Mp3 Players

[lesliepear]

Still seeking one.

I've been interested in the I-River which a coworker had. Nice size and an FM radio to boot.
Now my cousin showed me his Neuros (www.neurosaudio.com) - that's got some neat features including a song ID function when the FM is playing.
I've thought an iPOD but they don't have FM radio. (I'd actually, strange as it seems, like AM radio also - I commute to NYC and if anything happens I'd want to hit the ALL NEWS stations here on AM ASAP!)
I'm not as interested in the FM transmitter function as I'd use it in the car plugged into the cassette deck (both our cars have them, neither has a CD player). This would replace hooking up a portable CD player in the car on longer trips.

Decisions, decisons.

Comments

[ansley.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for "the perfect" mp3 player as well. I thought the Neuros looked great and it would probably be at the top of my list except I've heard that the functionality isn't very consistent. From what I've heard and read its features are great ideas but still need some work. They say the next version should have the bugs worked out though.

Even though it's not one of my "must have" features, I thought the FM transmitter on the Neuros was a cool bonus feature and would probably use it a lot - both in the car and at the office. My biggest needs/wants are minimum 20Gb storage space, WMA support (I've ripped most of my cd collection in Windows Media) and good software/interface (ability to make playlists on the fly, add songs from any USB connection, etc.). Rio seems to make players that are "smart" and remember which songs you like and don't like - I thought that was cool. I've seen several jukeboxes with remote controls, although I can't recall which ones at the moment. That would come in really handy (pun intended) while driving. I'll be interested to hear what you end up with. I doubt I'll get one anytime soon but I keep looking.

[eloren.livejournal.com]

While the FM receiver is neat...how often would you use it? For me, one of the big reasons for wanting one of these things is because the radio is never playing what I want to hear! We got an iPod right before Christmas and have been pleased with it. We got the FM transmitter (iTrip) to go with it and it sucks, but that is the only thing related to the iPod that I've been disappointed with. The controls on the iPod are great, it displays a lot of info, and it's very sleek and compact. Looked at the iRiver at the time we got the iPod, and I thought the iRiver looked very clunky compared to the iPod. My two cents...worth about 2 cents :-)

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I have 2 uses in mind for the mp3 player:

1) For commuting to/from NYC. This is what the FM radio would be for - in case of emergencies to information. I could also use it in the office if I wanted music.

2) In the car on long trips. The FM transmitter would be nice, but both of our cars have tape decks. I'd have no problem hooking up an adapter into the tape deck for travel, because the mp3 player is small enough to fit in the cup holders or console when we drive. Currently we've hooked up a walkman CD player - but that has to sit on the passenger floor - with the risk of skips, plus bringing CD's with us to change. (We've got 300-400 CD's, so we'd have a nice supply to convert to MP3's.)

(Most of our CD's are burned copies from our library system FYI, although there are about 40-50 that are bought.)

[eloren.livejournal.com]

Random info - we got the 20 gb iPod. We burned our music to MP3 at higher than average sample rate - 128 or so if I remember right. We still fit close to half of our music on it...which is fine, means that the good stuff is on there. We have a similar sized music collection, 400-500 cds.

Be prepared for that conversion to take a while, though obviously the lower the sample rate, the faster it goes!