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Buying a new MP3 player...need feedback
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jackangel
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what will you do with it at the gym? just lift? or some cardio as well?
if you're going to be running and/or jumping around with it, consider not getting a hard drive based player. they may still work fine, but from what i've heard...it's better to be safe with a flash player.
i use a rio cali 256mb flash player. it's about 2.5 inches in diameter (fairly small), and can attach nicely to your upperarm for running (or whatever). it does have an FM tuner, which is mostly shite. it has an acceptable display, but i don't know if it has any useful features beyond it's basic functionality. you can get one for $100-$140 new.
if you're going to be running and/or jumping around with it, consider not getting a hard drive based player. they may still work fine, but from what i've heard...it's better to be safe with a flash player.
i use a rio cali 256mb flash player. it's about 2.5 inches in diameter (fairly small), and can attach nicely to your upperarm for running (or whatever). it does have an FM tuner, which is mostly shite. it has an acceptable display, but i don't know if it has any useful features beyond it's basic functionality. you can get one for $100-$140 new.
DJ_UFO
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This one looks pretty good!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75453&item=5749012493&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75453&item=5749012493&rd=1
season7445
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djufo said:
I have the rio cali which is the older model to this. I haven't had one problem with it. I like the fact that mine holds about 50 songs. I get tired of them evey few weeks and i just change them out. It is small and has an arm strap for your upper arm. Keeps it out of the way when you do most excercises.
season7445
Y_lifter
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I knew little of the IPOD, and since I don't care for a Mac PC, I put
them in the same boat.
Until my daughter got an IPOD Mini for Christmas from friends.
I spend a couple hours this weekend reading up on it, installing itunes and converting a copy of 4GB worth of my WMA's music she likes into Apples AAF format. That process took forever, (hours) so I just let it run and had no issues.
If you have your stuff in WMA, just be aware that it will need to copy/convert them to AAF format. If your stuff is MP3 it will not need to convert them as the IPOD will play AAF and MP3 formats. I can only Imagine how long a full 40GB of WMA's would take to convert.. Seemed to be about 15 seconds a song or so.
Downloading the 4GB of music to the IPOD via USB2 went amazingly fast.
15 min or so
The one thing that the IPOD had up on all other players IMO is the touchpad interface. The Mini has it and the regular IPOD does not.
Picture it working like a round laptop touchpad and you can use either side and even go in a circle to move between the menu's with 4 buttons surounding it and the center button.
Plug in your headphones or touch the pad anywhere and the IPOD comes on instantly. I hear that the itunes interface is good as I have not messed with it too much.
Unless you need a solid state device for heavy bumpy activities or jogging etc,
I would go with the IPOD mini. I needed the durability of a flash player so the tradeoff is needing to refresh the 512meg song list every week or 2..
My MPIO player has been left out in the rain accidently and got so wet that water was actually dripping from the SD and battery slots.
I simply took out the expansion card and batteries NOT POWERING IT UP and let it sit for 4 days to dry.. Hit it with the blow dryer for a bit, installed everything and it powered up and never even missed a song that was installed..
them in the same boat.
Until my daughter got an IPOD Mini for Christmas from friends.
I spend a couple hours this weekend reading up on it, installing itunes and converting a copy of 4GB worth of my WMA's music she likes into Apples AAF format. That process took forever, (hours) so I just let it run and had no issues.
If you have your stuff in WMA, just be aware that it will need to copy/convert them to AAF format. If your stuff is MP3 it will not need to convert them as the IPOD will play AAF and MP3 formats. I can only Imagine how long a full 40GB of WMA's would take to convert.. Seemed to be about 15 seconds a song or so.
Downloading the 4GB of music to the IPOD via USB2 went amazingly fast.
15 min or so
The one thing that the IPOD had up on all other players IMO is the touchpad interface. The Mini has it and the regular IPOD does not.
Picture it working like a round laptop touchpad and you can use either side and even go in a circle to move between the menu's with 4 buttons surounding it and the center button.
Plug in your headphones or touch the pad anywhere and the IPOD comes on instantly. I hear that the itunes interface is good as I have not messed with it too much.
Unless you need a solid state device for heavy bumpy activities or jogging etc,
I would go with the IPOD mini. I needed the durability of a flash player so the tradeoff is needing to refresh the 512meg song list every week or 2..
My MPIO player has been left out in the rain accidently and got so wet that water was actually dripping from the SD and battery slots.
I simply took out the expansion card and batteries NOT POWERING IT UP and let it sit for 4 days to dry.. Hit it with the blow dryer for a bit, installed everything and it powered up and never even missed a song that was installed..
