MP3 Players

[CathyBogart]

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]

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]

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.

[SunsetRose]

Ipods can be a pretty big rip off, but they can also be well worth it.

If you can afford an Ipod, then do yourself a favor and load all your CD's onto it and check out your friend's libraries.

Sites like napster, which have deals where you pay like $10 for a month of unlimited access to songs, well they're great for other MP3 players, but they aren't compatable with Ipods.

There was one new MP3 by Sony I believe, I can't remember the name of it, but it's supposed to be right up there with the Ipods but you CAN use napster.

[Ceph]

I have a zune and I loooooooove it. I had a creative vision : m (still do) but unless you are careful with it it will lock up every few months and you will have to let the battery run down. Zune on the other hand has a great system, looks nice, and is just pretty much awsome

[king2005]

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]

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?