MP3 Players

**king2005** · 03-01-2007, 08:35 AM

Work gave us their latest MP3 player for xmas. Its a Samsung K5 & OMG I love this thing, I cannot put it down!

it has:
A 4G hard drive
Photo Viewer
An alarm clock
An FM radio (I use this all day long at work)
Super spiffy Earphones that have wicked sound (great base too!) + they are the antenna for the radio
2 flip out speakers

However the K5 costs about 300.00 at retail (thats what I was told). I think I got all the features

**slleipnir** · 03-01-2007, 09:31 AM

I might spend between 100-200 dollars...I want a good quality one that will actually play random songs. Mine will play random, but if I start from the same some everytime it will play the same random songs everytime. It freezes all the time, that's annoying. I can't skip more than 2 songs without it freezing.

I've looked into some of these things. iRiver and creative zen are apperintly the same price as an iPod nano. which would be the best?

**king2005** · 03-01-2007, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by slleipnir

I might spend between 100-200 dollars...I want a good quality one that will actually play random songs. Mine will play random, but if I start from the same some everytime it will play the same random songs everytime. It freezes all the time, that's annoying. I can't skip more than 2 songs without it freezing.

I've looked into some of these things. iRiver and creative zen are apperintly the same price as an iPod nano. which would be the best?

I would vote ipod cause many of the parts are made by Samsung=non junk & ipods are hardy... I know nothing about iriver & c.zen, never heard of them

**Karen** · 03-01-2007, 10:39 AM

I have an ipod and love it, I wouldn't have bought one for myself but got it as a present! (Smart of Paul) I have the larger one, not the Nano, but if you want songa to play randomly, it does do that - and it's really random. I forgot that I have an MP3 of the time I was on the radio that loaded into iTunes, so I was really surprised to hear that one day instead of the "next song!"

**Killearn Kitties** · 03-01-2007, 11:12 AM

I was given an ipod at Christmas, which surprised me no end, because I had never had a desire for such a thing, but I absolutely LOVE it. I haven't tried transferring CDs yet, but am going to do that soon.

**smokey the elder** · 03-01-2007, 01:29 PM

I have a pretty enormous CD collection I eventually want to put onto an mp3 player. Thank goodness for fair-use rules! It's not illegal to copy your own media for yourself. I'm hunting around for an mp3 player, too.

**Sirrahsim** · 03-01-2007, 01:31 PM

if it's a Nano you just plug it into the USB port of your computer and it will charge it

I LOVE the iPod Nano that we have!! We even have a car kit that uses the car's cassette player to play songs from the iPod over your car speakers... I don't know how the other iPod's charge but I would imagine that they also charge using the USB cable

**caseysmom** · 03-01-2007, 01:36 PM

Thats one thing I like about the zen, it uses a triple a battery. My other daughter has an ipod and it must be charged on the pc.

**xcolbi** · 03-01-2007, 03:11 PM

I have a Creative Zen Nano Plus and it's awesome! You can get them in any colour you like (mine's red), and they have up to 1 GB of memory, which is about 500 songs. There's a michropone to record yourself, and you can get any radio channel on the radio setting. Here's a picture of mine: