I don't have one (in all honestly MP3 players scare me), but my brother has a Sandisk. Not sure of the type though, he won't tell me, but I THINK it's a SanDisk Sansa c250. According to YAHOO!Shopping it comes with an FM tuner, "Plays MP3, WMA, WAV and protected WMA DRM" and has 2 GB memory. And my brother claims it's "FREAKING AWSOME."

If I ever get over my irrational fear of MP3 players and iTunes I'd buy one for myself.

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An ipod is the way to go. It is the most compatible and has the most features for a fair price.

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http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/red/

Clashing ideas I see, the downfall is that ipods don't have radios...
...But there's Podcasts!

I agree with Iko, iPod all the way.

The people should not be afraid of it's government. The government should be afraid of it's people. -V

Ipods... meh :S they are good don't get me wrong, I actually own one. But there are lots of annoying things about them. They only run on iTunes, it's not a click and drag mp3 it works on your iTunes playlist, so if your playlist changes (for example you reboot your computer or you delete a load of your songs by accident) then you can't just add new songs onto your iPod, you have to delete all the songs on your iPod and add the new playlist.

There are better Mp3s out there you just have to do the research, it all depends how much space you will need, how much you are willing to spend and lots of other things.

Wow. I never knew that. I'm definitely never buying one now. o_o

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They have them in red......

I want one.

Anyway you should get an Ipod. My friend has the little new shuffle but it only has like 1GB. But its cute and the teachers can't see it when I listen to it in class.

But, if you get an Mp3, I will ask my friend what kind she has. Its really pretty. Its reds and its like a looong oval and holds like 3,000 songs. At Least thats what she told me. I just listen to it.

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I have something from the Creative line, and I'm glad. Most of the people I know with iPods complain about how buggy they are and what a pain putting music on them is. The biggest complaint is the lithium batteries, which go bad after a certain amount of time and are expensive to replace. My Zen Nano Plus doesn't hold much, but it's pretty sturdy and has never given me the tiniest problem. The fact that I don't need iTunes is incredibly freeing, since as long as I bring my cord I can plug it into any computer's usb port to drop off or take some music.

Sansa is another good Mp3 company, try looking at their line.

Pull down the future with the one you love.
~Television.

*sniffle* I miss my DJ Ditty... T_T It was an oversized USB device that could hold files, play MP3s, and had FM radio. All drag and drop.

Then I lost it! >< *smacks self*

I have an iPod nano. But I wanted a red one....

Oh yeah, one more thing. It's kinda what Red said. Because you can only sync an iPod to one computer/playlist at a time, if you change computers you have to erase everything and download whatever's on the current computer. A pain really, if you don't have your regular computer with you. *sobs*

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To be honest, 1 Gigs is really little. Like midget little. I was thinking around 40 Gigs?

My old mp3 had a voice recorder, an fm recorder as well as an fm tuner.

My sis has an iPod Shuffle. One day she deleted the Queen and Beatles stuff she hates from her iPod and the whole thing just wasn't there on iTunes anymore. Oh noes! They were the only place I kept those Beatles files. I sure gave her a good smackin'.

I have a laptop now though. Hoho. ^o^

I'll try looking at Sansa.

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Caramel: Yeah they don't allow you to have more than one play list at a time, but that is to prevent people from stealing music...

Rabbit: That was your sisters fault, to get something off your ipod you don't have to delete it from your main library. Instead you make play lists with the songs you want on it...

Iko you still have to delete it from your Itunes library. You can keep it on your computer, and play it with windows media player, or you can play it on iTunes and delete it every time you have finished listening. But your Ipod will try to take every song that is in your Itunes library.

Apple are essentially selfish pr*cks, they make their hardware only compatible with their software so you have to use theirs and no one elses.

Apple are stingy (sp?) as hell, where I work we get 10%-30% discount on everything in the store from cds to consoles, we get discounts from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and many other companies. But when it comes to anything Apple that we sell... discount please? "NO F*CK OFF WE ARE APPLE... NO DISCOUNT FOR YOU*.
And not getting a discount on Apple products in a shop that sells a few iPods, speakers, etc is lame but whatever. The people who work the other side of the shopping centre in the Apple store don't get a discount either, plus they get paid less than us.

And rabbit I strongly doubt you need 40gb unless you want to have lots of movies on your mp3. 40gb would be about 8000 songs I think.

No actually you can go to you preferences and choose the play lists you want on your ipod, or just uncheck the little box next to the song. If you can still have all your songs on your library on you computer, and only have select songs on your ipod.

After connecting your ipod to your dock, this screen pops up.

Then you click on the music tab. And select the playlists you want.

Know what you're talking about first...

Hmm I can't do that just messed around with Itunes.
I have a very old Ipod maybe that is it.
But I can't do what you are doing, or get onto any of those screens.

