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    Posted: October 14 2010 at 20:44
Which one do you prefer? (although i highly doubt very many others will get a vote other than iPod)

I've got a Zune and I love it!

Or are you still a vinyl freak? Wink (I know my dad is)
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I have a Sony MP3 from 2005 I think, still working well. It's no big thing, but it's sufficient, I just detest 'consumism'..
 
Anyway, I barely listen to my Mp3 or use headphones for that matter, they've damaged my ears... I don't want to get deaf!
 
Give me CD's any day.
 
Regarding the poll options, I haven't seen a Zune yet.


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Creative


But out of those, Zune
I have one now and like it much much better then iPod
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I am in love with my iPod classic
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I love vinyls for the collectibility of them and size of the artwork. I do not buy into the myth that all the popping and hissing somehow 'adds' something to the music itself, though. Digital sound files are just fine with me. More convenient, too.

I myself use a Zune. It's the only Microsoft product I really find completely user-friendly and well-made. Plus, I enjoy the interface a bit more than I do iPods. But of course, it's just a matter of preference. 
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Creative

I had an iPod once and it was rubbish. Having to use iTunes was also a drag. I'll take my trusty Creative Zen, then the Zune, then some other mp3 players before ever contemplating an Apple product again.
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Creative

I had an iPod once and it was rubbish. Having to use iTunes was also a drag. I'll take my trusty Creative Zen, then the Zune, then some other mp3 players before ever contemplating an Apple product again.


We agree 100%

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My Creative Zen made it 5 years before it died on me, and even then the battery life was still great and it worked fine...just spazzed out finally.

The Zune isn't bad and yeah, I hated having an iPod. It was indeed rubbish.



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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Creative

I had an iPod once and it was rubbish. Having to use iTunes was also a drag. I'll take my trusty Creative Zen, then the Zune, then some other mp3 players before ever contemplating an Apple product again.


We agree 100%

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My Creative Zen made it 5 years before it died on me, and even then the battery life was still great and it worked fine...just spazzed out finally.

The Zune isn't bad and yeah, I hated having an iPod. It was indeed rubbish.





I've had my Zen since 2007. I took it to the gym basically every day from August 2008 to December 2009. That little sucker has definitely worked quite a bit, and it still works quite well. Granted, I think there's a screw rattling in there, but the performance remains thoroughly unaffected.
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No doubt.
Creative is great stuff.

You're taste in music players is superb.
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my brother had a Zen a while back. That thing could withstand a bullet and probably still work. It accidentally got caught underneath his trunk door and after trying to smash the door shut w/o realizing the zen was there, he finally found it lodged in the hatch without a scratch on it. It just up and died though a few years back
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I like Creative Zen the most, but if it were between just the zune and the ipod, I would choose the zune. I'm not a fan of any apple products, really. I had an ipod once and I found it to be absolutely terrible.

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Whew, I know my fellow proggers would know the greatness of Creative Zen!
No on else does...

And yeah I took that thing on walks/runs/bus rides/through rain and snow. It got constant use often.
That thing was a veteran and worked fine until the day it died!

My Zune isn't too bad though. Time will tell how it holds up of course.


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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Whew, I know my fellow proggers would know the greatness of Creative Zen!
No on else does...

And yeah I took that thing on walks/runs/bus rides/through rain and snow. It got constant use often.
That thing was a veteran and worked fine until the day it died!

My Zune isn't too bad though. Time will tell how it holds up of course.

I hear you, man. My creative zen lasted forever, even with all the abuse it took from me and my clumsy hands, and concrete a couple times. I was sad the day it died on me. Right now I'm trying to find a good replacement...

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What I look for in a MP3 player is capacity and the iPod is the only one I know that offers 160gb. I've been using iPods for over three years and have had no problems. I don't see why they are terrible. I guess progressive rock listeners must go against trends and go for the more unknown MP3 players. I can understand that and I would chose another product if it had the same capacity just so I could be different from the mindless herds that listen to nothing but pop and rap on their iPods.
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I tried an iPod for a while (my friend's) and wasn't a big fan.  I tried a Zune for a while (the one I bought on a whim) and I've been using it happily for at least 3 years now.  Though I don't use the software for anything but syncing music to the device, for everything else it's not much better than iTunes IMO (and it can't scrobble).
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I have only ever had Sansas and I hate them.
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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

I have only ever had Sansas and I hate them.
My Sansa is great.
4GB has enough space for plenty of music.
And it's tiny. It doesn't get in the way when I go to the gym.
Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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lol 4GB?

my 120GB iPod is nearly full


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Originally posted by Evolver Evolver wrote:

Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

I have only ever had Sansas and I hate them.
My Sansa is great.
4GB has enough space for plenty of music.
And it's tiny. It doesn't get in the way when I go to the gym.

Mine have always been defective in some way, the first one's screen started to not turn on when I started the mp3 player, eventually it stopped coming on at all. My current one worked fine but then it started randomly corrupting files, I had to reformat it to get it to work properly, once I had to reinstall the firmware. The scrolly wheel is sometimes unmanageable, and the headphone jack must be loose because most of the time the sound doesn't work properly. :(
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Size is another problem. My Zen was filled and I had a TON more music.
The Zune is bigger but still not even close.

I'll need to one day get one of those 10K + song ones!

lol Colin
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