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

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend one like my Samsung. It's tiny, it's shiny, and it works like a USB pen (ie just drag and drop files onto it, there is no need at all for complicated software or things being fixed - you can indeed use it as an USB file carrying device generally). In addition you can change the external colour and make it RED. Mine is 1/2 GB, which doesn't look much compared to an IPod, but is I think 6 hours of music - and the battery only lasts for 10 hours so you've got to plug it into the computer and charge it then anyway and you can change the music then. It also comes in a 1 GB version. I have no idea what it cost however, as the gorgeous Duncan gave it to me. In fact, I may just be sending this to brag about the fact that Duncan gave it to me. How dull. But, in my defense, I had very little sleep last night. Was on a sleeper train. I was going to actually put something on my own LJ but I can't be arsed (this may be a theme with the dear thing). Ah, my washing may be done. Goodbye.