I need an alternate to the iPod nano
Hi all,
I want to buy an MP3 player for my boy, who's 11. As he's 11, that rules out, for me, the iPod nano. I agree it's better than the competition (I own the 3G iPod), looks neat etc, but I don't want to give an 11 year old a music player costing GBP139.
He'll be happy with a 512MB capacity player costing half that. Only thing is, I'm struggling to find confirmation of which MP3 players are compatible with the Mac. On several shopping sites the compatibility isn't mentioned.
So, can anyone recommend a cheapish MP3 player, compatible with the Mac, that I can buy? I'm not bothered by iTunes compatibility as the music which he'll put on for the time being will come from CDs and albums I give him.
Thanks,
David
I want to buy an MP3 player for my boy, who's 11. As he's 11, that rules out, for me, the iPod nano. I agree it's better than the competition (I own the 3G iPod), looks neat etc, but I don't want to give an 11 year old a music player costing GBP139.
He'll be happy with a 512MB capacity player costing half that. Only thing is, I'm struggling to find confirmation of which MP3 players are compatible with the Mac. On several shopping sites the compatibility isn't mentioned.
So, can anyone recommend a cheapish MP3 player, compatible with the Mac, that I can buy? I'm not bothered by iTunes compatibility as the music which he'll put on for the time being will come from CDs and albums I give him.
Thanks,
David
Comments
You're not giving much of an indication of which features you need.
sorry - I should have mentioned that the iPod shuffle is out because of no screen and can't have playlists.
Alex loves sorting music into particular order (ah, takes me back to the days of making compliation tapes, deciding how each song should flow into the next......happy days), and so for him the iPod shuffle is out.
So, required features:
display
ability to see what song is playing
robust
ideally the ability to limit the headphone volume.
Remember, we're talking about an 11 year old, so he needs to see what song it is - when I say "try this band" he'll probably dislike most of my choices but when he likes one he'll have to see what it is that's playing.
Cheers,
David
PS sorry about posting in the wrong forum - should be in General Discussion
Originally posted by iMac David
display
ability to see what song is playing
robust
Hmm. Sony Walkman Bean? Dell Diddy?
ideally the ability to limit the headphone volume.
Kind of a parental control? Sorry, I don't think I've seen any player that does this. Your best bet may be to get earphones that simply have a lot output limit.
stu
Granted, it's not the ideal solution, but the shuffle will work quite well. Yeah, so he won't be able to identify a specific song when it plays, but you guys could do that in iTunes.
Give it a shot. I think the shuffle will work out all right for you.
Dell Diddy - only for a PC.
Sony Bean - sony's website doesn't say whether it is compatible with a Mac, but being Sony I would doubt it.
Surely somebody out there has a cheap and cheerful MP3 player that is Mac compatible?
On my list of wants, i should have added the ability to act as a flash drive would be nice - not that he has many files to transfer.
Cheers,
David
Edit: To clarify, they are both Mac/PC compatible
Some of them look pretty sturdy too.
Dont worry, Randy