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    Posted: February 28 2007 at 20:31
Personally, I cant stand ipods, because of so many sob stories of friends breaking them all the time such as: "I cant turn it off" "The touch pad dosnt work" and "the buttons dont work." I have had a ZEN sleek (20G) for two years, and it still works fine.
 
 
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I've had my iPod for almost as long, and have had only minor glitches. Those are few, and just happened recently. I use it constantly as well. Have your friends been dropping theirs?
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My Zen completely broke and was in other scenes very inconvient. I find the iPod to be much better quality and sound, with a better design as well
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Good ole CD player>>>>>>>bothx10000
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Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Good ole CD player>>>>>>>bothx10000
 
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I've had both, and I like the iPod much better. The quality is so much better, and it's so much easier to use.
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I'm an iPod guy myself.  My Video 60 gig has worked well so far, for about 2 years now, with only one glitch that took about 10 minutes to fix. 

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I like my iPod, but it needs to be repaired, something is wrong with it (it stalls when I try to play a song, and now when I turn it on a picture of an iPod with a frown shows up and says it needs to be repaired).  By the way, if anyone knows how much repairs might cost, please tell me!
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I had a 40Gig iPod for about a year and a half, though I should really say that I had 3 iPods for a year and a half because the damn thing broke twice in that amount of time.  The harddrive died finally when it was out of warranty, so I bought a Zen V plus and I love it.
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iPods suck because they can only be used with iTunes (or mp3s).

I have a Zen, and I use the Napster To-Go flatrate ... which means that for 15€/month I can listen to more than 2 million tracks. I wonder how much I would have to pay on iTunes to get 30-50 albums each month ... Wink


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I've got a little Samsung MP3 player and it's excellent. Never had a problem with it and it plays most formats. Who needs an iPod?
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Although I do not own a Zen, I have used a friends. I found it a little difficult to use, and very bulky in comparison to the iPod.

I own a 20GB iPod that has been broken for many years and I can't upload any more music to it. Despite this I really like iPods, and it is my intention to invest in an 80GB one when I have the money to do so.
 
Does anyone know if there are any MP3 players out there with a hard drive which exceeds 300GB?? I'd like to know!
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I've never seen an MP3 player with that much space, but I dont see the point anyway. You'd have to have a backup of that lot somewhere, unless you're going to risk losing it all. My MP3 player is 2Gb and can easily fit a couple of weeks worth of listening. I just put the stuff I feel like listening to onto it at the start of the week.
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My Zen has 6GB ... and it usually contains 50+ albums encoded in 192kbps WMA (Napster) or ~240kbps mp3 (my own stuff and eMusic.com). Usually I simply review the list of albums from time to time, remove stuff I have listened to and add albums that I recently bought, or would like to listen to again.

I don't see the point of carrying with you your entire collection ... it would be kind of cool, but also a bit nerdy.LOL
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It's funny, but you would think 20GB would be more than enough. I still have a hard time when reloading music. I go to delete things, and I hesitate. I use my ipod all of the time, and I like having a lot of options. I can't predict what I will be in the mood to listen to when I get out of work, or when I am traveling.
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^ then maybe you should try to be more decisive!Wink
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Points: 5109 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2007 at 12:43
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ then maybe you should try to be more decisive!Wink


So true, so true.

It's still good to have options.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I've got a little Samsung MP3 player and it's excellent. Never had a problem with it and it plays most formats. Who needs an iPod?


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Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

...I like having a lot of options. I can't predict what I will be in the mood to listen to when I get out of work, or when I am traveling.
 
It's the same for me. Call me nerdy by all means but I like the idea of having my entire collection with me at all times so when the mood takes me to listen to something, I will be able to. It's annoying when you think of something but find you don't have it at the time.

I keep all of my music backed up on an external hard drive, so losing it from my MP3 player wouldn't be too much of a problem...But what if something quite terrible happens to my HDD? Don't want to think about it. Cry
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I prefer my trusty MuVo 2!



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