Recommend a MP3 Player

[eck]

Mrs eck has joined a choir.

They get music, in their parts, sent via dropbox as MP3 files. While she can play stuff on the laptop, it would be good if she had access to it on the move, eg when she is in the garage washing my bike.
We know nothing of these devices: obviously we need to download stuff from the laptop to the MP3 player, and it needs to be able to select from quite a large menu of songs.
Would something as basic as this do the job? http://www.amazon.co.uk/8GB-MP3-MP4...s=network-media&ie=UTF8&qid=1363716768&sr=1-5
Not necessarily that particular one, but like that?
Thanks.

 

[albion]

The highest rated budget one is by Sandisk.
Clip + or the Clip Zip will do.

Plug it in and copy the files to it like on a PC.
Its robust with decent battery life, and simply recharged via USB.

You could also go with something like a Shuffle but that will be too fiddly all round. It even needs software on your PC to work. If buying new and cheap on ebay best make sure delivery is from the UK.

edit - the cheaper one will probably do, just with a risk of many limitations.

 

[Fab Foodie]

The highest rated budget one is by Sandisk.
Clip + or the Clip Zip will do.

Yep, good reviews.
I have the Sansa Clip 8Gig.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=19NKJMVXEFFKVYQJBW5H
Basic but works well, easy to load, love the radio, I fall asleep to it every night and often wake-up and it's still going. It's very small, light and it's expandable with a micro SD card.
One tip if you go this route is when setting it up, choose N. America, it's louder!
Search around you can often get it cheaper than this.

 

[albion]

Thanks for your post eck.

I have a Clip+ and thought it had broken last week but I had simply turned it off mid CD update and it needed a reset.
Anyway have now also bought myself a ZIp for £19 on ebay.

As I use them a lot one will be as reserve.
BTW the radio is rubbish on the older Clip+, have no idea what it is like on the Zip.

 

[Lee_M]

has she not got a smartphone?

 

[Kies]

The only ones worth having are Ipods IMO. Failing that,use your smartphone. Even a basic one will allow you to hold/play music via headphones/aux cable into stereo/hifi/dock

 

[fossala]

The only ones worth having are Ipods IMO. Failing that,use your smartphone. Even a basic one will allow you to hold/play music via headphones/aux cable into stereo/hifi/dock

iPods used to be good, until the changed the spec of the amp 4/5 years ago.

 

[MontyVeda]

I've got an ipod shuffle (the one with no buttons on it).. it's great... so small you don't need a pocket, sounds good enough to me... but when it comes to iTunes to manage the fecking thing... I hate it with a vengeance.

 

[ushills]

+1 for the Sansa clip.

 

[Oldlegs]

I'd get Mrs Eck to ask other choir members what they use. I'm guessing from your post the mp3's will come without tags.If so there are very few players that handle selecting from a large number of file names well.

 

[The Jogger]

I have a sansa clip and I refused the chance of having an ipod nano as a birthday present. The clip does the job perfectly.

 

[RWright]

Sansa clip works great for me. I found some Shure SE 115 se earphones for $35 ( new, but they only had pink left ). The headphones that come with them sound fine but I wanted sound isolating. If it was a tad louder it would be almost perfect.

 

[eck]

Mrs eck ended up going for the SanDisk sansa clip+.
It was very easy to get started, and quite intuitive in use. And, by jings, it's tiny!
Thanks for suggestions.

 

[albion]

I doubt you will ever need it but I think I once turned it off after disconnecting from USB, possibly whilst cataloguing.
When next out and about coming to use it, it appeared dead as a dodo.
Turns out it simply needed a reset which is holding the power button down for a good 20 seconds before pressing again to turn on.

 

[derrick]

i pod.