Nov 16 2007
How to Choose a MP3 Player
If you’re thinking of buying one mp3 player, consider the following tips from your choice.How much space do I need?
Nowadays you can get anything from 128 MB (which would hold an average of 25 songs) to 60G (which holds thousands of songs). If you were planning to save your whole musical collection to the one device, and were intending to mainly use it indoors or under sedate circumstances, your best bet could be the hard drive based mp3 players which start at 5G of storage or so.
If on the other hand you were intending to primarily use the device as a portable music device (rather than primarily storage), you’d probably find the flash based ones suited your purposes, especially if you were going to be dragging the device all over the place and subjecting it to lots of wear and tear. That way you could store your entire audio collection on your laptop/desktop computer and just download various playlists as required.What features to I need?Â
Features that are available on many devices and can be very useful include voice recording capability, FM radio, FM radio recording, being able to play the device through your car radio, direct line input, USB port recharging, ‘drag and drop’Â uploading and being able to store other files on the device. You’ll need to check each brand and model for the various cluster of features.How much should I spend?Â
You can buy a fairly good quality MP3 player for peanuts nowadays - prices are dropping daily, so it pays to shop around. Given the huge success of podcasting, elearning applications and the likelihood that this medium will become more ubiquitous with time, you can’t really go wrong. The Community manager (who originally asked the question) ended up buying one of each (ie hard drive and flash based) and is now stalking corridors with the conviction of a true believer…What brands should I try?Â
This is a difficult question to answer because there are so many and things change all the time. You should search from the website and listen to other people’s comments.Â
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