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BEST MP3 Player for under $100?

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neutralizer

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I'm looking for a mp3 player to listen when I bored as hell in skool. I was leaning towards a Nomad IIC 32MB for $90, until my friend told me to look up other mp3 players. I'm on a budget so I was wondering where I can get a cheap yet good mp3 player for under $100. THANKS A BUNCH!
 
rio SP90 is just a tad nder a 100. CD based and very good quality sound. OUr family owns the SP90,Sp100 and sp250

 
I always thought cd-based mp3 players were bad because they skipped a lot and were bulky and doesn't quite fit the "portable" category.
 
you get the the 3inch cdr based portable mp3 player, its small and most mp3 cd players wont skip because they buffer the whole song into the memory before playing
 
I'm looking for something that could fit in my pocket, I mean "normal" pockets, not gigantic cargo pants pockets that are deeper that bottomless pits.
 
i just got a RioOne from CC for 100 w/ a 20 MIR. Has 32MB of built in memory and can be expanded w/ SmartMedia. Its not much bigger than a credit card and not much wider than the 1 AA battery that powers it. works nice too.
 
I think the Rio 500 was the best MP3 player ever built from an ergonomic standpoint. The newer Rio's do sound better, but I don't like them.
You could probably pick up a used 500 on Ebay for around $100, otherwise, the Rio One (as previously suggested) is a good choice.
 
get one on FS/FT from a good trader. i did and got a total package for the Nomad II w/64MB upgrd to 128MB for $110. just wait around on those deals.
 
I bought the Nomad II about a year ago for my wife and we love it. Small, easy to use, and trustworthy. Pretty cheap by now too I bet. We only have the 32mb one but it has treated us well. Good luck in your hunt.
 
I picked up an MP3 player that plays mini-CDRs. (8cm? 3-inch? something like that) This was a "Classic" brand player from Circuit City. Cheap ($80), blue, small. Hated it. It had a constant low hiss whenever it was turned on, which was intolerable during quiet passages of music. I couldn't return that thing fast enough.

File this under "what NOT to buy."
 
In today's Fry's ad in Sacramento, Ca advertised is a:

D-Link DMP-110 Portable Audio MP3 Player ... for $39.

It is not the newest and best, but is brand new and at the price you cannot go wrong.

Here is DLinks Webpage for information on the unit.

http://www.dlink.com/products/multimedia/dmp110/


There is only one Fry's in Sacramento, but there are many throughout the State of California....


Good Luck,

Dawbs
 
I have the Rio volt SP90 and it does skip quite aloy but only inbetween buffers, it doesnt buffer the whole song but only about 2 min of the song and the cd spins up again and if you are running/jogging/walking over bumpy stuff it will skip for about the 10 it takes to buffer the song. I dont like the fact that it skips, that why I luved my first rio that had 32mb but I dont know what happened to it, I do luv the fact that I can store 700mb of mp3s on 1 cd.
 
One very good MP3 player that hasn't yet been mentioned is the Iomega Hipzip (Here it is at Amazon) I've had it for about 6 months, and it works just great; it does have moving parts, but its much smaller and lighter than the other CD based MP3 players, and you can fit a large amount of music onto one of the Zip Disks, especially if you change your MP3s and CD audio files into WMA. I would defenitely recomend checking it out. I use it for exactly the same purpose as you will; hanging out after school. You can throw a bunch of the disks into your back pack, cause they're really small, and have tons of music to listen to.
 


<< I bought the Nomad II about a year ago for my wife and we love it. Small, easy to use, and trustworthy. Pretty cheap by now too I bet. We only have the 32mb one but it has treated us well. Good luck in your hunt. >>

In the time-honoured tradition of recommending products that one has already bought, I'll also have to tout the Nomad II as a great MP3 player. Fantastic audio quality, good volume, slick and sturdy, able to take 128MB SmartMedia cards. Here are some more impartial places you can check out for information, though.

PC World has a 2nd-generation MP3 player round-up entitled "A World of MP3 Players" that talks about a lot of the players now in your price range.

music.cnet.com has a section dedicated to pretty much every portable MP3 player out there, and allows valuable owner feedback for you to read up on before making a purchase. I should note here that 90% of people tend to be idiots who majorly thrash their MP3 players around, so take the "it broke after two weeks!" whiners with a grain of salt.

Google has a web directory for portable MP3 players set up. Be sure to check that out as well.

Speaking for only myself, I'd never go for a CD-based MP3 player. Too large for one thing, I drop my player into my pants pocket without too much of a bulge going on. Second, portable means portable - I have no personal experience with MP3/CD players but regular Discmans (Discmen?) skip way too much for me to spend and pray for something different. Solid state all the way, even at the price premium it takes. 128MB on a SmartMedia card that I can swap out for more tiny SM cards is just fine with me.
 
Hipzip and Rio 500's are the best mp3 players to date. The Rio 500 and Hipzip has an high res LCD screen that can display track name and such. THe Rio 500 supports ID3 tags with the new firmware. Both players have Trebel and Bass control to maximize your sound quality. The Hipzip takes Iomega Clik! (Now renamed Pocket Zip) disks. Each disk is 40 megs and you can get about 4 for 30 bucks. The rio 500 takes smartmedia cards for expansion and it has 64megs built in and is expendable to 128megs with the new firmware. The Rio 500 is very small and solid. The Hipzip has rubberized grips for handling and looks nice. The Rio 500 is also amazingly light. both Players use the fast USB port to transfer your music into it. I wouldn't get any other player then those. The new Rio's take crappy MMC cards (amazingly expensive) and the other Rio's take its proprietary expansion packs (also expensive). No good mp3 player has been made that uses compact flash and the ones that do use them are pretty much crap.

If you don't want those, I can recommend the Apple Ipod. The windows software for it is comming out soon. If you got any questions on the Hipzip and Rio 500, i'll be glad to help.
 
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