Recommended Type Of Mp3 Player?
<div class="IPBDescription">Flash based, please, HDDs are spensisive</div> Well, yeah, I have a Rio Cali 256, which would be decent if it supported .OGG. The only Rio product that supports .ogg is their 20 GB hard-drive based Karma player, which I have absoloutely zero interest in purchasing. Can anyone recommend me a decent and somewhat cheap MP3 player that also plays .OGG? WMA is no concern (God I hate that format. Everyone says 64 kbps sounds like 128 kbps MP3, so maybe it's just me).
Anyway, yeah. Any of you intelligent (and, might I add, quite attractive?) forum goers care to give me recommendations?
Anyway, yeah. Any of you intelligent (and, might I add, quite attractive?) forum goers care to give me recommendations?
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, though I don't think it supports *.ogg (whatever that is). Maybe you should convert those files to mp3, and the iPod is simply the best mp3 player out there.
There are many, many CD players that can read a CDR full of MP3s and play that. 700mb worth of songs right there, plus you can change the discs out. No good if you're gottin, but if its just while at work or in the car or something, its a viable alternative.
There are many, many CD players that can read a CDR full of MP3s and play that. 700mb worth of songs right there, plus you can change the discs out. No good if you're gottin, but if its just while at work or in the car or something, its a viable alternative. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
seconded - I'm always the one trying to pimp mp3-cd players whenever one of these threads comes around... :>
and yeah, as for the .ogg files (whatever they are) - why do you need them and why not just convert them to mp3?
It has near-uncompressed quality at around 500kbps. ~500k is ~3.5 megs per minute, 15mb for an average song. At 256kbps you have 5-10 MB songs which are still way closer to cd quality than mp3. Ogg is good if you have good headphones and good quality sound output.
OGG is a free standard.
Or, if anyone could give me a free Ogg to MP3 program, that'd be almost as good <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
EDIT: Svenpa, that thing is 374.00 Euros
That's like, eighty bazillion American dollars. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Edit: This one seems to be good <a href='http://www2.butterflyphoto.com/shop/product.aspx?ref=bizrate&sku=IFP790T' target='_blank'>iRiver IFP-790T</a>
I have the 500, great mp3 player. The 800 is a lot smaller which is great.
<img src='http://www.xclef.com/images/hd_800-2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
There are many, many CD players that can read a CDR full of MP3s and play that. 700mb worth of songs right there, plus you can change the discs out. No good if you're gottin, but if its just while at work or in the car or something, its a viable alternative. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
This is exactly what I did.
Additionally, I'll never use and/or want to listen to all the songs on a 700 MB CD, so it'd be somewhat wasteful anyhow (even though they are cheaper, iirc). 256 suits my needs nicely while keeping size incredibly small and battery usage low (1 AAA for 10+ hours, I think it was).
The iRiver looks nice, I'll look into it some more.
The Korean one looked pretty, but seeing as how I can't read Korean, no go :\
And I know I can use all my English songs and whatnot, but I'd like to know what it is, too <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
EDIT: English button!
HDD based, probably goes for a nice chunk of change.
EDIT II: Thanks for all the suggestions <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Oh yeah, you don't need OGG support. Say you want a song from a game or wherever to put on your MP3 player but the file is OGG and your MP3 player doesn't support OGG. What do you do? Why, you use the BUILT-IN plugin that comes with Winamp. It is called waveOut Wave Output V2.0.2a [out_wave.dll]!!!! Just put your OGG files into Winamp, activate the plugin, pick a directory and hit play! All of those OGG files will be converted into WAV files, which your MP3 player should support and if it doesn't, than your brand-new MP3 player isn't worth diddly-crap.
If you still want more options go to <a href='http://www.mp3players.co.uk' target='_blank'>http://www.mp3players.co.uk</a>
Oh yeah, you don't need OGG support. Say you want a song from a game or wherever to put on your MP3 player but the file is OGG and your MP3 player doesn't support OGG. What do you do? Why, you use the BUILT-IN plugin that comes with Winamp. It is called waveOut Wave Output V2.0.2a [out_wave.dll]!!!! Just put your OGG files into Winamp, activate the plugin, pick a directory and hit play! All of those OGG files will be converted into WAV files, which your MP3 player should support and if it doesn't, than your brand-new MP3 player isn't worth diddly-crap. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
But see, that defeats the whole purpose of using a compression format in the first place.
And converting the .wav to .mp3 defeats the whole purpose of Ogg Vorbis <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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