Anybody here got an iPod or good mp3 player?

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emad
and a voice recorder, and an fm tuner, and compatibility with more audio formats (ie, ogg), a reasonable battery life


User changable batteries would destroy the aesthetics of it as it would break the smoothe surfaces of the unit.
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All they need is an opening in the bottom and just slide it in... it wouldn't change much. The voice recorder isn't necessary in my opinion, just a nice extra, that's all. Same with fm tuner. The ipod is compatible with pretty much all audio formats... iTunes will simply convert them to aac. The battery life of current iPods isn't any different than of competitors. For example sony mp3 players claim to play 32+ hours, but only with very low bitrates / volume, without you browsing the files at all this will be the case... which is never. Those also last 18 hours max if you put it to normal use.. I know, because my friend owns one.
 
The ipod is compatible with pretty much all audio formats... iTunes will simply convert them to aac.
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That's not my definition of compatibility. Transcoding from xx format into xx format degrades sound quality significantly. I use a fairly high end set of headphones and I'm planning on upgrading to audiophile quality phones within the next few months.

The battery life of current iPods isn't any different than of competitors. For example sony mp3 players claim to play 32+ hours, but only with very low bitrates / volume, without you browsing the files at all this will be the case... which is never. Those also last 18 hours max if you put it to normal use.. I know, because my friend owns one.
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iPod advertises 12hours at 128kbit mp3 or aac (I forget). Plus the fact that iPod uses Lithium Ion batteries which have memory issues (compared to iRiver's Lithium Polymer that don't). Most competing companies advertise 16 hours or more. Apple is 4 hours below most of the competition which rates their battery life using 128kbit mp3. Creative goes so far as advertising 24 hours on the Zen Touch - most users average around 16-18 depending on how high the bitrate on their music is. I'm not sure about you, but I typically use my mp3 player a LOT. Enough that I typically get it down to 5-10% battery life left by the end of the day at school (8am to 6pm). I use regularly use it as a hard drive for transferring large files, I use it for music. If I still had an iPod, the battery life would have been absolutely useless to me because even that 4 hours makes a big difference.

As for Sony, they're habitually give out of this world figures with lots of fine print in order to attract customers. Hell, they expect you to use ultra low bitrate Atrac3 encodes in order to get near the rated battery life on most of their products
 
That M-Robe looks definitely nice, I saw it in an ad today for the first time. Really sweet. I guess I don't use my iPod as much as you do emad. 2 or 3 hours a day max, depends on whether my trains are delayed... haha. So my iPod is good enough for me. Back when I bought it I didn't have many better options though. If I had to choose right now I might have bought something else instead. Back then the best alternative was a fugly creative zen. Dunno exactly which one, but it was more expensive than the Ipod... and iRivers as well but those were even more expensive and were out of my budget.
 
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If I had to choose right now I might have bought something else instead. Back then the best alternative was a fugly creative zen. Dunno exactly which one, but it was more expensive than the Ipod... and iRivers as well but those were even more expensive and were out of my budget.
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strange. After shipping costs from the US (they REALLY rape you on shipping), my 40 gig iRiver cost me the same as a 40gig iPod at the time...
 
I have a 4G 20Gb iPod. At the time I could get a Zen with 30Gb for 100 bucks more... wasn't worth it for me. The iRiver with 20 Gb also was about $100 more. Then you had those Creative Muvo with 4Gb, but those looked crappy to me and were as expensive as the iPod mini's over here. I wasn't going to get a mini because 260 is a bad deal, I bought my iPod at the time the 4th gen just came out.
 
oy, yesterday i broke down and bought a 4 gig iPod. the sound quality is fairly good, it's awfully loud which is good, and iTunes is a pain. I rather like it. put all my songs i umm... got on it that i like with like 2 gigs left.
 
Okay, so I have my Ipod Shuffle 1Gb for a week now, and I´m loving it. The sound quality is really good, its size is really small, and the battery life is pretty good in my opinion. All my MP3´s are 192kbps or more, and I usually listen to music as loud as it goes, still the batteries lasted for more than 10 hours.

I´m recharging it right now and changing the playlist, I was using it since last wednesday without recharging the batteries. I think my CD Walkman will gather dust from now on, or I´ll probably end up selling it.
 
My iRiver can give me 18 hours of radio playback at full volume, and about 16 of MP3 playback, I keep all my music at 320 kbs. I'm currently watching the Matrix on my iRiver, this is why iRiver is de ubar pwner!!!!

I'm glad that I am not the only person in the world who has made the logical decision to buy an iRiver, I felt lonely observing the sea of white earbuds.
 
WOW!! :drool: 16-18 hours is Looooonngggggggggggggggg.

I think mine gets around a conservative 8 hours of play. But at least I can change the batteries..and creative is kind enough to give me an extra free 1 👍
 
And in the full version (I got the "lite") there is a battery pack which I have heared can boost it to 30-40 hours.

Anyway, nice to know another non-iPod user is enjoying their mp3 player, I could start a fan club IDFAIIP(Indescriminate fans of anything that isnt an iPod.)
 
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And in the full version (I got the "lite") there is a battery pack which I have heared can boost it to 30-40 hours.

Anyway, nice to know another non-iPod user is enjoying their mp3 player, I could start a fan club IDFAIIP(Indescriminate fans of anything that isnt an iPod.)
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30 hours is overkill :dunce:

IDFAIIP? :dopey:
 
I have the external battery pack for my iRiver H320.
 

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