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Newbie needs recommend for buying Mp3 Player

Oct 14, 2007 8:17AM PDT

Is iPod the only good Mp3 Player out there?
Can any of them accept a memory stick?
Which ones can both download and upload files?
Can any accept more than Mp3 fles?
Thanks for your input!
...Vern

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Just a clarification.
Oct 14, 2007 8:35AM PDT

About the only make player that uses MEMORY STICKs is Sony.

It's theirs.

Bob

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a lot of questions
Oct 14, 2007 10:06AM PDT

first iPods aren't the only good ones, there are many great players just none as successful in the market

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What are some of the other players?
Oct 15, 2007 10:02AM PDT

Please,
What are some of the other players?
Brand names?
Thanks!

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there many
Oct 15, 2007 10:43AM PDT

you can go through those c|net top mp3 players
there's lots of brands including SanDisk's Sansa, Toshiba's Gigabeat, Archos, Creative's Zen, iRiver etc..

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what interface do you like best?
Oct 14, 2007 12:08PM PDT

what interface do you like best?
if you want to use the windows media player interface get a genertic "plays for sure" player...

If you want ot use Itunes get a Ipod...

I don't know of many players that accept memory cards anymore... its cheaper to build it in nowadays.