ago for about 80euros. That is a great deal considering it's 1gb. It's a good mp3 too but you should go for an ipod as they are, obviously, way better.

[paul_oshea]

I bought a 1GB MP3 player off e-bay about three months ago for about 80euros

no its not a great deal, i bought a 20gb rio player for £70

[Eire06]

I love my iPod constantly have it with me, no problems to report as yet and have had no issues with putting any of my music on it..
very easy to use

[anto1208]

ive a creative 4 gb one its the business but so are the ipods but if i was you get the sony one mentioned above its miles better , memory wise , its batteries last 40 hours not 12 plus its new tecnoligy while i pod is 3 or 4 years old now ,

but they are well worth getting ive loads of live mp3 etc that i would never have heard only for it plus its like carring 100 albums around inside a 10 pack of fags !!!

[Babysis]

I got a Rio Karma - excellent sound,looks a bit different - I love it

[dahamsta]

no its not a great deal, i bought a 20gb rio player for £70

Yes, it is a great deal. Sligoman's player is most likely a flash memory player, and €80 is a great price for a flash player that'll be probably a third or a quarter the size of most HDD players.

Looking for a 1GB flash player myself at the moment, decided to get rid of my 40GB iRiver because I just don't need that capacity. Recommendations welcome.

(BTW, that's the only reason I got rid of the iRiver. It was a great player, solid as a rock. Firmware update frequency sucked though.)

adam

[Dawn_Run]

no its not a great deal, i bought a 20gb rio player for £70

Where?

[paul_oshea]

ebayy

[pete]

What portable mp3 player can you tune into ypur radio? Alwasy thought that would be very handy for the car...

[dahamsta]

None of them, the laws regarding transmitters vary too much around the world for them to be able to do it; like Ireland, where strictly speaking they're illegal. However you can buy addon transmitters in the UK and use them here -- they can't even shut down the pirate radio stations here so you're not going to be arrested for using it.

adam

[pete]

However you can buy addon transmitters in the UK and use them here

Thanks.

Anyone got the Creative Zen? They seem to be selling well & while not as many features as the IRiver as good value.

[dcfc_1928]

Yeah I have one.

As a player I can't fault it - however to access the files stored on the player, you need to use Creative's own software.

I would have preferred it showing up like a USB hard drive in Windows which you could browse and store other files on. I believe the iPod and iRiver both allow you to do this?

Thanks.

Anyone got the Creative Zen? They seem to be selling well & while not as many features as the IRiver as good value.

[superfrank]

iPod way better. It's really well organised.

Whatever you do, don't get a mini-disc.

[tiktok]

What portable mp3 player can you tune into ypur radio? Alwasy thought that would be very handy for the car...

I have a tape deck in my car and I use one of those converters used for CD players, it's pretty handy and tidy too as the battery on the player means I don't have to run anything off the cigarette player. Cost about €20 in argos, and you have 8 hours of music for long trips off the battery.

Of course, if you have a car with CD player, that's no use to you

I have a Creative Zen by the way. I think it's far superior to the ipod (but then if I didn't, I wouldn't have got it) very very happy with it.

[tetsujin1979]

I have a Zen too, it's actually my second after the first one died after just over a year, and Creative supplied with a new one free of charge.

O would have preferred it showing up like a USB hard drive in Windows which you could browse and store other files on. I believe the iPod and iRiver both allow you to do this?

There is an update to the drivers you can get to use it as an external drive that appears in Explorer, but only on machines that have the drivers installed

[deecay]

you should have gone to lidl. i got one there as a birthday present for my brother. cheap and good quality

[Eire06]

What portable mp3 player can you tune into ypur radio? Alwasy thought that would be very handy for the car...

You can get theiTrip for iPods which tunes to your FM radio..

There are loads of other ones you can get for the iPod too here I use the tape because I heard with the FM tuner one you tend to loose frequency sometimes