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We recently bought a sandisk 2 gig and it sucks big time. I need help picking a good player. We only need 2 gigs or a little more and just for music and radio would be cool. I have an I river ifp 890 and luv it but my wife lost hers. IRiver is only on line and they don't make that series any more. Any suggestions on what to get.. and what to avoid
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After three iPods for my daughter over the past 3 years, I'm giving up on Apple. They seem to last about two months beyond their warranty and then nobody fixes them either. You can either trade in the non-functioning one for a measly 10% off a new one or try and send it to a third party "repair" service that charges $108 just to look at the thing. The trouble is, my daughter has a huge iTunes library with many purchased songs, that she'd like to load on something else. We're thinking maybe a Zune or SanDisk. Is there a way for us to convert all those iTunes files to something else, an app we can get, or is it hopeless? Please advise to gswddsmn@gmail.com. Thanks
Then rip as mp3s. Then you'll probably have to do a bunch of tag editing to put back in the song titles, album, and artist information. If you do this within iTunes you'll at least retain the song titles. Otherwise you get something like "various artists" and "compilation album." If they are iTunes Plus tracks, then you can convert to mp3 within iTunes. You just need to make sure that your preferences for ripping are mp3. Right click on song(s) and select "convert selection to mp3." It actually creates a duplicate song in mp3 format but it retains song, artist, and album information. Unfortunately, you can't do this with regular iTunes purchased stuff because of DRM, so it's burn and rip for those.
In the future, try to buy your songs DRM-free. Amazon sells mp3 downloads and I just heard that Napster's entire catalog is DRM-free. As you know, mp3 work on practically any player.
Good to hear another has come away from the dark side. I have a suggestion for your itunes library. You can download a FREE audio file conversion program here on cnet called "Switch Sound File Converter." It's made by NCH, who have a whole suite of good free software. It's easy to use, just convert the itunes files over to a friendlier format, like mp3 or wma. This should work fine unless you have older itunes songs that are DRM'd. You may have to edit some of the tag data afterword, but online media update databases will do alot of that for you. Good luck.
take a look at the Sansa Fuze, the c200 series is kind of a lower end series
2GB + Music + Radio I would say to go for the zen stone range.. they are highly afforadable and simple to use.. I was amazed at how they actually managed to squeeze in a speaker for such a small player
I have a 4gb black Sansa Fuze, and I love it. It has great sound reproduction, good battery life, as well as easy navigation and a nice display. It has great compatibility, easy firmware updates, good FM reception, and even looks cool. You can also upgrade the memory capacity with micro SD cards. I have a 4gb card in mine. The player itself can write the cards, so you it's really easy to use. At 1/2 to a 1/3 the cost of the iPod Nano, it's an easy choice to make.
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