"A Just curious.. What portable players are
 "A popular amongst the readers in this group?
 "A Personally, I have a Creative Nomad MuVo
 "A NX /256.  It's a 256meg flash/mp3 combo
 "A device.  I get about 15 hours of play time
 "A on a single AAA alkaline.  It has a
 "A two-line display. Many features: shuffle
 "A play, shuffle folder, skip folder, and
 "A even a Voice recording feature that uses
 "A about 100k per minute of recording.

I just bought my first one.  RCA Lyra 256 MB with an expandable memory
slot.  I also baought two 500 MB Sandisks for my two grandsons.  They're
all about the same, I think.  The memory expansion is just as expensive as
the player!

I saw an ad for one that had a 4 GB hard drive in it!  That would be great
for someone who wanted to store lots of stuff.  Keep in mind that they'll
store data as easily as music.  I carry a 512 MB thumb drive around for
data storage, so it would be possible to put that plus my music on the 4 GB
player.  Probably won't do it, though, until my needs for storage space
exceed the capacity I've got now.

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