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"IPod or Zen Micro"

I dont know whether to get the 20GB Ipod or the 5GB Creative Zen Micro. I got more than 5GB of music but was wondering if the £50 odd saving is worth fiddling around with the songs from time to time. Any suggestions or opinions on either of them. Cheers

Cycloon wrote:
> The Micro is p*ss easy to operate, you'd have to have monkey hands to
> muck it up. And it's superb, aside from the comment below.
>
> What I will say is that the Micro has a common headphone jack issue,
> which really sucks - i.e, it mucks up and you have to get it
> repaired. But you don't have to get an iPod - there are many other
> decent/better players about.

I think it was a faulty batch, my sisters broke ages ago. She's sending it back this week, they must have fixed the problem.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> NW-HD3 or NW-HD5.
>
> 20GB, Longer battery life than iPod, better sound quality than iPod,
> better looking than iPod.

Wise words from a wise man. Just waiting for mine to be returned from being repaired after basically throwing it off my desk at school a few months ago. Took me ages to bother taking it in, be wonderful to have it back though.

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> I am actually thinking of converting them to 64kbps ATRAC3plus -
> through headphones, it doesn't sound much worse, and will give me
> still more space.

And improve the battery life even more

The Sony HD5 is a superb piece of kit. My girlfriend picked one up while we were in the States. I'd recommend it as the battery life is amazing.

That's probably the one I was thinking of.

Or you could get the 20gb Creative Zen Touch for £150, superb quality

or†ega wrote:
> JC941* wrote:
> Our shop in East Anglia are gonna be lowering it by 50 quid come mid
> September.
>
> Cool. how much you charge at the moment though? I wanna get one by
> the end of september as i'm going on holiday.

Im 95% sure it's 180 at the moment. Pretty much the same as elsewhere.

JC941* wrote:
> My Dad bought the HD5 on Monday. Is quite superb.

They are wonderful!

I currently have most of my CDs on it (just missing some 80's compilations) - a total of 2379 tracks in MP3 format at 128kbps, and it's not even half full.

I am actually thinking of converting them to 64kbps ATRAC3plus - through headphones, it doesn't sound much worse, and will give me still more space.

JC941* wrote:
> Our shop in East Anglia are gonna be lowering it by 50 quid come mid
> September.

Cool. how much you charge at the moment though? I wanna get one by the end of september as i'm going on holiday.

There are 20GB players that are cheaper than the IPod last time I checked, just not as 'micro' as the Zen one you mentioned.

Get one of those.

I certainly intend to.