and you want good sound,a big disc, long battery life?
I'd suggest check ebay and amazon for iAudio - made by Cowon. at the moment I've 3rd player made by that company. iAudio 7, over 50 hr of battery life, 16gb memory - great sound. lil bit over that price range, but all of those players are good.
if not that check out Sansa players also good players.
check out this website http://www.anythingbutipod.com/
bliddy hell hugo, I'm just asking
If better value for money comes in at over £100 then that's fine. As long as it's less than £xxx thousand my bank isn't broken
I am not in the zen creative fan club. The computer expert son was a zen creative fan and talked me into getting Herself into them when she became MP3 proficient.
Two dead in a little over two years due to operating system glitches/outright failures. Warranty?...What warranty? It's a software issue. Patches on the zen site were of no use. No useful support from Zen. **** them.
I used the Sansa for a while. Nice little machine, good sound. But found navigating it clunky to the point of being tiresome.
Over his geekships objections, I took Herself to the IPod standard. Three, maybe more, years trouble free. I know its not in your stated budget. But IPod has its limitations too, particularly in folder management. What can you expect from digital device designers. They must not be musicians or musicophiles.
If you've got a mobile phone with a contract (not pay as you go, which is more expenxive anyway) they'll give you for nothing a phone with a good mp3 player on it.
Which? recommends the Samsung YP-P3 (8GB) , giving it 74%. £99.90. Next down are the two Creative Zens X-Fi models - the 8GB one is just under £100 and the 16GB one a bit over. They get 71%. The iPod Nano 8GB is just over £100 and gets 68%. The Samsung YP-R1 (8GB) is £97 and gets 68%. That's all the ones in your stated price range that are "best buys" and there are a good few others I haven't mentioned because they go way over £100. Mostly, Which? says you get better sound if you use better phones than the ones provided. The prices given are theirs, not mine. I pay to get this info, you know.
Good point from Michael there, but beware of phones that won't let you use your own headphones because they don't have standard jackplug sockets. Finding out whether they have before you take the plunge can be a right bugger. I had an LG phone once that had a great mP3 player but I could only use their crappy earphones with it. The phone only lasted about three weeks anyway. In any case I prefer to hear the birds and the bees when I'm outdoors.
The Sony ICD-UX71 and ICD-UX81 are really good - doesn't seem like much storage capacity (1 and 2 gb), but the 2gb will store something like 35 hours of high quality audio and the battery life is excellent (takes AAAs)
You do realise, don't you, that the more data you put in an mp3 player, the heavier it gets? Therefore there's a trade-off between capacity and weight to be taken into account. I could have waited until tomorrow to tell you this, but I thought I ought to warn you in case you make a rash purchase.
My phone's a Sony ericsson W9101. Orange gave it me for free. I like the idea that it's a sony walkman. It's traditional. It's got great little features like a volume control button on the side that you can feel, i.e. you don't have to get it out of your pocket to turn it up or down.
Great mp3 player. And it comes with a wire that one end plugs into the phone, and the other is a normal mini jack stereo socket with a microphone built in and a little button you press to answer a call. My memory card is 3GB, but you can get ones much bigger. I use my posh bose headphones that were about £150 and it really does sound pretty good.
The headphones weigh about twice that of the phone though, so I don't really notice the phone getting heavier with the more music I put on it. Maybe regularly deleting my backlog of texts helps?
I've toyed with the idea of getting an iphone. I love macs and would never go anywhere near a PC. But thankfully, every time I see one of those posts about "concertina aps" my resolve of considering it a mere silly toy is bolstered.
at present i use an ALDI (ha!) 8gb. it cost 30 quid about a year ago.
it has no fancy features, but......it works, it sounds good. i take it everywhere. it has not crapped out, or f*cked up, unlike all the other devices i have used. including ipod archos zen and i cant remember
ignore all the gloss - all these things are built cheap and nasty and prone to f*ck up. the trick is to buy cheap and buy 2.
Like many people I've been through a succession of the cheap 'n' nasty mp3 players over the years, but since I bought a Zoom H2 a couple of years ago for hi quality live recording I'm finding I now use it as my very much preferred player - either with the excellent 'phones that came with it or plugged into my audio setup.
Sorry for necroing thread. I recently (um, actually July last year, but never mind) got a Sansa Clip+, and highly recommend it. Cheap, expandable (starts at 4GB but takes microSD cards up to 32GB (in theory)), and sounds good, and fairly easy to use, radio, voice recording (adequate but not studio). Highly recommend it.
The only caveat is for technical reasons the playback runs very slightly slow, so if you have good perfect pitch you may find it grating: however, I don't notice it at all.
best value MP3 player
best value MP3 player
Could some techie tell me what is the best value MP3 player around - for about say £50 -100.
(Not iPod)
Thanks
Danny
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Rudall the time
Re: best value MP3 player
and you want good sound,a big disc, long battery life?
I'd suggest check ebay and amazon for iAudio - made by Cowon. at the moment I've 3rd player made by that company. iAudio 7, over 50 hr of battery life, 16gb memory - great sound. lil bit over that price range, but all of those players are good.
if not that check out Sansa players also good players.
check out this website
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by padre
Re: best value MP3 player
Don't break the bank there Danny...
Interesting thing..
I have an ipod touch thats filled with Diddley ..
I think I might sell it.
X
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Hugo Chavez
Re: best value MP3 player
bliddy hell hugo, I'm just asking
If better value for money comes in at over £100 then that's fine. As long as it's less than £xxx thousand my bank isn't broken
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Rudall the time
Re: best value MP3 player
People I know with Creative Zen players are still using them after a couple of years.
http://uk.store.creative.com/
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by ∅
Re: best value MP3 player
hehe..
well...
