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MP3 Player Shoppers Guide

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the time-for-christmas-shopping-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Says this three-part rundown of the latest DAPs "When Sony execs crowed a few weeks ago that their latest MP3 players were THE iPod Killers one thing was obvious. They were oblivious to the fact that the term "iPod Killer" had already gone from clever market-speak to running joke." Still, quite a few neat players here and I bet most don't scratch up as bad as iPods do."

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  1. I don't believe it... by oberondarksoul · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...a website which, when most seem to think über-long flash intros, banners everywhere and convoluted stylesheets are acceptable and good, chooses to use plain old-fashioned HTML?

    High-fives to whoever designed the website. The layout is nice and clean, and is pretty much guarenteed to load in any browser. If we had more websites like this, the web would be so much more tolerable.

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  2. Gapless DAPs? by The+Warlock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do any of these support gapless playback, or do DAPs still suck for albums with transitions, like Abbey Road or Dark Side Of The Moon?

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  3. avoiding Sony by FudRucker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    after the two stories - one about the rootkit and two about Sony's EULA i think i will not buy a Sony product when it comes to an mp3 player...

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  4. Re:Ogg on iRiver by user9918277462 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Not true. iRiver H120 (aka iHP-120) is a HDD player and was the (arguably superior) predecessor to the H320/H340. The stock firmware supported Ogg Vorbis out of the box (along with MP3 and WMA), it also has features like near DAT-quality recording in WAV or MP3, analog line in/line out and digital optical line in/out that no current player matches.

    Today it runs the open source Rockbox firmware and supports virtually every major audio format in use today: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, A/52, AAC (experimental), FLAC, Shorten, Apple Lossless and WavPack. It even has a 33 shade greyscale JPEG viewer.

  5. MobiBlu by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No mention of the MobiBlu cube player? I got one and I love it, has FM and voice recording and equalizer, not to mention SRS WOW and an OLED screen. It's tiny and and the only clue people have that it's some kind of player is the headphones, and they come over and ask about it. Everyone is amazed by how small it is.

  6. Re:Sony MP3 players? by Exantrius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I disagree.

    Case in point, I spent a month of this summer in Europe, and had access to a computer twice, let alone access to my mp3 collection at home. I had about 8 gigs of music/podcasts/lectures, and managed to listen to about 2/3 of it while I was on the road (just the flights over and back were 35 hours in airports airplanes)

    I also used it as a portable hard drive for my digital camera, as I could connect them directly, and thus never ran out of space on my camera (well, except the day in rome where I grabbed the wrong memory stick, and forgot the adapter in the hotel...)

    Granted, this is a "once in a while" type thing, but it was worth the $400 I spent on 30g ipod photo + adapter to not have to buy a bunch of gig sticks and hope I didn't run out or lose any of them.

    Now that I'm home, my main computer's m/b freaked out, and so I've been without my music collection except for the music I have on my ipod and on cds. Do I need the 30 gigs? no, but it makes this stuff a whole lot easier. /Ex