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Which brand of MP3 player do you use?
Author: Tim SmalleyPublished: 29th September 2007
Which brand of MP3 player do you use to play your music when you're out and about?
Music is one of my passions in life and I can’t go without listening to something at some point during the day. I listen to work when I’m at work and I listen to music when I’m at home, but without a portable music player, I wouldn’t be able to listen to the music I want to listen to anywhere else.
So the question is which manufacturer is responsible for playing your tunes when you’re out and about? Vote in the poll we've set up in the forums.
I’ve recently just got hold of an iPhone, so I’ve combined MP3 player and smartphone into one device – something I’ve wanted to do for a while because my pockets were getting too full.
Before the iPhone though, I had a SanDisk Sansa e260, a Creative Zen Vision: M, an Apple iPod mini and an original iPod. Have you tried and tested several different brands before you settled on one particular brand?
Maybe you don't play music at all when you're out and about? Whatever the case, tell us in this thread!
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An absolute steal for £75!
The interface isn't as slick as an iPod's, but the sound quality is better, has a nicer screen and is less than half the price.
Will probably get a Zune when the new ones come out in October, unless they're really crap, in which case it'll be a 16GB Zen.
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Had it for a few years now, brilliant DAP
but i saw those new fatty nano's in the flesh and they remind me of these biscuits which are made out of chocolate, wonderful bit of kit.
I had an 1st gen 5gb iPod before they were cool!
I hear the new iPod classic has worse sound quality (to audiophiles at least) than the other iPods due to Apple deciding not to use Wolfson Microelectronics components as they have done for years.
But in about a week from now I'm getting the new iPod Touch, not sure if I'm going for 8GB or 16GB yet...
I use my MDA Vario (yay HTC) with a 1GB card, plenty of space for hours of music if you use OGG/AAC encoding :)
I might buy one in the next few months, but it definitely won't be Apple (my sister has an iPod she bought as well as an iPod Nano that was gifted to her; I can't stand them).
the sony, best mp3 player i ever bought! simply because its got a rechargeable battery that lasts aaages!
You know, mobile phones these days have excellent mp3-players built in (if it's a sony ericsson at least). I could never justify buying an mp3-player when I've already got one in the phone.
Love the simplicity of the menu's, and since I use iTunes for my Apple TV anyway... why not? ;)
Yeah yeah... it's all Apple in my house at the moment, but you just gotta love a good gamingrig/console too though, hehe.
Tho in the past ive had , Rio, Cowon, Sony, Archos,philips and aiwa!
Rarely listen to music when on the move i.e. in the car/plane but when I do it'll be on my Sony minidisk.
Never really liked the idea of listening to music when walking anywhere, I like being able to hear whats going on around me.
I also own an Apple Ipod 30Gb which I got for free =) but the soundquality is like...... arghhhhh, so I use it going to school by train (so I won't hear the bad quality :P )
iPods don't appeal to me because of their interface, menus and having to use iTunes. They're getting overpriced for what they are, anyway.
small , effective, cheap
perfect for me
http://www.radio-now.co.uk/bigimages/zen_nano_plus1.jpg
mine's blue though
Same here, great player for the price and the added MicroSD slot is great encase you really need to carry more than 8gig of music with you. Headphones that come with it are a bit poor though, but that's nothing new.
Sam
NOTE: I buy bugger all through iTunes store, I just have a lot of CD's
If i remember correctly, it was the very first mobile phone to include an MP3 player (also later got a firmware upgrade to make it into one of the very first java-app phones)
/geek nostalgia mode off :D
(Or you vote 'other' and specify it up!)
(When it gets back from being fixed. I took a dive and ended up landing on it.)
I have a Sony WALKMAN NW-E005 (Shiny purple USB stick) for just lite traveling. But I also use my trusty 1st Gen Ipod Mini with the Flashcard + Linux mod for most things.
Very cheap (like £40) and works a charm, OK its not very fashionable, but i really couldn't give two *****
Im with you on that score, tho i think the 16gb one is a bit too expensive
BAAAAAAAA!
I hope to get an MP3 player soon, but funds are low and I can't justify buying a new music player until I really have to.
F7.
Apple Ipod 80gb White. Only listen to it when I'm in bed to get to sleep.
The best player. Ever.
(How is it not on the list?!)
this, but i went with the normal version rather than the L, didnt need the extra battery and the smaller size was more useful
also have an ancient 40gig zen xtra that the headphone jack went iffy on (have to have the jack about 2m out and in the exact right position to get audio from both channels so useless on the move :p) that i use for audiobooks at home
seconded
-monkey
Only complaint, no video organization.
So when I loaded all my Red vs Blue episodes on there, they were all out of order and didn't carry over my folder organization.
Great as a portable Hard Drive, Music player and Video. ( Nice 7inch widescreen to watch video. Not a silly little screen like Ipod. Keep Ipod away from me. lol )
Because i use my phone.
buwar har har.
EDIT:
I have a Sansa e280, and the sound quality isn't exactly great and you need dog's hearing to hear it over traffic it's so quiet.
