Hello there.
mp3 players is somthing i have been looking in to a great deal, and i am starting to ge tthe hang of this.
Personally i'v owned about 8 different types of mp3 players. and another 3 -4 have belonged to my brother and father so i have been looking in to them to.. i'v also been butting all my friends mp3 players to the test.. so i`v proberbly had a good look into about 25 different types.
When you are going to buy an mp3 player you have to ask your self a couple of qutstions.
1) what am i going to use it for? Pictures, movies, internett ? or only music..
remmember... if your thinking that you dont wanna watch a movie on such a smal screan, though i promis you it's nice for traveling and stuff, you must know that you can easily hook your mp3 player to a TV or a pc and watch movies from it
2, you need to figure..How much space do i need? how much music have i got, how much will i get ?... personally i got about 30gb musc, about 5000 songs, around 4 min per song...
I also use my mp3 player (an 80gb ipod) as an portable hardisc, and when ever i want to put a filoe from one pc to another i use it..
I can understand how 80 gb can seam a bit much (you can olso get 160gb).. but trust me it's very irritating running out of space, and having to choose what music you want on your mp3 player.. why not jsut add the whole liberary?. IF you dont really listen to al the music you got having a ipod with space for everything, will make you listen to it some day, and you will proberbly find that loads of songs and band you dont really listen to are great...
you must also consider the sice, you can get really small mp3 players and bigger, if you wanna use it while e.g. running, you mightwant a smaller but you can olso get arm straps and sutch so carrying a rather "big" one wont be any trouble.. ( i got one myself)
I would STRONGLY recomend a mp3 player with a good menu, and a ok screan. If you will be using your mp3 more than onse a month - Do not buy your self one of thouse that dont even have a screan.
I would strongly recomend the iPods, the newes ipod nanos with less space or the newest 80, 160 gb versions wich is a litle bit bigger. If you are looking for really fancy one try the ipod touch screan 8gb or 16gb, think 30gb is coming soon), But if your gonna get such an advanced little thing i would prefor an iphone...
There are also some other great opertuneties. such as Creative and sandisc, but i dont think thiese can really match the ipod.
But be awaer. if you want to whatch movies on your ipod you will need a convertprogram (or can itunes ( the program that "comes with" the ipod) do the converting now?)
(moviefiles)
anyhow my point is the ipod can only play mpeg, mpeg4, mp4 files (mp4 is the one your gonna be using..) NOT THE STANDARD FILES as AVI and stuff..
This is alot of stress converting the videofiles anyway.. so it's a real minus whn it comes to playing videos.
(many other players do not have this problem such as creative players)
And i think the ipod can only play mp3 files and not thouse files you rip of a cd. But this should easily and quikly be solved with a converter program, it is very posible that iTunes even dose it automaticly when you add a song to your liberary. "I havent had any problems with this myself"...
The prices you must look into yourself, depends on where you live and stuff, and the store.
they should mostly be around 150 - 230 Dolars, but the dollar is week and so on. just check the prices your self. they are pritty much the same..
i'd say buy an ipod 80gb or a ipod nano 16gb or 8 gb.