Re: portable mp3 players
  By: August Abolins to Neall Mercado on Sat Feb 05 2005 01:00 pm

 >  NM> Apple iPod is the most popular among my peers here.
 > 
 > Well... It is probably no wonder.  Apple DOES seem to have an aggresive
 > advertising approach.
 > 
 > 
 >  NM> However, I'm looking forward on buying a Creative Muvo TX FM.  An MP3
 >  NM> player with FM Radio tuner.  Or an iRiver, since it supports the OGG
 >  NM> format.
 > 
 > Ogg format ought to become more prevalent in the future (since it is free an
 > open source).  I believe that Apple user's might start to recognize the
 > locked-in approach to ACC format as is the same with WMA.
 > 
 > You should be very happy with either the MuVo or he iRiver.  Both have
 > wonderful design qualities and features.
 > 
 > Have you heard of the Neuros player? It's similar to the existing Apple iPod
 > and Creative Zen products.  But the harddrive is an option designed as a
 > backpack addon if and when desired.  It also features flash memory expansion
 > It also includes "MyFi" which is a built-in FM transmitter.
 I saw it listed
 > for $150usd.

Most of those other players are music format only though, even the ones with
harddrives.  They only support music files..  The iPod that I have, the newer
one (I can't speak for the older one since I don't own one), can be used as a
40GB USB Harddrive that fits in your pocket..  Very handy for dumping MAME roms
or other rom dumps to take over to your friends house..  As long as they have a
USB port, their computer sees the iPod as a harddrive.  That is worth the money
that they charge for the iPod, for me anyway.

Plus I rarely download anything from iTunes..  I mostly just dumped all my MP3s
I had on it and converted all my CDs to MP3.

Jason - Whiskey Eight Zulu Zulu Uniform



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