I never, NEVER, buy anything for myself anymore. So this last weekend when my girlfriend, my son and I were walking around Best Buy and I mentioned I would like to buy an Mp3 player someday, I was surprised as heck when I walked out with a $250 Zune.

This thing is so cool. I had an mp3 player years ago, paid $150 for like a 156mb mp3 player.

The technology has come a long way since then, this thing is 80gig, I ripped 122 whole cd's on to this thing and i'm using like 1/10th of the memory. It was more than I would like to spend on something like that but definatley worth it for someone like me who listens to music 14-15 hours a day.

 

hey look at it this way once in awhile we are aloud to splurge on our selves lol hope you are enjoying the mp3 player though

 

Oh... like i said, it's awesome.

I work 12 hour days, drive about 2 hours. So i listen to music ALOT, and the radio plays the same songs over and over. I bring my cd's once in a while, but its a pain to lug a big cd case around, and switch cd's all the time

 

I bought my wife an ipod a few months ago to take on a trip with her, Damn thing now has over 4ooo songsand she uses the thing constantly while cutting the grass, in the car, in the boat.

 

I never listen to regular radio anymore. I bought an Ipod specifically to plug into my truck. I also have an Iphone that has all my music on it too.
One word of advice. Make sure you back up all your downloaded music. If your computer crashes or you wipe out the mp3 player, it sucks trying to get all your music back.

 

i can see her logic,its to tune you out

 

I have a Zune, too... best thing I ever did when it comes to music. I have around 2000 songs on it (and about 100 pictures, too), and still have probably 80% of the memory. I bought it to play music in my Bronco, which still has the factory cassette deck in it. I use a cassette adaptor and it works great.

Robin's right... hang onto those CD's. A computer crash is a huge pain in the butt, and you'll play havoc getting all those songs back if they get lost.

 

I got a 30GB Zune at Target when they were on clearance, paid 50 bucks for it. Holds more music than I can listen to so one load up can last weeks. I also like to put audiobooks on it. My only gripe is accessories, like car chargers, for the Zune are so expensive.

 

I bought an iRiver 2gb mp3 player a couple of years ago, and have been quite happy with it.

I know. . . . 2gb ain't a whole lot. . . . but. . . it does what I need it to do.
I only listen to it when my wife is driving and we are traveling.
(When I die, I want to be listening to some good music.)

I bought my daughter one of those 'Zune' thing-a-ma-bobs. She loves it.

 

I'm still in the ancient realm of burning cd's on the pc. But yea technology today is better than it was last year believe it or not. The more you use your mp3 the more you'll love it.

 

My wife's new Caddy has 40GB on the hard drive. She has steadily been downloading music to it the last couple of nights. Beats jacking with cd's.

 

Don't know if anyone has ever considered this route:

I stick with a PDA for an MP3 player. It's a cell phone, its a portable computer that's easier to tote than a laptop, it's a notekeeper, its GPS, its a web browser, has an email client, its a movie player (great on airplanes), its a camera and a multi-format music player. Also, instead of business cards I can beam my information to someone else's PDA and visa versa. I stick a 16 GB card in the slot (the card is about the size of my index fingernail so I carry an extra in the case) and put thousands of sounds on it using Windows Media Pro format (40% smaller files with the same audio quality) all in one device for under $250. I've never regretted the purchase, been using PDA phones for 8 years and they are amazing liberators from carrying more than one item. When I go on business trips I rip 3-4 DVD movies to it so I have movies to pass the time on the plane. Each movie takes about 150-250 megabytes.

I remember 8 years ago my PDA phone was huge and now its the size of a deck of cards except half as thin and does more than I could have imagined back then.

 

I used a PDA for about two years. I went to a regular cell about a year ago. I am looking to go back to a pda for some of the features that Ken mentioned above. If I do I need to learn how to do the movie feature and a few other goodies.

Now on to the Zune. I got mine about three months after they came out. 30gb and I love it have had some software issues but it was more me not paying attention then it was MS. About 8 months ago they updated the software oh god what a headache that was.

Get yourself a zune marketspace membership and load up all kinds of tunes. I even got a zune for my then fiance... now wife. She loves her zune too, plus loves the feature of marketspace to get new stuff!!!

 

I did not know they made 80 gig mp3's yet, That is huge!

 

I want one of the new 5 mp camera phones with zoom!

but i have a few months left on my verizon contract, and they only offer a 3.2 mp camera

the nokia N96 has a 5mp camera, and supports a 16 gb media card!

music and pics!