Want to get a Nano again, I had no problems with that until I lost it. :(
Bad luck man. Lets hope you have home contents cover and the Zune is under it. :)
Really need to buy some extra memory for the phone since the minidisc is getting old and a bit too big and clumsy to carry around.
I got a Samsung 2GB Portable Digital Audio MP3 Player .
I have an iPod Nano. Second gen.
It's a good all-purpose mp4
I actually bought several and took the rest to trade-in at CEX as you get £25 for one!
i had a K750i. I hated the media player on it. It had to much background noise.
Anyway, I normally use my SE W880 (1GB mem. card) with a Koss Portapro headset when I'm on the move. If I'm on the move, but a bit more stationary I tend to use a Sennheiser EH2200 headset on it. The W880 is pretty good for a phone. I also have a Creative MuVo (1GB) somewhere. I bought it back when i had my K750i because i wanted better sound, but now i rarely use it.
I had a DS lite. But it kinda failed. More games/series on the PSP that I want to play. Otherwise I am a PC gamer :) barely any console playing for me.
Creative Zen Microphoto 8GB Black!
Before that I used my N-gage and a 512mb MMC card, OGG <3
Been thinking for some time about getting something new, would like something that plays flac/ogg natively and maybe reads pdf's (or even 'word' formats), suggestions?
a pda ?
i can sell you my asus mypal 620BT :P
QFT! Awesome interface, top notch sound quality, mine finally hit the dust when the power button broke :(
Got a Zune now though, SQ is almost up there; drives my Etymotic ER4's with ease :D
I'm looking at the following for my next purchase:
iPod Classic 80/160gb
or
Archos 605 30/80/160gb
iPhone and iPod Touch are definitely "no's" for me.
16gb on the high side? Not when I'm upgrading for more room.
People argue that the touch screen and disk drive would kill the battery too fast.
But the Archos 605 has directly compatible specifications: Including battery life.
So maybe someday we'll see a proper iPhone / iPod Touch--
but until then it'll be a Classic or 605 for my needs.
Crave it. Love it. Gotta have it.
I've had to get a fithy iPod for the car though :(
hehe yep... the results of that poll dont really reflect the marketshares...
i got a creative zen v+ 4 GB... it was cheaper than an ipod, smaller and creative makes quality products (excluding vista drivers for x-fi:() so i thought screw apple.
Same here, it's a great player, full of file tree organisation, and .ogg and FLAC playing goodness, but isn't the sub-pack/break-out-box/mini-dock/thing annoying?
Seriously why couldn't those four connectors have been built into the unit, especially the power connector, who put the power socket on something you can loose?
Bought the X5 to replace my old Creative DAP Jukebox, because I got fed-up of carrying around a huge mutant CD player with terrible battery life, and the spare set of batteries to go with it. Damn thing still works of course as it's apparently indestructible, and still one of the few portable players capable of recording WAV through the line in, so it now has a new career in archiving my parents vinyl.
Not sure which one you had. I had Jukebox 3. That is a brick but I still say there was no better player. Line input for recording, dual analog out for surround sound and the optical connection. I still use it at home.
As for portable ZEN Micro is my player now but I am gettin this Creative ZEN soon.
On the other hand, some techies just choose a product that does what it does very well, regardless of the brand. ;)
And nobody disses the Creative Jukebox. There is no school like old skool, and regardless of all the other flashy MP3 players out there, Creative did it first. Even before the iPod.
MacManMini
MPIO, 128 MB, bought about 6.5 years ago, controls are finicky, but other wise works fine.
Ah I had, have, the original six gig model, the version one, not the "C" or the ten gig one that came out about a fortnight after I bought mine, but for £50 less; no I had this beast, the only MP3 that had anti-theft camouflage in looking like a cheap, or just really old, portable CD player.
Man! It was a wonderful piece of kit. :)
Or there are those of us who came in at the beginning, or very close to it at least, and had a choice of a large initial outlay on the either the Creative or Archos jukeboxes, or a stupendously huge outlay over a period of time to make up the storage in flash cards. (I seem to remember working out at the time it would cost upwards of £10,000 to buy six gig worth of flash cards)
And then along comes Apple, six months late, a gig under weight, and costing £100 more; just to add insult to injury every member of the technology press acts like Apple have invented the concept of mobile music. Despite having showered praise onto Creative's and Archos' offerings often only on the previous page. :(
Either "Other, Please Specify" or take the majority of your players and vote for apple ;)
iRiver tech was really good until they went all "Microsoft plays-for-sure"
I don't understand why Archos are so under-appreciated.. Their original video players with built-in recorders were awesome. I'm surprised they are not more popular, particularly on a tech-site like this..
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These days I've got an Epson P3000. Ok it's not got quite the portability the Nano had but it serves the purpose for which it was bought excellently and doubles as a music player when I need it (such as flights, trains, or other long journeys).
Am I the only one who like DRM free music and the ability to load it from anywhere or anything...hmmm very interesting
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