MP3 Player Advice

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I need advice on a new MP3 player.

I want
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Less then $150
at least 2 GB memory
not an ipod

so what should I get?

Samsung and SanDisk make brands like that.

Tim

I think the Creative Zen 5 GB series are now in that price range. I had one and it was pretty good, though a small pain in initially set up.

I have a Creative Zen micro which has 5GB, it has a scroll touch screen thing which can take a little getting used to as it's fiddly and i broke the earphones (wrapped the wire aorund my fingers), but they weren't hard to replace. The battery life is pretty good as well. Not sure of current price as i got it last year.

For creatives this one is quite good...The creative players have very good quality

I tend to like any MP3 player that does not have a hard drive, and instead stores the music on memory chips or some other non-mechanical hardware. This makes the device CONSIDERABLY more durable. Although memory based ones typically don't hold quite as much music as hard-drive ones (like full-size i-pods) most can still hold plenty of tunes to keep me occupied for long periods. Also, make sure that whatever one you choose, that it has a standard headphone connector. Most of the headphones that ship with MP3 players are total junk, and you're gonna want to go get yourself some nice HiFi phones to listen to it on! That will also enable you to plug it into all sorts of other stuff like FM modulators, and home stereos.

I've got a Rio S10 with 64 megs of internal memory and 512 megs of flash memory [SD]
It's quite petite, it features decent software, it's under 100 bucks, it's small enough to fit in a wallet without much struggle, it's light- 6 oz. or more (depends on size of sd), it's got ID3 (you don't have to keep on pressing forward or backward to get around the playlists, It's got a decent screen, It has FREE firmware upgrades, works with Play-For-Sure, supports both windows and mac, supports AAC MP3 WMA i think OGG, It has an equalizer, it's got a 16bit sound processor (best in class for flash players), and it comes with both a firewire 400 and a USB 2.0 cable.


The only thing I can think of that it's missing is m3u support, although most mp3 player don't have this, it might help.

also, the power switch is somewhat cheap.

other than that, this beauty fits my mark, does it fit yours?

At least 2 GBs

No to the Rio but I like the Creatives

I used to have a Creative Nomad (Nomad Jukebox II model) and it only lasted me 1-and-1/2 years before it suddenly quit on me!

The iPod uses metal construction. That alone made me want it.