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MP3 Players?

Angus Cattle Shower

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Well my discman kicked the bucket today... wont play anymore. lol. So were going to the city tonight or tomorrow and im looking at getting an mp3 player. It'll be used a lot-dad says itll be a good investment so he wont have eto listen to 'that garbage' aka Sum 41, Billy Talent, Blink 182, Coldplay, The killers, jt experianve, etc, etc, etc. lol.

Any favoured brands of em, prices and reccomendations?
 

Ben H

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depends on your music collection or future music collection. If you rip all your music from CD's you buy to MP3 or aquire them by any means in the mp3 format then you have unlimited choices.
I got an iPod Nano 2gb for Christmas when I was in Iraq last year, I like it a lot. I use winamp to synch the music, not iTunes. Since our internet collection was so slow over there I purchased a lot of CD's and ripped them as MP3. The problem with iPods is that if you want to purchase music online then you have to buy from iTunes. The files you buy from other services like Napster won't work on an iPod. The files you buy from iTunes will not work on any players except iPods. This is the only thing I don't like about it. Other then that the Nano is small, easy to use and has lots of accesories. If you use Microsoft Outlook by any chance you can export your calendar and address book to your iPod.
 

ranchwife

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ACS----shop around....ask questions...get warranty information...how many songs are you gonna want to save?? how sturdy is the model? Don't buy cheap if you are gonna have to replace it in a year, yet do not overspend on a fancy brand name gizmo because it can store 15000 songs when you only need one for 200 songs!! Look at Dell.com and try on E-bay, too!! You just might be surprised what you can get!! Also watch the sales ads for your shopping centers near where you live....watch the newspapers, too, as this time of year, you will find college kids selling off alot of their electronics for school money!! Best of luck and keep us posted!!

ranchwife
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Angus Cattle Shower

Well-known member
ranchwife said:
ACS----shop around....ask questions...get warranty information...how many songs are you gonna want to save?? how sturdy is the model? Don't buy cheap if you are gonna have to replace it in a year, yet do not overspend on a fancy brand name gizmo because it can store 15000 songs when you only need one for 200 songs!! Look at Dell.com and try on E-bay, too!! You just might be surprised what you can get!! Also watch the sales ads for your shopping centers near where you live....watch the newspapers, too, as this time of year, you will find college kids selling off alot of their electronics for school money!! Best of luck and keep us posted!!

ranchwife
:wink:

200 songs??!! That wont be nearly enough. lol.

I think i'll be going into town tomorrow-then i'll look around. I dont want anything used cause there may be something wrong with it-been there done that. lol.
 

Brad S

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Shower, I lost 20% of my hearing to the likes of George Thorgood & The Clash, today's music ain't worth losing your hearing over so you really must watch volumn and duration when you are piping it right down in your ears. My kids are a little younger than you, but their grumpy old Pops won't be having any of these personal listening devices until they're too old to want one.

One other thing, you may consider combining mp3 player with a pda/phone - the price has gotten much more reasonable.
 

Ben H

Well-known member
if you're downloading from limewire then you aren't really aquiring music in the most legal way...who am I to talk though. I use limewire and morpheus.
You're downloading from those sites in MP3 format, therefore you can use those on an iPod, so no, an iPod isn't out of the question. iPods don't play WMA-protected format. There are a few CD's out there that only let you rip in that format but there are some work-arounds. I think Keith Anderson was that way. All I had to do was hold the shift button while I loaded the CD and it didn't load the CD's software to prevent me from ripping in MP3. You can also burn WMA's to a CD then rip that CD into MP3, the problem is that you'll loose all your tags, and ripping software won't recognize it so you'll have to manually enter it. There is some software out there that will save the tag when you burn it and load the file when you rip it.
 
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