Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player

An Anonymous Reader writes "In another extension of Microsoft's 'Plays for Sure' campaign, the company has launched a web page with six tips to help consumers purchase the 'correct' MP3 Player for them. Among the insights of the article hard drive-based players suck and a stopwatch is a useful feature to have on your player. Unsurprisingly, the iPod meets none of Microsoft's criteria. A humorous commentary is available, of course." From the article: "6. Don't get locked into one online store. Have you ever been on the hunt for a particular song? Some obscure indie rock tune or rare jazz performance you heard on the radio? You might have to shop at more than one store before you find the song you're looking for."

Comments

Re:Why?

[Frodo Crockett]

Shit. I forgot that the Shuffles were 512/1024MBs. But what good is that much storage space when you can't choose which song plays next? The only way to get around this is to join all the tracks in a cd or playlist together and make a single MP3. You'd get your own playlists, but that's a pretty poor solution.

Also, rechargable batteries are cheap. At Costco, $25 will buy a Panasonic set with a charger and six (if I remember correctly) each of AA and AAA batteries.

Three reasons why I bough an iRiver jukebox

[E IS mC(Square)]

well, there were three reasons why I bough iRiver 20G jukebox - instead of an iPod :
1) No locking down to ONE SITE
2) Tone of features - which Apple does not offer: Mainly, fm tuner, voice recording (It's pretty amazing I can still listen to some cool jokes my friends made on me while visiting home sometimes back), recording from any other device directly to mp3, and reading directions on road with a text reader
(and also, pretty damn good audio, photo viewer - which may not be unique, but is at par)
3) Every Tom, Dick or Harry is carrying a 'cool' looking ipod (this one works for me - I never wanted to part of that crowd)

Re:HD-based MP3 players

[2nd Post!]

No, as long as they are better than Microsoft.

You have N choices, and all but one suck; one sucks less.

What would you choose?

Re:Will you STOP that FUD?

[mp3phish]

"I said to STOP the FUD, not repeat the FUD. Sheesh."

Ease up on me, I didn't realize you were trolling...

"The only DRM the iPod supports is the iTMS DRM."

Thus, the only music download store iPod supports is the iTunes music store.

You can go on and on about how maybe BitTorrent or P2P is a download service.. Sure it is..

There are also independant artists who post downloads on their website. Sure, you can consider it a "music download store" but that is kindof bending the truth wouldn't you say?