MP3 player suggestions? £100 limit, don't mind 2nd hand.

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Hi guys,

I was supposed to be getting a 4 string parachute kite as a birthday present, but my old iPod Nano is on it's last legs and realistically I'll get more use from an mp3 player, which sucks because as sad as it sounds, I love kite sports

Anyway back on topic, I'm after an mp3 player with a minimum of 8gb memory but preferably more, and which ideally uses drag and drop to put the music on it, just for ease. It needs to have an easy to use interface where I can easily scroll through and choose songs, so nothing along the lines of the shuffle. I'm not totally opposed to apple products and am considering an iPod classic but it would be nice to have something that will play flac files for if I ever get myself a decent set of headphones and iPods wont cut it with that. That said flac capability isn't the be all and end all, I kid myself be pretending I can hear the difference, but I don't think I can Size wise preferably something easily usable with one hand.

Budget is £100 and I don't mind 2nd hand as long as they aren't too bashed up.

Thanks

Conan
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[StormCrow]

Sansa Clip+ with a 32Gb Micro SD card and Rockbox software

[andym]

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[nick_houghton]

Maybe you've a reason to discount the idea but what about a mobile phone?

My Nokia X6 has 16GB of storage and prob now worth about 40 quid.

Battery life is good, even after 21 months of daily use. Probably last longer with flight mode on or no SIM inserted.

There was a 32GB one, too. Any phone from last two years or so should do the job.
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Don't forget that one of the most important unspecified features of an mp3 player is how easy it is to operate it while it is in your pocket. This includes play/pause and skip.

This means it needs hardware buttons and the more you think about it the more you realise an HD touch screen is irrelevant.

On saying that, I just use my mobile phone (n900) it means I only have one thing to carry.

So in conclusion, sansa clip +.
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[StormCrow]

With the Sansa clip, I run the headphone cable down my sleeve and clip the player to the top of my glove - this lets me change track on the go without taking attention away from where I should be looking!

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[StormCrow]

The new ones still have built in storage (2, 4, 8Gb IIRC) but you can add extra with the SD card.

Just put a 32Gb card in mine... no worries about running out of music now!

[Cunnington]

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Another vote for the Sansa Clip.
I have an older 8GB version, it cost me £40 ~ 4 or 5 years ago. I dropped it on concrete, the screen hit a stone, it cracked. Years later it works perfectly other than the plastic cover on the screen. Sound quality is excellent and to put music on you plug it in the PC and it acts as a USB drive, none of this iTunes bollocks. Hardware buttons that click as they did on day 1.

Apple's products, some of them are decent. The iPad comes to mind, leagues ahead of anything else on the market.

But iPods are utterly wastes of money. There is no need for a shiny screen on an mp3 player, it spends 90% of its' working life hidden away in your pocket. Or an interface that basically forbids you from using a flash drive as a flash drive.

£100 is far far higher than any reasonable choice you can make, though Apple have done a good job of making people think MP3 players are expensive.

[StormCrow]

To add a bit of balance though - my first one got squashed by something - screen broke and it was dead!

Second one I've just thrown down on the road recently (literally, lobbed it out of my hand accidentally, not in the American 'I lay it down' sense!) and had to strip it to repair the power button - just my bloody luck that the smallest button on there is the precise place that the thing lands on doing probably 30mph!

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The thing that attracts me to another iPod is how much of a beating my nano has taken and it still works.
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