Re: PING tscottme

I have a Muvo TX FM 256MB player from Creative. It runs on one AAA battery
and it will play for 18 hours using the low bit rate files I play. If you
fill up a 1GB player with music files, you will probably have more battery
life than content to listen to. By that I mean the player will play all the
music using an AA or AAA battery.

One thing I do like on the small players, as opposed to the Apple Nano, is
the ability to use a common battery. With the HD players they use an
internal lithium ion battery, like a notebook. You're only option is to
bring a power cord if you expect to use them for a long time. With the
small flash based players, if you unexpectedly run out of power, you can
just pop in a new battery. If your forget a battery, you can buy one in any
store. I've been using a flash player which uses a single AAA battery and
has battery life inferior to the Creative Muvo. It's never run out of juice
during a 10 hour work day. Typically it will play all night at work and I
have enough power to listen for a couple of hours before work and a couple
of hours after work and still have power left over. This is with my 24kbps
audio files.

Using an AAA battery the player is about the weight of a disposable cig
lighter, or mayeb two lighters.

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Scott

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I havne't heard anyone disparage the quality of the iriver players. So I
assume it sounds good and is durable. One thing I really like about the
iRiver is using an AA battery. Here's what I don't like: the price is
about
twice as much as a Creative Zen Nano Plus (also called Muvo Micro N200)
with
1GB capacity. The slightly strange shape may make it a little
cumbersome
to
find a place to put the player in the truck. The Nano Plus/Muvo Micro
is
the shape and size of a pack of gum or slightly larger than a box of
matches. The Nano/Micro costs $100 from Zipzoomfly.com The color
display
of the iRiver is catchy, but I'm not sure I would pay for that feature.


Thanks Scott, I'll check out that creative player. The thing that
attracted
me was the AA battery.




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