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Hi, I've never had an MP3 Player, the closest I've had was a £20 CD player that I broke in like a few weeks and only ever had like 2 CDs for it anyway (Atmosphere and Mandy Moore LOLO)
Anyway the point is I want to buy a CHEAP but reliable MP3 Player to take to the GYM.
That is really the only use. I don't need to store 10,000 songs and I don't really need a 2 inch colour screen.
Anyway I just spent ages reading the review of the Sandisk Sansa Clip+ (8gb) which is listed for £33. This seems really good deal on Amazon but SO many of the 3-star reviews say that it breaks or freezes or some annoying bullshit about the battery dying etc etc. I don't really wanna fuck around with something like that..
So what MP3 player should I get for the gym? There is IPOD Shuffle for £39 I just saw and Samsung YP-F3 for the same price, but honestly I am looking more at the £10-20 range.... I just want something I can put ~20+ music tracks on and take to the gym and not worry about it breaking....
Honestly this thing looks kinda cool, but IDK what it would be like wearing it at the gym.... or if it is total utter tosh (its a new seller with only 1 for sale too)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-Headphones-Headset-Player-Players/dp/B006TABFNG/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1331855570&sr=1-4
Edit: £39 for an MP3 player is a lot of money to me, plus Ive never owned an MP3 player, hence the blog asking for suggestions
 
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As you say, the Sansa clip+ does occassionally freeze, though I haven't had trouble with the battery. It plays flac files which is pretty sexy.
It's size and clip would make it good for the gym, and you can just drag and drop music onto it, instead of messing around with itunes.
So despite it's problems, I'd say it's worth the price for what you want to do.
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Go to the nearest electronics store near you, ask them which of the players within 10£-20£ would be the best choice for you, and just buy it. Simple as that.
And Sandisk Sansa Clip should be pretty reliable and if you do want to buy one, you shouldn't really worry about it.
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eek, we have internet for a reason :/ going into a local store for something like this is AFAIK practically asking for someone to shit in your mouth :/
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even if they are overpriced ipod nanos don't break and will give you less hassle than most other 'tiny' mp3 players. Get one for cheap from one of the turk shops on western road. Although, you will have to deal with the piece of crap that is itunes.
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I have a regular Sansa Clip (not Clip+) that I've used for workouts for the past 5 years. The thing is pretty amazing, actually. I love that it's easy to plug in and sync because it acts like a plug and play HDD, and I've never had problems with crashes or anything else. Even still, the battery life is still going fairly strong. I'd imagine I could get 8+ hours out of it still.
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Do you have a cell phone? Most modern cell phones double as pretty much every portable device you could ever want, includiing MP3 player.
That's the way I've done it for years now, my android phone is also my mp3 player.
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youve never had an mp3? wtf. we need to help this mp3 deprived man. a cd player?! what year is this?!
ipod shuffle is cheap and reliable.
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nah i broke it in the washer, got a £10 cell phone now 
thanks for the reminder though, i guess if i was looking at a £40 mp3 player i should really have been looking at cell phones too..
ah well i guess ill have to be true to my £20 budget and just get the cheapest thing i can find and hope it has some volume to it for the gym
edit: might be able to find ipod shuffle type thing in the 2nd hand electronics stores, theres tons of them actually
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On March 16 2012 09:06 sc4k wrote:
even if they are overpriced ipod nanos don't break and will give you less hassle than most other 'tiny' mp3 players. Get one for cheap from one of the turk shops on western road. Although, you will have to deal with the piece of crap that is itunes.
thought id find something on amazon easily enough, will take a walk sometime i guess :D
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I highly recommend the ipod shuffle, great for gym sessions. Blows my mind you saying your cd player broke, I don't think I have held a actual cd in like 5 years.
