Mp3 Player Help

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Originally Posted by Andy A.

I have been very happy with my Nomad Jukebox Zen extra.

I ended up getting a deal on the 40gb version for $240 from bestbuy. Opened packages rule.

If you don't mind the jog lever interface, it's a breeze to use. The sound quality blows ipod's out of the water, even with out any dsp functions turned on. The battery life is advertised at 14 hours. I get 8+ hours with the equalizer settings on. 40gb is absurd overkill for me, having only 4gb worth the music, but it also functions as a nifty external harddrive. Larger then my own laptops drive by 10 gigs to. Kinda silly to have a player with more memory then the computer you use it with huh? In anycase, the zen's are all high capacity, the smallest I can find are 30gb and they run around $270 new.

You might have luck on ebay. Ask at a bestbuyesqe place about any discounted players, you might get lucky like I did with a return.

My suggestion is to save up and spend some quality money on a player and earphones. For an extra $50-$80 you can get a huge step up in capacity and sound quality. At 200, you might be stuck with a flash based player or an early ipod/ipod clone, which is no fun.

-Andy A.

Picked one of these up a couple weeks ago. 40gb for $270 and I LOVE it. The software kinda stinks though, so I picked up Red Chairs Notmad Explorer. Way better functionality, and has some really neat extra functions. After I dropped $300 on the player the $25 wasn't much.

[JAH]

Originally Posted by batman_007

I know that everybody is hyping about the iPod, but I don't really understand why. I mean I agree that it is an awesome MP3 player, but it isn't really special compared to other MP3 players. I think that the extra money being put into buying an iPod is simply for the iPod name, and not extra things that you may get. I mean, why not get a Rio, or Dell?

That is exactly how I feel about it...

I believe it all is like the Sony Video Camera thing(I'm a huge video nerd, so I relate to it a lot). In the early 90s, the video cam to have was a Sony because they had the best technology in video and were unmatched. When Mp3 Players came out, it was that way with the iPod in my opinion, at the beggining, iPods were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. Now that there has been a bit of time, all the other brands are catching up and the technology isn't so foreign to them. Today, almost any brand of video camera is going to be great, but Sony still charges more because they're Sony and many people do not know that a non Sony video cam is just as good, if not better. A dell or a rio or any other brand is the same as an iPod, iPod was just first so they think they can still charge more than anyone else. It's just hype in my opinion and I'm getting the Dell...

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Cory

Check out ebay for Archos, you can get some great deals like this

Woah, that's a better deal than most MP3 players... crazy

[Clark Gilbert]

Anyone seen the new Creative Zen Touch. It looks very much like an iPod and even features a touch pad for control. It's weird too cuz the screen has almost exactly the same layout.

Originally Posted by Clark Gilbert

Anyone seen the new Creative Zen Touch. It looks very much like an iPod and even features a touch pad for control. It's weird too cuz the screen has almost exactly the same layout.

One thing to add, it looks like its going to go for $269.99 for 20 gigs when it is released here soon.

[Andy A.]

One of the things I love about my Zen is that all the controls are along the sides, making it easy to use while it's still in your pocket, something that the Ipod is difficult with. I'm not a fan of touchpads. I like something with some feel to it, like a jog lever.

It's nice to be able to switch tracks in the middle of work with out your boss thinking your just playing with a gameboy all day.

-Andy A.

[Clark Gilbert]

That's why the remote comes in handy. Just throw the iPod in your backpack when you're walking around campus and keep the remote in your pocket or something. I would die w/o my remote.....

[Ryan F.]

Holy cow..I like that new Creative Zen. It got rid of that annoying circle scroll bar on the ipod.

[Nastay]

My 40GB iPod just came today, it is SWEEEEEEEEET. My only complant is with the ear buds, i don't find them to be confortable, they sound just as good as my old headphones (that are broken now) but they don't fit as nice. But the remote is sweet, and the iPod is sweeet!

iPods RULE.