mp3 players
Sep 14 2006
Yea so mine died. I need a new one. What are the good ones at the moment, I haven't looked for over a year.
Creative Vision and Sony NW3000 are looking good to me, but what are the sweet "underground" ones?
Minimum 20 gig hd, other than that no real specifications...
Sep 14 2006
#2
Oh, how the proud have fallen. I remember when we both bought our mp3 players and you boasting about much better yours was than mine. 18 months or so later, my 40GB Zen is still going strong and not even full. You suck, you suck, you suck.
I'm waiting for Creative to release a 60GB version of the Vision:M because I've got far more than 30GB of files.
Sep 14 2006
#3
I just got me one of these. Turned up this afternoon and I've been putting all my music on it.
It's only 6gb (expandable to 8gb with microSD cards), but it has no hard disk and so is less prone to being trashed. (They're releasing an 8gb version soon.) It also has a removable battery, so you don't have to send it back to the manufacturer when it dies. And it works with Linux. Also plays video and shows pictures.
Also, I linked through from libcom when I bought it, so hopefully libcom made some money.
I have to go and play with it now!
Sep 14 2006
#4
Nemo wrote:
I have to go and play with it now!
Alright, but what about your mp3 player? 
Sep 14 2006
#5
I can fit like 15 songs on my new phone. I'm happy with that...it means I can play Fear in public places hahah.
Sep 14 2006
#6
Nemo wrote:
I just got me one of these. Turned up this afternoon and I've been putting all my music on it.It's only 6gb (expandable to 8gb with microSD cards), but it has no hard disk and so is less prone to being trashed. (They're releasing an 8gb version soon.) It also has a removable battery, so you don't have to send it back to the manufacturer when it dies. And it works with Linux. Also plays video and shows pictures.
Also, I linked through from libcom when I bought it, so hopefully libcom made some money.
I have to go and play with it now!
Nice One - I got the 4 gig version. you should have bought it from the states though - that way the radio wouldn't be disabled in it!
Sep 14 2006
#7
Jack the Sony one is shit dont get that. You can only use sonys crap software to move put songs on it.
I have the 150£ 20GB creative zen off amazon and its pretty good, no complaints here. But only had it 2 months.
Sep 14 2006
#8
MS's is coming - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5347112.stm
Wifi connectivity is interesting - i wonder what it will be tho...
Sep 15 2006
#9
rkn wrote:
Jack the Sony one is shit dont get that. You can only use sonys crap software to move put songs on it.
Yea I feared the software would suck, I remember from when I had a NetMD.
But it looks so cool!
And 35 hour battery life!
Sep 16 2006
#10
Jack wrote:
Yea I feared the software would suck, I remember from when I had a NetMD.
I had one of those. I ended up never using the software.
Sep 16 2006
#11
so what exactly did you use to move mp3's to minidisc?
Sep 16 2006
#12
revol68 wrote:
so what exactly did you use to move mp3's to minidisc?
Just used the audio input, it meant it had to be done in real time, which wa a bit shitty.
But the way it buggered up my files meant that I couldn't use the net stuff.
Sep 16 2006
#13
bloody primmo!
I mean fair fucks Sony's software was fucking awful, but it's stll better than having to fuck about recording shit like it's 1982.
Sep 16 2006
#14
Back in 1982 we had to use trained bees to copy music from one wax cylinder to another.
Sep 17 2006
#15
rkn wrote:
Wifi connectivity is interesting - i wonder what it will be tho...
You can get files from other Zune users around you - which automatically delete after 3 listens or 3 days.
Meant to be a try before you buy thing I guess.
Dunno if you can just take anyones connection or whatever, or if they have to activly send it to you.
Sep 17 2006
#16
jack white wrote:
Nice One - I got the 4 gig version. you should have bought it from the states though - that way the radio wouldn't be disabled in it!
Well, I'm glad I didn't do that, because it is knackered, and I have to send it back! 
Sep 17 2006
#17
Thats pretty shit - did it just give up and die?
Sep 17 2006
#18
I had problems with files going corrupt, then copying to the player slowed down to a crawl. Now when I try to power it on it keeps starting up then powering off and on over and over, and the only way to get it to stop is to switch on hold, and wait for it to shut down itself. I can't even try formatting it, because it needs to be powered on to do that. And looking at a user forum for the player, other people have had this problem, and the advice is to take it back, as there is nothing you can do. 
Sep 17 2006
#19
Jack wrote:
rkn wrote:
Wifi connectivity is interesting - i wonder what it will be tho...You can get files from other Zune users around you - which automatically delete after 3 listens or 3 days.
Meant to be a try before you buy thing I guess.
Dunno if you can just take anyones connection or whatever, or if they have to activly send it to you.
Someone will/should come up with some hack to get rid of the delete after 3 days feature.
Sep 23 2006
#20
I once bought a mp3 player for 20 quid and it was made by alba (which is usually crap quality from what i've experienced). strangely, it lasted me a very long time, ....then i dropped it down a bloody drain!
Sep 28 2006
#21
Get an iRiver, so you can play ogg files. They compress better than mp3s, so you can store more. The modern ones don't offer a lot of storage space though which sucks.
I think some Samsungs also play ogg
Sep 28 2006
#22
aketus wrote:
Get an iRiver, so you can play ogg files. They compress better than mp3s, so you can store more. The modern ones don't offer a lot of storage space though which sucks.I think some Samsungs also play ogg
Yea, I had an H320, I fucking loved it.
Oggs fucked the battery tho. 
Does anything other than the old Rio Karma play FLAC?
Sep 28 2006
#23
Opensource software for your ipods/mp3 players
http://libcom.org/forums/libcommunity/rockbox
Oct 16 2006
#24
Anyone else got anything else to recomend?
Xmass is coming...
Oct 16 2006
#25
Apparently Creative are bringing out the 60GB Vision:M. I fucking want one.
I "got with the program" a month ago and bought one of them ipods, pretty sweet. Just the cheap shuffle one of amazon for 43 quid inc p+p, no complaints so far!