Apr 06, 05
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mp3 players?
do you have one and what do you think of it?
im thinking of the creative zen touch, mainly because its the longest battery life i can find:Up to 24 hour(2) battery life at 128kbps. and i dont really want an ipod, they're overpriced and over-hyped. theres a lot better alternatives at better prices, imo. What do you suggest? 
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Apr 07, 05
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i have one but its out of commision...dont let friends take things apart if theyre prone to not putting the things they take apart back together
if youre not gonna go all out and get something with a ton of memory id say dont bother mine was only 128mb or something so it didnt hold more than a cd and the extra data cards are way too expensive..mini disks are cheap as hell get one of those instead i just use a discman that plays mp3 disks//i get up to ten albums on one cd
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Apr 07, 05
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mp3's are not bad but WHATEVER you buy, no matter if it is GARUENTEED (sp?) by the extended warrenty. i've gone through about 5 mp3s and i treat them like it's my baby. what i have right now is a Rio Forge, i think its a Forge. for this little thing it's not bad on batteries, i use mine pretty much all day at school and it lasts up to about 2 weeks for 1 AAA. umm capacity wise this thing is wikkid. i bought the 128mb and if you want more memory, you can buy up to a 1.4 G and stick that memory card in this. my mom has a 1 G card for her digi and i can put it in my mp3, so far i'm happy with this one
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Apr 07, 05
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Apr 07, 05
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i have a creative zen micro 5gb and it's excellent. fast start up, high quality sound, easy-to-use software, and it looks nice too :)
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Apr 07, 05
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I have an Ipod
its the perfect mp3 player for me
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Apr 07, 05
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oh and the zen micro also has a removable, rechargeable lithium ion battery that lasts around 10 hours. i like that because if you ever have battery problems you dont have to send your whole unit in, you just replace the battery
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Apr 07, 05
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^when you have lots of full albums and electronic livesets it's easy to fill a gig. i filled my 5gig no problem
.i would have bought an mp3 player with larger storage but i like the small size of my zen micro
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Apr 07, 05
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i've got a sony md. works fine, no problems.
my buddy bought a new ipod last month, 400 after everything. which is imo just retarded. that's way to much money to spend. my md player cost $100 2 years ago. i've got an old md, those new ones can put like 40hrs on one disc, and a disc costs $5 or so. to each their own. but to be paying 400 is absolutely crazy imo.
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Apr 07, 05
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The ipod is comparatively priced to the products that compete with it, even if it does cost an extra 20 dollars or so, its well worth it. The ipod is only hyped because it IS the mp3 player all others are judged against. The other reason people like it is because its the only mp3 player that has access to best online music store.
As Synx said check the other threads, I'd go play with the different ipods and compare them to other players before you make your decision, I think you'll find the build quality to be much higher, most of Apples stuff is like that.
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Apr 08, 05
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"It's an iPod world. All the other digital music players just live in it."
That's from some men's magazine (GQ or Cargo) hahaha. I agree though, iPods are very hyped that everything's compared to it. Plus I can't think of any other music players that have all these accessories for it. I have an iPod mini. It's great. I bring it to the gym, school, car, everywhere. I was going to buy a shuffle, but the mini prices dropped, and with an edu discount, it was even cheaper.
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Apr 08, 05
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nobody EVER seems to listen to the MD suggestions, but.. i think you should get a sony MD. you can get em really cheap now. discs are dirt cheap, so you can carry around like.. gb's worth of memory with you no problem. battery life is way better in general. mine goes like 50 hours on 1 AA ..
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Apr 08, 05
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I use it when I want to support the artist....By that logic only idiots buy records to play on turntables when they could steal it and burn it to cd. Obviously the majority of my music if not bought from a music store. So here goes my one line generalization.
Only poor people steal music Quote:
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Apr 08, 05
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I used to be of the school of thought that there are better MP3 players out there.
Then I got a Rio Karma. The first one I had lasted 2 weeks. After a whole shitload of meef and finding out the advertised one year warranty was a) no longer being advertised and b) was actually 90 days (PS: NEVER BUY FROM TIGERDIRECT. They're completely useless. To this day I haven't gotten any service from them to determine how I was supposed to get it replaced.... I had to get in touch with Rio myself, which they told me they were gonna give me the information for and never did), I got it replaced. The replacement lasted 6 months and now I have an mp3 player that doesn't work. Meef. I'm getting a fucking ipod next time. No more of this shit. I know ipods are reliable and actually have a decent warranty on them.
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Apr 08, 05
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^there are excellent alternatives to the ipod. creative zen, dell pocket dj, iriver, samsung; dont just settle with an ipod!
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Apr 08, 05
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yeah but don't go and buy something because you want to be different and not get an ipod. I'm sure if you go use them all side by side you'll find the ipod has one of the nicest interfaces and has better build quality. I'm a firm believer that you just have to get all the different players in your hands and play with them, afterall you can always take it back if you don't like it.
Last edited by Leviathan; Apr 08, 05 at 03:13 PM.
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