Wookie
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As people have said, I think those for the shuffle (including me) are for it in part because it is an ipod and its apple. This is because their track record is good, their players tend to look good, sound good and are easy to use. Owning an iriver imp-400 as well as an ipod I have to say that the iriver's ui is not the most user friendly out their. Its powerful and does its job well but I find folders have to be set up and organised with playlists in the m3u format and you have to set the ripping software to give filenames that start with track number's in the xx format such as 01 instead of just 1. This is similar to if you use a player that acts like a removeable drive. with less storage and random songs on the drive any playlists will have to set up in stuff like media player (since a lot will not have winamp or foobar) and then how many different formats do playlists have? for those not up on all the files and formats available in digital media this could lead to a lot of headaches, or they'll just dump files on there and press play and skip through the songs.
The alternative is to use specific software that does it all such as itunes which is imo the best and easiest to use (most definitley better than creative media centre) which is in favour of the shuffle.
On the part of the screen, having used my mams muvo v200 isn't the only way to navigate to use the jog dial which is the skip mechanism so what benefit is the scree nin this situation and how many regular users use any equalisation other than bass boost?
It is nice to have features and I would rather have them in a player but if I was in the market for a flash player the 1Gb would get serious consideration as the only players I have found on uk sites from the big name companies such as rio is the chiba/cali players which you could add a mmc card to. Iriver will give you 128mb for slightly less and creative will give you 512mb. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?
The alternative is to use specific software that does it all such as itunes which is imo the best and easiest to use (most definitley better than creative media centre) which is in favour of the shuffle.
On the part of the screen, having used my mams muvo v200 isn't the only way to navigate to use the jog dial which is the skip mechanism so what benefit is the scree nin this situation and how many regular users use any equalisation other than bass boost?
It is nice to have features and I would rather have them in a player but if I was in the market for a flash player the 1Gb would get serious consideration as the only players I have found on uk sites from the big name companies such as rio is the chiba/cali players which you could add a mmc card to. Iriver will give you 128mb for slightly less and creative will give you 512mb. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?