I'm thinking of getting rid of it. so I'll let u no if i am.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Hugo Chavez
Re: best value MP3 player
I am not in the zen creative fan club. The computer expert son was a zen creative fan and talked me into getting Herself into them when she became MP3 proficient.
Two dead in a little over two years due to operating system glitches/outright failures. Warranty?...What warranty? It's a software issue. Patches on the zen site were of no use. No useful support from Zen. **** them.
I used the Sansa for a while. Nice little machine, good sound. But found navigating it clunky to the point of being tiresome.
Over his geekships objections, I took Herself to the IPod standard. Three, maybe more, years trouble free. I know its not in your stated budget. But IPod has its limitations too, particularly in folder management. What can you expect from digital device designers. They must not be musicians or musicophiles.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by zippydw
Re: best value MP3 player
One nice thing about the zen creative. It came with a cute little black drawstring bag that the IPod fits in perfectly.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by zippydw
Re: best value MP3 player
If you've got a mobile phone with a contract (not pay as you go, which is more expenxive anyway) they'll give you for nothing a phone with a good mp3 player on it.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by ...
Re: best value MP3 player
Which? recommends the Samsung YP-P3 (8GB) , giving it 74%. £99.90. Next down are the two Creative Zens X-Fi models - the 8GB one is just under £100 and the 16GB one a bit over. They get 71%. The iPod Nano 8GB is just over £100 and gets 68%. The Samsung YP-R1 (8GB) is £97 and gets 68%. That's all the ones in your stated price range that are "best buys" and there are a good few others I haven't mentioned because they go way over £100. Mostly, Which? says you get better sound if you use better phones than the ones provided. The prices given are theirs, not mine. I pay to get this info, you know.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Steve Shaw
Re: best value MP3 player
BUY GOOD HEADPHONES. Most machines, regardless of cost come with very poor ones. Budget at least £40 - £80.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by strayaway
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Good point from Michael there, but beware of phones that won't let you use your own headphones because they don't have standard jackplug sockets. Finding out whether they have before you take the plunge can be a right bugger. I had an LG phone once that had a great mP3 player but I could only use their crappy earphones with it. The phone only lasted about three weeks anyway. In any case I prefer to hear the birds and the bees when I'm outdoors.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Steve Shaw
Re: best value MP3 player
I washed my ipod today. In the washing machine.
Not a good idea.
Then I pop on here to cheer myself up and see all this!
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by richrua
Re: best value MP3 player
Why not iPod, Danny? Just curious.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Bob himself
Re: best value MP3 player
The Sony ICD-UX71 and ICD-UX81 are really good - doesn't seem like much storage capacity (1 and 2 gb), but the 2gb will store something like 35 hours of high quality audio and the battery life is excellent (takes AAAs)
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by airport
Re: best value MP3 player
You do realise, don't you, that the more data you put in an mp3 player, the heavier it gets? Therefore there's a trade-off between capacity and weight to be taken into account. I could have waited until tomorrow to tell you this, but I thought I ought to warn you in case you make a rash purchase.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Mark Harmer
Re: best value MP3 player
that's why I always attach a large rare earth magnet to the back of mine
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by airport
Re: best value MP3 player
My phone's a Sony ericsson W9101. Orange gave it me for free. I like the idea that it's a sony walkman. It's traditional. It's got great little features like a volume control button on the side that you can feel, i.e. you don't have to get it out of your pocket to turn it up or down.
Great mp3 player. And it comes with a wire that one end plugs into the phone, and the other is a normal mini jack stereo socket with a microphone built in and a little button you press to answer a call. My memory card is 3GB, but you can get ones much bigger. I use my posh bose headphones that were about £150 and it really does sound pretty good.
The headphones weigh about twice that of the phone though, so I don't really notice the phone getting heavier with the more music I put on it. Maybe regularly deleting my backlog of texts helps?
I've toyed with the idea of getting an iphone. I love macs and would never go anywhere near a PC. But thankfully, every time I see one of those posts about "concertina aps" my resolve of considering it a mere silly toy is bolstered.
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by ...
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Ha. Not so..
Think of it like tunes...for every couple of crap ones there are lots of deadly ones..
# Posted on March 31st 2010 by Hugo Chavez
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i've been through many of these things.
at present i use an ALDI (ha!) 8gb. it cost 30 quid about a year ago.
it has no fancy features, but......it works, it sounds good. i take it everywhere. it has not crapped out, or f*cked up, unlike all the other devices i have used. including ipod archos zen and i cant remember
ignore all the gloss - all these things are built cheap and nasty and prone to f*ck up. the trick is to buy cheap and buy 2.
# Posted on April 1st 2010 by rumpole
Re: best value MP3 player
Like many people I've been through a succession of the cheap 'n' nasty mp3 players over the years, but since I bought a Zoom H2 a couple of years ago for hi quality live recording I'm finding I now use it as my very much preferred player - either with the excellent 'phones that came with it or plugged into my audio setup.
# Posted on April 1st 2010 by Trevor Jennings
Re: best value MP3 player
Sorry for necroing thread. I recently (um, actually July last year, but never mind) got a Sansa Clip+, and highly recommend it. Cheap, expandable (starts at 4GB but takes microSD cards up to 32GB (in theory)), and sounds good, and fairly easy to use, radio, voice recording (adequate but not studio). Highly recommend it.
The only caveat is for technical reasons the playback runs very slightly slow, so if you have good perfect pitch you may find it grating: however, I don't notice it at all.
# Posted on April 24th 2010 by Calum