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caladin
08-27-2002, 07:49 PM
Anyone use them and what brands?

I have sony with a 10sec skip and it still skips on me?

Thinkin about mx100 MP3 player?
http://www.edig.com/MXP100sneak2.html

Any ideas?

bigbartender
08-27-2002, 08:00 PM
I've got a TDK model. I think it has about 8 minutes of buffer, so it never skips. The display is large also, so I can read the song thats playing clearly. well worth the money.

shokjosh456
08-27-2002, 08:16 PM
what kind of steroids are those? :D

WeirdAl
08-27-2002, 08:20 PM
I have a creative nomad II mp3 player. I love it - can put whatever I want on it, and it's not bulky in the least, and I don't have to worry about skipping.

Yioti85
08-27-2002, 08:50 PM
I use a cd walkman and it never skips on me. It's sony and has a 45 second antiskip. It was only about $60. I want an MP3 too, but I don't think I would get around to recrding on it enough. If you just get one of the cd players that are made for jogging, it won't skip.

Phykarn
08-27-2002, 09:18 PM
If you burn a cd with mp3's you can have about 10 hours worth of music on it! I love my mp3 cd player. It also has about 45 second no skip and never skips on me. As to the Nomad, that's what I'm aiming for next.

kossdeh
08-27-2002, 10:30 PM
Go go gadget

46and2aheadofme
08-27-2002, 11:04 PM
Originally posted by WeirdAl
I have a creative nomad II mp3 player. I love it - can put whatever I want on it, and it's not bulky in the least, and I don't have to worry about skipping.

I have the same one with a 128 M smartmedia card. It's perfect. Most importantly, it's durable - the case is made out of magnesium. I went through 3 Diamond Rio's in a year before ponying up the dough for creativelabs quality. With the 64 M internal memory + my memory card ($50 or so), it holds over 50 songs at 128kbps quality. Couldn't work out without it. Highly recommended.

steeddriver
08-28-2002, 03:40 AM
i have a mini mp3 player it sucks, actually it works well but i go through 2 aa batteries every workout! im buying batteries like theyre going out of style ive tried rechargable but they dont last as long.

Username
08-28-2002, 09:17 AM
That MXP 100 is a nice looking MP3 Player. I need to get me one someday. Put the 1200 Mp3 fils to use on my computer.

cybersteffan
08-28-2002, 09:24 AM
For working out, I like those MP3 players wich use only memory and no cd's. Very great for running on the threadmill. There extremely compact and since there is no cd in it, they are totally shockprove.

Before each workout I download al the songs I like best in it and there we go!

WeirdAl
08-28-2002, 09:25 AM
WIth my nomad, I get probably 3-6 hours out of 2 AAA rechargeables. I just always keep at least 2 batteries in the charger, and I'm good to go. It does even better on alkaline, but that gets expensive. And the nomad is very durable (I've dropped it countless times), but it didn't do very well when my son puked on it. It kinda corroded the connector, so I have to jiggle it a bit when I want to connect it to the base.

And yeah, it's nice to have basically any song I'd want at my fingertips (either on my computer or on the net). A cd-mp3 player would be nice, but still bulky, fragile and harder on batteries.

passenger57am
08-28-2002, 10:37 AM
I workout with a sony cd player never skips don't know the model though..

ironbelle
08-31-2002, 01:25 AM
It is obsolete, but if you can find one cheap, get it. It has flaws, but it serves it's purpose. It doesn't skip when you care doing cardio on the eliptical trainer it is light and fits in your pocket or you can clip it to your waist. What sucks is that you find out about the firmware that you need to download after you try to use an external memory card. You have to go to rio.com to get the firmware. Another sucky feature is that you have to take the battery out after every use or the memory card sucks the life out the battery even though the player is off. I have the PSA 60 model, the 120 model is the expensive one. The software that comes with it to transfer music to the player is easy to use. I just leave the cord plugged into my puter and just plug it in the top of the player when it is time to download different tunes.

notacow
08-31-2002, 04:04 PM
I got a nex2 (by frontier labs) from somebody at ebay for about $70. they're made in china or something and there's tons of them on ebay.

Works great, got good reviews, batteries last 10 hours.
Come with NO memory. You have to get compactflash card(s) for it. A 256 meg card costs more than the player! but it hold a LOT of music. 64meg cards are cheap (check ebay).

It's also a portable usb disk drive.

BTW. i resample my music to 64k because you can't hear that great at the gym and that way you can store twice as much music.

another BTW. dont buy any normal batteries ever again.
get the rechargeable NiMH kind (available everywhere now). They're $4 each (and you have to buy a charger) but they play twice as long and you can recharge 'em 1000 times. you do the math.