What MP3 player?

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justshoot

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Want to buy from e-bay a MP3 player but, I know nothing about these. There are 36,000 + mp3s'. I have never handled one, can you help? I have a speaker with its own amp, want to download predator call sounds to my computer and copy onto the mp3, than plug in the speaker.( Sounds good on paper anyway. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif) So, of the 36,000 + mp3s, which one do I get? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif After seeing the prices, I am going to use it in the woods.
 
I have used $5 mp3 players and $100 mp3 players on home made callers. I couldn't tell the difference in sound. The main thing there is in the players is what each unit can do. Some of them give you a little bitty screen that just shows you one title at a time, others give you a big screen with a complete file manager type storage to better organize your sounds. It all depends on what you really want.
 
I like ones about the size of a business or credit card instead of the little stick sized jobs without much of a display. For ruggedness and battery life in cold weather, you probably will want one that has flash-based memory instead of a tiny hard disk drive inside.

If you buy used, first make sure that it's compatible with your computer. (Some of the very earliest ones used firewire or standard serial port cables instead of the USB port, either of which are no longer commonly found on the newest computers. Many also required hardware drivers or software specific to the device that may no longer work with recent operating systems or upgrades).

Most anything newer (USB 2) ought to work well, I've had really good luck with the first version of the iPod Nano and an older Ripflash Plus that's no longer made (It's Windows-only, though. I did managed to get this 5+ year old MP3 working on my Mac running a Windows virtualization program, the reason for bothering with it is that the Ripflash also records sounds heard in the field).

LionHo
 
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