Which MP3 player?

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This may have been asked before, i've done a search but not come up with anything?

Due to our imminent move onto the boat, I've put our music collection on the 'pooter and boxed up the cd's ready for storage.

Which Media player do you use on board? It has to store photo's too (about 3gb's worth).
I've looked at Ipod's and creative. I'm erring towards the creative 30gb zen vision M.... it seems the best of the rest and it's not an iPod.

Suggestions please
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I'd suggest buying a Sony Ericsson mobile phone with built in MP3 player.
I used to try to remember to carry my normal MP3 palyer around with me should the need arrise to use it, but more often than not never had it when it would have been nice to. Now I have a decent MP3 player (4gb) built into the phone it's always with me if I need it or not.
Food for thought....
 
Well, this probably doesn't answer your needs precisely but we've just bought a Sandisk Sansa E280 8Gb MP3 player with photo and video capability and it's quite brilliant! Neither of us has had one before but after reading reviews everywhere and the recent Which? report we decided to get one - it's just been reduced on Amazon.co.uk to £99.99 which is very good value...

Anyway, although 'only' 8GB capacity, it takes MicroSD cards so you in theory can expand the memory almost infinitely using those and just have what you want on the player at the time. I drag and dropped 60CDs onto it today at max quality (192kbps) and it's only 2/3rds full and the sound quality is very good - still haven't read the manual as it's really easy to use....

Sandisk E280 on Amazon here
 
I was with you up to "This may have been asked before"
Then you kind of lost me. If you are asking about a portable gramophone player may I reccomend this.

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Stylish and yet practical, what more could you ask for?
 
Go for the Creative. I use one in the motor. If you get a CD player with a usb input then just plug the MP3 in and listen thru a decent system. Sony and Kenwood do some decent head units at reasonable prices. I went for the Kenwood in the car.

Didn't go the ipod route with the fm transmitter thing as they eat the battery and the quality seems to suffer a bit. With the usb connection the head unit will also power/charge the mp3 player.
 
sort of becomes a house issue.. whats everyone else using? If nowt as yet, for gawds sake avoid ipod.. its such a pain in the butt. Creative gets my vote. By the way, dont go too flashy, these things seem about as reliable as a B/Leyland car.
 
I've heard good things about the Sansa too. Avoid the FM transmitters, last time I looked at one on a spectrum analyser it was puring noise all over the marine band.
 
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