More advice: buying the wife an mp3 player for Xmas. Which ones are good? I'm lookin' at spending between 100 and 150 Cdn (about 80-120 US) and want at least 128MB. Good places (that ship to Canada) to buy would be appreciated as well as the good brands

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>More advice: buying the wife an mp3 player for Xmas. Which ones are good? I'm lookin' at spending between 100 and 150 Cdn (about 80-120 US) and want at least 128MB. Good places (that ship to Canada) to buy would be appreciated as well as the good brands</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>Your best bet, for that price range, is to go with any of the numerous flash mp3 players i think. iPods and their clones are too expensice and complicate things, i think with the flash guys you can simply plug in, drag and drop until it is full, unplug and go. I've never had one though.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>*shameless Sony plug* Sony has a 256 flash device that is tiny and has great quality for like $170. I dont know how they do it, but the battery life on 2AA's is around 70 hours which shatters all the other which are usually 20 max. /*plug</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>oh wait, you would have to convert your mp3s to Sony's stupid ATRAC3 format before you can put them on the thing. Sometimes Sony gets too full of themselves, forcing you to use their made up format is annoying.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>yeah, taht's what I'd want, but which is a good brand?</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I have a Samsung yepp that I like. Nothing fancy, it gets the job done though.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Where did ya get it?</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Bah, MP3 players the most overrated things on the planet.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Depends on where you're going to use it. Again, I'm happy with my Car CD player with MP3 capability.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I pretty much agree. Having an iPod would be cool, but really, in most cases, if I want to listen to music I'm either at a computer or in my car.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 10pt Tahoma; text-align: left; '>When i bought a MiniDisk player a while back it was for metro rides, i end up using it more, now, in my car since i dont have a CD player. For some people versitable portable players can be great.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>My wife is going to use it while working out</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't disagree, but she wants one and would love it, I'm not gonna deny her one just because I don't think it's useful</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I've considered that, but I don't like being disassociated from my environment like that.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Me neither, but it's her choice....</div>

[Agent 57]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>For the most part, the only time I use my iPod is in my car, but it's sure nice to have the majority of your music collection on shuffle without needing to bring a single CD with you.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yeah, I think it would be nice too, but not $250 nice. To each his own.</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's why I'm trying to do that free Ipod thing. Doesn't cost anyone anything and best case scenario, free Ipod. Worst case, some inconvenience at having to cancel an order somewhere.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Anything to keep your mind off of working out. Not everybody views it as "therapeutic".</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I don't like playing it as a radio. I tend to listen to entire albums or even entire collections of an artist at a time.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>A portable MP3 CD player would hold more.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>NARA Electronics, corner of Columbia and King. Beside Adventure Guide.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Merci, I shall go there tomorrow</div>