by: Marc Bennett July 11, 2005 10:28 AM PDT
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What type of device do you use as a portable MP3 player?
by Marc Bennett 
- 7/11/05 10:28 AM
What type of device do you currently use as a portable MP3 player?
Flash-based player (which one?)
Hard drive-based player (which one?)
PDA (which one?)
Cell phone (which one?)
Laptop (which one?)
I don't need no stinkin' music (why not?)
I plan on getting one soon (which one? how soon?)
I don't plan to get one (why not?)
Rio Karma
by erl322 - 7/12/05 5:42 PM
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I have a Rio Karma 20GIG cant beat it! Can access all the features with one hand and good battery life too.
I don't plan on getting one!
by graeberh - 7/12/05 5:43 PM
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Life all around me has a music of its own, and I don't want my brain addled by injected sounds to the point that I miss what is going on! Give me my "away time" with 5.1 booming home theater sound you can feel in the concrete beneath your feet!
I use my PDA
by reedhave - 7/12/05 5:43 PM
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I use my HP iPaq rx3115 as an mp3 player with an SD card of music and streaming music from my destktop. i wish the speakers on my iPaq had more bass to them, other than that, it works great!
Creative Zen Xtra - 30GB and Creative Muvo 128KB
by guitarjam - 7/12/05 5:46 PM
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Love them both. I use the Muvo for audible books and the Zen for Music
Searching for the Holy grail of mp3's
by Rod Roddy - 7/12/05 5:47 PM
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The Mp3 market is soo saturated with new devices, That is has become a confusing mess. iPod's,IRiver,Rio,Zen,Muvo, and the list goes on. It reads like a rollcall of the who's who. But that's just it. Who are these companies trying to sell you these new-fangled music players? It's no secret that there ultimate goal is your wallet, and some will try everything up their sleeve to get to it.
To date I have yet to find an mp3 player that really "wows" me. Yeah, the iPod is cool but everyone has one--Where's the "Wow" in that. Plus I like small-micro gadgets, now that's cool. So far all micro players are flash based which means that they won't hold too much music. But that's ok! A small price to pay for a device that in some cases are as small as a pack of chewing gum.
Currently I own the Rio Nitrus, it's a small HD mp3. The Nitrus does it's job, but I find myself recharging it's battery way too often. I'm in the market for a micro-player with a color screen, and removable-rechargeable batteries. No luck yet but I know that some company will make something similar if not exactly. 'Till then I'll continue my search, I just hope I'm not searching for too long.
XDA II, but have to put up with no Advanced streaming
by Oz_Helpdesk - 7/12/05 5:47 PM
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Works great, particularly with a portable HDD with a USB connect. However, doesn't support streaming bluetooth to Blueant headphones 
Creative Zen NX and I love it
by LGM - 7/12/05 5:54 PM
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It may not be as sexy looking as the iPod, but the sound is better and the price was better too. Because of the Zen's superior sound, I wouldn't trade in my Zen for an iPod even if were free to do so.
iRiver 899 is best for me
by geenosr - 7/12/05 6:03 PM
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I decided to go with a 1 gig flash player, because of hard drive longevity and durability issues. I chose the iRiver-899 because of it's unbelievable battery life (40 hours on single AA), and voice, FM radio, and line-in recording. I also use a rechargeable AA battery so I have flexibility with power if I'm away from my charger--AA batteries are available everywhere! I prefer iRiver to Ipod because iRiver will use multiple formats--mp3, WMA, Ogg, etc...
Which hard drive-based portable mp3 player I use.
by BigNinja - 7/12/05 6:08 PM
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I just got a 4th generation 20GB iPod, second hand, on eBay. I was able to get it for just $30 more than a 1GB Shuffle. I do wish it had FM radio so I could listen to my favorite talk radio station. I already won other bids for the iPod PC Dock and metal protective case. Next I want to get a pair of Shure E3c ear phones. I understand they are very comfortable and sound great. No other portable mp3 player offers so many accessories.
mp3 player
by jack casey - 7/12/05 6:12 PM
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My priorities in order are, replace my dvd recorder, my 27 '' tv, 2 of my vhs machines, and repair 3 of my beta machines. At the same time purchasing 150 blank dvds per month. I may get to an mp3 player one day, but I can play these on my cpu and my dvd recorders and players.
