MP3 player recommendations

I am looking at getting an MP3 player from my parents for XMas. Nothing too terribly expensive. I would like it to be drag & drop, and have the ability to create playlists. I do not want to use iTunes, and would prefer not to be locked into the software for the player. Using device as a portable HDD would be a nice benefit. Looking for something with at least a few Gb.

Any recommendations? Looking @ creative zen micro, but I heard you have to use their software, and possibly manually set aside part of the HDD for file storage.

Thanks all!

I have a Zen Micro, and you can use one of 2 firewares with it.

1 allows you to use Windows Media Player (version 10 only) to copy files on to your player.

The other you need software (but the firmware takes less disk space as it uses a different file system)

Take a look at the new Song Walkman, that think looks nice!

So you were my age when you had your daughter? [/scary]

That wife of yours is beyond clever, Wings.

Try the Q-BE (or MobiBlu, in the states)... worlds smallest MP3 player, pic at the end of that page http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/12/11/ [...] christmas/

Posting links to off si... wait, no, we still run this place, and this is still my job. It's an MP3 player, it's very small and one needs to see a pic to see just how I could have lost it for five minutes on my desk...

Admit it your a %whore, just like myself given half a chance.

You still playin with the Jeep???? I was out playin with my truck, drifting, the other night......

The player is great.

I use the Firmware without WMP10 connectivity. I prefer to install a small driver and no my Zen pops up as a drive that I can copy music (and only music to). You can set it to become a regular disk drive.

Regardless, the software isn't all that bad.

60 Gb micro? I thought they were 5, 6, & 8 Gb!

If I get one, I will have to get the new firmware and such from you guys!

i had one of the old ones

http://www.creative.com/products/p [...] 9288&nav=1

actually it wasnt a zen, sorry, it was a nomad.

i sold it awhile ago, but it was useful and i loved the software that came with it.

Yeah I had a 30Gb one of those. The software is the exact same for the Zen Micro too.

I own a Zen micro....GREAT MP3 Player.

You can build playlists within th mp3 player unlike ipods, you can drag and drop (you need a firmware update but thats easy and you do it before you put music on it) and then all computers see it as a external HDD and you can drag and drop.

You dont HAVE tro set aside for storage....its an option that you CAN set aside part of it for file storage.

When it comes to the size....think about it, 8GB is HUGE. Your battery is only going to last 8hours you dont need 50,000 hours of music. Honestly a 4GB MP3 player stocked with your fav songs is MORE then enough.


When i bought mine i got my zen micro for $200 and i could have gotten a 20GB one for $30 more....thats a great deal for someone who would use it. But its not a good deal if you never use the extra space. Its just $30 wasted.

Yeah BB has them....i work there so i know.

no photos of the zen micro available? huh?

this is the color i have as well....menus are setup very well buttons work like a charm. Plus FM radio.....which i have yet to use...lol

There were pics, but I did not feel the need to post one... Just lazy I guess...

So, where do you work @ Best Buy? Can you buy me one for cheap, then give it to me for Christmas?

OK. I will stand there until I get it. Make it quick. I am cold!

Here in the U.K we have a saying "cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey", occasionally shortened to "brass monkeys". Is your phrase of the same origin?

Maybe he just has a circulation problem.

Here in the U.K we have a saying "cold enough to freeze the balls of a brass monkey", occasionally shortened to "brass monkeys". Is your phrase of the same origin?

I dunno, we will say its hot as balls, cold as balls, something is ______ as balls....i have heard almost everything from fun as balls, scary as balls, and my personaly favorite gay as balls.

none make any sense but people say it.


And Aaron, that picture still freaks me the hell out.

That could be funny....

My uncle used to say that my aunt was so frigid, that when she dropped her panties, it would frost the windows inside the house....

Aye, if you're looking for an MP3 player to play music then paying extra for a video player might be folly... heck, players are so much like PC's at this stage that you'll only be upgrading again next year, so consider it then

As for not seeing it anywhere, Creative's boys warned me at the launch that they didn't expect to see very high volumes in shops until after Christmas.

Hopefully he didn't say that to her! I am sure that would NOT have warmed her up at all! 8O

So I guess he could say anything he wanted to about her... Now I myself can say whatever I want about my wife at any time!


OWWW! 8O


Of course, she is the greatest women on this earth.....