[Horsepower]

After playing with my kids iPod Nano, I decided 3 things:

1. I liked the iPod. It's kind of cool.
2. I want my own MP3 player.
3. iTunes is a pain in the ass. I want a player that is more easily managed without the DRM crap.

I think the Creative ZEN Nano Plus 1GB for $99 at Wally World will do what I want. More functional than the iPod Nano at a cheaper price. I've read a lot of reviews about this player and most are positive. Does anyone here have this player and if so, what do you think about it?

[*SW€D€*]

Why use Ipod, when you can use a regular MP3 player? Doesn't Ipod charge for their music?

[Dvshadow]

dunno - i use ipod, its one of the older ones and i just replaced the battery on it. i like how durable it is. i dont know what your talking about with the pay for music, you can still rip cd's.

i use lala.com for my cd's its 1.63 per cd and you get the whole thing, usually within 5 mailing days.(if you need an invite, please tell me!) i then just put that cd on my player. no drm - no trouble whatsoever..

[Stryker412]

Horse, might I suggest an IRiver? I've used both and couldn't really stand the IPod interface or Itunes. I like with the IRiver that it's basically the same as your PC's hard drive. You drag and drop songs/folders and it reads it that way. It doesn't auto arrange them into artist/album/song like Itunes. I hated that the most since if your ID3 tags aren't done properly your stuck with a huge mess.

I'm looking at getting the IRiver T10 1GB. It has a color screen and can display photos. It retails for around $135. The one without the color screen 1GB is $99 (B&H photo, and J&R music world).

This player supports wma purchased music as well as other ripped file types (wma, mp3, ogg).

[Horsepower]

Originally Posted by *SW€D€*

Why use Ipod, when you can use a regular MP3 player? Doesn't Ipod charge for their music?

Swede, i said i was gonna get the Creative Zen Nano, not an iPod Nano. i like the iPod Nano, but hate iTunes.

thanks for the suggestion Stryker. i did consider it, but i really didn't want to spend more than $100 on one of these things. actually i only wanted to spend $50-$60, but figured i'd better get something with 1gb because i download MP3's at high bitrates. i can live without ASF, OGG and the color screen. the Zen Nano does pretty much everything else the T10 does.

EDIT: i missed where u mentioned the $99 non color version. oh well, i got the Zen Nano from Walmart. the attraction of instant gratification was just too much.

[Horsepower]

quick review of this thing:

-earbuds are not very good, but i saw a lot of reviewers say the same thing about various other players. go get better earbuds.

-sounds very good on the Sennheiser earphones i use for my PC.

-i wish it would go louder. right now it's driving headphones, so it might be a lot louder on decent earbuds.

-seems easy enough to use, though i'm still trying to get the hang of accessing subfolders.