Hdd Mp3 Player Comparison

[abu_has_the_power]

i'm gonna get a mp3 player with decent storage.
considerations:
ipod (15gig or 20 gig $300ish)
Creative NOmad zen xtra ($215 30gb or $239 40gb)
Iriver 20gb ($300ish) or 40gb (380ish)

which of these should i get? i'm lookin at the creative, it's really cheap, removable battery, and it's got superb sound quality. only drawback is the size is bigger.


any recommendations? any that u might suggest? i'm not planning to spend too much .$200-250-maybe300.

anyone here have any of these. any experience? good bad?
thanks!

[Broken]

I recently bought a personal cd player that played mp3. Can get about 100 songs on one disk, I am very happy with it. Best of all, it was very cheap, about 30 dollars.

I had a mp3 player, a real one like what you are looking at made by rca. Terrible thing, most of the song I'd downloaded wouldn't work with it. They had to be ran through a program called music jukebox before they would work on the player, and it had some kind of copywrite protection thing going on.

It's really buyer beware. Make sure you know what you're buying. The cd player has played everything I've got by the way.

[Storm]

Originally posted by Broken@15 July 2004 - 03:53
made by rca
now thats your real problem......... ;)

@abu: id go for the Zen, fuck size, its cheaper and holds more stuff..........

[abu_has_the_power]

yea, i was thinkin the same. btw, do hdd mp3 players skip? i know flash mem mp3's don't skip. do these?

[SingaBoiy]

My 10 gig, Classic doesnt skip.

Although my dad was pushing the buttons too hard and the buttons on the right fell in. And then my bro stripped the screws when he was trying to open it :(

[Storm]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@15 July 2004 - 17:52
yea, i was thinkin the same. btw, do hdd mp3 players skip? i know flash mem mp3's don't skip. do these?
well im not sure on this............... but normal HDD arent made to move around...... but these HD's are prolly adjusted for this......... and a HD can read fast enough for you to not notice the skipping........

[tesco]

Originally posted by SingaBoiy@15 July 2004 - 13:07
My 10 gig, Classic doesnt skip.

Although my dad was pushing the buttons too hard and the buttons on the right fell in. And then my bro stripped the screws when he was trying to open it :(
:lol:

[abu_has_the_power]

the classic brand isn't the best in terms of quality and durability. how durable is the nomad?

[abu_has_the_power]

so, .......

[Storm]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@15 July 2004 - 20:42
the classic brand isn't the best in terms of quality and durability. how durable is the nomad?
only time will tell :P

[abu_has_the_power]

bout the nomad, does anyone have a pic of wat the travel pouch thing looks like? cuz anandtech reviewed it, and the case looks like this:
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/audio/Creative/nomad_jb_zenxtra40/tn_zenxtra40_holster.jpg

but in cnet reviews, many users said the case covers up the screen and they don't like it. wtf? is there a hole there for the lcd screen or not?

[Storm]

i just got of da phone with my lil bro, he says it covers up the screen.......

[tesco]

I think that case looks damn ugly anyway. ;)

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Storm@19 July 2004 - 17:47
i just got of da phone with my lil bro, he says it covers up the screen.......
ok. prob solved. i called creative, and the one that anandtech reviewed is creative's newer version, just came out a few weeks ago. newegg has this new version. so no probs there.

for those that have the nomad, how is it?

[Keikan]

mp3 players will not skip

[Storm]

Originally posted by Keikan+20 July 2004 - 00:42--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Keikan &#064; 20 July 2004 - 00:42)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>mp3 players will not skip[/b]
<!--QuoteBegin-Broken@15 July 2004 - 03:53
I recently bought a personal cd player that played mp3. [/quote]
oh now i bet they can skip

[SingaBoiy]

Originally posted by Storm+19 July 2004 - 17:35--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Storm @ 19 July 2004 - 17:35)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by Keikan@20 July 2004 - 00:42
mp3 players will not skip
<!--QuoteBegin-Broken@15 July 2004 - 03:53
I recently bought a personal cd player that played mp3.
oh now i bet they can skip [/b][/quote]
Ive had one for quit some time and it can hold around 120 songs on a disc.

Doesnt skip too much its pretty clean.

[bilko]

i have the iHP - 100 from iriver,
i love it, ideal for music as sound is top notch
all a very good storage device, plug and play with, no other software needed, firmware upgradable - new batch due later this month a

and its about the size of an IPOD,

if u want the looks and the image - Ipod
if u want an fully funtioned player/storege device - iriver/rio

[Broken]

Originally posted by SingaBoiy+21 July 2004 - 06:08--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (SingaBoiy &#064; 21 July 2004 - 06:08)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by Storm@19 July 2004 - 17:35

Originally posted by Keikan@20 July 2004 - 00:42
mp3 players will not skip
<!--QuoteBegin-Broken@15 July 2004 - 03:53
I recently bought a personal cd player that played mp3.
oh now i bet they can skip
Ive had one for quit some time and it can hold around 120 songs on a disc.

Doesnt skip too much its pretty clean. [/b][/quote]
The one I have reads the song form the disk and loads it into memory, the disk just spins for a split second while it is loading the song. At first it was a bit strange, it&#39;s playing music and I could see the disk stopped in the drive. And it does this one song at a time, while it is still playing.