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On March 16 2012 09:15 FFGenerations wrote:nah i broke it in the washer, got a £10 cell phone now thanks for the reminder though, i guess if i was looking at a £40 mp3 player i should really have been looking at cell phones too.. ah well i guess ill have to be true to my £20 budget and just get the cheapest thing i can find and hope it has some volume to it for the gym edit: might be able to find ipod shuffle type thing in the 2nd hand electronics stores, theres tons of them actually
i think you vastly underestimate what a mp3 (even a cheap one can do)  youve been out of the loop
trust me you wont have to worry about "volume". if ya wanna kill your ears you can do it hehe
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Mostly what you'll lose by going "cheap" are features like nice playlists, being able to view the tags and sort by artist, album or genre, and occasionally cheap players just crap out and their companies don't support them much. Oh, and also, more expensive players tend to support more formats than just MP3, but that's probably not a huge concern since not many people use flacs or wavs or aac or ogg files these days.
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The one thing I've found with cheaper MP3 players is they're really aggravating to navigate. I've had a few (both iPods and not) and I found that the only ones that didn't make me want to claw my eyes out in frustration were the iPods. Everything else I've tried has had a brutal interface, been unable to search for songs by name/artist/whatever... or similar problems. Also, they seem to have some serious longevity issues compared to a nicer MP3 player. I'd just buy the iPod shuffle for £40, it's probably going to save you some money in the long run.
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Sansa clip hands down. Check around on amazon and buy.com and you can usually find a goodndeal. I've gotten like 5 of these in case I lose or break one.
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I had a clip plus. Sold it to a friend because i was rarely using it because I was mostly at home, but loved it. I would get it... The firmware is super easy to fix if it dies (which is rare, I know many people with them, and it's never happened) and the battery on it is good. I have friends that had hte original (same battery) that lasted for over 4 years. So yeah, I'll recommend the clip even though you discounted them.
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sansa clip + rockbox (freeware firmware) is pretty common. You're gonna find complaints / technical faults in any electronics, that's just the nature of the business. If there's an overwhelming number of complaints especially from trustworthy reviewers (such as anythingbutipod.com), then take some warning, but if it's just random strangers complaining, I've never owned an mp3 player that didn't have a load of people saying their's broke after a week, and mine have lasted years and years.
the cheapest thing i can find and hope it has some volume to it for the gym
Don't compete with noise around you by turning up the volume. Get something with passive noise isolation (aka IEMs or some kind of closed headphones). You will kill your hearing otherwise.
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I'm the like the complete opposite than you and it is so hard. I've had my lugged big and fat mp3 (30gigs) for about 6 years now (since 2006) and I love it. Looking for the same big chunky mp3s is hard as hell if it's not an Apple (which I do not want D:<)
Sandisk, is that still an option? I know Creative still makes a lot of decent mp3s
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Sandisk is almost exclusively fuse and clip. Both have second gen options, both are good.
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Looking for the same big chunky mp3s is hard as hell if it's not an Apple (which I do not want D:<)
Cowon X7 is the mp3 player I use. Harddrive with 160 gigs. Some people think so much space is unnecessary, but it's the difference between having to choose what you put on your mp3 player, and just throwing everything on it. Including videos, I only have 4 gigs free lol. I could, without much pain, remove about 40 gigs worth of random videos I'll probably never watch, convert some flac that I had been too lazy to transcode to mp3 (although I'm normally pretty good about that..), etc. The space doesn't force me to think 'oh, I wish I had that album on my mp3 player right now...' the way I did with my flash player all the time. People worry about the moving parts of a harddrive, but that's pretty inconsequential since it's still gonna last a decade, and you'll probably be thinking about getting a new player anyway by then
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Dude get an iPod shuffle it's the best. You've got an incredibly small form factor combined with incredible reliability, what more could you need.
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Sandisk sansa clip+. Nuff said. It fits well with going to the gym plus it plays flac and you can just drag and drop music files. Small enough to be not annoying too.
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Hey can I just say I meant ipod SHUFFLE not NANO. My bad T_T
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I have a Sansa Clip+ (2-3 years now) and yeah it has a small battery and the clip broke after 2 years of use but it's been amazing value compared to an iPod and it just works.
This vs. an iPod shuffle is that this has a screen so you can choose what track you want. If you don't care then maybe the Shuffle is better.
