mp3 players

intermill · 02-09-2004, 08:27 AM

I am in the market for a mp3 player. I would like at least a 2 GB player. I saw that apple is has the new ipod mini and that looks good. Does anyone have an ipod and what do they think of them.

intermill · 02-09-2004, 07:02 PM

come on, someone has to have a mp3 player that can help me out.

wakkoman · 02-09-2004, 07:10 PM

im also looking for a hard drive based mp3 player

HELP

adeelsiddiqui · 02-09-2004, 08:06 PM

one word

iPOD

Lpya2 · 02-10-2004, 04:36 PM

I want to get one of those mini ones that apple make. they are nice

dn1282 · 02-10-2004, 05:55 PM

do NOT go for the ipod minis...

they're a waste in my mind. They're 4gb...but for $50 more you can get the 15gb normal ipod. The minis are smaller, but they aren't that smaller. The normal ipods are already pretty small anyways.

$50 extra for 11 more gb's? who wouldn't go for it?

**Jeff** · 02-10-2004, 05:56 PM

My wife has an original iPod and LOVES it. I bought it for her the Christmas after they came out and it is still going strong.

tozai · 02-10-2004, 06:06 PM

If you want an expensive MP3 player then I guess you could get an ipod. There are some other options like the nomad. I just have a cheap 128MB player, it makes more sense to me. I don't really need more than 30 songs.

rockets-#1 · 02-10-2004, 06:59 PM

My favorite MP3 player and the one I think is the best out there is the Nomad Jukebox (20G) made by Creative. I've been using their MP3 players for years and they are awesome.

peleincubus · 02-10-2004, 07:59 PM

can you use the ipod with a pc though?

Faos · 02-10-2004, 08:11 PM

A few years back I just had to have an MP3 player.

Now it just sits in my desk draw next to my must have Handspring Visor PDA.

Woofer · 02-10-2004, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Faos
A few years back I just had to have an MP3 player.

Now it just sits in my desk draw next to my must have Handspring Visor PDA.

EBay package deal, baby.

adeelsiddiqui · 02-10-2004, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by peleincubus
can you use the ipod with a pc though?

Yessir, They are compatible with MAC and PC

Vengeance · 02-10-2004, 08:33 PM

I'll sell you my Archos Multimedia Jukebox . . . I hate that POS

Uprising · 02-10-2004, 08:43 PM

I gave a Rio, which as about 64mb inside, and an upgraded card of 256mb. It holds a good amount of music, but not enough.

Whenever I fly over seas and am stuck on the plane for 21hrs, I prefer to have more variety to my music, which requires more songs.

SO, I bought a Sony Atrac3plus MP3 cd-walkman. That way it is/was much cheaper. I can hold up to about 400 songs on a single cd. :D

It also can read text, so that it tells you the names of the songs, the folders they are in the time etc, just like my MP3 player does. The software is nice, you can juse copy your folders of music onto the cd directly, so that it is in the same set up. It's set up just like my music folder in windows is.

wakkoman · 02-10-2004, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jeff
My wife has an original iPod and LOVES it. I bought it for her the Christmas after they came out and it is still going strong.

I heard from somebody that the iPod has battery problems after some time - i think it was that the battery, even though full charged, only lasted like a VERY limited amount of time. The problem too was that Apple would not cover this with warranty so you're stuck buying a new battery every several months

can anyone confirm this?

rockbox · 02-10-2004, 09:43 PM

The mini because it is small enough to excercise with and put into your pocket. The original Ipod is just a litte too big for that.

adeelsiddiqui · 02-10-2004, 10:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rockbox
The mini because it is small enough to excercise with and put into your pocket. The original Ipod is just a litte too big for that.

Not recommended to work out with any hard drive based MP3 Player.

I have the very first Ipod, which I got as a gift, and its lasted me for the whole while, I got it 5 days after it was released. The only problem with the battery is that it lasts only 8-10 hours...
and for people like me who go on international flights and other long flights, it is a little less than what is needed. But you can always charge from your Laptop...

I mean if you buy from a place like Bbuy, or Ccity the warranty is like 60 bux and you are covered for 3 years, and if anything goes wrong in that duration, you get a gift card for that value. so why not get the warranty, i mean at the end of your 3 years, just crash the ipod(the hard drive I mean) and redeeem a newer one.

peleincubus · 02-11-2004, 01:26 PM

so are mp3 players like the Nomad a better deal for the money then a Ipod or is the Ipod reasonably priced.

i have to do inventory where i work and surrounding stores for the next 3 weeks. so i need one of these little guys fast.

Uprising · 02-11-2004, 05:30 PM

From what I have read about the ipods...I wouldn't get one. The battery really seems to be a problem.

Apple has tried to fix this problem and make the customers happy by having a $99 replaceable battery, and an extended warranty for $59.

The battery is supposed to last 8hrs, but many people say it lasts a fraction of that.

Apple's Juice Problems
By Alyce Lomax

The wildly popular Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod is seen as the answer to flagging sales of the company's core computer products. However, today news agencies mined a nugget of class action lawsuit news out of Apple's quarterly regulatory filing, shedding a slightly less positive light on the iPod.

As of late December, a series of class action lawsuits had been launched in California. The iPod may be infinitely cool, but the lawsuits imply some customers thought Apple exceedingly uncool about the gadget's lithium battery.

Apple's had an extremely successful renaissance based on the hip iPod, bringing to mind the possibility that the company might become a new name in consumer electronics. During its first quarter this year, it sold out of iPods; there are reportedly about 2 million of the gizmos out there, keeping users up to their ears in tunes.

Controversy, however, has been building behind the scenes. In January, MTV News reported rumblings of customer dissatisfaction regarding juice. Despite Apple's claim that the iPod contains eight hours of battery life per charge, some customers reported that as time wore on, they only got a fraction of that; some also said that the problems began after the one-year warranty expired.

According to MTV, a young man named Casey Neistat claimed that Apple's only solution to his problem was for him to buy himself a new iPod or pay dearly for the repair. Last fall, he launched a website that contained a video of himself spray painting the words, "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" throughout New York City. Talk about some "power to the people" press.

Since then, Apple offers a better solution than supposedly blithely suggesting customers replace the whole iPod; it now offers a $99 replacement battery or a $59 extended warranty. However, some still grumble that common sense should have ruled over Apple's well-known design tendencies. For example, some argue that a less aesthetic vehicle juiced by old-fashioned AA batteries would have been better, sort of like the Sony (NYSE: SNE) Walkman, an earlier generation's answer to portable music.

If the lawsuit flies, one can imagine a hefty price tag for Apple to repair or replace juiceless iPods launched prior to its new plan. More than that, Apple has come between avid iPod users and their music. That in itself may yet prove costlier to the company.
from http://www.fool.com

Another page regarding the ipod and it's battery problem:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...437514836.html

has an aritcle about a guy who went around New York spray painting about Ipod's bad battery. Their is a video of it on his webpage.

It seems people would have prefered it to be powered by AA batteries instead.

There are pictures of Casey spray painting over many Ipod ads in New York on this webapge, and another article.
http://www.modbee.com/technology/sto...-8826731c.html