Mini Disc? iPod? Mp3? whats the best bang for my buck?

If you want a really good one, go for a Creative Zen. It's a good one aside from iPod.

Creative MuVo V200 :wink:

well if you do have a lot of songs on your computer, choose ipod. You could listen it how long you want as long you recharge the battery.

Zen Micro from Creative

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Fir-Zen

yea creatives are good ive heard they can be better than ipods but i still feel the ipod is the way to go

welllll/////

it depends what you want it for...
I have iriver 20 gigi with color display linein internel mic and radio
300 for it/ mp3 wma ogg jpg
ipod///mmmmslightly thinner than iriver but, no color display no radio battery life shorter. around 300 also
creative// well i think I have seen the muvo for 2 orr 4 gigs.funny little thing half the size of ipod but twice as thick// large monochromatic display// thats about as much as I know about it.
archos////uuhh.. cheap/brick/small display/large amount of storage and attachments like a camera or an adapter to a tv so you can record from it.. ^ )
well thats all I can think of now// if just for storage then you can buy a 200 gig hard and a usb cradle ^ )

i loved my minidisc player

i dont know about the battery life of an ipod or others but my MD player would get 40+ hours of playback on 1 AA battery.... very good.

I hate my minidisc player - though its actually quite a good one

I want an mp3 player.

I'm torn over what to go for.

As far as i can tell its...

Ipod if you want to pay lots of money
Creative if you want to get the same features for less.

Its between the IPOD's, the Creative Zen, and the Creative Zen Extra - i dont know much about the differences, it seems the Zen is about £100 more than the Extra (so about the same as the IPOD) but offers recording facilities.

I dont know what special features the IPOD has that would warrant me spending 100 more than the Zen extra though.

My advice is that the iPod is the best mp3 player arround. If you don't want to spend that much money you could try the new iPod Shuffle which works with flash cards or something like that, the only bad thing i see about it is that it has no screen. check them out www.apple.com/ipod