My Rockbox'ed H340 IRiver has had a few headaches as of late. Of particular note is the headphone jack has the old "one speaker cutting out" syndrome which is a result of a damaged port on my behalf. It was a great player, and it shall be missed. It played video, opened text documents, had games and a calendar, and supported album art.
So now I'm in the market for a new portable music player. I'm fairly open minded, so I'm not too keen to just straight to the IPod.
My need to haves are:
Cheers in advance.
So now I'm in the market for a new portable music player. I'm fairly open minded, so I'm not too keen to just straight to the IPod.
My need to haves are:
- Lots o' space. I'm coming off a 40gb model, so I don't want anything less than 20gb
- Long battery life. I'm used to 7-14 hours on my Iriver, and I'm not keen on going back - though I'm not well read on what's considered "good" today
- Sturdy. I actually dropped my H340 down a flight of stairs once and it still worked. Would not like to try that on a Shuffle!
- Recording capability. I bootleg lots of gigs, generally straight to MP3 since I'm not hugely fussy.
- Multiple music codecs supported. Rockbox never got through AAC on the build I used, but I'd like to be able to use it. OGG and others, sure if it's in the package.
- Text files... for those lyrics I may have tucked away somewhere
- Database support... for reading my most played/top rated, etc
- On the fly playlists. Yes sir
- Cheapish ! You can't have it all, but there's no hard in asking
Cheers in advance.