It all depends on what you want to do with it and how much space you need. It is not true that you need an extra firmware to make all iriver players usuable as hard drives. This is not necessary with the iriver 300 20 and 40 gb players.
Regards Andre -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne Sent: 29 September 2005 01:02 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: looking for MP3 player A couple of things to consider: 1. Will the player act like an external drive, or are you stuck with the manufacturer's software? Iriver requires use of its propritary software, which isn't very accessible, unless you can find and install an additional file to make it act like a drive. 2. Battery. some players use a proprietary battery. In the case of MuVo slim, the battery is charged by plugging the player into the USB port for three hours. this is lovely if you're at home and have access to a computer, although you can't listen to your book with the player plugged into the drive. If you don't just happen to have a computer handy to plug into, you're out of luck. Most MP3 players use tripple-a batteries and a few use double-a's. These run something like 15 hours and can be replaced at will. 3. Manuals. Some manuals are easy to read, and some are obviously written in a language not native to the writer. the Iriver manual for the IFP-795T is not only painfully graphic but so poorly written as to be not very useful. 4. And of course it needs to play at least MP3 and WMA files. Most of them do. Iriver says it plays OGG as well, but I haven't tried it. I have not seen one that plays .wav files. The player of choice in our home is a 1 gig Sandisk, with FM radio and recording capability. It's $129 from circuit City, who will ship for free. At 06:50 PM 9/28/2005, you wrote: >Hi everybody, as the subject line says I am looking for aMP3 player, >the player needs to be able to playMP3 and WMA files.That are 22.5 Hz, >16 bits, mono. >You see, I been converting books on cassette to MP3/WMA CDs. > And then breaking the 1 MP3 track that is the whole book down to 5 >minute tracks. >But when I burn them to the CD, with or with out a play list, the >tracks do not play in the correct order. > >So I give up! I decided that I should use an MP3 player. that will >play >MP3 and WMA files. > >So I want to put many books on to a MP3 player, using 1 track per book! >Also I need the MP3 player to be able to be turn off, and turn back on >the next day at the point of the book where I left off! >question 1: will I be able to do this with a MP3 player? >question 2: will my screen reader access the program that will let me >load my books on/off to the MP3 player? > >can anybody help? >email or call between 8am and 9 pm eastern time. >phone: 908 725 5552 > >*-**--***---****----*****-----****----***---**--* >Have A nice day from KB2NKZ, Jim Ardin >email= [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
