iPods and MP3 players

[Spookie]

Personaly I've owned:

CD Player - £30
Creative Jukebox 2 - £150
Minidisc Player - £200

Personaly I found the CD player to be too akward with the swapping of CDs (just incase you are wondering I have over 2000 tracks), the Jukebox was very good but huge and I couldn't store it anywhere. I then sold it for a Minidisc player which was worst of the bunch. It was small which I wanted but it was bloody awful with the discs, it could only hold 2 albums of MP3 quality music.

Next on my list is a iPod (suppose to be gadget of the year), which I am recieving as a present for my 18th.

Anyway, what do you think of them, wonder of modern tech or another fad?

[Lessthancosby]

I have a feeling they are here to stay. Or at least the idea is. I have a rio cali myself and I love it.

[leeroy]

i have an ipod *waits for applause to die down*

its the best invention in the world, love every sleek and sexy inch of it

[thekatt]

I've got an RCA lyra, it only has 64 megabytes of internal memory, but its expandable (thank god!!!). I know that mp3 players are here to stay.. This year, companies like Pepsi are going to start offering free downloads for buying a product of theirs. This could mean problems for some people due to the website spamming them or making them stay there and pay for service, even if you don't use it. (this is what I've heard) Oh, and with iPods, if you are using WMA files, I have had people say that it doesn't play those.

[leeroy]

it wont support wma's but who cares, it does support aac which is a smaller file than an mp3 but the same quality. the ipod is stunning buy it!!

[Markeh]

i myself have an iPod and i think its teh sex

i love it, i have about 1400 songs on it and i love it

its small(ish) its a nice design it has good extras and its bloodeh easy to use

but the only criticism is that the accessories such as the carry case are all expensive for what they are

[Hiddenpower]

I've had this (http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/mp3-panasonic.gif) panasonic MP3 player for about three years now and I've gotten a hell of a lot of use out of it. I have a 256 meg SD card in it which holds about 3 and a half hours of music (4 albums-ish) and I wouldn't swap it for anything other than another SD player, the small size means I can easily carry it around my neck with a provided strap and I don't even realise it's there. The downsides are that it's an old model and uses crappy real media software and AAC format but the more recent ones all have direct MP3 support so hopefully I'll get one of those someday.

[Wahoo]

i use this (http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=4884), it's a creative mp3 player, it's really small, and it can store about 3-4 albums. It's also very easy to put music onto it using xp, because xp treats it as if it was an external device like a zip disk for example when you put it in the usb port, you just drag the files onto it, no software for that needed, and voila. You can take it right out, put it in the casing and listen to it.

You can also record your voice into it from a mic.

[ryanwalley]

my ipod is my underage wife. i pay her for her services with cheese and hairspray.

i found that switching from a discman or other mp3 player to an ipod is alot like switching from windows to osx. windows/ discman seems fine at the time. but once you switch, you wonder how you ever lived before. im not being preachy either. you can all go die.

[Cjw]

I have a archos jukebox studio 20.

20 gigs of mp3,which also doubles as a rather nice portable HD :D :cool:

[mr jones]

i dont know what mine is, but it plays mp3's and wma's and is made by ministry of sound. its my baby. itstrue, im in love. its a bit big but smalled than a cd plaey and can just hold sooo much. i dont know techincally thigs but,,, mp3 jukebo's are here to stay :D ohh.. and i still dont know what an ipod is *cringe* can some one explain for me please?!

[Markeh]

try www.ipod.com or www.apple.com

have a look

its an mp3 player that comes in 10, 20 or 40 gig sizes and its teh win

10 gig will hold around 2000 mp3s (am i right?) so u can work out the rest for urself

hope that helped

[Scribbly]

I have a cheap version of the Ipod; a "Jukebox 10 player".

It's bigger, less pretty and instead of a pretty big screen is has a 1 line screen.

It's half the price though and I'm very satisfied with it.

Oh it's a 10 gig player and cost me 300 euro's .

[mr jones]

ahh i get it now, thank you for helping! but i mist say no ipod can beat my mp3/jukebox-mebobby thing i have :D

[Scribbly]

My brother has an Ipod btw.. the bastard :(

[leeroy]

Originally posted by mr jones
ahh i get it now, thank you for helping! but i mist say no ipod can beat my mp3/jukebox-mebobby thing i have :D

i beg to differ, the ipod boasts simple to use layout, no moving parts (cept the hard drive), 4 games, back light, and its easy to organise

[Markeh]

4 Games??

i have 3 on mine :(

is it possible to download more?

[leeroy]

Originally posted by Markeh
4 Games??

i have 3 on mine :(

is it possible to download more?

alas no, the games are brick, music quiz, parachute, solitare

maybe you have an older generation ipod

[Markeh]

i got it 2 weeks ago. i dont have the music quiz, what size do u have?

