Right, as the title says, I'm looking for a new MP3 player. I had an 80Gb iPod Classic, but that's decided it doesn't want to copy music to itself anymore, I'm currently using my iPod Shuffle 1Gb (2nd Gen), and whislt it's ok, it lacks the EQ that I want, and it can't hold all my music.

Basically I don't want another iPod, simple as. What I would like is something that can hold about 50Gb of music, video isn't really needed, but if it comeswith it, so be it

Budget wise? About £100-£150 really, unless it's truely justified. Any ideas? Suggestion? Oh, and for the record, I'm using a set of Sennheiser CX400 headphones

Cheers,

mars

I'm a fan of the Sony MP4 players, (I got the kids one each for Christmas) and I'd recommend checking them out.

As am I, I had their first (?) NW-HD1 and loved it so much I moved onto the NW-A3000... but I don't much like their latest generation that have gone the colour /video / small capacity route but if you can find one of the older HD series, (especially the fifth generation) you'll be laughing... only they've no models with more than 20gb.

Cheers mate, had a look at them, I want the Xseries now, shame about the price

I've been having a quick look, I rememberd Creative did an MP3 player range. Found this, I was thinking about the 32Gb model, only £150, so it's fits my spec as well as it could really. Why is it so hard to find an MP3 player with a built in HDD? I want to carry ALL my music!! Lol.

Any other suggestions? Oooohh!! What about Sansa? Or whatever they're called?

Cheers Snowy, I saw a few Sony one a few years ago, it looked like a pebble, and you couldn't see the screen unless the player was turned on. God, that was like 4-5 years ago!! I'll have a look

HDD players seem to have fallen out of fashion a little. Hardly surprising as you can get 32gig SSDs now. I have 160gig of music and a large proportion is in FLAC, so I'm screwed either way.

That was the NW-A1000 & NW-A3000 - I've the violet one:



but this was the precursor to all things ipod:


I have it still - but it's screen no longer works - so it's nothing but a uber-sexy ipod shuffle - a remote-control headphone wire would cure that but they cost the earth and now I'm wondering if I could it's the HD for something else?

That's the one!!

Someone on another forum linked me to this, looks oooh so tempting, I really can't decide now, I had a look at Cowon, but for the decent looking players it was £170 ish, and yeah, I could probably stretch to it, but I'm a student, I need money for other stuff, so I had to back out of that one.

I think you'll find that it's spelt SanTa and he's not due for another 7 months or so

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Cheers for the help guys, but I don't have to spend out on money anymore, my iFail, sorry, iPod has decided that being confined to a draw for a few months is enough torture and has decided to work, just as if it was new....stupid technology...

Oh, my old one did that just to taunt me. It lasted another month or so, then completely bit the dust. Even though it was bricked, they still gave me a discount on my new one at the Apple store when I traded it in.

Sony are ok but the software is shocking!

Rarely have I seen someone's enthusiasm for a product do an about face so quickly than with the Sony NWA-straightouttacompton-A3000-shiny-pebble and it's god awful software.
House mate got one and it was returned for a refund after about a month. I wouldn't recommend them to anyone I liked.

Meh - I don't find SonicStage annoying at all.