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[Thunndarr]

OR....

You could buy two different devices. I have a hard drive based mp3 player as well as a 256 mb ram mp3 player.

The bigger one I use on longer trips and stuff, as well as at home when it sits on the desk and pipes music to my speaker system. The smaller one I use for day-to-day stuff like going to/from work and exercising. Well, if I did exercise that's what I'd use it for.

The nice thing about my Archos (the hard disk one) is that it's a mult-functional device. You can also play video on it and connect it to a TV, and it also reads CF cards which is good if you are on vacation and need to upload some pictures from a digital camera.

However, I can't wholeheartedly recommend the Archos, because the battery life isn't what I'd like it to be, but for what I use it for, it's great.

My Cowon mp3 player, however, is fantastic. Great sound quality (signal to noise ratio is like 96 dB or something), it's small, easy to use, and has great batterly life off of a single AA. Something like 30 hours off a single battery.

And if you are really worried about what happens if your hard drive goes bad...Well, there are these things called CDRW's. You can actually use them to back up your mp3's. Wow!

[Gord]

[mack the knife]

I'm buying a Sony Atrac3 at Yongsan today. I'll let you all know how much ass it stomps in the next post.

On the way to Yongsan, I'll be listening to my MZ-R909, the finest portable machine ever put on the market. Period. Oh yeah, and it's the best looking machine as well.

[eamo]

[aussie col]

Just bought a Panasonic portable mp3 CD player. Cheap - $50, fit 10 albums onto one CD and 48 hours on 2 AA batteries.

For those who say Korea is expensive of electronics try this out:

Panasonic mp3 CD player.

US $US50 (official retail price)
Australia $AU275 = $US206 (official retail price)

Ordered over the net from the US paid $37 postage (f@#&ing rip off) and still only ended up paying 1/3 of the Australian price!!!!!!

Long live internet shopping!!!

[mack the knife]

[Dr.Caligari]

can the Ipods record from an outside source, or can they only transfer files digitally? I got into minidiscs before the Ipod thing came out, and their main advantage is that you can portably record from any source imaginable. I have a lot of discs taped from records, and all the little pops and crackles sound great. It'd be a big pain to transfer them over to a pc/mac, convert them to sound files, transfer them over, etc. I also have tapes of tv and radio, and its amusing to listen to.
but yeah, the net md is a bit of a stinker, though. I just love how the software keeps track of how many times you've downloaded a song -- after 3 times you're up!

[mack the knife]

Dr. Caligari makes an incisive point: you cannot upload songs to the Ipod from just any old source, but you can do that with the MD. Basically, any old device with a headphone jack will do.

And yes, you mentioned one of the big problems with the net MD. Another is that you cannot delete songs directly from the MD player. You have to upload them to your computer first, which, frankly, is we Todd did.

[peemil]

Mini disc. So you can make a little library.

[Swiss James]

the iriver IHP-1xx will let you record any sound you care to plug into the mini-stereo input. Just like an MD, except the 'tape' lasts up to 5 hours.

[jurassic5]

pretty nice player...has a camera on it.

[ulsanchris]

I have a sony Net MD (mz-n505) and never had a problem with it. Had it close to three years now. Don't know how many times I have dropped and it still works fine. Just dropped it today as a matter of fact.

[mack the knife]

Ulsanchris,

Sounds like you're having "digital" problems.

[Greekfreak]

I'm going on two years using the same MD player (sony MD-909 model) without much hassles. An mp3 player is only good if you don't plan on keeping everything you download.

For music nazis like me, this is insane. Besides which, the CD-Rs that pack 10 hours of music cannot be read on the average CD home unit player, especially my yamaha set from 12 years ago, which still sound great.

No skips (although the remote they give you peters out fairly quickly), excellent durability, and the rechargeable batteries rock.

[Swiss James]