Advice on MP3 Players?

[mi_guida]

I freely admit that I know nothing about MP3 players. Usually for technological things I don't understand I'd turn to my father, but given he's just bought himself a new record player, he knows less than I do.

Here's the situation:

I currently own a 64MB player, which will take around 15 tracks, or one album. It's a dear little thing, but pretty feeble really.

I would like to own a larger one that actually carries sensible amounts of music. I have 7.3GB on my computer; the question of how much I want to carry round is probably semi-answered by... What sizes of memory do these things come in? And for how much?

Also, which makes are good/bad/realiable/hold battery charge/anything else I ought to be asking?

You are all wise people, and if you can offer any advice, or point me towards any website offering advice, I would be very very grateful.

Comments

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

Neil's Generic Advice:

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).

[sushi-radical.livejournal.com]

How do you mean 'take tunes off itunes'? I can drag from itunes and drop into mine's directory, and it's not an ipod...

iPod

[neoanjou.livejournal.com]

I mean those tracks one has purchased which have the protected coding on them.

Re: iPod

[sushi-radical.livejournal.com]

"purchased"?

Ummmmm....

I'll take your word for it.

Re: iPod

[pozorvlak.livejournal.com]

Purchased from the iTunes Music Store, that is.