# flash-based mp3 players

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 02-Mar-2005 17:26:38

I was wondering if anybody knew of any good 128 or even 256-meg flash-based mp3 players that were reasonably accessible, both in the software you use to put songs into it and just the usability of the device? I'd get a ahrd-drive-based player but that's not in the budget. I know about the MuVo and am told that's prety easy to use. Any others besides that one?

## Post 2 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 05-Mar-2005 23:16:05

How 'bout the BrailleNote or Pack Mate? Lol? If you ahve one?

## Post 3 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 06-Mar-2005 0:40:52

I was thinking about something for less than 100 dollars and none of those are it. How rich did you think I was? *grin*

## Post 4 by shea (number one pulse checking chicky) on Sunday, 06-Mar-2005 9:52:36

no, i don't know of any other ones. i have the muvo and it pretty easy to use. As i posted before you can get it free from www.audible.com. You have sign up for a years subscription for fourteen ninety five a month. They send your player as soon as you sign up. You get one book a month and a subscription to periodicals. smile- angel. Oh wait you can get one from Walmart i think it is like fifty dollars and is accesible also. I'm not sure what it is called it has a wrist strap sorry that's about all i know about it. the one thing i like about the muvo is, you don't have to have a wire or software, you can just plug it into your usb port pretty easy. I know the one from walmart you have a cord that plugs in. alright i'm done now. lol!

## Post 5 by anglwings303 (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Sunday, 06-Mar-2005 20:51:41

I have the MuVo, as well. I also got it with the audible subscription, and i like it a lot. Its very accessible.

## Post 6 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 06-Mar-2005 21:08:24

Lol Lab sorry ... but if you already had one that woulda worked fine. I've heard that the Ipod Shuffle works ... I mean Itunes is hard but I've heard it's bearable now.

## Post 7 by Katie (Zone BBS Addict) on Monday, 07-Mar-2005 13:53:49

If you want to find a flash based MP3 player for under $100, good luck, and just FYI, it won't hold much music. But, that's just my opinion...

## Post 8 by renegade rocker (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 19-Mar-2005 16:58:20

I can vouch for a 128mb flash player not holding much music, oh you can get a sizable amount if you encode to 32kbps, but that's horrible.

## Post 9 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Saturday, 19-Mar-2005 18:13:19

Ya under 100 dollars wouldn't get ya much I don't think, not that I'm an expert, quite the contrary. Maybe 150 would do you a bit better though...

## Post 10 by renegade rocker (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 19-Mar-2005 22:07:28

There's the old addage that you get what you pay for, so if ya want fore storage capasity, be prepared to pay more, especially if you choose to go harddrive baced.

## Post 11 by Godzilla-On-Toast (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 06-Apr-2005 4:02:34

Well, I listen to more old-time radio shows than music, and OTR is usually encoded at 32 KB and 22.050 KHZ, so it would probably hold a lot of shows. Problem is, would the decoder inside the given unit be able to handle those low bitrates? I would assume most are designed to only handle music quality files. Anyhow, although they're a tad over 100 dollars, the Iriver IFP 700 and 800 series look promising. They're the only small players Iv'e found that will handle .ogg files.