In need of a weekend

[magic_treehouse]

Can anyone give me some advice on MP3 players? Although my old but reliable thing has been good to me I can no longer seem to update it. I'd quite like a bigger one anyway but they seem to be so expensive, so while I'm happy to go over to the Apple darkside, especially with 120GB IPods available, the prices just seem a little high for my liking.

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[spazhammer]

probably a bit late now, but you'll probably not find much over 32gb, as most of the big manufacturers have moved over to flash memory now, so the amount of disk-based players has dropped to a tiny amount. basically, youve got the choice of the ipod classic, or an archos media player, which does loads more, but is priced accordingly. there are still the odd no-brand players floating around on ebay/etc, but quality is (generally) pretty ropey.

i used to find 20gb was more than enough, as i would transfer a bunch of stuff to it (i had a sont nwa3000) then listen to it on random for a few months till i got sick of it, by which time it was ready for loading up with a different 20gb full of music. i'm now using my nokia n97 (32gb storage) as my main music player, it is doing the job quite nicely

[magic_treehouse]

Thanks for this. After buying an Ipod Classic (which didn't work. I nearly threw it out of the window) I ended up going for an Archos player which I loooove. It's so pretty. I'm not really interested in watching films and stuff but I was quite lucky with the price. The reason I wanted a new one was that my ye olde MP3 player was on its way out after three years and that was 20GB which I'd filled. I usually listen to full albums so I wanted to upgrade to something around 30GB as I thought that would be enough for me. So yeah, I'm pleased with what I've got for now.