portable mp3 player

*ChRiS · Nov 3, 2002

Alright People,

My new MP3 player just came today, once I got rechargables and decent headfones for it... its amazing and just letting you all know if you ever consider getting one, its the best i've found (not most expensive too)

Rio 600 (now owned by SONICblue)

Excellent player, all in about £60.

fender62 · Nov 3, 2002

i was going to get one of them but they are memory based
so i went for the riovolt sp90 that uses cd's it works perfect
even the hadphones are good although i use the line out to put it through my hifi excillent i recommend them the memory ones are
good if you jog or run as they wont stutter plus there smaller
i wonder what other people have that they use and like or what they tried and didnt like

bschuler · Nov 3, 2002

I have 2. A Rio 300, and my favorite, the Nomad 2. The Nomad 2 you can flash the bios to include any graphics ya want on the LCD screen during startup and on the icons... wich is an ultra cool way of making your player yours.. Just wish it did animation.. but oh well..

Personally, I only go for memory based players.. Cd's get scratched, Hd's crash.

*ChRiS · Nov 3, 2002

Tell me about it, I use mine when im walking to work, in the car and basically when I'm out and about, handy that they are small too, find personal cd players etc a bit bigger and I never and never will like minidisc!

bode · Nov 4, 2002

I bought a Rio PMP300 SE (64mb) about 3 years ago. I'd thought about gettin a new one, but none have a 64mb memory and a radio.

Surely the CD type mp3 players skip??? Unless you are jogging for less than the 40 second buffer

Using a set of Sony MDR G72 headphones - amazin sound and look

Got me through plenty of nightshifts.

*ChRiS · Nov 4, 2002

I think we all know that every cd skips!

I think that through time MP3 players will get more popular as they have no mechanical parts and therefore will hold a longer lifetime than cd & tape portables (well, personal tape players went out about 6 years ago for me)

Geoff · Nov 4, 2002

I looked at every one I could see and in the end settled on and bought the Creative DAP Jukebox.
Mainly because I'd got fed up with CDRs jumping.
I like the 6 gb hard drive memory, the USB connection and best of all it plays in the car via the old CD player pretend cassette thingy.
I am well pleased with it, especially as I managed to get it at a good price due to the new 20 gb ones coming out.

*ChRiS · Nov 4, 2002

We have a "cassette thingy" in our car too, only ever use it when driving long journeys.

fender62 · Nov 4, 2002

yea the the mp3 players with built in hard disks sound good
bet you could get your entire music collection on one of those and some ! sadly the price for them is a bit much at the moment
id like one but to pricey yet i have read that there are mp3 players that can play dvd svcd but there not portable i dont think well not yet if anyone knows say what you have seen or read

*ChRiS · Nov 4, 2002

check eBay, they aint as much as you think they are

Phoenixfury · Nov 6, 2002

I have a RCA Lyra 1 with 48 megs of ram which I haven't used in a long time, mostly because my compact flash drive bit the big one. I also have a RCA RP 2410 mp3 CD player I wish I had never bought because that thing skips like you wouldn't beleive, not to mention it's a power hog. However I recently bought a Panasonic SL mp35 mp3/cd player and it works great! I don't have the skipping problems I had with the RCA and I got to shake that thing for a long long time before it will even skip! (the manual says it has about 100 seconds of skip protection with mp3's).

However the underlying firmware for the Panasonic isn't the greatest. My only real beef is with the fact that random play will play the same song to death several times worse than a top 40 station can.. I'm not kidding, it has a horrible way of doing random play. With that aside, I got to say sound quality is pretty sweet! I actually to be honest have to say I was shocked at how good this thing sounded when I first heard it because the audio is crisp and you can hear the full range of sound with great separation between tone & bass! Even cymbles really sounded great, and usually it's cymbles that suffer on mp3's.

Well anyway that's my 2¢ on the Panasonic which I would recommend to anyone.

chickenhq · Nov 6, 2002

i have a samsung techno yepp 128mb of mem & usb based. the thing i hate about these mp3 players it that battery life is real short about 8 hours so i had to go on ebay and get some AAA rechargeable batteries. usb tranfer is kinda slow compared to firewire but i've manage to get 24 songs on it about 2cd's with some room to spare. my next mp3 with be an ipod a hardisk based mp3 with 10gb for about $299 with 10 hours playing time lol from 8 to 10 heh!

*ChRiS · Nov 6, 2002

I have 18 tracks on my 32mb... converted to WMA though

Its about 3 secs for a 5mb file transfer.

And it tells me how much % of battery power is left and how long it'll play for... how handy!

bschuler · Nov 6, 2002

Bode,
The creative nomad 2 has up to 128 megs, radio, and voice recorder. So, radio and mp3 in one unit is out there.

Geoff · Nov 7, 2002

Dunno if this will help anyone get that Christmas pressie but I found this, sent to me by e-mail.
I'm not connected to the firm other than I've done business with them.

Re. my post earlier..............

h**p://w*w.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acatalog/Christmas_gift_suggestions.html

Best price I've seen so far. (unless you know different)