MP3 - ipod etc

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:06 pm

Going to buy one this week.
I had a 60GB ipod but I dropped it and it eventually died.

So, in the market for a new one.
Anything better than the ipod?
£200 mark. No smaller than 30GB.

Post by **Shug** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:08 pm

AAAAAAANNNNNNDDDDYYYYYYY!!!!

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk - our own Mr Andy G

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:26 pm

Yeah, spoke to Andy about 6 months ago.
Decided on a creative Zen but now not sure about the software.
I like iTunes

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:29 pm

Sony mobile with 2GB ?
Nokia with 3GB ?

tenkfeet · Post by **tenkfeet** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:34 pm

I have a Creative Zen Touch which I think is very good for sound quality . Its quite old but going strong . Survived being dropped and hitting the front footwell very hard under severe braking .Available on Ebay new quite cheap.

Never used an ipod , too expensive.

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:36 pm

Sanjoy wrote:Sony mobile with 2GB ?
Nokia with 3GB ?

Got to be a min of 30GB

Post by **Shug** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:39 pm

Ah so - you said in the first post, "no bigger than 30GB"

Take it you meant no smaller than 30GB

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:41 pm

Oopps

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:43 pm

I hate Itunes.

Spent ages trying to sort out music to burn onto cd for the car as mp3 disc. bloody itunes turned it all into AAC or some such bol**cks. MP3 and AAC are incompatible. evening wasted. bloody itunes.

<rant>

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:01 pm

according to andy the sony players have thebest battery life. The down side is that they don't have colour screens. so no pics or video

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:08 pm

Must admit nit a massive itunes fan either, too bloated etc. I remember the days when the Win Amp ruled. "It really beats the lamas ass"

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:03 pm

30gb, check out the iAudio x5.

Having said that we've got an awesome deal on some of the Archos multimedia players (av400 series), which also have movie playback.

Worth checking though how much of your music libary is in aac before changing from iPod.

I've got an Archos av500 and an old Sonyl NWHD5 for the car which are awesome, and you have the additional benefit of plugging int he bullet camera to the av500 when on track (and your car is working!!)

Zen Vision M 30GB gets a lot of good press and price has just fallen from £249 to £219.

The Sony's do tend to have the better battery life but you can get an X5L which has 35 hours!

http://www.amp3.co.uk and feel free to call or pm me with any Q's

Andy

Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:49 pm

Tom wrote:I hate Itunes. Spent ages trying to sort out music to burn onto cd for the car as mp3 disc. bloody itunes turned it all into AAC or some such bol**cks. MP3 and AAC are incompatible. evening wasted. bloody itunes.

Did you ever manage to get the player to play MP3's? I bought a Kenwood KDC-MP6090R (of eBay) which supposedly plays MP3's however I have now made about 5 coatsers trying various ways to get it to recognise them. I have used iTunes and Nero but to no avail.

Stewart

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:28 pm

I am pretty sure it is the 6090R I have and no problems at all with MP3 CDs. Just dumped them on in folders nested and all sorts and worked a dream... Maybe it is not the CDs...

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:58 pm

Here's he kiddy
Aldi mp3 player for £50
http://www.aldi-stores.co.uk/special_bu ... t_251.html