Hi Trent, Thanks for your help, it was well received. Turns out I made the right call going basic, he found his larger, more complex and feature rich (broken) player cumbersome and annoying, since he used it very simply. Bianca - on my phone, please excuse my brevity. On Dec 20, 2012 7:49 PM, "Bianca Gibson" <bianca.rachel.gibson@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks.
Bianca - on my phone, please excuse my brevity. On Dec 20, 2012 6:39 PM, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Bianca Gibson wrote:
OK, so for a basic player to just play music while at the gym what do you think?
Here you can get sony, years old irivers (some still floating around in stores), random cheapo ones and ipods. I don't think I'm missing any.
criteria: - pretty basic - 4+ GB - moderately decent audio (pleasurable to listen to, but nothing fancy) - small (<100g) - no need for specific software to put music on - likely to last a few years - very preferably a clip.
I think it meets all those criteria. It has a clip, and it clips fairly sturdily onto the device, but I wouldn't trust the clip part to clip onto my clothes.
I'm not aware of anything else available locally that meets that criteria.
Nod. I think the kicker is not requiring iTunes, which eliminates the majority of floor stock for mobs like JB.
As a lurker pointed out, there is rockbox, but I get the impression that's only viable for units that are at least six months old, so the devs have had time to reverse engineer them and suchlike. Probably rockbox-capable devices are above your budget anyway.
It does have shuffle:
http://www.sony-asia.com/microsite/walkman_i-manuals/NWZ-B172F-B173F/eng/con...
Oh, OK. That was non-obvious from the icon.