MP3 Players

[SLIDER]

Anyone here know of a good but fairly priced MP3 player? Brands or stores that sell them? Ipod is a lil too big & pricey i might add! Looking for suggestions or input!

Thanks in advance

[Baron[CotC]]

I'm a proud and happy owner of an Ipod Nano


not the answer you were looking for, but there you go.

[Serpent]

i wanna get an ipod video.

[BD]

I like the creative 30GB Doesn't have the sex appeal of the ipud but I saved over $100 so who cares!

[D.A.R.K.[CotC]]

I'm not much of a music guy, and my collection is small, so my 1.5 GB player did alright for me. It's a Rio, and it only cost me about $60

[Dataspel]

Ipod shuffle : 512meg flash memory, USD 70.
Seems like a bargain to me. You give up hard disk
storage, and I think you also give up the display(?).
There are several other similarly priced players out
there as well. My kids had Creative Nomad IIC players
with 128 meg onboard, expandable with I think a
64 meg smartmedia card, and were perfectly happy
with them. You could get one today with the basic
128meg memory for less than USD 100 if you look around.
The nice thing about these players is that they take
a single AA battery, never have to recharge or
replace a proprietary internal power source.

[Buzzed]

I gots me a PPod. Cheap, right from the garden! Doesn't play music until later on (from the bottom end)

[Aide-de-Camp]

I'm a proud and happy owner of an Ipod Nano


not the answer you were looking for, but there you go.

I have been looking at buying a Nano, probably black, although white is attractive.

I had given thought to purchasing a cheap-O shuffle for less than $100, but for about $100 more or less I could get a Nano...

How do you like it, what neat tricks can you teach it, and would you buy another for a friend or family member, i.e. make a recommendation?

[Baron[CotC]]

I'm a proud and happy owner of an Ipod Nano


not the answer you were looking for, but there you go.

I have been looking at buying a Nano, probably black, although white is attractive.

I had given thought to purchasing a cheap-O shuffle for less than $100, but for about $100 more or less I could get a Nano...

How do you like it, what neat tricks can you teach it, and would you buy another for a friend or family member, i.e. make a recommendation?

-- it scratches easily so even though I have the sexy black one, its hidden away in a protective case, sold separately

-- I love iTunes, and iTunes and iPods go together really well.

-- I have playlists in iTunes that automatically grab 200 songs that were least recently played, in other words songs I haven't heard lately. iPods record when you play the songs and send that info to your iTunes when you plug them back in. What it means in the end is: I go through some of the songs on my iPod during the day, at night I plug it in and it removes songs I heard, keeps songs I didnt get to hear, and adds new songs I haven't heard recently. THIS is the single biggest factor as to why I love my nano.

I'm still torn on whether I like players that use AA batteries, or players like the nano that have a built-in battery that recharges on a USB cable... the big drawback is if my battery dies I have to RMA the whole thing back to apple for a replacement battery, its not something one can do at home.

[SLIDER]

Cool thanks for the inputs

[Neophyte]

I gots me a PPod. Cheap, right from the garden! Doesn't play music until later on (from the bottom end)

Yeah, I betcha look down-right smart with a few of those stuck in your ears.