What portable music player do you own?

[Ben Lauer]

Originally Posted by 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...

Yes, i own one.
As long as your music is organized in folders well, and you have most things correctly tagged, the interface is perfect. You sort by Artist, Song title, Album, and genre, as well has going through your file tree to find music you want to play. You can cue up one song at a time, so when a song is playing, you can sort though and find the next song for it to play, and it will automatically sort to it. The battery life on my 40gb iRiver iHP-140 has be consistently between 14 and 16 hours, and i have had it for almost a year.

It is treated like an external hard drive, and has plug and play with windows 2000 and xp, and has drivers for 98. (i hope you don't have 98, if you do, you need to change that ;-). I have only one complaint. When you turn it off, it goes off, and when you turn in back on, it takes about 30 seconds to resume playing.

I love it, i take it everywhere, and it is only slightly bigger than an iPod. I don't remember what the price was, but you should watch for a good deal on amazon, they have specials were something will be on sale for only one day, and it will have a really discounted price.

If you want to know more, let me know, I'll fill you in.

Oh yeah, if you want software that will tag your mp3's for you, Check out
MusicBrainz for free software that will compare your songs to a database, and will update tags with out all the hassle it takes to do it on winamp or other multimedia applications.

****NOTE**** - I have a 20gb iRiver, unopened, that i would be willing to part with, but i would have to figure out how much it would cost the buyer. I'll investigate that evenually, and if you are interested, contact me.