deviantchild
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hi all,
i wanted to put this in "purchase decisions help" but it's not strictly pc related (although a pc can be involved) so i didn't
anyway, i'm looking for an alternative to my current mp3 players but, at a glance, can't seem to find what i require. so am asking for input here as you're a generally tech savvy bunch
i require:-
aaa battery power: an mp3 player is portable and i listen a lot. i can't dock when i'm out and about. i don't care how many hours i so say get - i can get hold of a triple a a lot easier
sd card slot (although not limited to 1gb max cards) or >=8gb onboard flash memory: i do not want moving parts a-la hdd
to be recognised by pc as external drive: no required software, as needed by apple and sony products etc.
things that are nice to have:-
radio (with record funtionality too) and voice recorder
things i don't care about:-
fancy screens for pics and movies and other non-audio related functionality. i want a portable music player because i live music, not a keeping-up-with-the-joneses gadget for gadget's sake!
i currently have a 1gb alba with all of the above except the radio. it's fine, but the headphone socket has worn a bit loose, there has always been slight electronic interference on it and it gets a bit finicky with some id tags and bit rates and there is no newer firmware available. i use 2gb cards in it although it was not reported to accept them; possibly because they weren't common at the time of purchase
i also managed to get a siren edge player sent from the u.s. which does have all of the above functionality, including the radio, but 4gb is not enough and there is no card expansion slot. unlike the alba player, it doesn't use a folder/file tree structure and can't list songs without id tags. also, if the id tags have variance in use of uppercase/lowercase artist naming then bands will be listed more than once when browsing via artist
when looking last night, the only thing i could find was the iriver t60. the reported good sound quality and additional supported formats nearly drew me in but this player still has only 4gb with no expansion. i also saw that folks were complaining that usb doesn't power the player when connected, so they were having problems transferring files with a partially used battery installed. both of my players get powered by the usb port when they are connected to the pc so that's a no-no and i may as well stick with my siren for now
tia for any help and input
cheers,
d3v
i wanted to put this in "purchase decisions help" but it's not strictly pc related (although a pc can be involved) so i didn't
anyway, i'm looking for an alternative to my current mp3 players but, at a glance, can't seem to find what i require. so am asking for input here as you're a generally tech savvy bunch
i require:-
aaa battery power: an mp3 player is portable and i listen a lot. i can't dock when i'm out and about. i don't care how many hours i so say get - i can get hold of a triple a a lot easier
sd card slot (although not limited to 1gb max cards) or >=8gb onboard flash memory: i do not want moving parts a-la hdd
to be recognised by pc as external drive: no required software, as needed by apple and sony products etc.
things that are nice to have:-
radio (with record funtionality too) and voice recorder
things i don't care about:-
fancy screens for pics and movies and other non-audio related functionality. i want a portable music player because i live music, not a keeping-up-with-the-joneses gadget for gadget's sake!
i currently have a 1gb alba with all of the above except the radio. it's fine, but the headphone socket has worn a bit loose, there has always been slight electronic interference on it and it gets a bit finicky with some id tags and bit rates and there is no newer firmware available. i use 2gb cards in it although it was not reported to accept them; possibly because they weren't common at the time of purchase
i also managed to get a siren edge player sent from the u.s. which does have all of the above functionality, including the radio, but 4gb is not enough and there is no card expansion slot. unlike the alba player, it doesn't use a folder/file tree structure and can't list songs without id tags. also, if the id tags have variance in use of uppercase/lowercase artist naming then bands will be listed more than once when browsing via artist
when looking last night, the only thing i could find was the iriver t60. the reported good sound quality and additional supported formats nearly drew me in but this player still has only 4gb with no expansion. i also saw that folks were complaining that usb doesn't power the player when connected, so they were having problems transferring files with a partially used battery installed. both of my players get powered by the usb port when they are connected to the pc so that's a no-no and i may as well stick with my siren for now
tia for any help and input
cheers,
d3v
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