BEST MP3 PLAYER?

Someone told me the Creative Zen is the one to go for. Is this true?

i'm also getting a 30 GB Ipod soon, but only because my zen is full!

I ADORE my Rio Karma but it's now obsolete; it seems that a Rockbox'd iRiver is the audio lover's player of choice. But it's only like 20 gigs. But I think you can replace the HD. But come on, now...

You can't just synch it from itunes, but instead you have to drag the songs into the folder on the player instead.

If you have mistagged mp3s and you retag them, how will it know how to synchonize

Furthermore, only the truly thick-skulled use auto-sync, and no auto-sync == no auto re-tag, at least in iTunes. In other words, if you MusicBrainz a buncha MP3s, just reimport, whether it be via Explorer or whatever. Anything more is meddling.

-- latebloomer (posercore24...), December 2nd, 2006.

Why not another Creative Zen (asks someone who does not yet have any type of portable mp3 player but wants to get one)?

:(

It adds through Explorer, too, which I'm all in favor of. It's not drag-and-drop -- there's a built-in Windows media-device thing that pops up. But this is essentially just a dialog box, and not really much flashier or more complicated than, say, the "Open Office Document" dialog. And it does let you use Explorer to actually sort through the media on the device, so you can reorganize and clean up folders and such pretty easily.

In fact, I'm doing this right now...and it's finished, so I'm off to work. Bye.

You people.... lol

I have collections by single BANDS that can't fit in 2 gigs

I hated throwing CDs in my bag to bring to work, because invariably I'd get to work and want to listen to something besides what I brought. I want as many gigs as possible on my portable mp3 player, so I can listen to whatever moves me at the time. Auto-sync, yay.

I have 0.5 TB of music stored on DVDs, so until they come out with the 1TB iPod I'm not biting.

Can I uh buy that from you? Mine's semi-broken... And the battery's dying

Yes, and I'd probably need half a terabyte or so if I wanted to digitise everything I own, but why bother? I don't particularly want a music library in my pocket, just a handful of favourites/new things.

Srsly, I think PC people who refuse to use iTunes with their iPod are just being cranky.

Why not another Creative Zen (asks someone who does not yet have any type of portable mp3 player but wants to get one)?

-- cornyrocker (cornyrocke...), December 4th, 2006.

because i'm getting one super cheap from a neighbor, still in the box.

One's balls aren't actually in one's pocket, Jon. This is something that will become apparent to you once yours drop.

Of couuse that comes with the sucky old ear buds but I will mostly be using it in the gym, where I don't care that much, or when travelling, when I'll use proper headphones.

Nice tip on the iTunes synching. My G4 is in the shop and I didn't want to clog up the g-friend's iTunes with a bunch of my stuff so I jacked my firewire drive into her laptop and just dragged 400 tracks from the drive directly to the iPod. It took hours, but it worked.

Of course I did NOT pass go, and did not collect $200... but what do you want (and that's a rhetorical question)?

My question is... and just 'cause I haven't had time to f*ck with it.

Can I use it on my Mac @ home, and my PC at work? 2 people here say no, but I'm not confident in the level of their expertise

I'm not confident in the level of their expertise

Seriously!