[ryanwalley]

yeah. whats this music quiz thing. when i select it, the music stops and it says no songs. and for your second question, 10gbs. its not as much as 20 but it does nicely.

[leeroy]

i got a 20 gig, the music quiz plays a little bit of music from the hd and you have to guess the track

[Lewiji]

I have a Casio MP3 Watch. It's huge and makes people say 'WTF IS THAT?!?' but it's nice. And has a cool stick figure dancer :D

[ryanwalley]

these new mini ipods look interesting. they dont look like apple things though. theyre not that innovative or pretty. but now more people can have ipods.

[SarcasticIdiot]

I've got a mini-disc player which plays mp3s... I'm going to get a ipod when i get enough money...

[cervantes]

do any of you peeps with an ipod know whether the older USB standard (ver 1.1 rather than ver 2) is suported?

[Aquarium]

i've got a creative nomad, 20 gigs, great software, decent batery life but a beast in size. the new zen is luvverly but suffers, same as ipod for battery life. ipod really isnt the best on the market, a good machine certainly but there is some very good competition out there that is ignored as apple have the market. its a shame, the Iriver and the hdd100 should be given more credit.

archos have put in a nice twist with the vid jukebox, the picture quality is actually good, which surprised me.

[l33t k1w1]

I have some obscure MP3 player that this site (http://dansdata.com/usbmp3.htm) refers to as "George".

It's 128meg and has had its run of troubles (hooray for warranties!), but it holds enough music for my liking and is a mean storage device.

I recorded (http://www.kiwiblog.com/armageddon) some panels and interviews I had with celebrities at a expo with it last year.

[Shnooks]

I have the crappiest MP3 player alive. I got them when they first came out, so it was neat and beautiful and unique. Then I broke the battery latch, and ever since then it went dowhill. It only holds 8 songs, and its by some company i've never heard of (and cant remember).

Soem girl down the street from me bought an MP3 player, and doesnt even have a computer to download music, let alone her parents ever letting her download.

A kid on my bus has this awesome 3-inch disk CD player though. you download the tunes to the floppy disk thing, and its so...pretty...

iPods are sexy... woo...

[NIGHTCOW]

My mate got a 20gig Ipod from his gf for his b'day and then his mum bought him a friggin ibook as well. friggin bastard!!!!

they are so cool though, very portable, very easy to use but the battery life is arse.

[elbillingino]

I may invest in an IPOD, how much is one in the UK now? (Can't be arsed looking it up). I think I'll get a 20 gig model, don't see the point in anything more.

[leeroy]

your lookin at about 300 quid mate

[Comrade Penguin]

Originally posted by cervantes
do any of you peeps with an ipod know whether the older USB standard (ver 1.1 rather than ver 2) is suported?

No it doesn't but upgrading is pretty cheap. Ive been looking to get one of these and ive ruled out as it has no line in and out or even optical in out and I want a) to record from vinyl and b)in as higher quality as possible which means from my hifi. This isnt the case for most however and it is an excelent machine. I am instead considering the iRiver IHP 120

[Lewiji]

Originally posted by Comrade Penguin
No it doesn't but upgrading is pretty cheap. Ive been looking to get one of these and ive ruled out as it has no line in and out or even optical in out and I want a) to record from vinyl and b)in as higher quality as possible which means from my hifi. This isnt the case for most however and it is an excelent machine. I am instead considering the iRiver IHP 120

You could get a line in/out to your PC and stream it to an MP3.

[Markeh]

yes it is compatable. it will just run slower. tut tut

[Comrade Penguin]

Originally posted by Lewiji40k
You could get a line in/out to your PC and stream it to an MP3.

Firstly that would go not produce as good quality as if I went through my amp. I am unsure but I might well need a phono stage as signals from turntables are different to those from other sources. Thirdly all my hifi equipment is in a different room to the PC (my family shares the PC and hence would not want it my bedroom). Also ripping the files at the high quality I would want (uncompressed wav so i could make them into compliations to be played on my hi fi in decent quality) would take up valuable hard drive space of which I am running out of. Also apart from the cost of intalling that id have to upgrade my USB and OS which would be a bit annoying as ill probably need to get an entirely new computer next year when I go to uni. Overall it isnt worth it. Also I hear the iriver sounds nearly as good (or better according to some hi fi magazine in europe) as the ipod and given id be recording to it from better equipment I should get the best result. Along with that this is not my only option there is also MD ( I have a full size hi fi seperate MD deck), MP3 CD and a like to be considered but this thread doesnt concern them so I shall not go into them.

[Alex Br]

Hi, im getting an mp4 player,
about 130 quid to 170quid, what should i get?
im thinkin ipod video 30gb,
or maybe archos 404
thanks