What mp3 player do you have?

FoxEye said:
I'm not typical of most people. I use my phone for emergencies only, and it's normally turned off and in my backpack. I don't take it with me around town, nor do I listen to music around town. Both my mp3 player and phone are used most often when I'm out hiking or camping.

If I use all the battery of my mp3 player it's no big deal. I just have no music :p Use all the charge on my phone and I need to then find somewhere I can charge it, or run the risk of not having it when I really need it (twisted ankle in the middle of nowhere, fell off cliff face, etc :P)

I've also found that phones are the worst culprits for not living up to the stated battery life specs. A phone rated for 48 hours probably only does 15 max in real life usage. At least that's been my experience.

If your phone is more for recreation/luxury, and you take it everywhere with you, then yes, I can see the benefit of using to play music also. For me, right now, I'm happier keeping them separate.

I can't be the only one to take this stance, or separate mp3 players wouldn't be made anymore ;)
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Ah k that explains a bit, I never had my battery run out of juice from playing music, sometimes keeping music on all night through earplugs ( this is including last fm scrobbling so it uses the Internet once every 3 minutes), and after a full charge and then listening to music 3 hours on the speaker at work ( not allowed to use headphones) it still shows a ''full bars'' charge.

Even if my phone would run out, I have a charger for it in my car, A usb cable which I can use anywhere where there are pc's or something usb ( uni and dads cars ( HU usb port) usually ) and a charger at home. But my phone can easily play music all night without needing a recharge or for a couple of hours on speaker.

I'd never leave home without a telephone.
 
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Sansa Clip 4GB. Thought I'd killed it sweating on it in the gym as it wasn't charging from USB. A cheap mains charger sorted it out thankfully.

Superb sounding little player.
 
As said, the pitch was out [slow by a percentage], and it was audible. To get around it you had to re-encode to 48Khz, because the level of pitch error at 48kHz playback was much lower.
I stopped using it because I could hear the pitch being out and it annoyed me.

The latest firmware (available on the Sansa forums) mostly corrects it (its now very very slightly fast, but only very marginally and not really noticeable without measuring equipment because of how small the difference is, whereas before the slowdown WAS noticeable even to the ear, if you compared a 44.1kHz version of a track to a 48 reencode, it was extremely easy to hear).

As well as the Sansa Updater, the latest firmware (right now) for the Clip, not Clip+, is available here:
http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&thread.id=23379

Undocumented change in the firmware, but a massive improvement and I can use my player again :)
Now I just need to completely clear it off and recopy my music across, because it was all re-encoded to 48kHz which takes a decent bit more space.
 
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3rd gen Nano 4gig (the square one). 30 quid second hand off the bay. It's usually connected to my Alpine IDA-X305 in the car.
 
I have a sansa Fuze 8 gb with a 8 gb mini sd in it. Use Koss porta pro headphones which I found more detailed than my previous sennheiser px100's.

I would rather use a dedicated MP3 player so my phone doesnt run out of power when I actually need it:eek:
 
Uriel said:
Playback was originally at the wrong speed / pitch. It played 44.1khz material at 48 khz.

The firmware updater can be downloaded here: http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/156/kw/firmware/r_id/101834
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