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MP3 Players: iPod / iriver / Zen
Peter Linfield:
I'm hoping for at least 10 GB of memory, but everything seems to go from 5/6 GB straight to 20GB. I already have 4.1 GB on my PC, and that will be incresing shortly. In any given day my musical tastes change a lot, so I'd much rather have enough room for all my music than decide what I want before I leave. I've narrowed it down to these two...
iriver's H10 (20GB) is a total of $407.13 CAD at their official store.
Creative's Zen Touch (20GB) is a total of $408.70 CAD at their official store.
Prices are essential identitical, so it just depends on which is better. I'm not familiar with either product. Both have touch-navigation, but the iriver has a colour interface. Anyone have any opinions on these particular brands/products?
KharBevNor:
The iriver has more flashy features, but it's really fragile, and has a lot less battery life. It also supports less audio formats. As before, depends on what you want, really. A hip accessory with lots of gadgets, or a decent mp3 player?
Merkava:
--- Quote from: blooflame ---All your complaining about lugging around CDs!! Sheesh you should have been there when you had to lug boxes of 7" 45RPM singles and the portable player was the size of the wheel on your car!
Actually - I can see a portable MP3 player, but the only reason for massive storage is so you don't have to choose what to load on it, you just put everything on there. If you're talking MP3s, 20GB is probably more than 24 hours of music so you're not going to listen to it all in a row (usually). So, the tradeoff is: spend some time loading the player each time you want a change, or put all your music on your player (instead of?) on your computer, and on your CDs (unless you downloaded the music).
--- End quote ---
The point of putting everything on there is so that you have a large selection.
"Hm, I feel like listening to some At the Drive-In, but I forgot that CD at home! What am I going to do?"
It's a lot easier to just have everything with you.
Also, you have loads of sources. At home, you have the CD's, and on you computer/player, you have the mp3s. It's more convenient.
MilkmanDan:
So I just checked out the Zen Xtra. In about 30 seconds of research I discovered:
"Huge storage lets you bring up to 16,000 WMA songs (80kbps) or MP3 songs (128kbps) everywhere you go"
Anyone who uses WMAs or 128kbps MP3s clearly doesn't actually like their music. If you like your music, you want to listen to it, not a garbled mess of sounds that vaguely resembles your music. Jesus.
"Simply open NOMAD Explorer (integrated into Microsoft® Windows® Explorer) and drag and drop data files into the data folder or music files into the music library"
Yeah, or just plug in your ipod.
"Personalize your player with 6 different Profile settings that let you customize screen savers, skins, idle timers and more!"
Are you fucking joking? Screensavers? It's an MP3 player with a 2inch screen. What's there to save? Jesus.
"Environmental Effects simulate audio environments such as 'Concert Hall' or 'Arena'"
WOW! THAT'S SUCH A USEFUL FEATURE. I REALLY LIKE THE TOTAL LACK OF STUPID GIMMICKS.
"Load a song a second with ultra fast USB2.0 port. Works with USB1.1 too"
Note, by "works with USB1.1" we actually mean "works with USB1.1 after 17 million years of transfering your songs across."
So, no.
iPod, baby!
Man, I want a 100GB ipod. I want one so bad.
blindsuperhero:
--- Quote from: MilkmanDan ---Anyone who uses WMAs or 128kbps MP3s clearly doesn't actually like their music. If you like your music, you want to listen to it, not a garbled mess of sounds that vaguely resembles your music. Jesus.
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I think that was meant to be "16,000 songs at 128kbps [or some other number of songs at some other bitrate]"
--- Quote from: MilkmanDan ---"Simply open NOMAD Explorer (integrated into Microsoft® Windows® Explorer) and drag and drop data files into the data folder or music files into the music library"
Yeah, or just plug in your ipod.
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But, with an iPod don't you have to use the special iPoddy format? Can you actually use an iPod as a removable harddrive (that is, just put any old file onto it)? You can with the iRiver, and if you use playable files, and put the in the Music subfolder, well, you can listen to them too.
I'd get the iRiver, if I were you, I have a 5gb H10, the 20gb ones don't come out over here until autumn, and, well, it's fine and dandy.
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