Want basic MP3 player. Which one?

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EINREB

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I like to get a replacement for my old trusty Walkman and I am looking for a basic, inexpensive portable MP3 player. No access to anything, phone or otherwise, no touchscreen,etc., but it can have a radio build in. I will be using it to listen to downloaded MP3 files while exercising for which I now use my (Cassette) Walkman. I do not have any kind of portable device at the moment that can play MP3 files. If possible, it should be using SD Cards so that I can easily load them from my computer.(I am just getting tired of first translating the MP3 files to straight audio files in the computer, then recording them to cassette tape.)
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
 
Philips GoGear Vibe.

No iTunes needed... drag and drop mp3s via Windows Explorer. FM stereo radio. Video playback. Voice note recorder. Good sounding earbuds. Graphic equalizer with presets and 5-band customizablilty. Rugged. Recharge via USB cable. 25hour battery life. And cheap. I paid $40 for a 4GB model at Wally world.
 
Sansa Fuze. I used to have one and loved it. Basically an older style iPod nano. Wish mine still worked but my brother washed it.
 
+1 to gogear vibe, nice mp3 Player with radio, and philips songbird is the 2nd best music program I have seen, besides iTunes.The only iPod that is inexpensive is the ipod shuffle with no radio, or screen, which is bad.I would reccomend a ipod for nano and above.
 
OvenMaster said:
Philips GoGear Vibe.

No iTunes needed... drag and drop mp3s via Windows Explorer. FM stereo radio. Video playback. Voice note recorder. Good sounding earbuds. Graphic equalizer with presets and 5-band customizablilty. Rugged. Recharge via USB cable. 25hour battery life. And cheap. I paid $40 for a 4GB model at Wally world.
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I've had two of them and had zero complaints. Just as good if not better than any ipod I've had and for a fraction of the price.
 
But, on my friends ipod nano 5G, you can drag and drop throug explorer with a mode on the iPod you have to select via settings.
 
Take the cheapest one you find with a digital display. If you only want this functionality, it will work like a charm. My brother got one about 5 years ago, and it still works. It costed then 20 euros, and it was bought from Firenze, Tuscany, Italy. There's really no need for expensive ones.
Also consider the ones with the inbuilt battery or changable 3mm radius batteries.
The ones with the in-built batteries are easyer to work with, but consider this, you might go to a trip for a few days. A single battery won't suffice. A few rechargable batteries and a battery charger + a cheap mp3 means free days of music.
I don't use mp3's anymore. I got myself an sony ericsson vivaz, and it delivers the music like a loyal servant.
 
UPDATE - Thanks for the replies, fellows. Some of you gave me some specific models to look at, and I went to Amazon to investigate them, since they have very often helpfull reviews on items. Reading these reviews I come to realize that I have omitted a very important requirement for an MP3 player from my wish list. Since I use it mainly for Books-On-Tape, being able to resume the program at the exact place I stopped it before is important to me. That function is inherent to a tape player, but I discovered that it is not always an available function in an MP3 player, if it is available at all. In music files, being close to the point you stopped it before is sufficient, listening to a story being read is a different matter.
Question is, thinking about how a tape player works, is there any MP3 player that can duplicate it exactly? That is, remember the file, the place where it was stopped and resume the reading of it at any time again?
 
EINREB said:
UPDATE - Thanks for the replies, fellows. Some of you gave me some specific models to look at, and I went to Amazon to investigate them, since they have very often helpfull reviews on items. Reading these reviews I come to realize that I have omitted a very important requirement for an MP3 player from my wish list. Since I use it mainly for Books-On-Tape, being able to resume the program at the exact place I stopped it before is important to me. That function is inherent to a tape player, but I discovered that it is not always an available function in an MP3 player, if it is available at all. In music files, being close to the point you stopped it before is sufficient, listening to a story being read is a different matter.
Question is, thinking about how a tape player works, is there any MP3 player that can duplicate it exactly? That is, remember the file, the place where it was stopped and resume the reading of it at any time again?
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I've done this. I press Pause, then switch off the power. The next time I switch it on, the file starts playing immediately where I left off.
 
I would look at the Sony E Series Walkman MP3 players. My wife and I have had ours for years and they work great. Awesome sound quality, very easy to use drag and drop operation with multiple formats, small, amazing battery life and the price is good.

I cannot see how anybody would be disappointed with these players.
 
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