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On 28/01/2008, Rick Edwards <rick.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> the time has come for me to embrace the 21st century and given the
> lack of flying cars and hover boots I've decided to purchase an MP3
> Player instead. So any recommendations from the gadget heads amongst
> you? Would prefer to go for best bang for my buck rather than trendy
> IPod designer styling and am not too bothered about size and stuff as
> I'm looking to plug it into my stereo rather than wander the streets
> listening to my funky beats.

The success of the iPod is due to more than just "trendy IPod designer
styling" :)

I bought my wife a Nano for Christmas because her previous MP3 player
(M-Cody M20) was just so hard to use. OK, alpha geeks will complain
that they can't just use their file manager to drag & drop music on
the player, but the "constraint" of using iTunes (it has a built-in
database of your music, rather than just a folder/file structure),
frees you to be able to slice and dice your music by
artist/album/genre/song/playlist/composer, plus there's podcast and
audiobook support.

Go iPod. Your blood pressure will thank you :)

> Would be keen to be able to record too
> (digital in).

The iPod Classic will record. Not sure about the others.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/why-podcasters-and-bootleggers-will-love-the-new-ipod/

Tim