I don't get the same screens as you, I have an option which says update selected playlists only, but that just changes the playlists I update, it still takes my whole library aswell.

I know people with 80 gigs of music alone, Red. ;p

Unless you are a DJ or something similar, why would you need that much music?

I have 2 days straight of music on my Ipod and that is plenty, I replace a couple of songs I don't listen to much anymore when I find some new good ones. But I only have 4gb, 80gb would be what 40 days straight of music? When will you listen to all that :S To have that much on your computer ok maybe you want a huge collection, but who would need 40 days of music to carry around with them :S

You can use the rest of that storage for photos, calendars, contacts and notes. You can also drag and drop files to your ipod icon on your desktop and use it like an USB device.

Right fantastic, couldn't get any of those screens up you were showing. Thought it was maybe because I didn't have the very latest Itunes. So I updgraded to the newest one, now Itunes won't open at all.

Heh, don't ask me, Red. They just happen to own that much music and demand that their MP3s players carry it so they can have it with them at all times. Such players do exist, so hey--whatever floats their boats, man.

Red, I suggest rebooting your computer.

Got it working. Uninstalled it and reinstalled it.

I think I can do what you were talking about now, my old version of iTunes didn't allow me to not put my library on. This new version doesn't like my Ipod very much though :(

Well, my Ipod just died on me. I mean just died - as in 4 hours ago. I was walking around and all of a sudden it stopped playing. I look down and checked it and it was blank. I figured that the batteries just died, but it won't charge, turn on, or even boot up when plugged into my computer. F*ckin' piece of slag.

I think I'm going to go in on the Creative Line, I've heard they're a lot more reliable.

"And just like that, it was over... The last flames flickered and died amidst the rubble of an empire[.] As the smoke rose into the blackened sky, we realized that the world we had known was gone forever." - Eric "Doc" Griffin on the fall

It is probably the battery Sinn, is your Ipod old?

Sinn, I know how you feel! A funeral for it makes things better.

Hmm.. still torn between the iPod vs. other mp3 players debate.

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So Iko, seeing as you seem to be in the know about Ipods...

My Ipod is full of songs, but all the songs on my Ipod were lost from my computer when I rebooted to get rid of some viruses.

I now have 5 or 6 songs that I want to add to my Ipod. Is there anyway I can just add those 5 or 6 songs? Or do I have to download all the songs that I lost all over again?

So you lost all of the music on your library... That's really sad.

No, you can't add those songs on without deleting the ones on your ipod. If you still had those songs in your library, I would only be a matter of seconds to get them on your ipod.

yeah that is what I thought :(

Well, I would go for one of those new Chocolate phones I saw on tv comercials back in the day. (I had channels at the time.) They now have cherry, mint, origional, and white chocolate. I'd want the mint one. "What the crap is a chockolate phone?" you are asking at home? Well, only the new thingy that's a phone and an MP3 in one! Yea! Now in the crappy exuse for a future: the present, Every thing has a lowercase i or e. T.T Crazy, huh? If you just want MP3 "A la cart" I want argile, I sugjest plad.

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

The Sansa M240 (those wierd shaped ones that are usually in the clear case because no other case fits them) work good, but don't get the jukebox thing that comes with it. It can be tricky because then it will program itself to a certain USB setting. But - it does work good and holds 1GB of info, also equipped with a recorder. :)

So my advice to you is just to be a sweet pickle and everything will turn out for you in life - everything.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooh!

People in stone houses should not throw glass.

I don't know much about mp3's but I have an iriver and that's been very reliable for me.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake, and I'll show you somebody who has never acheived much-Joan Collins

My sister had a Creative Zen thingy, it committed suicide over six times so the store upgraded her to an iPod, it took a swam dive in the lake this summer so she now has a new one, we're waiting to see how long it lasts.

The iPod I have is 1gb, it is also I think a second generation nano. I got it second hand last year and I have never had any probems with it. My little sister uses a Samsung some-thing-or-other and it works for her, but absolutely NO ONE ELSE!

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I've never has a heart, Never know love.

Yet you expect me to care, to care about you.

Now you're staring at me, You stare at me as your love fades to grey.

What did you expect, Did you expectg me to love, love you with a heart I've never had?

Your sister seems to be to mp3s what Paris Hilton is to dogs (don't know if any one has seen that Southpark). How did she manage to send it into the lake :D ?

She was Kayaking and she had it in a plastic bag, as she was unloading the rocks and driftwood she had collected, the iPod (named bob) swan dived into the lake during the 5 seconds it was out of the bag.

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I've never has a heart, Never know love.

Yet you expect me to care, to care about you.

Now you're staring at me, You stare at me as your love fades to grey.

What did you expect, Did you expectg me to love, love you with a heart I've never had?