BF2S Forums What's the best MP3 player?

Oops, have had the exact same player for 1,5 years or so, should i start to worry about it soon

My biggest mistake was to buy the 20 GB, have still only filled half of it and will definately go for a 5 or 8 GB next time.

Check some tests Sarge, can often give you a clue what to buy ....

SargeV1.4 wrote:

After 2 years my Creative Zen Touch 20GB finally snuffed it. It lasted well, surviving some nasty accidents. But now the screen randomly dies, only the random/volume/power buttons work, and it refuses to connect to my PC. So, I need a new one

Criteria:

less than ~100 euro's. Do not tell me to stretch my budget so I can get something uber, i have more but I'm not willing to spend it on an mp3 player. less is good.
at least 1GB, don't really need much more
works well
lasts long (!)
is not an iPod
has good sound!

So far I'm looking at the Creative Zen V 1 GB which is a mere 45 pounds on amazon. The cheaper the better but if it meets all the criteria above it's ok.

Buy a 1gig nano... you wont be sorry...

syntaxmax642 wrote:

Buy a 1gig nano... you wont be sorry...

iPods, lol.

Mp3 player phones? again, no thanks.


I've been reading lots of review and the zen V seems to be great. Does anyone have any experience with it?


Also varegg, unless if you've dropped it out of your pocket while riding a bike ~8 times, you're fine. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did the dents in the side and back are huge and the paint job is practically non-existant

Go with sandisk only cost me $45 for 512 and i think its $60 for 1 gig and last close or over 8hours on one AAA battery. I dont know how much it is in pounds or euros all i know there ripping you guys off.

Last edited by The#1Spot (2007-02-17 11:53:55)

TheDarkRaven wrote:

iPods are, quite frankly, not as good as they're made out to be. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're rubbish, I'm just saying that there are better mp3 players out there - with more 'usual' file types available to them (WMA/WMV etc.)

iPod supports AAC, which is better than MP3. I'm not sure if any other music product can use them except for Apple. It also supports MP3, WAV, AIFF - the list goes on.

TheDarkRaven wrote:

The iPod comes into its own when you can afford to fill it up with iTunes

Just because the iPod was built for iTunes doesn't mean it is the only program. Even Winamp supports iPod for adding any type of accepted media.

TheDarkRaven wrote:

the only reason I can think of to buy the iPod for a majority and average member of the public is for the style and a name - that's all that most of you are buying, a name. And even then you're paying over the odds.

You haven't done your research, have you? No, its not as if it has a GUI to do for, physical appearance and ease of use. Not to mention its playback quality and sound use. No, if you only buy the iPod for its name, you are an idiot. Just because some Creative Vision 'fanboy' sees Apple as a great threat, the only reason people buy them is because of their name. Yeah right.

TheDarkRaven wrote:

I pity iPod fans who have a Windows OS running computer, and who probably have to illegally obtain their music from file-sharing - for me the iPod is merely fuelling this illegal craze. People don't want to pay the outrageous iTunes prices, but have to find mp3s comewhere - hello Kazaa, LimeWire and others!

Pity me. Ha! What a load of crap. Yes, iPods are the only reason that Kazaa, Limewire etc exist. You are a total moron, who obviously doesn't know the first thing about audio. There were MP3 players before iPod, and sites before iPod too. You are just a pathetic Creative fanboy. It's not as if Creative users download their music. Oh no, Creative users are perfect and abide to the law. Every one of them. Yeah right. I'm friends with hundreds who aren't, and I bet are you too. Hell, I'm friends with Apple users who illegally download music. But that's not the discussion. If you want a debate about morals, you head over the debate section. Otherwise, stay out.

In case you are forgetting, oh wait, you live in a perfect, non-rule breaking Creative world, so I'll remind you. Creative have been in a ton of Apple lawsuits stealing their design, and in the end of those 11 (or was it 13?) lawsuits, they paid Apple a compensation and all lawsuits were dropped.

Typical fanboy, who can only see one side. And if anyone thinks I am a fanboy, you can talk to Sarge, as I gave him arguments to both sides.

SargeV1.4 wrote:

After 2 years my Creative Zen Touch 20GB finally snuffed it. It lasted well, surviving some nasty accidents. But now the screen randomly dies, only the random/volume/power buttons work, and it refuses to connect to my PC. So, I need a new one

Criteria:

less than ~100 euro's. Do not tell me to stretch my budget so I can get something uber, i have more but I'm not willing to spend it on an mp3 player. less is good.
at least 1GB, don't really need much more
works well
lasts long (!)
is not an iPod
has good sound!

So far I'm looking at the Creative Zen V 1 GB which is a mere 45 pounds on amazon. The cheaper the better but if it meets all the criteria above it's ok.

for 50 euros, (I think, im american but i beilieve it's about 2-1 in your favor) you could get and old 2 gig ipod shuffle

SargeV1.4 wrote:

is not an iPod

half the people said an ipod just proves they are idiots

fuck ipod go for creative you wont be sorry

Heh, I tried to sell him an E250 earlier today ;P

Shem wrote:

SargeV1.4 wrote:

syntaxmax642 wrote:

Buy a 1gig nano... you wont be sorry...

iPods, lol.

Mp3 player phones? again, no thanks.


I've been reading lots of review and the zen V seems to be great. Does anyone have any experience with it?


Also varegg, unless if you've dropped it out of your pocket while riding a bike ~8 times, you're fine. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did the dents in the side and back are huge and the paint job is practically non-existant

MP3 phones are awesomely great in my opinion, at least the Sony Ericcson W series phones, battery life is stupidly long, good quality, good phone, easy to navigate, just generally look cool, easier to carry one thing around instead of both an MP3 and a phone.

Ipod. Music phones are a joke (100 songs??!?!?! Go away). All the other mp3's have either too little memory, too much memory you dont need and the price is too high, or are just stupidly impossable to use efficiantly.

I get the same audio quality off my no brand, £30 mp3 player that I do off iPods (using my Sony earphones in both), mainly coz the player I have uses the same insides the older modle iPod Shuffle used, it just cost 1/8th the price lol.

Can't comment on the newer modle iPods, I know they pretty much outsourse every internal componant so you'd get another brand mp3 player with the same workings for less from someone else.

And anyone who says mp3 player phones arnt worth the cash is wrong, k750i and higher are fine, buy a 2GB memory card (all of £12, oh noes teh expence), load it up with songs, videos, pictures, any files actually, even comes with good earphones (shit on crappy iPods earphones, but then the free earphones you get with anything are generally poop).

On the whole I'd go with the Creative one you were gonna get, they're pretty cheap and nice quality.

Sarge, if you are ruling out the iPod then you are not getting the best...only something that "also ran"....

Suck it up and get a Nano...amazingly light, durable, crisp screen...or just buy something that doesn't work as well.

Ninja_Monkey wrote:

SargeV1.4 wrote:

is not an iPod

half the people said an ipod just proves they are idiots

fuck ipod go for creative you wont be sorry

Creative is quite the opposite...a over complicated brick. Oh and for the person that said 1gb nano, the nano comes in 2, 4, 8gb versions.  Shuffle comes in 1gb.

100 million consumers can't be wrong about the iPod...iTunes + iPod = HAPPINESS!!!!!!

Everything else is something that will be an antique in a couple years because the company went out of business or they keep changing products dramatically to try to get it right...the iPod is already there.