Reality check for us peons: my computer only has 10 gig.
wow, and i thought i was in the dark ages, computer wise.
(my computer over there has optional external hard drive, sold separately, that's 45 megs... and it's maybe 10 inches across...)
I can't imagine having more than a gig of MP3s.
do you have
physical music? if i were to record every vinyl record i own, not only would i go crazy, but i'd p robably have several hundred gigs... most of the people who buy these things are buying them to replace cd collections -- and the people getting the 60 giggers are generally concerned about audio fidelity, and are using expremely large files.
I don't worry about robust construction. I've dropped my cassette Walkman more times than I can count and it still works fine. (Yes, I would still have a Walkman gramophone if they existed.)
yeah, mp3 players don't work that way. you drop it, it's broken. well, except the one i have, apparently. it's actually made of metal. i'm a junky for
things actually made of metal. both of my cameras are old metal monsters.
I do not want an FM tuner. FM is a vast wasteland.
we have a good station or two down here. but that's not the real reason i
need and fm tuner. i'd really like an
am too, but those require longer antenae or something. the reason being that we get hit with big nasty hurricanes here, and the radio is pretty much the connection to the outside world for a week.
I don't need "features". All I need is something to play MP3s five miles from my house.
i agree, features be damned. i don't need id3 databases, i don't need video, i don't need most of the crap these players come with.
And it should be dirt cheap.
Any ideas?
there are a few dirt cheap
sandisk players. not very high capacity, kind of shitty build quality, no fm tuner, just what you're looking for. grunwald has one. 50 bucks for half a gig, 70 for a gig.
cowon also has the
g3 and
g2 for close to same price for a gig, but it's better build quality and comes with a radio.