Which MP3 player to buy?

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Recently, my 1 gig RCA Lyra froze over and died :indiff: . The internal hard drive is toast so now i'm in need of a new one. This is where I need some help. I haven't been paying attention the market, and I don't know what's out there. I need some suggestions on what to replace my Lyra with. I want something small, something that will fit easily in my pocket and can be controlled with just my thumb (pause, next, volume, etc.). 1 gig is a bit small, 5 would be perfect, anything above is overkill. Last thing, I want a scroll wheel. Price isn't that big of an object. If all else fails i'll buy an Ipod Mini.
 
iRiver H10 or the Creative Zen Micro if you're looking for something with under 5 gigs.

If you want a 20 gig player, get the iRiver H320 or the Creative Zen Touch.

Both iriver players offer color screens and the H320 can do video with a very simple software mod. The Creative players are cheaper but don't offer color screens or audio recording. The Zen Touch has a massive 24 hour battery life but it's also a tad bulky. Either way, you can't go wrong with either Creative or iRiver products.
 
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Apple pwnz j0 Momma... and maybe the idiot-resistant computer market. Their MP3 players are piles of overrated crap. The iPod fanatics refuse to acknowledge that they paid a massive amount of cash on an inferior product. I'd know because I used to be one of those fanatics. The sound quality is crap, the battery life is ****, the cost is high, and there are no features alongside the products.

If you want to buy an iPod, get the iPod Shuffle or don't get one at all.

On the 20 gig iPod, read the collab review my friend and I wrote. He was the iPod fanatic, I was the one with common sense to balance out the review. My stuff is on page 3.

Full review here:
http://www.bytesector.com/data/bs-article.asp?ID=416
 
don't get the mini ipod unless you want to overpay, but ipods are behind it all. If you hate ipods then look at your own player and realize the idea was apples anyway. Maybe a few tweaks, but its all apple technology. 👍
 
I got a white Creative MuVo N200 1GB. It's great! It plays MP3 and WMAs, it has a built in tuner, micophone and line-in for recording any audio source all of which it can convert into MP3 on the fly. I'm currently converting all my old breakbeat tapes. It takes x1 AAA battery NiMH, and I'm using 950mAh rechargeables which give a good weeks worth of normal use. It has a small but readable screen which is easy to navigate and has nice little icons and a beautiful blue backlight. The only problem is that when the light is on it seems to interfere with the sound in the headhones a little. Although it's no big deal and you can turn off the light anyway. It cost me HK$1200 which is about US$150. I reckon that's a bargain for what you get.

I'd have it over the iPod any day of the week. Highly recommended!

Here's a link http://www.dealtime.com/xPO-MuVo_Micro_N200_1GB
 
creative muvo tx goes up to 1gb, might go above, prob not though. It has a scroll wheel. They're not bad but nowhere near as good as an ipod. I have one and now i want an ipod!!
 
... or, you could just buy another lyra. Who makes them anyway? I think it's thompson.
 
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don't get the mini ipod unless you want to overpay, but ipods are behind it all. If you hate ipods then look at your own player and realize the idea was apples anyway. Maybe a few tweaks, but its all apple technology. 👍
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The idea of being able to take your MP3s away from the computer and play them anywhere has been around longer than Apple's Ipod. Remember, there's still those ancient things called MP3 CD players. If anything, Apple just took it to a new level with a harddrive instead of a CD full of MP3s.
 
I'm almost positive that it was Creative Labs that did the first hard drive based mp3 player. Apple gets the credit only because the iPod was the first one to be pocket sized. The Creative player was about the size of a cd player.

Behold, the original hdd player:
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Standard mp3 players with compact flash cards were around for a whole lot longer and Apple had nothing to do with the existence of those 👍
 
Ive got an iPod 15 gb, so I can comment to much on the mini, but I haven't been all that impressed. My firend has the Zen Micra, he is really impressed with it. The thing that really sold me on it was the fact that you could remove the battery, and it comes with a spare to change. Im not sure if the "scroll pad" counts as a scroll whell, but I would give it a look.
 
well, yea. I wanted 40 gigs and an iRiver player. The 20 gig model is down to a mere $329 canadian though... and the new ones have color screens 👍
 
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well, yea. I wanted 40 gigs and an iRiver player. The 20 gig model is down to a mere $329 canadian though... and the new ones have color screens 👍
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HD players + Proprietary Software = 👎

Flash + Drag and Drop = 👍 👍

But that's cool... Whatever works for the individual.
 
Rio Carbon...5GB plays mp3, wma. $200 at Best Buy last I checked
drag and drop-easy, but if you want playlists, you MUST use their software to do it (so far the only negative). Sound is great, in fact so great, that my wife begged for one for her birthday after using mine for a few days....
 
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Rio Carbon...5GB plays mp3, wma. $200 at Best Buy last I checked
drag and drop-easy, but if you want playlists, you MUST use their software to do it (so far the only negative). Sound is great, in fact so great, that my wife begged for one for her birthday after using mine for a few days....
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Yeah but $200 for just an mp3 player... Look at the features my player has. So what you can play more music... it's pretty worthless to me if you can't access it because of organization.
 
Musepack is better at lower bitrates and does quicker conversions... but ogg is ogg. Nothing will replace it anytime soon. Plus no mp3 player supports mpc :p
 
Ogg takes to long to convert. I will recommend the Creative Zen Touch and the iRiver H10. Creative is bigger but has more capacity and sounds better to me.
 
emad
Musepack is better at lower bitrates and does quicker conversions... but ogg is ogg. Nothing will replace it anytime soon. Plus no mp3 player supports mpc :p
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Correction. Musepack is better at higher bitrates. That's what it was designed for. Ogg is better at lower bit rates.

Musepack seems like the logical choice over Ogg; roughly the same quality, quick encoding speeds and super fast decoding speeds (quick decoding = less CPU usage = longer battery life in MP3 players), but like you said, no MP3 players support it. :(

But then again, Ogg is unpatented so all the open source zealots are like "OMG!!!1111! Ogg Vorbis is teh best!!111!11!!!!11oneoneone".
 

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