Cheap pocket MP3 players from walmart starting at $39!

[Lyfer]

Check your local walmart, mines had both the RCA Lyra 64mb ($39) and Creative Labs Nomad 128mb ($49) varieties instock. The Nomad doubles as a jump drive, but the Lyra has SD expansion.


Get em while they last!


BTW I bought the Nomad, needed a jump drive and something tiny for the GYM.

 

[OCNewbie]

Man your sig is sad =( Lost my dad when I was 20, guess you were 23 when you lost yours.

Anyway, about the deal. Is the RCA one any good? And with the RC one can you write to the SD card via a USB cable, if the SD card is in the RCA unit at the time? Guess I can look this up myself, thanks =)

 

[Ghettocowboy]

64 meg and 128 meg?? the memory is too low for any thing, all of my songs are 320 kbitrates (10 megs each song) and thus it wont hold much music at all. And generic MP3 players with 256 megs are around $60.

 

[styrafoam]

Originally posted by: Ghettocowboy
64 meg and 128 meg?? the memory is too low for any thing, all of my songs are 320 kbitrates (10 megs each song) and thus it wont hold much music at all. And generic MP3 players with 256 megs are around $60.

Generic 512meg sd cards are $40. You can buy as many sd cards as you want.

 

[ringzero]

Originally posted by: OCNewbie
Man your sig is sad =( Lost my dad when I was 20, guess you were 23 when you lost yours.

Got you both beat, dad died when i was 16, at 24 my brother died in his apartment and no one heard from him for 11 days and i had to clean up the mess

Are these YMMV? Every time i go to walmart in my area, they always have their prices extremely high and no one knows what i'm talking about when i ask them about prices.

 

[Beefy6969]

Jesus christ?! 320kbps? 192 is good enough.

 

[buzzsaw13]

I used to have an old Nomad II and these things were awesome. Do these support 512meg SD cards?

 

[Antoneo]

Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
I used to have an old Nomad II and these things were awesome. Do these support 512meg SD cards?

The Nomad Muvos are not expandable in any way.

 

[droppedd]

Originally posted by: Ghettocowboy
6all of my songs are 320 kbitrates (10 megs each song) and thus it wont hold much music at all.

Anything even at about --alt-preset-standard (200 or so kbps) is impossible for most people to distinguish from the original source CD on anything but high-end stereo equipment in a closed environment... no one in their right mind really needs anything over 160 kbps for the gym (ambient noise levels, blaring house stereo hip-hop, etc. make anything more overkill, and imagine the looks you'd get using your $500 studio monitor headphones while lifting...).
Windows Media Player (among others) can automaticall transcode music you transfer to a portable player anyways... save the 320 kbps for your top-of-the-line stereo equipment (i'm assuming you have that stuff, since you must have golden ears ) and downcode for your workout, and 128 megs is 2 hours - more than enough for a workout for most people.

then again, i use a 1.5 GB rio nitrus at the gym... much better bang for the buck (though now, the Carbon is at $180 or so, which is rather a steal if you don't mind a few moving parts).

 

[WT]

I'll assume the RCA is the Lyra 1021 model which I have in my hands. Its a good player, quality output and I even use it as storage to and from home to my work PC. I've added an SD card to boost the memory, but I still wish I had 128 internal instead of the skimpy 64. It really doesn't matter when you can pick up a 1gb SD card for around $50. Battery life (1 AAA battery) runs around 12-14 hours on this unit. Its very tiny and I can fit it with the included headphones (bulky even tho they are small) in my shirt pocket. Do yourself a favor and pick up some better headphones for it. The included ones aren't bad, but they can fatigue your ears in under an hour due to the annoying clip-on hook they use.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: Ghettocowboy
64 meg and 128 meg?? the memory is too low for any thing, all of my songs are 320 kbitrates (10 megs each song) and thus it wont hold much music at all. And generic MP3 players with 256 megs are around $60.

what a waste of space. I bet if I played 192 kbp and 320kbp encoded tracs back-to-back you won't tell the difference, even with the fines set of headphones.