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Argh, wtf man.
So my Sony MZ-N1 Minidisc player decided to put a foot in the grave. No more recording of songs onto the little guy. He can still play the discs I’ve recorded previously, but now that I can’t record, I’ve got to start looking at other players. Repairing the little trooper is going to cost about $150 from what I can tell. That’s serious cash for a player thats mostly dead now =(
Here comes about $300+ I didn’t intend to spend…
So I looked around, and basically my options are the ever famous Apple iPod, a Rio Karma, an iRiver H120, the Sony NW-HD1,or maybe, if I get really off the wall, a JetAudio iAudio M3.
The iPod is probably the best solution out of all of these. Its got the portability, and although I’m not completely a fan of the interface, its one of the better ones.
The Karma has a seriously short warranty (90 days) for a hard drive based player, and its really thick. Its interface sucks ass too…a little nipple is useful on the Thinkpads, but the nipple on the Karma is crap in comparison.
The iAudio M3 is crazy thin, but its also crazy lacking on the screen department. The remote is really clunky too, not like the spiffy Sony remotes that are basically like really short pens. I would like to grab a hold of this one physically to see how it feels and everything, but no retail stores seem to carry it.
The Sony isn’t too bad in every regard except for the fact that it forces you to use Sony’s ATRAC3 codec, instead of straight up MP3s. I lived with that during my MD phase, but it is kind of a pain in the ass to have to convert my music to MP3 every time I want to put something new on the player. I do like the interface, and its really small. Just not too sure if I want to put up with converting my music to put on a player just to have a Sony. Sony did announce they’re letting MP3s exist natively on their players soon…..but the only player that does that so far has been announced in Europe, and its a little flash player….
The iRiver is awesome feature wise, but I really don’t care for any of its features. Digital in/out is nice, but my expensive ass stereo isn’t expensive enough to have optical ins…integrated amps don’t do that and receivers are for home theater setups, not a solid stereo music setup. Voice recording is cool, but I have a microcassette for that and convergence is bullshit. I’d rather use that little thing instead of writing over a DJ set =P FM radio is pointless with ClearChannel owning the airwaves.
And yes, I’m aware that Dell announced some new MP3 players today. The interface sucks donkey balls. Its as bad as the Creative Nomad series….which is really bad. They are cheap as shit though.
So who knows, now its time to stalk Fatwallet and watch for player deals =)
Nothing much else happened over the weekend. Got a haircut, partied a bit, then relaxed. Bitched at the fact that baseball owned the airwaves again, and moved on. Watched the last Aqua Teen Hunger Force for this season…it was comedy. Hopefully there’ll be another season coming, although there’s no word of another season being purchased by Cartoon Network just yet. Simpsons is coming back in two weeks….once again with the fucking Halloween episode a WEEK after Halloween. Talk about some bullshit.
Eh, life goes on.
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