MP3 Players

**slleipnir** · 03-01-2007, 12:58 AM

What are some good MP3 players??

I currently have an RCA one and it's crap. It never works properly. So I'm fed up and ready to buy a better quality one.

I've heard iPods are good. But are pricey. Are they worth the money? Do you need to download all music from iTunes and pay for every song? Or can I put stuff right from my comptuer?

Or what other MP3 players are good? I don't care for something that can display video or pictures. I want it for music only. (if it comes with it, like I think iPods do it's fine but it's not needed)

**caseysmom** · 03-01-2007, 01:03 AM

Creative zen are great and a good price...I bought my daughter one for 60.00 when her 300.00 ipod got stolen at school

**wolf_Q** · 03-01-2007, 01:17 AM

I have an ipod...ok, I admit, I only bought one because it was the U2 special edition ipod.

You can upload all of your cds onto your computer then onto your ipod. I've only downloaded maybe one song from itunes...the rest are from my cds. Just connect to the internet while you're doing it and it will automatically get the song titles/artist (yeah, I'm an idiot...I went through several cds typing all the info in before I figured that out

)I've never had a problem with it, it has always worked fine.

**CathyBogart** · 03-01-2007, 01:22 AM

I have an iRiver MP3 player. Mike got it for me for my birthday. <3 It's not as snazzy as the iPods, but it was only around $70 (I picked it out). I'm really happy with it.

**cmayer31** · 03-01-2007, 02:13 AM

I have an iRiver with a 30 gig hard drive that I love, but the battery died after a couple of years and they don't make a replacememnt. I'd have to modify an iPod battery to work. It's now in my office at work because it has all my songs and an FM tuner, but it has to be plugged in the entire time.

I use an iPod shuffle for when I'm out and about. It's great for its purpose of just randomly playing songs, but there's no display so it's always a surprise. I've never downloaded from iTunes, I just load the music from my computer through iTunes.

I've heard good things about creative as well.

**Uabassoon** · 03-01-2007, 02:52 AM

How much music do you want it to hold? Are you looking to load up your entire CD collection? If so I would recomend an Ipod or a Creative Zen. Do you just want a couple hundred songs to get you though a trip or workout session? Then I would suggest the Zen Nano (comparable to an Ipod shuffle only much cheaper and it also has a screen allowing you to see what is playing and create a playlist). Another good one is the SanDisk Sansa, I bought one for my father for Xmas, it was cheap and super user friendly, much more so than a shuffle. The quality is good, one AAA battery lasts forever, and unlike the shuffle it has a screen to see what music is playing as well as the ability to make a playlist.