Protable MP3 Player
by jam - 7/12/05 6:13 PM
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Been using my Palm One T3 with a couple of SD or MM cards for (what seems to be) a lot longer than the IPod hype. Sound is great thru a good pair of earbuds. More recently, I purchased an Epson P-2000 (AWSOME image quality!!!) for my photographic purposes - good enough for a traveling portfolio, but I also use it's 40 GB hard drive to play my collection of MP3's. Also great sound with the earbuds, but more than acceptable without the earbuds. I don't carry this as often or as easily as my Palm, but it sure is able to lull me to sleep at night with pretty pics and music if I am having a hard time shutting down! Bought my husband a Dell DJ for last Christmas - he loves that thing! I even sneak that once in a while!! These are all good products - but I don't have a single second experience with or exposure to the IPod - Shuffle or otherwise! I am just simply NOT a MAC person, I guess. I sure like my toys though, from my computers to my laptop to my digital cameras to my Palm to my Epson!! Might be considering a Pepper Pad.... if I sell the Epson P-2000....hummm, decisions, decisions!!
Hard Drive Based Player (which one?)
by mdplights - 7/12/05 6:46 PM
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IO have a 20gb Ipod. Use it everyday on my bose ipod dock!
Matt
I have a VAIO Pocket...
by sir_vaio - 7/12/05 6:50 PM
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...and I love it! You can sneer all you want but I am extremely satisfied with it.
Creative Labs Rules
by spawn05 - 7/12/05 7:18 PM
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I think this whole IPOD thing is just fashion, it's the trendy thing to buy. I have a Creative MUVO2 it's great easy to use handles all formats rips at up to 360 but I use 192 which more than enough without using up too much space. And best of all right now you can get one for $180. And has better sound quality than the IPOD.
Spawn
iPod and Creative Zen Micro
by metsfan421 - 7/12/05 7:34 PM
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I own an iPod Mini, an iPod, and a Creative Zen Micro so I have both a flash based player as well as the hard drive based players. The iPod mini my girlfriend uses, my U2 Edition iPod is stationed in one of those Altec Lansing Speaker hubs which sits on my desk at work, and the Creative Zen Micro (my personal fave) sits in my pocket and walks with me all day. The reason I have 2 is that in the beginning I bought an iPod because they were one of the best options in MP3 players at one time, along with their music purchasing service iTunes. Now IMO that Yahoo Music has come along and offers unlimited downloads for $4.99 a month why would you want to keep purchasing music from iTunes? Hmm.. Let me see, pay over $500.00 a year in music that i want on iTunes or pay $60.00 per year and download everything I want, and music that I don't know if I want yet on Yahoo Unlimited? Being that the iPod won't play my Yahoo music, I went out and purchased a Creative Zen Micro which for the price is excellent. So, IMO my flash based player is beating out my HD based players because the services that the HD based player uses aren't as cost-effective as my flash based players service....
In a nutshell BUY THE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION FROM YAHOO, CAN iTUNES until they come out with unlimited downloads as well, and if you don't have a player that plays Yahoo Music, get one.....
Signed,
New Yorker who's shocked that Yahoo came out with such a great deal!
Rio Cali
by beelissa - 7/12/05 7:41 PM
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I chose this one for several reasons: I was able to get it reasonably inexpensively on eBay. I had a hard time finding any store that had a good selection of portable music players.
This has an FM tuner, and it will allow me to add more storage with a MM card/disk/whatever you call them. The same format my digital camera takes. It also allows me to drag and drop right in Windows Explorer, though I found I can also use Windows Media Player. It will play mp3 files but also wma files, and it turns out I have more wma's than I have mp3's. It is small and has good sound and runs on 1 AAA battery and has nice ear phones that hook around your ears. It will clip on a belt or there is a velcro armband that comes with it as well. I can attach a showlace to the beltclip to hang it around my neck like an iPod, though my son says that will look stupid. It has a nice display also.
