# MP3 player owners, check in here **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 14, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541 "2005-03-14T23:20:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/21 "2005-03-15T06:48:13Z")
1. Western Digital internal hard drive in an external box. 2. 80 gig. 3. What do you got? 4. Mp3 mostly. 5. 8146 with over 30 gig still empty. 6. Total cost about $135.00. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/22 "2005-03-15T07:42:30Z")
1. iPod, previous generation (3rd, I think) 2. 40 GB 3. see above 4. MP3, AAC, Audible 5. 3827 (including several unabridged audiobooks) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/23 "2005-03-15T07:48:26Z")
1. Dell DJ 20 2. 20 GB 3. .wma, .mp3, .wav (I think) 4. .mp3 5. 1. I don’t own that much music compared to several people here. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/24 "2005-03-15T07:48:52Z")
1. Dell DJ 20 2. 20 GB 3. mp3, WMA, WAV, not sure what else 4. Just about all mp3 5. 1821 (still working on it) I’ve only had it for a couple of weeks, but I don’t know what I did without it. Sound is great, interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, capacity is more than sufficient. The only issue I’ve had is that sometimes it doesn’t want to communicate seamlessly with MusicMatch, but I think that has more to do with MM than the device itself. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/25 "2005-03-15T07:53:52Z")
1. iPod, 3rd generation 2. 40 GB 3. all the files everyone mentions above 4. mp3, AAC 5. 6876 songs. I can generally fit between 6-9k on there, depending on the length (we have about 140 gigs of music currently - mostly live recording and such - so I swap in whole genres/artists on a weekly or monthly basis.) ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_Tama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@Grey\_Tama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_Tama)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/26 "2005-03-15T08:53:51Z")
So, no-one is using a cellphone as a mp3-player? Two birds with one stone and all that… Well, here’s mine: 1. SonyEricsson P910i 2. Depends on the size of the memory stick, maybe 1GB max? 3. mp3, mp4, m4a, AAC, AMR, AU, iMelody, MIDI, WAW, RMF (plus a bunch of video and still image formats) 4. mp3 almost exclusively, some MIDIs 5. 40-50 ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/27 "2005-03-15T09:00:35Z")
> [@Grey Tama](#): > > So, no-one is using a cellphone as a mp3-player? Two birds with one stone and all that… Do you ever have problems with the battery running out? I wanted to try that but I didn’t want to be unable to make calls after listening to my music for a few hours. Or is it not that big of an issue? ---
**Author:** ![Leishmaniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Leishmaniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leishmaniac)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/28 "2005-03-15T10:04:59Z")
Goodmans…was a mega bargain at the time. In the right place at the right time!! 20GB mp3 mp3 about 2000? But was a bit big for the gym etc so just got a cute little stick: MP3 Man 512kb mp3 and something else…I’m not very technical, y’know mp3 ummmm…10 albums I love my little one you know. It never leaves my side (ears) ---
**Author:** ![Leishmaniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Leishmaniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leishmaniac)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/29 "2005-03-15T10:07:08Z")
did I mean kb or mb? Probably the latter…which just highlights the point that I wasn’t lying about my technical ineptitude. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/30 "2005-03-15T13:02:17Z")
**Brand & model:** Archos Jukebox 6000 \*\*capacity:\*\*6 GB \*\*formats it supports:\*\*Mp3 \*\*formats you actually use:\*\*Mp3 \*\*number of songs you currently have loaded:\*\*About 1500 or so. Mine was a gift from a good friend who was upgrading to something else. Yes, it’s older, but it does the job beautifully. With new 2000 mAh rechargable batteries I get about 6-7 hours of continuous playback. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/31 "2005-03-15T13:56:03Z")
1. Degen DE811 2. 128 mb 3&4. MP3 3. Right now I use it to play back a recorded talk radio show, about two hours at a time. I don’t know if they even sell it in the US, I picked it up in China last year for only about US$30. It’s just a tiny little disk, very portable and good for the gym. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/32 "2005-03-15T14:11:15Z")
1. Brand & model 2. capacity 3. formats it supports 4. formats you actually use 5. number of songs you currently have loaded 1; Apple iPod 2; 40 GB Clickwheel (4G) 3; AIFF, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless 4; AIFF, MP3, AAC 5; 1,742 songs (all legit, no “borrowed” music) ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_Tama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@Grey\_Tama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_Tama)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/33 "2005-03-15T14:27:37Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Do you ever have problems with the battery running out? I wanted to try that but I didn’t want to be unable to make calls after listening to my music for a few hours. Or is it not that big of an issue? I haven’t actually played mp3s more than an hour or two straight, so I can’t really say how much playtime you’d actually get from a P910. I suppose the big TFT-display would drain the battery faster if one was, say, playing some games… Something to try then: charge battery to full and play mp3s until the juice runs out. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/34 "2005-03-15T15:11:16Z")
1. Palm Tungsten E 2. Removable SD media, currently have one-1GB card 3. MP3 and presumable real audio since it uses a Palm version of real player 4. MP3 exclusively 5. Hellifiknow That and a pair of Sennheiser noise cancelling headphones do a lot to make the 8+ hours I spend on a plane each week almost tolerable. Oh, **Mr. Blue Sky** , I have _Face the Music_ and _A New World Record_ on it right now. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/35 "2005-03-15T20:44:04Z")
1. iPod, 1st generation. 2. 5 GB 3. MP3, AAC (unprotected & protected), WAV, WMA (unprotected), Audible (audio books), Apple Lossless, AIFF (thanks for the list, RumMunkey!) 4. MP3 and AAC. 5. 863 ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/36 "2005-03-15T22:31:58Z")
> [@Dragwyr](#): > > **Brand & model:** Archos Jukebox 6000 > \*\*capacity:\*\*6 GB > \*\*formats it supports:\*\*Mp3 > \*\*formats you actually use:\*\*Mp3 > \*\*number of songs you currently have loaded:\*\*About 1500 or so. Hey… I’ve got one of those too. Bought it off a friend 2 years ago for $75. I have about 1000 songs loaded on it. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/37 "2005-03-15T23:09:32Z")
Creative MuVo Sport 256 built in, 128 SD card plays MP3s, WMA, built in FM radio…not sure about others I have MP3’s and WMA maybe 200 songs. Only use it for working out, works great for that. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/38 "2005-03-15T23:27:02Z")
upon closer examination…93 songs… damn, where the hell did I get 200… ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/39 "2005-03-15T23:38:38Z")
1. iPod, 3rd generation. 2. 20 GB 3. MP3, AAC (unprotected & protected), WAV, WMA (unprotected), Audible (audio books), Apple Lossless, AIFF, 4. MP3 5. 660 Just got mine as a gift from a very thoughtful friend. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541/40 "2005-03-16T00:28:00Z")
1. iPod, 4th generation 2. 20 GB 3. MP3, AAC (unprotected & protected), WAV, WMA (unprotected), Audible (audio books), Apple Lossless, AIFF 4. MP3, AAC (the free itunes songs I’ve gotten) 5. 2624 songs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mp3-player-owners-check-in-here/294541.md?page=3)