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Just buy one at your local store with your desired price. Remember tho: What you pay for is what you get.
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Sandisk Clip series also supports rockbox firmware, which is vastly superior to stock firmware.
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On March 16 2012 10:40 Torte de Lini wrote:
I'm the like the complete opposite than you and it is so hard. I've had my lugged big and fat mp3 (30gigs) for about 6 years now (since 2006) and I love it. Looking for the same big chunky mp3s is hard as hell if it's not an Apple (which I do not want D:<)
Sandisk, is that still an option? I know Creative still makes a lot of decent mp3s
+ Show Spoiler +iriver h320 /h340 ? ive been running this with rockbox and a bigger hdd for ages now. sadlyit doesnt last very long anymore :/ need to find a new mp3 player with a lot of capacity without bering waaay too big..
I own a creative Zen mini (or stone not quite sure how its named). Its labout as big as my thumb, has a lil screen, radio and even a little speaker. i like it. was like 30 bucks two years ago
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Sansa Fuze was the best player I ever had, cheap, great sound quality and a good battery.
Too bad the second gen ( Fuze+) is crap compared and the prices doubled since I bought my player 3 years ago.
If you can get the original Fuze, stick a rockbox on it and you are good to go.
Too bad I lost mine last summer when i sank in a bog.
On March 16 2012 14:31 MaV_gGSC wrote:
Just buy one at your local store with your desired price. Remember tho: What you pay for is what you get.
Actually quite untrue regarding mp3 players.
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I've been using a Sansa Clip for a couple of years and I'm very happy with it. I've actually had two, and both have had this weird problem where they just spontaneously turn themselves off for no reason every once in a great while, but other than that they're great and certainly worth their surprisingly low price.
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Before I got Google Music on my Android phone, I used a Sony NWZ-A818 for everything. It's thin, sturdy, and the buttons are awesome. You can press them through your pants which is awesome at the gym. I did my playlists with winamp, worked perfectly. Great sound and superb battery.
Random Google review: http://reviews.cnet.com/radios/sony-nwz-a818-8gb/4505-7875_7-32593873.html
It's old now but god damn if you can get a hold on one of them at a low price... You will be a happy smurf.
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I had a sansa fuze and it was the best mp3 player I ever had until I drop it and my father's car run over...RIP.
I'm planning on get another fuze or a clip+. Seriopusly, it's probably the best cost/benefict you could get for a mp4 player.
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I would get the cheapest iPod shuffle. I've had my 1st gen white 512mb shuffle since 2005 until it was stolen a year ago. It was great, lightweight and portable. The newest shuffle is like the size of a coin and you can clip it to your shirt and it won't get in your way.
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I swear the Sandisk Sansa Clip is the best MP3 Player you can get in the low prive range. It's simply amazing how something that cheap can have such amazing quality nowadays. It has all you want.
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The way I use my ipod classics is as a storage device for music, other files, huge movie files (Thats not playable on the ipod) playable ipod movies, photos, game files.
So pretty much like a Harddrive
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To steal this thread: are there any players that have a hard drive and not a flash drive that is NOT Apple? I really don't want an iPod but it seems like the only product that actually uses a hard drive these days.
Reason being I want to have some space and flash drives just aren't that big yet and if they are, they're crazy expensive.
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I had a clip+ brick out on me and found the issue was due to different styles of "tags" on my music tracks, certain types of tags caused the player to go kapoot. Since over writing the tags on all my music to ID3v2.3 I've had 0 problems with my clip+ and its a fabulous cheap little thing.
Wouldn't advise any other player in it's price range, it also does microSD which is nice.
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On March 16 2012 14:31 MaV_gGSC wrote:
Just buy one at your local store with your desired price. Remember tho: What you pay for is what you get.
this.
you get what you pay.
if youre price range is 30 pounds youre not gonna get something super amazing that lasts forever.
youre gonna have to live with something that isnt perfect.
although i would recommend buying it on the internet since it will be cheaper (99% of the time).
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