I need a new mp3 player.

[Fit of Rage]

Specs:

• decent screen
• 30 or 40 GB
• Doesn't have to be a photo or video or anything like that
• Should be easy to navigate
• Better than 16 hours of battery life
• Fuck Apple- anything besides an iPod

Suggestions? I was seriously thinking about a Creative Zen Touch or Sleek but my dad is skeptical? Anyone have experiance with other brands/makes and enjoy theirs rediculously? My collection is around 16GB now and it's only going to keep growing, so 20 won't do it anymore.

[Rab]

http://www.creative.com/products/pro...4&product=9288

[Tone]

Totally Useless, even if you pay $1000 and spend 1000 hours loading music onto it, without good headphones. you might as well hold two telephones to your ears while someone plays music

* Transducer Principle: Dynamic, open
* Frequency Response: 15-27000 Hz
* Nominal Impedance: 32 Ohm
* Weight Wo Cable: 60 g
* Characteristic Spl: 114 dB(SPL)
* Ear Coupling: Supra-aural
* Distortion: 0.7%


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...P=OTC-SHOPPING


Edit: a much cheaper one with a similar hi fi sound is:

http://www.koss.com/koss/kossweb.nsf/p?openform&pc^pt^KTXPRO1

[RoDNeY]

Olympus M:Robe
http://reviews.cnet.com/Olympus_M_ro...-31265512.html

[Galleleo]

I just bought an 6 gb Ipod.. my music collection is over 50 GB, but I can't listen to it all at once anyway, I can put about 1500 songs on my Ipod, by the time I am done listening to them It's not that much of a trouble to switch them..

[Evasive]

This one is pretty good

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...055533-5313435

[PH]

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PRODUCT&PROD_ID=881761&cid=25608&fp=F

[Evasive]

asshole

[eehh]

• decent screen
• Doesn't have to be a photo or video or anything like that

why the screen if it doesnt have photo or video?

[DoTheFandango]

Well the iPod 5thGeneration is 300$ and holds roughly 8,000 songs, depending on the file format. I don't understand why you would say FUCK APPLE, because really, it's one of the best out their for the price.

But you could also get the 60GB version of this:
http://www.creative.com/products/pro...uct=9288&nav=1
or the 30 GB version for 100$ less.

With my experience with Creative's stuff, they don't support AAC, AIFF, or MP4.

So I don't know what to tell yah.

[Mr. Peanuts]

why the screen if it doesnt have photo or video?

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[Sarien]

I don't understand why you would say FUCK APPLE, because really, it's one of the best out their for the price.

That's easy. Fit has to show how different and anti-culture he is. He's not gonna put up with that "best quality for the price no matter who makes it" shit. He's so deep you couldn't possibly understand him, man. Nobody can. He's doing something with his life.. pssssh...

Hehe, just fucking with you Fit. Cause it's easy.. and a little fun.

[Fit of Rage]

iPod's also on the low end of battery life, which is a big issue for me.

Also, when I say "decent" screen I mean I don't especially need an iPod Video's 5000 colors and fantastic display, I just need it to show me what I'm playing and be able to browse through whatever else I might want to play without a big hassle. For comparison, here's my current player:



You can see how small that screen is.

[DoTheFandango]

iPod's also on the low end of battery life, which is a big issue for me.

Also, when I say "decent" screen I mean I don't especially need an iPod Video's 5000 colors and fantastic display, I just need it to show me what I'm playing and be able to browse through whatever else I might want to play without a big hassle.

The 60GB iPod can play 20 hours straight without a backlight, 18hrs for the 30GB. An iPod battery can recharge fully 400 times before it starts losing capacity. That's SOOOO bad.

The screen is colorful. Who cares? You get a colorful screen with no consequence, except a 300$ price tag. Considering I payed $300 for a regular 20GB iPod without a color screen and am extremely happy, I think that is a steal.

[Tone]

how about one that plays WMAs. 2-Pass VBR WMA v9.1 is better than mp3. mp3 is like 1996 technology

say you encode something at 128 with 2-Pass VRB. first of all its going to make a first pass to look at the freqencies of the song, then on the encoding pass it will use higher than 128 bit rates for parts of the song that have a lot of high end freqs, lower than 128 for parts that dont have much harmonics. the result is same size as a CBR 128 because lower than 128 for low freq parts, but better sounding because higher than 128 for high end parts. and WMA does VBR better than mp3