MP3 player advice

[Fraulein Arztin]

Itunes is only okay listening to it on the computer if you really hate it, masterchef. Personally I love my ipod. It's probably the most valuable thing I have besides my DS.

[Hamese]

The quote is just me rambling about itunes

One day the iTunes/iPod haters will fall. I would have deemed myself an all Apple hater, not too long ago. I tried all different types of music players. I even had hacked versions of iRivers that played videos because that was something I wanted too.

18 months ago my mother won a 32GB touch and there was no way she was going to use it. Since she still wanted one I bought her an 8GB and took the 32GB, pretty good deal on my part. I will say that I have been 110% satisfied with my iPod Touch and dont even think about it anymore. iTunes has been just fine for me and actually has probably organized my music better than anything I have tried. I've ripped several movies and TV series to it and since have bought an Apple TV that I think is great for what I need it for.

With that said, since you are looking for non iTunes, I would agree with the Sansa. That is about the cheapest a person can find that is worth anything. Zune, and sometimes Creative, obviously have good reputations but they are more expensive and do not offer anymore than you are looking for.

I had the iriver transmitter too, but it fell apart on me. My wife used one for the iPod, and I have an external XM radio with an AUX port I use. BTW, if you have XM.... the SkyFi3 allows you to use a microSD card with mp3's. I used that too and actually liked it before I got the touch. Plus it was XM, portable, and light.

[!B a T m A n!]

[quote="Araris";p="238374"]I prefer the ZuneHD for larger budgets (can't stand Itunes or Ipods or Apple for that matter), however for affordability I use to use a Sansa Clip as well, they're well made devices.[/quote]

yeah i love my zuneHD, but its rather expensive. sansa sounds like the way to go

[tsmitho]

Ya I apple. if I had to use any phone other than my iPhone I might cry. Infact thats where I make about 90% of my posts including this one if your looking for a cheap route get a used nano off ebay or amazon or something. like an older generation one. they arent too badly priced. and why cant you use itunes?

[Clay Pigeon]

So my clip+ doesn't play mp2 files. Does anyone know of any freeware that will convert mp2 to mp3?

[Boss Llama]

I use an old copy of YAMP I got around 9 years ago for swapping audio formats around, and I haven't yet found reason to replace it. I don't know if I've tried an mp2 on it, but it would probably take it.

[Clay Pigeon]

Yamp 2.3 doesn't support mp2.

[!B a T m A n!]

[quote="tsmitho";p="238435"] and why cant you use itunes?[/quote]

i dont think he likes it

[Boss Llama]

[quote="Clay Pigeon";p="239783"]Yamp 2.3 doesn't support mp2. [/quote]

Really? Wierd. I only have one .mp2 on my entire system, but Yamp handled it no problem. I simply ran it in .mp3 mode and it didn't bat an eye. I wonder if my .mp2 file is just mislabeled?

[Cpt._Keyes]

i use my droid

[Clay Pigeon]

xilisoft audio converter let me transcode the mp2 files to mp3.

Yamp gave me no such option.

[El_Hefe]

i LOVE my Sansa Fuze

i HATE itunes, only reason i have itunes is for my iphone...