OT: best MP3 player
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Silver Member Username: Trey4sportsPost Number: 391 Registered: Sep-06 | im looking to use an mp3 and i need your guys help, heres my requirements. adleast 20 GB napster for sure compatible and USB enabled im planning on just buying the napster to go and downloading unlimited songs to my MP3 then hooking it up to my HU. i know a lot of u guys are into bittorrent but im not into P2P and bitorrent. with all that said the best deal i can find is a toshiba gigabeat 40 GB for 150. anybody know of anything cheaper? |
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Silver Member Username: Brady_fWaco, Texas USA Post Number: 103 Registered: Aug-06 | so your budget is around 150 or so. Also, how many songs do you plan on putting on the mp3 player. 40GB can hold like 7000 to 8000 songs....can you honestly need that much space. IPOD FTW! |
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Silver Member Username: Trey4sportsPost Number: 392 Registered: Sep-06 | i wanna stay away from ipod because its 99 cents per track. i would really be happy with around 20 gb im sure i just want to make sure its napster to go compatible |
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Silver Member Username: Brady_fWaco, Texas USA Post Number: 104 Registered: Aug-06 | just d/l morpheus or limewire and buy an ipod...problem solved; especially the 99 cents per track issue |
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Silver Member Username: Nd4spd18Post Number: 270 Registered: Jul-06 | Hands down the best mp3 players out there are the Creative Nomad Zen series: http://www.creative.com/products/welcome.asp?category=213 You won't find an mp3 player with better SQ anywhere. Creative has been making those WAY before apple came out with the ipod (which by the way is not compatible with any music download service except iTunes.) The Creatives are compatible with the protected WMA format used by napster. And of course they will also play your mp3s. About the price, they are not cheap but the price is worth it for the excellent build quality. That all may sound like a sales pitch but they have a reputation for being very good. I have owned one for several years, I bought it when hard drive based mp3 players first came out, and it still works like new. And it will crush an ipod or any other newer player in terms of sound quality. |
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Gold Member Username: Crayola0Future 15 Wanger!!, Wisconsin Post Number: 1688 Registered: Jun-06 | i have an ipod and love it casue i have it directly hooked up to my hu so i can control it from my hu and its great |
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Silver Member Username: Trey4sportsPost Number: 394 Registered: Sep-06 | thanks for the input so far guys, but i will NOT DOWNLOAD ILLEGALY. i am not doing p2p nor bitorrent. im set on a DRM service like napster to go. |
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Gold Member Username: CtmikeCt. Post Number: 3260 Registered: Feb-06 | i just got my first mp3 player, a creative zen v plus, and so far i love it. great sq on it, preset eq, bass boost, easy menus', and setup was easier than i expected. only thing is the earphones that came with it sucks, but you can upgrade them. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 2403 Registered: Jan-06 | Funny you get more SQ by using a different MP3 player, lol. Listen up, that is impossible because the fact is the MP3 compression format has degraded the SQ to begin with. Listen to the difference between your favorite cd and the same in MP3 format, BIG DIFFERENCE. BTW, Ipod is the #1 in multi-format media players... Polo.  |
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Silver Member Username: Brady_fWaco, Texas USA Post Number: 105 Registered: Aug-06 | ^^^X2 |
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Silver Member Username: Nd4spd18Post Number: 271 Registered: Jul-06 | Ctmike just brought up an important feature I forgot about, the built in EQ. They don't just have different EQ presets, you can adjust each individual band like you would on a setero system's EQ. With a high end set of headphones you can get really good sound for a portable player. |
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Silver Member Username: Nd4spd18Post Number: 272 Registered: Jul-06 | Polo, I don't mean to insult you cause you seem to know your stuff about car audio... But have you ever heard music in uncompressed wav format on a high quality player like a creative? Compare that to most other players, and it's like a Pioneer Premier HU vs. a regular Pioneer HU. One has the high quality components that give you better SQ, the other doesn't. Neither of them are bad. Sure, if your playing compressed music such as mp3 you won't hear the SQ difference. In addition to the SQ, the build quality of the Creative players is excellent IMO and that's the main reason I recommend them to people... |
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Silver Member Username: Gh0st_31FL USA Post Number: 234 Registered: May-06 | Toshiba Gigabeat S. THat beast does EVERYTHING my buddy has one and boy is it sweet |
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Silver Member Username: Skibum12189Cleveland Post Number: 249 Registered: Mar-06 | ive heard napster to go sounds good only on paper...that wasnt a literal sounds good, a buddy of mine had it and said it kinda sucked, use limewire or if you wanna be legitimate, pay the one time 30 bucks for limewire pro, or just download limewire pro off limewire free trial haha... |
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Gold Member Username: Denali_on_22sSSX, Tenneki US of A Post Number: 1245 Registered: Feb-06 | youre a b!tch. fu*kin download illegally you pus*y... |
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Silver Member Username: Trey4sportsPost Number: 396 Registered: Sep-06 | yeah i hate that illegal downloading i think its a sh!tty thing to do, anyway anyone know the format that napster to go lets you download at? because it would make a huge difference to me if the songs were 128 kbps compared to an uncompressed WAV file... |
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Silver Member Username: Usask8er115 Orion H2 powered by..., 4 15 IDSPL &... 15 INCH WANGERS Post Number: 613 Registered: Jun-05 | rent cds from your local library. I rent over 100 at a time. right now my itunes has 263 days of music on it with no repeats. that way you dont have to pay for songs |
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Gold Member Username: Nyyfan13Fi SSD USA Post Number: 3295 Registered: Jul-06 | i dont know trey...but i have an ipod and it keeps me happy...lol just thought id throw out my 2 cents lol |
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Silver Member Username: Trey4sportsPost Number: 400 Registered: Sep-06 | do you know what file format the songs are ? because if itunes is uncompressed i might just get an ipod |
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Silver Member Username: Nd4spd18Post Number: 283 Registered: Jul-06 | iTunes uses protected AAC files, meaning you can't play them on any player except the ipod. And they are VERY compressed, 128 kbit. They sound worse than a high bitrate mp3. |
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