helicon1
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What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 13, 2006 at 01:54 AM UTC
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My Creative Nomad Zen Xtra nearly had a hard disk crash. The problem was mechanical and I found a fix on-line involving hitting the side of the machine while you reset it. It worked and I didn't have to go shopping for a new non-ipod device.
Since it has been several years since I purchased, what are your favorite devices that are NOT iPods?
bellenseb
Joined: October 09, 2003 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 13, 2006 at 02:59 PM UTC
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The Rio Carbon is excellent, but no longer in production. You can get a refurb at amazon very cheaply. It is tiny, and self-databases, so you can just drag music on and it will build the id3 tags itself, no need for any software anywhere. Wish more players had this option.
The direction of most players these days is 1) tiniest possible and 2) video; I don't need either, I keep waiting for good high-capacity ipod competitors that aren't proprietary but nothing yet.
chaz
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 13, 2006 at 03:24 PM UTC
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If it had flac support the ipod would be the perfect player for me….
That said I'm on my 2nd one in 5 years.
ratioci nation
Joined: November 22, 2002 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 13, 2006 at 03:50 PM UTC
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MindCage
Joined: May 14, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 13, 2006 at 04:21 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Señor Carlos:
If it had flac support the ipod would be the perfect player for me….
That said I'm on my 2nd one in 5 years.
I'll post this again for those interested that have iPods and don't want to utilize only MP3/WAV/AAC formats :)
Rockbox MindCage
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helicon1
Joined: December 06, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 13, 2006 at 08:17 PM UTC
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Anyone have the Creative Vision M, their 30g model? Thoughts on the device? I have been very happy with Creative but the new model doesn't have a replaceable lithium ion and me no like that.
Chip Chanko
Joined: October 16, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 14, 2006 at 01:41 AM UTC
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I've heard the toshiba gigabeat M (zune was based on this) and the sansa thing are good. Depends how much you want video on it and how big. I have an old ipod.
saco
Joined: December 02, 1999 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: What are your favorite non-ipods?
November 14, 2006 at 02:28 AM UTC
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I had a dell jukebox that I got in 2003 that I was happy with till it caught on fire. My wife got me an i-river last year for Christmas. Its adequate but I'm sure I'll be upgrading in a year or so when it dies.
