MP3 Player - I'm Clueless!

sarah.roberts85

Hello,

I would like to buy an MP3 player and my budget is about £50. The thing is I have no idea about size etc. How many songs is 1GB?? Can I get a good MP3 player for my budget, and if so, any recommendations? I would rather not buy an Ipod. Any help would be much appreciated!!
Thanks,

Sarah

thomas01155

My dad has this its pretty good and only £20
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Sansa-m240-1Gb-Player/dp/B000CDE6IW/ref=pd_bbs_1/026-4319791-5611646?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1178636290&sr=8-1

More here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_/026-4197788-2440431?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mp3&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

JonnyThunder

The amount of songs you can fit into the space all depends on the rate it's been encoded at. As a rough rule, you're about 1Mb / 1 minute of song, unless it's been encoded at a silly rate (which is worthless for an MP3 player).

So, lets assume it's around 1Mb / minute. If your average song is around 4 minutes - then thats 4mb / song. And assuming 1GB is appx 1000 Mb (it's actually more) then you'd get around 250 songs on there.

I have a 4gb iPod Mini and I get around 1000 songs on there, give or take. So that should give you an idea. Why are you steering clear of ipods? They are ace! :cool:

seaweasel

You can get a Shuffle for about £50, I bought one for my Mum for Christmas, they're great.

jampton

seaweasel wrote: »

You can get a Shuffle for about £50, I bought one for my Mum for Christmas, they're great.

Or you could argue they were poor value as they have no screen !

Why save yourself the money and use your mobile phone (or upgrade your phone) ?