£50 limit: Convince me not to get an iPod Shuffle

Mr Jones · 20 Dec 2007 at 00:57

I just sold my iPod Touch and in need of a grab and go music player - i.e. plays music only, don't really need anything fancy and my budget is £50.

The Shuffle just keeps standing out, eventhough Creative's Stone has double the memory, there's something about it I'm not taking an interest. I listen to my music on the go, walking / cycling to / from uni, on the train e.t.c.

I've also got a IEM, the Mylar XB (white :rolleyes:

), to match with the Shuffle

So... anyone can recommend me something I can grab off the high street / online before Friday morning, when I hit town to grab a Shuffle...?

Much appreciated.

Mr Jones · 20 Dec 2007 at 07:29

Hmm... I didn't realised it's *that* much cheaper now... trouble is, as posted in another thread, it takes a *long* time to transfer music over?

I know it's drag and drop but does anyone knows if it integrate with iTune's Smart Playlist at all?

Mr Jones · 20 Dec 2007 at 20:31

I caved in, ordered the Stone, all in and will arrive tomorrow - shall give it my view

Since it's drag and drop, I don't think I'll worry too much on integration with iTunes, will just drag and drop what I want into it. For that price, 4GB, it was really hard to resist!

Shame about the reviewed battery life but it'll do me.

I've got a SE W880i mobile, as good as the Sony Walkman range are, I utterly hate the "cable" they use and none of the aftermarket socket/short adaptor works on my W880i anyway. It also really drains my mobile battery, never a big fan of phone + music use at the same time - thus I hate the Apple iPhone but loved the iPod Touch.

I'll post my review as soon as I get it and have a gander.

Mr Jones · 20 Dec 2007 at 21:18

Because I initially needed £150 invested to a car, which has now changed to helping my mum with her "last minute family emergency" plane ticket.

I sold the iPod Touch for £200 and investing that £50 from it for a simpler player - as much as I love the iPod Touch, I needed the money more and I just need something that plays music, decently, without much fancy stuff.

Mr Jones · 22 Dec 2007 at 11:09

Finally got it in today, even tho I paid that forest extra for 1 day express delivery. Nonetheless, that player is tiny! Not as sleek as the shuffle but still, tiny!!

I can't use it yet, been set to charge full before I'll play and listen.

I did whilst charging, upload 450 songs (2.8GB worth) and it wasn't *that* slow... took 25mins-ish so overall, not too bad, could be better tho. Will update next with my views of the sound quality

Mr Jones · 23 Dec 2007 at 00:41

Just listened to a playlist of my uploaded songs - very good little player

I also got the keyring addon so now I can carry it around me, protected / hooked around my belt strap

I like the sound quality from it, it is as good as my second gen Nano... but honestly, I hate how you have to navigate around the player.

Yes, a simple play button plays it but I've got to "drag and drop" my music into folders per album, if not, it'll list them alphabetically and all my mix of albums will be played all track number 1 first. Madness! Can't that thing read the tags of each song and list them?

Took me awhile to sort them out, drag and drop out of iTunes isn't good. I tried using SyncTunes (an app for Macs) to sync and unfortunately it hits the same problem. 1 way is to drag and drop straight out of my iTune folder, where my artist folders are holding each album in respective folders.

Overall, it's a good little player and I'll be testing how long this last in terms of battery, 3 hours in and still going strong

I also noticed how loud this is, I'm only on volume 8 out of 20 and it's already pretty loud out of my Mylar XB IEMs... I'm happy overall with what money I've paid, cheers again for the suggestion