What portable music player do you own?

[Bacchus]

I'm in the market for a 20+ Gb player, and I was wondering if anyone had any reccomendations/reviews... Thanks.

[pakrat]

Well, i have a 128 MB Memorex player, which is really nice for going running and stuff, but prolly a lot smaller than what you want.

However, I am purchasing a Dell Digital Jukebox (or whatever its called) tomorrow, because it has a nice battery life (20 hours ) and it is just a friendly player. The ipods are almost as good, but they cost a decent bit more. So i would go with the dell if i was you.

Irivers are the best, in my opinion, but they cost the most by far (as far as ive seen)

Hope i was a help

[sanddrag]

I own my brain. It came free with the rest of me. It holds almost every song I've ever heard, and it never needs to be recharged.

[Ryan F.]

I would have to recommend the ipod. Personally, I'm not a mac person and would almost go out of my way to avoid their products, but the ipod is simply the best player on the market right now. Origonally I bought a rio kharma, hoping that what I heard about their hard drive problems would not be true. After 1 week of use my player wouldn't work anymore, and I had all the symptoms of common hard drive problem. I returned it for a refund. I'd stay away from that player. Luckily a week later, the new 4'th gen ipod came out. Not only was it a superior player, but it was 100 dollars less than it used to be. The 20 gig is now very competative price wise with any other player, and I'd be hard pressed to find a better interface/player. So far I haven't regretted my decision to get an ipod at all.

[Ali Ahmed]

Ipod. Thats the only way to go. I have one of the 3rd generation ones and I love it. But the newer ones are even better. I bought my brother a 40 gig iPod Photo and all I can say is that I wish I had bought it for myself. I am still waiting for Apple to come out with a color screen on all iPods and not only on the Photo's.

[Mike Ciance]

i'd recommend a CD player. seriously, MP3 players are way too expensive to be worth the money in my opinion. you should get the Panasonic Shockwave, it's really good. it can play MP3s off CD-RWs, so you can keep a ton of music with you if you want. it has a really good remote too. before you go wasting hundreds of dollars you should at least check it out. i'd rather spend $70 and find out i should have payed $500 than spend $500 and find out i should have spent $70.

[Bacchus]

Thanks for the input. Does anyone actually own an iRiver? I've heard the interface is pretty clunky. But I think I'm leaning toward getting one of those...

re: CD Player: I've already spent $70 and got a decent MP3CD player and now realized I need to spend $500...

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Mike Ciance

i'd rather spend $70 and find out i should have payed $500 than spend $500 and find out i should have spent $70.

Why would you pay $500 exactly?

I got an Archos Jukebox Multimedia for $200.

20 gb, plays music, movies, and can view photos. Works as a mobile hard drive.

I love it, except that the battery doesnt hold a charge anymore after about a year and a half.

[Bacchus]

Any chance the Archos can play a DivX (or equivalent) file? If so, before the battery took a dive, how long could you play a video? Enough for a full movie?
(and $500 was just a nice big round number.. )

[Liz Smith]

I just bought another Rio Karma. My first one broke after a year, but I was really hard on it so it probably was my fault. I like the karma because as I said I don't take as good care of it as I should and I feel that an ipod is too nice and delicate and basically don't trust myself with it. I also think its pretty easy to use.

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Bacchus

Any chance the Archos can play a DivX (or equivalent) file? If so, before the battery took a dive, how long could you play a video? Enough for a full movie?
(and $500 was just a nice big round number.. )

yes it can! i own one of these and love it. but if you don;t want to record moves i would go for the archos gemini it is much smaller and has most of the same features.


i have the AV320

[Cory]

The Archos comes with a program that converts all types of video to MPEG-4.

The battery lasted around 8 hours with the screen at it's lowest brightness and set to go blank after like 5 seconds of no input. With it set to always stay on, I'm sure it'd last around 4 hours or more.

The reason the battery doesn't hold a charge is my fault. I would leave it plugged in while not using it, and attached to my computer all the time, and now it's gotten to the point where it doesn't hold a charge more than 5 minutes. The battery on it isn't user replaceable but it looks like you can open it up with a torx wrench so maybe you can get at it.

Overall, I like it. It's a little bigger than an iPod or Creative Zen or other popular players, but it's worked great for me.

[Ryan Albright]

Dell jukebox

[Billfred]

I own an iPod, a 20GB 4G model. It can take what you dish out--I went from Columbia to Orlando and parts of Robot Rodeo on one charge. (Granted, I did juice it up at George's before I left to return to Columbia.)

It does get some superficial scratches, yes. And those are annoying as heck. But if you shell out fifteen or twenty bucks for a skin, you don't see them anymore.

Get one. You won't regret it.

[greencactus3]

definitly minidisc... i have one thats about 5 yrs old. and it works perfectly. is still smaller and lighter than the ipod. and of course, my number one priority (after quality) battery lasts forever. mine lasts 56 hours on a full charge and the newer models easily pass 100 hrs of continuous play. sure there are cheap unreliable MD players, but mine is sweet. it never skips. has like 40second antiskip memory thing. and the whole thing is made of magnesium. or a mixture of magnesium and sumthing. so thats part of the reason its so light and durable. AND no worries about the plastic surface *cough* ipod *cough* getting all scrathed up.