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Thinking about which MP3 player to get…

sinkhead

Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2007 at 9:00 pm

So it’s my birthday on 14th September and I want a new MP3 player…

Things I want

• Music organization like an iPod does (automagically organizes into genre, band, album etc)
• A nice large colour screen
• It to looks nice
• Cheap removable memory like SD would be nice

Things I don’t want

• To be forced to use drivers or software like iTunes (but I’ll use WMP)
• A high price tag
• To buy from an unknown company

I really like the Zen, there’s a nice review of it here and another one here (with video). And here’s the official product page from Creative, complete with tacky music!

Detailed Specs

Capacity: 8GB
Size: 55 x 83 x 11.3mm
Weight: 65g
LCD: 2.5″ 16.7 million colour TFT LCD 320 x 240 pixels
Battery Life: Up to 25 hrs audio playtime, 5 hrs video playtime
Battery: Embedded Li-ion battery
FM Radio: 32 preset stations
EQ Settings: 8 presets and 5 band custom EQ
Organiser: Calendar, Contact, Task List
Power Charging: Yes
Album Art: Yes
Voice Recording: Yes
Connectivity: USB 2.0, SDHC

Supported Formats

Video: MJPEG, WMV9, MPED4-SP3, DivX3 4/5 and XviD
Audio: MP3, WMA, AAC4 (.m4A), WAV (ADPCM), Audible 2,3,4
Image: JPEG (BMP/ GIF / PNG / TIFF)

I am, like the review suggests, going to wait for Apple’s September 5th press release however I cannot stand iTunes. Or DRM. AT ALL. So I don’t hold out much hope for the announcement.

Yay. Touchscreen iPods. But I still don’t really want one.

Thanks for anyone’s comments!
- Sam

MP3 Player Media Video Buying iTunes WMP iPod Creative Zen

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