Help re: Ipod....or ???

[BitsyNaceyDog]

We're an iPod family. We have 3 iPods and an iPhone. We got our first two in April 2004 and we've never had any problems with them. We got a third iPod a couple years ago to keep in our bird room, and like the first 2 they've been very hardy and we've never had any trouble with them.

iTunes does put DRM restrictions on their songs so we never buy from them. Amazon is both cheeper and DRM free so we always buy our music from them when we buy MP3s.

[Catlady711]

I'm sorta anit-mainstream, I refused to buy an Ipod. My hubby and I both have Sansa MP3 players. It doesn't do much for fancy stuff (although you can put pictures on it, although we don't). It just plays music which is what we bought it for.

http://www.sandisk.com/products/sans...3-players.aspx

That one is probably the closest thing they currently make, to what we bought. Ours are only 4gb with expansion micro SD slot to add an additional gb. We only paid $60 each for ours, but we got them when they were changing models so they were on sale.

[Catty1]

Just had to pop this in from graphjam.com - it underscores what Slick is looking for, I think.

[slick]

Thanks for you replies. I really appreciate your feedback.

I was speaking to my colleague and he doesn't recommend an iPod either so that's out. I'm just looking for a simple mp3 flash drive player that I can plug in and move music to.

Was looking at the Sandisk Sansa clip but it requires USB 2.0 port and I only have USB 1.1 port. My PC is a Dell GX240 - about 6 years old. I refuse to purchase a laptop or other desktop because this one works like a charm and I've just upgraded the RAM to it's full capacity (1 GB ). One website that I checked for this said that a USB 1.1 port would probably not be sufficient to properly charge it, but I do like the drag and drop feature for this model.

On my external hard drive I have my music saved and they are all .mp3 files. I did not use itunes - just downloaded through Limewire.

I like the Zen because of the big screen on the front. I really don't want to have to use itunes and I don't want to have to install separate software. I'm not sure if there is a device that's right for me. I really am limited because of my older desktop.

[anna_66]

Slick, Mark has the Creative Zen too. He really likes it and has had it for a few years and it still works great. Also reasonably priced.

[anna_66]

Slick, Mark has the Creative Zen too. He really likes it and has had it for a few years and it still works great.
Personally, I just use my phone as my player.