iPod or alternatives

[Scoobs]

Right, I am in the market for a new MP3 player after my current iPod had an iPod to toilet interface last night. Dried it and stuck it in the airing cupboard, but it's fried.

What do you guys reckon.....another iPod or an alternative.

Personally I don't think you can go wrong with an Ipod, especially with all the accessories etc that are available.

I now have an Ipod interface in the car, I haven't used a CD in it 8 months...

I hate ipods.

[Viney]

*Waits for the DRM massive to come along and shout about pods and thie evil plans to take over the world...or something like that*
I like my nano. It works. Ok so it does whatever it does to the music but its cool.

However, saying that Verna has an Iriver and thats pretty cool. I think the sound quality is a little better on the Iriver and i now believe they are drag and drop for music files.

So the pod or river would be my choice.

if you click onto micro direct theres some nice mp3 players ive just got a 2GB one with fm radio for £22 i find them the cheapest for any pc stuff or consumer electronics all the mp3 players are drag on drop

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Viney

*Waits for the DRM massive to come along and shout about pods and thie evil plans to take over the world...or something like that*

my ipod has ~15k tracks on it...

what's DRM?

you will get those who blindly love the ipod, and those who blindly hate it, my 60GB fifth generation hasn't put a foot wrong, it did everything i wanted an mp3 player to do when i bought it and now it lets me take it with me in the car as i have an ipod connectible ICE system, happy days

ipod's are overpriced. Everyone wants one so Apple can pretty much charge what they want!

It boils down to how many gigs you after, do you want to play movies etc.

The shuffle is the smallest thing out there but at 50 notes it's a bit steep.

I bought one of those "ipod shuffle" clones from t'inter-Bay & it was u/s. So don't be tempted by that!


Archos is a good brand if you're after movies/mp3/photo albums etc.

If you're after an mp3 player for listening to tunes on your bike probably better to stick with something with a memory card as opposed to hard disk, imho.

[Scoobs]

Looking for something solid state (flash memory) rather than HD. I had a nano which did pretty much everything I needed. It wouldn't bother me going for the same again, but I thought I'd ask if there was anything else that was recommended.

How about going really retro -



What you do is you take your mp3 and tape it! Its amazing, eats batteries, eat tapes...

Originally Posted by Scoobs

Looking for something solid state (flash memory) rather than HD. I had a nano which did pretty much everything I needed. It wouldn't bother me going for the same again, but I thought I'd ask if there was anything else that was recommended.

'Course - you could see about getting a new phone with mp3 capabilities?

Your contract about to expire or anything?