iPod Talk

[ice grillin you]

4 gig = how many songs?

[Zanshin]

Depends on how large your files are.  I have a mix of WMA and MP3 and I have about 1500 songs or so on it, I think. Maybe more. Generally, I think my file sizes are between 2 and 3 meg each.  I also just got another 512 meg in a microSD card that I'm going to add to it.  You can get up to 2 gig microSD cards, but I found this 512 meg one free after rebate (actually, I'll make a couple of bucks on the deal), so that'll hold me over.

The nice thing about the smaller players, this one anyway, is that they're totally built on flash memory, and not hard drives.  I use it to work out, and I run...so there's no skipping.  It also helps with battery life.  The Sansa goes about 22 hours on one charge.

[ice grillin you]

can you hook up studio headphones to an mp3 player or do you have to use ear pieces or small walkman type johnsons

[Wingspan]

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[Zanshin]

can you hook up studio headphones to an mp3 player or do you have to use ear pieces or small walkman type johnsons

You'd probably need an adapter johnson.

[Susquehanna Birder]

And bigger phones will probably drain your battery johnsons a little faster.

[MURP]

can you hook up studio headphones to an mp3 player or do you have to use ear pieces or small walkman type johnsons

I have Bose Quietcomfort headphones hooked up to my Ipod.  No problem there.

[hunt]

nothing.  the brand name, thats it.

i got a 512MB mp3 player for $30 at circuit city.  holds about 8-9 full albums at once, enough that i only have to change it every two weeks or so.  you can larger ones, like 1GB-2GB, for less than $100 for sure.  it's just as small as an ipod.

and you don't have to farg with itunes, you basically just plug it into your comp and it acts like a hard drive, you just drag and drop.

i have one similar to that except it takes batteries.  not too bad if you get rechargables...and i just got a 2 GB card i'm going to add to it.

[hbionic]

Portishead-Dummy (Album)

Portishead-Portishead (Album)


By the way IGY, nice call with Time's Up by O.C....probably one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time.  Biter.

[phattymatty]

i have one similar to that except it takes batteries.  not too bad if you get rechargables...and i just got a 2 GB card i'm going to add to it.

mine takes one AAA battery.  and i usually only have to change it every few weeks.

[hunt]

same with mine....1 AAA battery.  it's a sansa sandisk or something like that.  i picked up some speakers so i can listen at work since headphones aren't allowed.
much better than lugging cd's to work every day.

[phattymatty]

yep, same one i have.  i also just bought a little wireless attachment thingy that lets you listen to it on any speakers you have hooked up in your house or at work.

[ice grillin you]

reading up on the sandisk they seem nice...but their mp3 players that come with rechargable batteries dont appear to come with ac power cords...thus you can only charge them via a usb cable to your computer

[hunt]

mine isn't rechargable at all & there is no power cord...it only runs on batteries so i bought rechargable batteries & a charger.

[Zanshin]

reading up on the sandisk they seem nice...but their mp3 players that come with rechargable batteries dont appear to come with ac power cords...thus you can only charge them via a usb cable to your computer

It does power through the USB connection, but you can get a wall adapter for $5 if that's a hassle for you.  It hasn't been for me. The nice thing about the new Sansa player is that you can swap out the rechargable battery when it gets old.  Most other players are integrated.