MP3 players. Any ideas for me?

[savethewave]

I don't want a video player with a mini screen, but I have about 20-30 gigs worth of my CDs and LPs that I have turned into MP3s, with more on the way. What I have been doing until now is burning about 200 songs at a time onto CDs, and playing them on my CD/MP3 Walkman. In the case of DJ gigs, I have been occasionally using a laptop in

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[greeneyed_devil]

1. No special software to learn

[savethewave]

Thank you so much. I shall look into the Zen.

[electrocreep]

What is it that you want out of an mp3 player? Do you want it to be your main storage archive? Do you want to be able to DJ with it? Do you just want it as a walkman replacement

[savethewave]

I want to be able to use it as a backup when I DJ, in case I don't have time to burn songs to CDs.

My main storage will still be my computer, with backup on DVD-RWs. The thing that concerns me greatly is that I've heard that when iTunes gets activated, the file tagging is stripped, and the MP3's are turned into a format which will ONLY work on an iPod. I still need to be able to burn MP3s onto CDs, and transfer them possibly to different non-iPod players.

Is what I wrote above true?

Thank you for your help.

[ex_the_idea_555]

The thing that concerns me greatly is that I've heard that when iTunes gets activated, the file tagging is stripped, and the MP3's are turned into a format which will ONLY work on an iPod. I still need to be able to burn MP3s onto CDs, and transfer them possibly to different non-iPod players.

I think this myth got started when apple protected their songs that you purchase from iTunes. When you buy a song, video, cd-whatever, from iTunes, it will only work on your computer and on your iPod because it's protected. If you're just burning and ripping from CDs, then they will work with any device because there's no protection. With iTunes, you can use the tags they have for your music or you can simply edit it in with your own tags.

Hope that helps.

[electrocreep]

Do you have a Mac or PC?

Apple changes the filesnames but the tags remain instact. If you browse the iPod using Windows Explorer you'll see a bunch of names like AHRIS.mpw, XXYQW.mp3, TTUKLM.mp3, etc.

If you drag the content off of the iPod back to your computer the filenames will be wrong.

If you youse "EphPod" instead of iTunes to manage your iPod you can trasfer files to and from your iPod and EphPod will fix the weird file name when you transfer back to the PC.

If you have a Mac I don't know if any of the above applies.

[cinema_babe]

Ahhh, here I am late to the party again.....

If you're looking for something that would primarily be for playback, etc, you might want to consider that multi-tasking workhorse: The PDA. Back when I was sick, I put a bunch of music on some 1 gig memory chips and used my PDA as a mp3 player. The interface on my mine is visual but it was easy to memorize which buttons did what and I could charge it while I listened.

Best of luck picking one that works well for you!

[dj_tm5]

How many 8 tracks do you own?

:)