Radical Idea
by mijcar - 7/12/05 8:12 PM
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About fifteen years ago, I discovered that multi-tasking music-listening with other involving activities exacted a very high price: The inability to enjoy concerts.
I wasn't surprised. The brain never really multitasks activities that require active participation; what it does is the same thing computers do: interweave the processes.
Well, for me music listening is sequential. I want to actually hear the length of the piece, enjoying the changes in rhythm and key, the melodies, the interplay of various voices. To do that, I find that my brain tunes out the rest of the universe (the same way a brain will tune out a constant pain we choose to ignore in order to accomplish a task more important than dealing with the pain -- check out long distance bicyclists). And that means I can't simultaneously engage in other activities requiring active participation.
For me, the problem was in reverse. Working on coding a program, writing an article, reading a book, eating a great meal, caring for the kids -- all these activities taught my brain to treat music as a white noise to be ignored!
When I found myself literally unable to concentrate on some great music by great performers at a live concert, I realized the price I was paying for constantly ''listening'' to music in the background. And I also realized that I hadn't been listening to that music at all.
That was when I started avoiding multi-tasking everything that was important to me. If I was going to eat a great dinner, I turned off the music and the television. I found I ate less and enjoyed it more. So multitasking is great where the activity is mundane and interweaving increases efficiency without creating unacceptable errors; but for those occasions that really matter, from the kitchen to the ... um ... other rooms, multitasking is a no-no.
So, yes, Ipods and their kin are cool devices and they extend the domains into which I can carry my music. But how I listen has become so personal for me that I don't see these extended opportunities as providing me any great advantage. Give me one for free and I will use it -- sparingly; otherwise, I'll wave to the rest of you while your jog on by -- perhaps you'll even notice me.
I use a Dell Jukebox 30
by mwfabrics - 7/12/05 8:14 PM
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For the money I found it to be the best value and I use it about 9 hours a day 5 days a week
Don't have one
by krazyray_2000 - 7/12/05 8:14 PM
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Don't have one, don't want one, and dont need one.
Why pay extra money for a passing fad like walkmans.
This is just another ridiculous way for companies to make money off people. Like other products it brings people in with the promise that you can listen to what you want.
Call me old fashion, but I'll stick to my LP's. At least the music is the real recording and not digitally re-mastered to take out all the fun stuff.
Show me an Ipod of any type that will allow you to hear Keith Richards ask for another drink, or Jimi Hendrix's ask someone to pass a doobie.
Heck I don't even listen to music on my PC, and I am not impressed with CD's either. I love the old stuff and the way it was recorded, shows that music stars are real people not some digital voice.
Lyra HD-20gig
by jode - 7/12/05 8:48 PM
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Outdated but got for 25$-holds anything not just music
Creative MuVo TX FM
by Speakerboxx - 7/12/05 8:52 PM
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There awsome... ive used a friend's IPod.... I think there bulky, expensive, and overated. my MuVo was $100 and its about the size of a Zippo lighter... u dont need a USB or FireWire cable.. u just stick the player into a USB port.
PalmOne Tungsten T5
by bushpost - 7/12/05 8:59 PM
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I have a couple of 1gig SD cards I load music, talking books, voice messages etc. onto and listen while I work.
I don't really understand the point of iPod, or MP3 players in general. They're so one dimensional.
i use my Dell X30 PocketPC - it's AWESOME!
by PrefectPC - 7/12/05 8:59 PM
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i bought it used on ebay for around the same price as an ipod and it can do SO much more! ..i can listen to MP3s, watch Movies, surf the net AND play some great games!!
oh yeah, i use it at work to. 
This picture explains everything.
by GovernmentMan - 7/12/05 9:08 PM
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I have no use for music when I am doing other things.
by grumbler - 7/12/05 9:56 PM
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I am nearly 80 years old and enjoy music when I want to relax. But this modern fetish of having noise constantly bombarding everyone within a half mile with loud noise which some people call music is rediculous sound polution.
iAudio X5 for me
by ericeliza - 7/12/05 10:23 PM
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I own an X5 from iAudio and just have to say that I am very pleased with the sound quality and it's many useful features.
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