- 16 Aug 09, 21:02#143555
Evenin' 
I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good portable music player for me? I'm looking to replace my ageing Samsung YP-T10 which is, to be honest, falling apart in my pocket each day and requiring reassembly and fresh sticky tape applying >.<
The only essential requirement is that it doesn't require a piece of proprietary software to transfer music/videos etc. to and from the device. Other than that, there are things I'd like (high capacity, touch-screen, support for Ogg Vorbis, Theora and FLAC files) but aren't totally necessary. I've had a look around and come to decide that things like the Samsung YP-P3, Cowon S9, Creative Zen X-Fi and Sony NWZ-X1050 all seem to offer roughly what I want (okay, open-source codec support only comes with two of those, but I could work around that if necessary) and, heck, if it wasn't for Apple's sheer lack of support for my platform of choice (and the fact that you have no choice but to use a piece of their software to put music and videos on to the device
), the iPod Touch would be a spectacular choice.
Problem is, aside from the Touch, I don't know anybody who owns any of the above or anything similar, so I can't ask their opinions. Does anybody own or have experience of any of the above-listed players, or something similar which would fit my requirements?
Cheers,
Joel.
I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good portable music player for me? I'm looking to replace my ageing Samsung YP-T10 which is, to be honest, falling apart in my pocket each day and requiring reassembly and fresh sticky tape applying >.<
The only essential requirement is that it doesn't require a piece of proprietary software to transfer music/videos etc. to and from the device. Other than that, there are things I'd like (high capacity, touch-screen, support for Ogg Vorbis, Theora and FLAC files) but aren't totally necessary. I've had a look around and come to decide that things like the Samsung YP-P3, Cowon S9, Creative Zen X-Fi and Sony NWZ-X1050 all seem to offer roughly what I want (okay, open-source codec support only comes with two of those, but I could work around that if necessary) and, heck, if it wasn't for Apple's sheer lack of support for my platform of choice (and the fact that you have no choice but to use a piece of their software to put music and videos on to the device
), the iPod Touch would be a spectacular choice.Problem is, aside from the Touch, I don't know anybody who owns any of the above or anything similar, so I can't ask their opinions. Does anybody own or have experience of any of the above-listed players, or something similar which would fit my requirements?
Cheers,
Joel.
