Favourite Music Player?

[Obnoxious]

I'd just like to see what most people like or own, music-player wise.

[Orpheus]

Creative Jukebox Zen with a warranty voiding 40 gig HD upgrade.

[Carlucci]

my Xbox, of Course!

 

Carlos.

[Robot Monkey]

My iRiver H-120.

[rustyjaw]

My problem is that I don't have much experience with players apart from the iPod. The exception being the Mini Disc which I owned for a few years, and grew to hate.

 

But the iPod's been good to me, I will certainly upgrade when the 60Gb model comes out.

[Failsafe]

I haven't taken the plunge yet. I still slap them on a CD and use my DVD player or computer.

[adamsappel]

I'm still a Minidisk man, though I am slowly skewing towards an iPod. Ed, what do you hate about MD?

[Graeme]

I've just got a standard issue Walkman from the dark ages that I use for most of my music. I use my computer at home also of course.

[rustyjaw]

Originally posted by adamsappel@Aug 2 2004, 12:42 PM

I'm still a Minidisk man, though I am slowly skewing towards an iPod. Ed, what do you hate about MD?

I didn't like recording in real-time. A friend of mine bought a special CD-MD component that would let you do 4x recording from a CD, but that's a big investment just for that. Meanwhile, I can RIP CDs at 40x on my computer.

 

I didn't like carrying around 25 little discs, sure they're smaller than CDs, but it still gets to be a pain. I forget the time limit on the discs, 74min? Too short.

 

I don't particularly care for ATRAC, especially since you can't choose a quality/compression level.

 

I believe that Sony is making a new run at the MD market with high-capacity discs, but for me it's way too late. HD-based devices are so much better for portable music.

[Zathras]

I've got a net-MD player and with some various programs from around the web you can expands its abilities a bit and get a decent amount of music on them. Basically they just create a larger than CD cd-image and a fake db entry for all the song titles.

 

As far as MP3 players I have a tiny Rio S35 that I use on quick trips or when mowing the lawn etc.

 

Really and truthfully lately I've rarely been using the above.

 

I have the original Rio Volt CD-MP3 player that I listen to audio books etc on when I can't get to sleep. It was a very durable well built product and still works great.

 

When I go on trips that I will be gone a while actually I've been taking a nicer quality portable CD player and using a headphone amp on the line out. Combine that with a nice set of headphones and it is a nice way of reaching an audio nirvana in a hotel room. Cd player is a Sony D-EJ1000 it has amazing battery life even without the outboard AA add on. Hmmm just checked and it has been discontinued - no surprise there since it is a year or so old - but it looks like Sony no longer makes a "high end" portable CD player any more.

 

I've got a pair of Grado headphones and a pair of Sony Eggos from Japan depending if I'm in an environment that needs enclosed or would work with open air.

 

I do eventually want to get a HD based MP3 player but I may wait another generation to get battery life a bit better, but who knows what will happen... now where was that free ipod site...

[Robot Monkey]

I had similar problems with Minidisc, Ed. NetMD drove me nuts because of the ridiculous conversion times required. I liked the sound quality, player/recorder size and the car remote, but the conversion time and hauling discs around was maddening.

 

And Chris, as to battery life, it's the iPods that have short battery life -- many other brands of HDD players (like my iRiver H-120) have loads of battery life in comparison. So there's no need to wait on that account. And I understand that current gen iPods are a lot better than before.

 

-j

[Kain rising]

I've got an aging MiniDisc recorder/player, and also love the sound quality that it provides, but agree with the issues of time to record, etc. (mine is Pre-NetMD).

I've also got one of the older (but not first generation) models of the RioVolt and it's mainly for trips. Of the HD players, I think the iRiver's are the most tempting to me.

[Obnoxious]

Originally posted by Carlucci@Aug 2 2004, 01:56 PM

my Xbox, of Course!

 

Carlos.

haha I think I forgot the word "portable" in the title of the poll. However, I don't think that's so much of a problem for you and some of these people.

 

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[Rob B]

I chose other Because I have my desktop, which has a shit pot of Mp3s on it, hooked up to my sourround sound system

[Obnoxious]

Originally posted by Bobbio@Aug 3 2004, 08:02 PM

I chose other Because I have my desktop, which has a shit pot of Mp3s on it, hooked up to my sourround sound system

You don't like reading, do you? Especially posts right before yours.

 

ahem hem. "I think I forgot the word portable in the title"

[Rob B]

Well EXCUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me

[Angel P]

I have an iPod but the minidisc was my traveling companion for many years. Even had a Pioneer MD player for my car which was awesome but was stolen when my vehicle was broken into. :cry:

[AnthonyVolpe]

8-track, suckers!

 

(just kidding - iPod all the way)