MP3 players forum: Im looking for a 30gb Mp3 player and i need help deciding.

Are you putting us on? You seem to have a lot of problems with this technology. By the way, an mp3 player lasting for YEARS is a good thing. Stick with Apple, it's a good product. Good luck.

It predicted that my wife's iPod Mini (4Gb) has been dead for a while.
I had better tell her to stop using it!

Remember the Magic 8 Ball?



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i ran about this when i was playing with my sisters ipod and with the firmware.first charge it normaly for about 1/2 an hour. unplug it from the computer at the base of the ipod. now just hold the top and center buttons for about 10 seconds or until the mac symbole turns on the screen. then immediatly hold the bottom and center button until there is a checkmark on the screen. !!!CAUTION THISS WILL ERASE ALL THE INFO ON THE IPOD!!! next plug it into the computer and go to itunes.it should detect the ipod. if not its fried. click the restore button and reload the songs vids and pics and your good to go.

i have owned all of the major mp3s. the ipod sucks in every way. shure itunes is streamlined but the ipod converts all the music to an acc file. about 1.8 times the size of a normal mp3. dont ask. they freeze and they fry. the zen is a good product but the screen is small and it cand be broken if it gets below -6* or over 85*. the zune is by far the best. if you own vista or a new xp you will use windows media player 11. it syncs with the zune. there is also the zune software. a little bit harder to use but still good. if you want to sync certain files just make a new folder and put all for your music vids and pics and select that in the zune window and deselect the defult ones. also set your file associations to another program so it wont add everytthing you click on.

I can't believe no one is giving him some help... With that said...
Ok, so I have pretty much tried all of the main 30gb players on the market right now. I must say that the creative zen vision:m is the best music/video/photo player on the market. The Video is very crisp, easy to transfer and easy to convert(although lengthy.) The interface is very user friendly and the sound is amazing. Music is very easy to transfer, and photos are a breeze too. I have a feeling the new models of most of the top mp3/video player companies are going to come out with new models within the next couple of months. I do think apple might come up with something clever, but I wouldn't hold my breath. One last thing to note, is that the ipod is slimmer than the zen, but that specific quality alone is the only thing ipod has going for it IMO.