Who owns an iPod alternative?

Glaucus · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:10

ubersonic said:
My iPhone is only 8GB so cannot hold all the music I have, and using it as a wifi music streamer kills the battery.

Do you really need that much music?

I once had a collection of over 100gb, came to the conclusion I was downloading for the sake of it. Out of all that how many songs did I actually listen to.
Now just have the songs I actually listen to which is about 250-300 and no where even near that many GB.

As for others 3.5mm jacks are standard and have been for several years. UI again since smartphones has been great. Battery mp3 playing takes nothing and phones just playing music lasts ages.

Size I can certainly see the the appeal of sense clip, iPod nano/shuffle.

neoboy · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:10

AcidHell2 said:
What suckers own an mp3 player. I don't understand why people own mp3 player for like the last 6+ years when phones have been more than capable.
Is there a reason people need two devices when one does both?

Largely gym and running outside like today for example when I got soaked through in the rain and my phone would've probably bit the dust not to mention that smartphones are somewhat bulky to run with in your pocket/fall out/etc. Never spent more than £40 on a player as I don't need more than a few GB of storage for those uses.

dmpoole said:
I don't use them either but I'd do my homework before coming out with something which isn't true.
Yes you need a piece of software and before somebody talks about bloatware, 100 meg on a modern day PC is nothing.
You can remove all the stuff that loads on startup to and run it when you want without anything running in the background.
iTunes isn't the devil Apple haters make it out to be.
Just thought, I'm an Apple hater but at least I know about iTunes.

For all I know it's the easiest piece of software to use in the world but it's more the principle of not having a choice when we all know it's perfectly possible to make a player that doesn't require any additional software installed. I never said you can't do it on Apple anyway, I simply indicated that I like to drag and drop my music. If they were cheaper than the competition one might overlook that but otherwise it's another turn off for a consumer.

I'm not an follower of Apple, but find me a cheaper 160gb music player than the iPod Classic.

The Classic wins hands down

Hey that well could be the case, I was just talking about my uses and I really just use dedicated players for gym and running so never needed to buy anything over a few GB.

dekez · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:11

I just use my phone (HTC Hero), I don't listen to much music so it does the job.

To be fair I think the ipod is the one thing that Apple did well, and it did rightly (and probably still does, I don't know) dominate the market.

Nitefly · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:12

Robbie G said:
My phone is a smartphone, try running, cycling, rowing, lifting weights, etc... with a smartphone in your pocket. The Sansa Clip + for example, clips onto your sleeve and is extremely light.

Sansa clip is obviously better... but I do all those activities with my iphone in my pocket with a case, dunno what you're moaning about

You can get a arm strap thing for about £6 on the bay if you need it.

Sankari · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:12

For those who still use an iPod but hate iTunes, try Yamipod.

mrk · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:12

Robbie G said:
My phone is a smartphone, try running, cycling, rowing, lifting weights, etc... with a smartphone in your pocket. The Sansa Clip + for example, clips onto your sleeve and is extremely light.

Not a problem if your smartphone is thin and light, you barely notice it!

G18241 · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:17

Creative Zen Microphoto for me, had it years, it works, i have no reason to replace it

I could potentially just use my SGS phone for music, but battery life is not great at the best of times

PapaLazaru · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:17

Sony Walkman.

The original and best.

Ian · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:17

I have an oldish Sony A series mp3 player and used to have a 256meg iBead thing.

I have used an iPod Nano for a while that i got free with a printer purchase. Just couldnt get on with iTunes at wll. My phone cant do mp3s so thats why i have a seperate device

grudas · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:18

mobile phone best mp3 player ever..

Monkeynut · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:24

jaybee said:
This. Got one for my little girl and she gets on ok with it, also does video if I'm thinking of the same one. Sure it was a Fuze. No apple in our house.

Yeah it's that one. Video on it is a bit meh, but it's pretty cheap anyway and I don't like watching video on the move.

Hxc · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:27

mrk said:
Not a problem if your smartphone is thin and light, you barely notice it!

It is still a problem if it is 4" diagonally. I don't use my zune for anythng other than light gym work and when traveling. For gym I have a small samsung player which is much nicer to use and can just sit on shuffle.

It's not the thin/light aspect, it's the size. Pain in the ass when running, rowing, etc.

Mike B · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:31

AcidHell2 said:
What suckers own an mp3 player. I don't understand why people own mp3 player for like the last 6+ years when phones have been more than capable.
Is there a reason people need two devices when one does both?

Probably because a PMP or DAP player will last 100 hours wheras a Smartphone will last a day.

With heavy use on my phone, loads of Wi-fi use, on the run, using the music player, using web browsing your phone will hardly get through a day.

Then the second thing is sound quality, equaliser settings, being able to perfect each song, album track to your own hearing tastes and just make your headphones sound awesome.

Codec support for people who like to use lossless formats and truly get the all the bits of sound in the music.

Obviously you probably don't care about that.

wakayoda · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:34

Sony Walkman E Series 4GB, I swap the music round when I get bored of tracks and even then when I want something different I can use the FM radio. It can do video but the screen is far too small to make it worth wasting the space for the files. I would never want to mix a phone and an MP3 player as I like to listen to music undisturbed whilst avoiding wasting the battery. Sony for music, Nokia for phone. Used to use an Archos AV500 for all the media, now its got all of my music on it as a back up/jukebox.

taz488 · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:35

Use my BB with mem card, phone + music = no ipod

Dreadi · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:35

I have creative zen touch 40gb. Bought it back in college when it was almost half the price of a 20gb ipod with twice the storage and just laughed when everyone said it was fat and ignore it wasn't as long and had twice the capacity of their ipods. Still got it but rarely use it or my zen stone nowadays.

Mahnsikir · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:41

Still got my creative zen x-fi after my zen micro broke about 3 years ago.

Thought I'd see the end of it with my Desire HD having a headphone port but the far superior audio quality, not to mention fantastic battery still keep it in use.

Pawnless Endgame · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:50

bsoltan said:
I had a Creative Zen, it was terrible. I persevered for a while but it was just rubbish at everything.

Whaaaaaa?! I think they're ace! Me and my mate got Zen Moziacs. Takes MP3s as normal, manage it via plain ol' Explorer, no 3rd party apps. They're small to boot too. Please do tell what you thought was terrible about them though.

e36Adz · 18 Jul 2011 at 17:59

All those praising iTunes and saying people dislike it because they can't use it properly. Can you tell me how I'd sync my iPhone/iPod with iTunes on a fresh install of Win 7 which I would have to do lets say if (a) I got a virus on my PC or (b) if my PC just died for one reason or (c) for a number of other reasons. But yeah, how would I sync my iPhone/iPod to iTunes without it completely wiping my iPhone/iPod clean?

ubersonic · 18 Jul 2011 at 18:05

AcidHell2 said:
Do you really need that much music?

I once had a collection of over 100gb, came to the conclusion I was downloading for the sake of it. Out of all that how many songs did I actually listen to.
Now just have the songs I actually listen to which is about 250-300 and no where even near that many GB.

As for others 3.5mm jacks are standard and have been for several years. UI again since smartphones has been great. Battery mp3 playing takes nothing and phones just playing music lasts ages.

Size I can certainly see the the appeal of sense clip, iPod nano/shuffle.

Downloading? mines mostly just from a 15 year old CD collection lol, I suppose yes I could just pick which songs I want to take with me but why do that when my 40gb mp3 player holds them all? It would suck to be out on a run and get a few miles form my house then think "man Id really love to listen to X"