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12-12-2007, 11:06 AM
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| Mind that bus, what bus? Splat! Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Bedfordshire
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| Which soild state MP3 player? Guys, I'm after a new MP3 player since my Zen broke.... I want a solid state one rather than a hard drive and would ideally like 2GB+. Buget is... ~80, could maybe go upto £100. Any recomendations?  Thanks!!  |
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12-12-2007, 11:44 AM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? Loads of choice, you'll get a 2GB with loads of features or even a good 4GB one for that money. Check out dapreview.net: News for generally good info. Looking at Scan's section for 1 - 4GB mp3 players, a few of the following stand out: 4GB Creative Zen as a divx video player too. The 4GB iPod nano's are an obvious choice, and i like them (awaiting flames.....) Cowon have been long known to have great codec/format support as well as good sound quality. This Archos 4GB is great value too. As a final thought, the SanDisk Sansa's are very highly regarded too and you can expand the memory yourself easily enough. System as shown, plus: Akasa 965 HSF. Griffin Powermate that pulsates blue! Solid oak computer desk. Diamondback Razor. Logitech media keyboard. Western Dig HD Media Player. An AC-S1 R2 on the 3870. Netgear DG834N router. Acer Aspire One netbook. Creative I-Trigue 3450 driven by an Audigy 2. External 160GB and 500GB hard drives. 1 happy me. 1 not so happy me's wife. My Hexus Trust |
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12-12-2007, 12:11 PM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? Originally Posted by MSIC I have the 8GB e280 version of this and I absolutely love it; the interface is fine, the controls easy to use, the sound quality v. good, and the supporting software very effective (especially the media converter, which'll convert VOBs off DVDs for playback on the (very nice) screen). Amazon have it for £91.53 delivered with radio, £78 without, and unlike certain other players, if the battery goes tits up, you can buy a user-replaceable replacement, which even comes with a little screwdriver, for about a tenner, depending on where you shop. It'll work either as a driverless generic mass storage device in MSC mode, or in MTP mode it'll work as a Plays-for-Sure player with Windows Media Player. 
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12-12-2007, 12:56 PM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? Sandisk Sansa's are great these are good too Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK __________/\___________\0/_________ahhh shark attack!!! __________________ I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. "A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion." |
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12-12-2007, 01:06 PM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? The new iPod Nanos are really impressive, had a little play with a mates, ridiculously good. AMD 3700+ San Diego @ 2.8GHz  | Zalman CNPS 9500LED + Arctic Cooling MX-1 | Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe + Zalman Northbridge | 1024MB DDR RAM (2 x 512MB Corsair XMS Pro TwinX) | Leadtek nVidia 6600GT 128MB | Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music | 2x80GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA-II (RAID 0) | Gigabyte 3D Aurora Case | Hiper Type-R 580W Modular | Enermax Ultimate Fan Controller| Microsoft Nautral 4000 | Logitech G5 + fUnc 1030| Ideazon Fang | SpeedLink Medusa 5.1 Surround Headset | Samsung SM913N 19" TFT | Compro DVB-T200"Dell? You get better tech support with a cheese sandwich" |
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28-12-2007, 04:20 PM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? Argos have some good deals on sony stuff atm, and if you dont like the sonicstage software get one of the newer sonys as they are drag and drop. |
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28-12-2007, 04:33 PM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? Originally Posted by pp05 they have got rid of that now..
thats why i went for it, (no way am i going to go for a software based mp3 player looking at ipod and older sony models here)   |
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29-12-2007, 12:56 AM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? Originally Posted by jackvdbuk On all sony models or just selected new ones... which model did you go for?
I know of one budget unit that is drag and drop, but the other ones require software. |
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29-12-2007, 08:35 PM
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| Re: Which soild state MP3 player? im not sure if its all models, but i think all the newer models do, would be worth a check though! i went for the nwz-a816 4gb version, great mp3 player, much more better than anything ipod or creative (though not seen the new ones!) |
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