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Molly · The Mediator

MP3 players

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I'm thinking about getting my wife one for her birthday too.

I've heard that the iriver players are pretty good. I don't know what they have for $100 though. I was looking at a 1 gig solid state one but then you get into that "well, for $50 more, I could get a 5 gig hard drive one that will hold a lot more songs."

So, I don't know other than I've heard the irivers are good for the money.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Looking on newegg.com now . . .

I see a 256meg iRiver for $86. 256 megs is not real big if you have your mp3's at a fairly high quality. I usually burn my mp3's at 160-192. At the 160 setting, it looks like the songs average about 4 megs each. At that setting, the 256 meg player would hold around 64 songs.

The 1 Gig player is $138.

The 5 Gig hard drive based ones start at $205.

I might get Mrs. Web the 1 Gig player. I know she'd like it if I got her that pre-filled with her Keith Urban CDs.

Molly · The Mediator

64 songs at about 4 minutes each is still over 4 hours of listening time, I think he could live with that. Can you upgrade the memory later, or are you stuck with what you get?

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I think with these solid state ones you are stuck with that limit.

CP · Lord of the Lair

Depends on how much music your hubby likes. My kids love music, as do I. We all have ipods. I have thought about buying a second ipod becasue my first if full. My daughter hooks hers up to her stereo and plays her music that way and the headphones are always on. If he is really into music, the ipod is worth the investment.

Molly · The Mediator

I would guess additional memory would be as much as buying another player anyway. Thanks for the tip though, I'll look into the iRiver ones...

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Hmmmm

I see that Dell has their 5 gig on sale for $150 right now.

Ultimo · King of the Ring

I have a 20 gig Ipod, don't know what I would do with out it now, I want a new one now though, Apple have just brought out a new one that plays videos too, but if your wanting to spend around $100 then maybe a shuffle is the way to go.

Ipod Shuffle

-- Edited by Ultimo at 10:28, 2005-10-20

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

I just ordered a Dell JukeBox today. They have the 5 gig one on sale for $150 until mid-Tuesday. I think that's a pretty good price for 5 gigs of storage.

I'm ripping cds to load it up with Mrs. Web's favorite CD's to give to her for her birthday. I hope she likes it.

-- Edited by WebGuy at 23:36, 2005-10-23

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

That's a good price, but I don't have that much money to spend (we usually only spend about $50 on each other for Christmas, so I'm already going over that), and I don't think he'll need 5 gigs anyway. But, I will take a look on Dell's site to see if they have any other specials.