MP3 players

[chickenfeet]

As reported previously the lovely lemur bought me an RCA Lyra Sport MP3 player for my birthday. There was a snag. Despite being advertised as being Mac compatible the simple act of downloading files to it appeared to corrupt the system files rendering it useless. Two exemplars have now been returned and I'm in the hunt for something else. If money were no object (hollow laugh) I'd get one of the new Nanopods. It's the right (physical) size and is sure to work with Mac OS but it's about twice as expensive as I feel justified in paying.

What I need is a player for using when I'm running. It needs to be light, have an armband, work with Mac OSX and that's about it really. 256MB is fine as I don't intend it to be a primary storage unit for music. Anyone got any bright ideas?

Comments

[thera-flu.livejournal.com]

ipod shuffle!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Nope. I want to be able to choose what I listen to and in what order.

[thera-flu.livejournal.com]

You can if you build playlists on your itunes and download the music that way. Still may not be what you want though.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Really? the guy in the store said you couldn't do that.

[thera-flu.livejournal.com]

From the apple site (just was making sure that what friends had told me is right):

DJ Your Day
If you favor cycling to a hip-hop soundtrack and snowboarding to a little electronica, Autofill iPod shuffle from a specific iTunes Playlist and roll. Download an album from the iTunes Music Store and listen to it in order before you Shuffle it into your collection. Or just drag and drop individual songs and podcasts from iTunes onto iPod shuffle. With Play in Order mode, you manage the music. If things take a turn for the predictable, never fear. Turn iPod shuffle over, flip the slider to Shuffle and mix on the go.

http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

running

[(Anonymous)]

All the runners I know here at work love their shuffle. "It's like wearing nothing" they say.

[jen-c-w.livejournal.com]

ex-from-aus used to use a really dinky i-rvier whilst running

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

you want the new IPOD nano. It's only a bit thicker than a credit card.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

You are right, I want it but I can't really justify the cost for what I'll use it for.