I have close to that amount, and I can’t think of a single moment in my life when I felt that I should be able to listen to any song I wanted. That’s taking instant gratification to a theoretical extreme that only buys into Apple marketing and boosts their sales. There’s no recording in my collection that I simply can’t wait to hear until I get home. Nothing is that important.
Besides, I have to rip all those CDs to my computer first, so if I’m traveling, I have them on my laptop anyway, ready to be copied to my MP3 player.
The thing I like best about this Sansa player - aside from the fact that it’s not refurbished & totally backed by Amazon’s guarantee - is the fact that it takes one AAA battery. If you’ve ever run out of power with this baby, you don’t have to find a charger and wait. I’ve had other mp3 players, and this is the one I like the best.
Yeah, I like the m200 series as well. I have an m230 and an m240, and I gave my mom an m230 as a birthday present. She uses it entirely for playing audible.com programs so far.
I’ve had two Sansa players and really liked them, actually. The ones I’ve gotten are all flash-memory players (as opposed to portable hard-drive devices), which means that they’re pretty much impervious to shaking, jostling, folding, spindling or mutilating.
I’m currently using their 4GB Clip. 34.99 from Best Buy (it was on sale, but regular price wasn’t too much more).
So far they’ve been reliable players. The first one I was sad to have to retire - and only did so because the headphone jack crapped out on me. I dropped it about 20 feet onto a concrete floor and something loosened up in the headphone jack so that the headphones couldn’t get a solid connection anymore - totally my fault. Sold a bunch of players for Sansa that day, though. It happened while I was taking the subway in NYC, and some bystander tossed me the player back up to the platform I was on and yelled to see if it still worked - I tried it and told him it did and then everyone wanted to know who made the player. The player itself still worked fine - I just got tired of only one earbud at a time having sound. The damn things are fairly robust. I know that my first one survived for two years living without protections in an outside pocket of my purse and getting banged into everything constantly without a problem.
They’re purely drag and drop, you never have to use iTunes or WMP if you don’t feel like it and they’ll play every digital audio format I’ve tried (admittedly, this only consists of the more-common music formats, but still). The sound quality is perfectly acceptable - I couldn’t tell you if it lives up to an audiophile’s dreams, but for a workout player, it’s more than adequate, you know?
The wife & I have Zen Stone Plus players by Creative. In the year or so that we’ve had them, we’ve had no issues at all… until today…
The wife was doing laundry, and after turning out a load of fleece, all charged up nicely on this dry, cold day, experienced a static shock from it. The shock apparently traveled through her, and down the headphones (or reverse), blowing the electronics on the unit.
I’m planning to give her my Zen Stone, and pick up the 4Gb Sansa clip on the way home today.
I have a 16GB SDHC card that I bought by accident (meant to get MicroSD, but sending this thing back to Hong Kong is more trouble than it’s worth), and I was thinking about just getting a cheap MP3 player to use it with.
What would be a good player if price and a SDHC slot are my only concerns? Do they make MP3 players with no storage at all, but with a flash card slot?
My wife and I got our daughter Zen Mozaic player. We bought it at Overstock.com, it’s a nice little gadget with an Fm tuner that she loved for about 3 days and is now onto other things…
I’d buy one of those $10 jobbies. They’re cheap, cheerful, easy to use and can be easily replaced when they inevitably fall on the tiles or down the toilet.
The big deal with getting all your music on one device is once you have done that you don’t need to choose what music to take with you. We obviously can survive without all are music with us all the time. But when it gets to the point that a one time investment of $250 will allow us to take upto about 1500 cds with us it is great. If it was $2500 for the 120 gig Ipod people would deal with having to decide which music to bring along.
