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Tell me what MP3 palyer to get that meets my specs
Monkeydrye
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My girl is looking for an MP3 player. But she has specific requests.
1) Around 30GB
2) Easy to use
3) Playlists
4) Will allow easy import of any MP3's she has. Especailly all th eones she ripped from her CD's.
The latter is the biggie. She has a huge collection of MP3's already. And doesn't want to do a bunch of techno mumbo jumbo to transfer them. Now, me, I love me some techno mumbo jumbo...but she doesn't want to have to depend on me for that (should I be worried about that?).
So, let me have it!
1) Around 30GB
2) Easy to use
3) Playlists
4) Will allow easy import of any MP3's she has. Especailly all th eones she ripped from her CD's.
The latter is the biggie. She has a huge collection of MP3's already. And doesn't want to do a bunch of techno mumbo jumbo to transfer them. Now, me, I love me some techno mumbo jumbo...but she doesn't want to have to depend on me for that (should I be worried about that?).
So, let me have it!
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But out of those, I'd go for the iPod.
But I heard that you had to fiddle with the ipod to get it to work with non itunes mp3's/ Not true?
They need to have their tags and such sorted, but that isn't a big deal at all.
Wait, what? No. You need to use iTunes to import songs to an iPod, you can't just toss them onto the player like it's a USB Mass Storage Device. That's exactly what this person is trying to avoid!
It meets all your standards. When you install the zune program, it will ask you where you have your music, the search that folder, and upload it to your zune when you connect it to your pc.
Pretty painless process.
I meant the player as in the player window. Oops.
She wants to avoid "techno mumbo jumbo". If a one-time drag and drop of the folder she has all her ripped mp3s in onto the iTunes window following which her collection will forever after be automagically synced with her mp3 player is to complex for her, there is literally nothing on the market which will meet her needs.
Perhaps she wants to avoid having to install yet another goddamn program to use her new music player? I know it bugs the hell out of me when every piece of hardware I buy needs to have its own fucking software suite.
Another vote for Zune... the software will know where your music is
Does she buy music online at all, or will she want to? Then she may want to look and see if she likes the offerings of the iTunes Store or the Zune Store (or whatever they called it.) Also, what does she use to rip her CDs now? She can use either the Zune or iTunes interface to do that from now on, plus iTunes at least (can't speak for Zune) automatically organizes all of the files so that you don't have to dick around in folder hierarchies.
This sounds exactly like my wife; she generally hates technology. She wants to turn it on and have it work; she has an iPod now with a few songs on it, but she doesn't even have most of her CDs ripped, so once we have our home office set up I'm going to rip all her CDs for her and then she can just plug in the iPod and it all seamlessly updates from there.