Help with selecting an iPod / MP3 player?

The high capacity units are fine for holding everything you own ... but are MUCH more susceptible to breakage/loss of data since they are hard-drive based. A flash memory based player won't hold quite as much, but can easily sustain a drop to the floor without breaking. A playing HDD-based player is going to crash hard if that happens.

There are 16 GB flash players that accept expansion cards, so you can add another 16 GB or 32 GB. That's a huge amount of storage, depending on how high the quality of your rips is.

That's something you want to decide early on. Most people use a default setting of like 128k MP3. This is basically a crap setting. A decent pair of earphones is going to reveal every flaw in the compression algorithm. If you do go for a high capacity unit, then do yourself a favor and rip the CDs at a high bitrate, such as 320k, or VBR (variable) 320k, or even lossless. Ipods (most) accept Apple lossless, and Zunes accept WMA lossless. This is the same sound quality as your CDs themselves.

Whatever you get, also consider upgrading the earphones right away. The ones that come with the unit are crap. Etymotic, Ultimate Ears, Shure, Klipsch, and Sennheiser all make fine earphones that will give you much better sound.

wow 120 gig! that too ur first time!!!

i have zune gem.. i got it free with opening a supplementary atm card on my dads account.. ABN AMro bank ------ its ok 1 gb NO LCD!!!

I thn got samsung mp3 player.. its touch sensitive.. and has A LCD DISPLAY .. i got that again as a gift in the annual party of my company

its 2 gb.. and has GREAT options !!

i love my dads 91 model cressida car.. and the steroe system in it is @#! we never changed it.. i use this samsung and connect it to the cassete player an boy!!! i get a new version of X_PLODe or any other sound system.. its just the size of my index finger.. and does the aplifier job of 2 hand loong Aplifiers and extras that ppl fit 2 their cars..

... creating playlist is easy and takes 1 kb.. so chill... u can create loots.. it wont copy the song.. just short cut

my advice wud be a lesser gb.. as in 2 gb.. i rarely listen to alll the songs... and its fun to recycle songs .. u get to delete those which are old etc etc... which wont happen ih a 120 gig..

my bro has a sony mp3 plyer with lcd... that too is good

i wu suggets get anything with good amplifieroption an lcd .. so that u can see which song u wanna go to..

USE SONY ERRICSON MOBILE HEAD PHONE.. ONE WITH NORMAL JACK.. AND THE EXPERIENCE IS AWESOME

I LOVE SAMSUNG... ITS GOT 3D OPTIONS.. ECHO OPTIONS.. HIIIGH BASS AND ITS TOUCH SENSITIVE.. I HAVE SEEN IPOD.. NOT TRIED IT..

Both the zune and the ipod are really cool

get the zune!

Get a zune, its much more tight than an ipod and portable. Believe me, i have one. It downloads, songs, videos, podcast, pictures and even search for ur own songs on the net, why are u making it complicated, go get it.

I reccommend the ipod, the ipod classic offers a big amount of space, which would hold your huge collection of CD's

iPod classic gives you 120GB of storage capacity, good for up to 30,000 songs, 150 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or any combination. And you get up to 36 hours of battery life, so you can keep on rocking for a long, long time.*

http://www.apple.com/ipodclassic/

Check out its features:

http://www.apple.com/ipodclassic/features.html

definately get an ipod, zunes just arent as satisfying

and playlists are simple to make, dont worry about them :)

I would get the zune, it would be the best :)

iPod is the best. I have one and I fit *all* my music on it

16GB