Cheapest 512Mb & 1Gb MP3 Players

Pottermuss

Anybody found / recomend an MP3 player with a FM radio built in?

pks00

What about those that take sd cards? eg half price £14.99 Alba 512MB http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5133927.htm
or this one which was mentioned in another thread and doing well http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5133996.htm

Stuartli

I bought one of these MP3 players for £12.99 plus delivery about a year ago - its sound quality through the supplied earphones is surprisingly good - but it's now cheaper and comes with a 512MB SD card!:

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_7&products_id=101398

Can also be used as a memory card reader/writer.

buglawton

Yes I have the same, catch is that using rechargeables you get about 3 hours service. Otherwise a handy device for listening to podcasts downloaded using that free program Juice. The next frontier is an mp3 player that is cheap and offers convenient battery life - or even one that can remember where it was in your play list when you last switched it off.

audioblackout

To all you music lovers:

Music is my career, my whole life and what I think about 24/7 - you could say I ever do is make sure sound quality and my appreciation and enjoyment of the music is the best it can be.

Recently my girlfriend bought a really cheap 18 quid 2 gb mp3 player and she came bounding up to me super pleased that she got something that cost me £200 (ie an ipod) for £18.

Well after 1 second of hearing the quality difference, I'm damn pleased I spent the £200.

I've drawn a big conclusion from this. Sometimes we're all so bothered about getting a so called 'bargain', or saving money (and I've been a big, big fan of this site BTW for about a year now and it's saving me sooooooo much money) that we don't actually realise that there's certain things we really can't save money on and have to pay the asking price.

For me, music is one of those things. If you love music and you really do want to hear things crisp, clear and precise, then these cheap deals are exactly that - cheap. But for me, music is alot more than cheap sound and a good deal.

If you're a music lover and expecting a 'deal' from a £20 mp3 player make sure you do your research.

Just my 2 cents

FatherAbraham

Pottermuss wrote: »

Anybody found / recomend an MP3 player with a FM radio built in?

The "Tevion 5363" 2Gb MP4 (i.e. MP3) player from Aldi @ £28 has an FM radio built in. There are two bands: "standard" FM, for here in the West, and "Japanese", for the lower-frequency signals used over there.

This was on offer a couple of weeks ago, but local stores may still have some stock. Here in <where-I-live>, the players are kept under the tills -- one has to ask to get them, since they're so shopliftable.

The player is usable, but the manual's garbage, and completely omits instructions on the various download options available (e.g. Windows Media Player synching version direct USB-filesystem transfer).

The product is imported by Liverpool-based Fascin8, you can download the manual from here: http://www.fascin8.co.uk/support/5363.pdf

However, the product is better than the poor quality of the manual would suggest.

Idiophreak

audioblackout wrote: »

Music is my career, my whole life and what I think about 24/7 - you could say I ever do is make sure sound quality and my appreciation and enjoyment of the music is the best it can be.

...and yet you bought an ipod...? :rolleyes:

Do agree, though, that the cheaper players (as Martin hints in the OP) aren't going to have the same sound quality as the more expensive ones.

The Zen Stone, then, should probably be mentioned in this thread somewhere...You can get the 1gb version for around £25 in a bunch of places, so it won't break the bank, but it's a decent brand and should sound noticably better than most of the *really* cheap players...

yezdi

yep. I would not touch the cheap ones. I love my music too much to do that. I recently bought the Cowon D2 4GB and I am thrilled to bits with it. I have saved money using MSE and spent it on a good mp3 player...a pretty good reward for myself. After all what good is it to save money and not use it for something you really like to do ?
I wonder what the use is for 512MB and 1GB players these days. My previous player was 2GB and I could barely fit my music in it.

dardruba

I bought the £14.99 1Gb player on the 25th but there was no mention on the order page of the £2 further reduction in price which Martin referred to.

I emailed them asking what do I have to do to qualify for the further reduction.
Their replay says its for sale at the price on our order page.

OK so its cheap at the price, but I feel cheated.

dardruba

yezdi wrote: »

I wonder what the use is for 512MB and 1GB players these days. My previous player was 2GB and I could barely fit my music in it.

I dont want to put the full library on it, and its only a 1 Gb.
If I'm basking in the sun (between downpours) I put solo piano jazz on it.
If I know I'll be bikeriding on the steep forest trails I put something fast and furious like 'the ride of the valkeries' on it.
The quality of sound neednt be high but I have noise reduction ear plugs to keep out the wind noise.