If you're going to be away from a computer for appreciable times, or keep your music collection derives mainly from purchases and downloads then get a high capacity player (as a backup, although even if you do have the CDs it's still a drag to rerip everything).
If you purchase a lot from iTunes then get an iPod as this is the only play (that I am aware of) that can play iTunes tracks. However you can't* take music off an iPod, so its not so useful as a backup.
*Actually I imagine you can, but as far as I know the file storage and music playing components are seperate therefore meaning that if you want to both transfer and listen to music you need to haver two copies stored.
Anyway - so says the man who has neither an mp3 player nor an iPod. (Well, my phone will play mp3's and my brother has an iPod so I'm not a complete ignoramus).
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If you're going to be away from a computer for appreciable times, or keep your music collection derives mainly from purchases and downloads then get a high capacity player (as a backup, although even if you do have the CDs it's still a drag to rerip everything).
If you purchase a lot from iTunes then get an iPod as this is the only play (that I am aware of) that can play iTunes tracks. However you can't* take music off an iPod, so its not so useful as a backup.
*Actually I imagine you can, but as far as I know the file storage and music playing components are seperate therefore meaning that if you want to both transfer and listen to music you need to haver two copies stored.
Anyway - so says the man who has neither an mp3 player nor an iPod. (Well, my phone will play mp3's and my brother has an iPod so I'm not a complete ignoramus).