HELP! Childs MP3 Player needed

child359

Help......

I am looking forward a good, easy to use MP3 player for my 5 Year old for either birthday, in a weeks time or Christmas.

I would prefer it with the over the head earphones and not the in the ear headphones.

I did a search ages ago and found from reviews etc that this was the best

Maxfield MAX-JOY MP3/WMA-USB-Player 256 MB with SD Slot
on Amazon here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000CQZBOC/ref=ord_cart_shr

but it is out of stock, has been for a while and can't find it anyway.

Can anyone suggest another good alternative?

I have bought the Fisher Price one but not sure whether it is too young for him. He is not bothered about having stories on it. He loves normal music not children's music so don't want one that restricts me to downloading from a certain site.

I think the IPOD shuffle will be too grown up and difficult to use for him.

I am going slightly mad now because I have been looking for ages and it is driving me mad:mad: (plus I am rubbish at making a decision:D )

Any help gratefully received.:T :T

*Bright-Idea*

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexibook-Spiderman-Player-Mini-Speaker/dp/B000QVY6GC/ref=pd_sbs_ce_title_5

What about this one?

Actually looking into it I'd probably go for this one for a young child
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sansa-Shaker-512Mb-Blue-Player/dp/B000SYY1YY/ref=pd_sbs_k_h_b_cs_img_1

designed for kids, not too expensive and in stock

child359

I saw that one,(and he absolutely loves spiderman) but it has the headphones that go into the ear and not over the head, resting on the ear ones.

The ones in the ear don't stop in and fall out:eek:

but thankyou

the second one has the in the ear thing too and also if I read it right you shake it to move the track on which sounds a receipe for disaster for skipping on tracks, but if someone has one of these and I am wrong then I would appreciate their views on it

*Bright-Idea*

I bought a set of headphones (over the head ones) for my daughter from a £1 shop and they work great in her dvd player in the car, could you do the same for an mp3 player?

Mike_J

Checkout the supermarkets for relatively cheap "normal" MP3 players. Most have a simple 3.5mm phono socket which means you can grab a cheap pair of headphones from virtually any poundshop. I actually use some that I got from Virgin Atlanctic the last time we flew with them.

child359

*Bright-Idea* wrote: »

I bought a set of headphones (over the head ones) for my daughter from a £1 shop and they work great in her dvd player in the car, could you do the same for an mp3 player?

Now you may get to gather this but I am not very technically minded :rotfl: so is it a universal plug hole for headphones so if I bought a pair of the over the head ones the connector should fit in the hole correctly

Hermann

child359 wrote: »

so is it a universal plug hole for headphones so if I bought a pair of the over the head ones the connector should fit in the hole correctly

Technically headphones may come with either a 2.5mm, 3.5mm or 6.3mm plug on them.

However the vast majority of mp3 players use 3.5mm sockets and the vast majority of inexpensive headphones use the 3.5mm plugs.

So the chances are that you should be ok with any combination of mp3 player and headphones however it is easy to be certain as all players will state which size they use and all headphones state which plug they have.

DaisyFlower

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/3326170/Maxfield-Max-Joy-256MB-Childrens-MP3-Player-With-SD-MMC-Slot/Product.html

Had the one you were originally looking for from Play.com as above. Earphones are great for little ones and its very rugged. Works fine and sound is good too. You can also extend the memory if they need more. Pretty sure it has a volume inhibitor too so that it cant damage their ears.

child359

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Daisyflower, I cannot thank you enough. I had looked everywhere and couldn't find that particular MP3 player in stock anywhere

Clearly I hadn't checked Play.com because I followed your link and they have it in stock and I have ordered one:j :j :j :j

I am so chuffed so thankyou very much.

Thanks to everyone for all their effort and replies:T :A