MP3 players: Hard Drive=:(

Bad reviews on Toshiba S,I need same help!

Hi,
I almost bought a Toshiba S yesterday from getting excited over the features on reviews;then I read online reviews from users and many said bigtime bad battery life,expensive 140.00 replacement on battery, and were not clear on the charging of the battery.


I have been looking for a 20 to 30 gb, longish battery life, adapter for car to listen to on road trips, and not run down the battery much like my cell phone uses-some users have said it was hard to find accessories for the Toshiba S and no adapter for car was available?

I also want many formats not just the limited Ipod type-atleast wav and mp3 plus maybe ogg, decent photo use from jpeg- most all pics can convert so no issue on how many it supports, ease of getting tunes into the player from my hard drive like use of explorer getting tunes from 'my downloads' hard drive folder, use of it with windows media 10 or bearshare ,which is a yearly subscription I use on Bearshare Pro, ease of charging, and what is a lossless anyway?


I have come to Cnet,my fav site for reading tech info, many times in last 2 years, and read all over the net.


Some love one -player-another hates it,diff features come out from longer time users of the actual portable players than compared to first reviews on all mp3 players-portable audio players- it seems.


I got my teen a fifth gen Ipod 30 gb; it is easy to use and Itunes does sync tunes off of other places to itunes long as the limited mp3, if one is user friendly with using their own pc-that is a good feature not talked about,but can't play in car and keep it charged the whole time ,use runs the battery down even on adapter?

I think so,but my daughter's Ipod was almost run down the only time we tried it. Would not work then on adapter and my cell with work on adapter even if battery low, so this is a needed feature for a audio portable mp3 ish player for road trips.

Also, I use XP os, but some are limited to this like the Toshiba S?
If I change OS in the future..........will need a player that supports many diff OS's.

I need help, am a single mother who spends a lot on her teen and cannot just buy them all ( mp3 players) one-by-one to find the right one;too costly for me that way.Yet, I want one : )

Help please!
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