Cheapest 512Mb & 1Gb MP3 Players

MSE_Martin

What's the deal?

The price of MP3 players has shot down, and as online retailer Play.com has a sale on they're even cheaper than normal. For those who don't know; these are tiny little memory stick players which store music and play it out through earphones.

Of course these ultra-cheap machines don't have lots of whizzy options, but they do the job plus have a built in USB connector so you can plug them into your computer, with ease, to transfer music and even store documents.

Current Cheapest Deals

Always double check the price - the heavy demand from the weekly e-mail means retailers sometimes change them.

Memory size 512Mb (roughly enough for 180 songs)

• Online. The Play.com Lite 512Mb V3 is available in black and pink for £7.99 all in (sale price as it was £35, though that was expensive for it).

• In store. Argos is selling an Acoustic Solutions player for £8.94, which you can reserve and collect in store, or get delivered but then you pay an extra £2.95 for delivery. Having said that, it has the benefit of being splashproof.

Memory size 1Gb (roughly enough for 320 songs)

• Online. The Play.com 1Gb Lite V3 is currently available for £14.99 delivered, although Play has told me the price will drop £2 on Weds 25 July, so if you want to buy one, wait until then. Again this is the sale price as it was originally £40, though that's a hefty fee for a player like this.
  
  Amazon is selling an Odys W-X700133 for £15.99, which although comes without a battery, has a built-in FM radio plus can be used as a dictaphone. As it's over £15, the delivery is free.

• In store. Currys is selling a Matsui MAT110MR for £14.99, which is available online, although you'd pay an extra £2.99 for delivery so head in store if you're after one of these. A battery isn't included.

What do all these numbers mean?

512Mb and 1Gb describe the capacity of an MP3 player, that is, how much data it's able to store. Around 320 songs can be saved on 1Gb and around 180 on a 512Mb (although these figures depend entirely on the compression method of the music files when transferring to your player, but we won't get too technical!).

The biggest players around will store 120Gb but cost in excess of £200; and do you actually have 30,000 songs to fill it with, that you'd want to listen to?

If you've seen a similar or better deal please click reply and post below to help other MoneySavers

Martin

Astroman67

Be careful with the Matsui MP3 players. I bought a cheap 2Gb one from Currys last year. The software on it only let you play your songs in alphabetical order of the song title, even if they were in seperate folders. There was a forum running at the time with loads of people having the same trouble and having to take them back. Some people were trying to update the software, which made the players un-useable. I now only use mine as a USB memory stick (which you could buy cheaper anyway).

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thesaint

The biggest players around will store 120Gb but cost in excess of £200; and do you actually have 30,000 songs to fill it with, that you'd want to listen to?

The bigger players also have the ability to store photo's and video's etc which soon eat up your memory.

jsward60

thesaint wrote: »

The bigger players also have the ability to store photo's and video's etc which soon eat up your memory.

Actually, you should be able to store photos and videos on any of them; you just wont get too much video on a 1GB stick.

The key point is, players of that size will probably have the ability to play the videos on an integral LCD screen (MP4 players).

(Sorry for the pedantry)

CCCele

jsward60 wrote: »

Actually, you should be able to store photos and videos on any of them; you just wont get too much video on a 1GB stick.

The key point is, players of that size will probably have the ability to play the videos on an integral LCD screen (MP4 players).

(Sorry for the pedantry)

Is completely correct. If you just want to store photos and videos, get a usb data / memory stick rather than a mp3 player. If you want to play them on the move, you need a mp3 / mp4 player capable of playing them. My advice would be always try out a video player in a store like Dixons before purchasing (online) so you can tell what the quality will be like depending on what you want to watch. It is hard to watch a full screen movie on a 1.5 or 2 inch screen.

Gordon_the_Moron

MSE_Martin wrote: »

The biggest players around will store 120Gb but cost in excess of £200; and do you actually have 30,000 songs to fill it with, that you'd want to listen to?

No but I have got around 8gb of songs on a USB memory stick sat in my car radio which I want to put on an MP3 player, anyone know of any cheap deals for a player around that size? I've looked on Kelkoo and shopping.com just wondered if they could be beaten with offers like those above :T

Da Moron

stevefreebie

I got a couple of 2Gb MP3 players from Aldi at £29.99 each. They have a rechargeable battery and lots of extras. I've been very pleased with it. I also saw they had an MP4 player for the same price but I haven't tried that out.

Beautiful_smile!

Yes, i have seen that Aldi has MP4 player for £27.99. Can any one tell me what they are and what they do, please. No very good even at MP3's but my son will probably love it??!! Thanks

triciacg

The Onyx at Amazon has a built in li-lion battery which means it is rechargeable and therefore even better value and good for the dear old planet.

A-Wing

Beautiful_smile! wrote: »

Yes, i have seen that Aldi has MP4 player for £27.99. Can any one tell me what they are and what they do, please. No very good even at MP3's but my son will probably love it??!! Thanks

MP4 is a video format so MP4 players can view video, similar to the way mobile phones can. All MP4 players are also MP3 music players.

medianige

I like audio books and found that the 'standard' mp3 players will play them, but the bookmarking is poor and files tend to be a bit too big. I switched to a iPod and now get books from Audible.co.uk (who with a subscription supply a free Shuffle). My subscription is £7 a month and I buy books with the credit that would normally cost £30-£50...and 15 hours of 'reading' in about 20mb with automatic bookmarking and so on. I'm going to upgrade to a big iPod so I can fill it with songs, books and videos.

There are also lots more accessories for iPods - waterproof it, beach-listening, sprucing it up etc. I know some people won't use iPods for similar reasons to 'hating' McDonalds, (the whole 'corporate is bad' thing) but if it does what you want....