Anyone else thinking about picking this up?
For a mere 100 bucks I was thinking it would be nice for any time I go out. I could just put a couple bands I like on it at a time and go snowboarding with it, or whatever.

Yes I am, this is a great alternative to a "normal" iPod.

Wait...what?

I don't see what makes this better than other flash MP3 players. What's the deal?

It comes with trend-whore headphones, the others do not.

$0.19 per meg – iPod shuffle (512mb)

$0.15 per meg – iPod shuffle (1GB)

$0.0625 per meg – iPod Mini (4GB)

$0.015 per meg – iPod (20GB)

$0.01 per meg – iPod (40GB)

$0.0125 per meg – iPod Photo (40GB)

$0.01 per meg – iPod Photo (60GB)

Even if you paid $10,000 for a 40GB iPod, your still only paying $0.25 a meg 0_o

Sorry, this isn't really meant as a flame, but what is your point? (It's still cool facts, thanks for posting lol.. but you seemed to be trying to say the other stuff is better)

Anyone knows more of something costs cheaper per unit.

It's cheaper, and can provide me with what I want for however long I plan to use it. For my preferences, the other stuff is overkill :p

IT'S COOL TO HATE THINGS THAT ARE COOL.

But...I have no wish to look like this woman:



Besides...

/me hugs iPod Mini.

My preciousssss...[/size]

Have you guys overlooked one essential design flaw? IT'S STUCK ON RANDOM MODE. You couldn't even select a song if you wanted to! Isn't that the point of hauling that many songs around, to be able to listen to whichever one you want if the need takes you?

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There's been rumors about this thing forever now.

Also, Apple's making a cell phone with Motorola.

It can shuffle... yay. Thats a new idea

http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/specs.html

^ You can have songs play in order. You aren't stuck on shuffle.

Besides. My MP3 player that I bought last year cost me $100. It only holds 128mb!!! It's now $75. My friend just got a 256mb (or 512mb) mp3 player for christmas. It cost his dad $200! For $150 you can get a 1GB mp3 player. That's awesome.

Except you still have no way of knowing where you are in your playlist.

Well if you put your songs in order then there shouldn't be a problem.

If I have my music from A-Z by artist (which you can do) and lets say I am listening to 'System of a Down' and I suddenly feel like Rammstein...Easy, I just click ahead past 'S' until I arrive at 'R'. Bam.

Besides, if you enjoy all your music, then just listen to it as it plays. Or arrange your favorite songs on the front of your playlist whatever.

It seems everyone likes to rip apart iPods because they are good products and they are trendy.

They're nice products, but there's better than the iPod shuffle available.

There proably is, but from the mp3 players that I myself have seen I'm not sure :p. Actually, I was thinking about buying one of these mofo's, but if anyone can find a 512mb mp3 player for under $100 or a 1GB for under $150 that would rawk.

Here you go: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=86159&CatId=1695

$180 US for 1.5gb, and it's a nicer player, with a screen and an EQ.

Wait... does this mean that regular iPods don't have a shuffle feature?

It looks to me like that thing is $220... That's just 30 dollars shy of a mini with less than half the hard drive capacity.

220 CA, though.

I dunno, I like to rip apart iPods because they're usually too expensive. I may get one of these when I get the cash, but I doubt it. PSP has 10 hours of MP3 playback time, so hey

512mb is nothing! Save up and get a larger player, for your own sanity

yessss

Foiled! Damn my eyes!

They do. And an EQ. And games :roll: :-p. iPod mini si thar way 2 go kays? It's small enough, convenient... has plenty of storage space.

No LCD = lose.

The iPod Shuffle is not directed towards the standard iPod market. It is appealing to a different part of the population. The name of the game here is price and size. Unlike the iPods, this is competitively priced when compared to other flash drive players. Adding a display would increase the cost and the size. Increasing the space would add to the cost. If you need more space and a display, get an iPod mini or the entry level iPod. This is expressly designed to be easy to manage and have a small form factor. This isn't designed to be an iPod competitor, people.

Oh right... yeah, I'm really tempted to pick one of these up. My 2G iPod is a bit bulky for carrying around campus every day. Loading up a couple albums at night would work perfectly for me.

Edit: Oh, and for the shuffle thing. Part of it is in the iTunes functionality. There is the 'autofill' feature which will fill your Shuffle with a specified number of megabytes of random songs from your iTunes library. You want 250 songs without spending time picking them out? Here's one button to do it all for you.

The size is perfect (I'm not the kind of person with the need for thousands of songs). I really don't like some of the design features, though.

I originally thought this thread was about odd song juxtapositions while using the shuffle feature. It's bizzare - My friend's MP3 player only plays Queen songs (no lie) when put on shuffle. I wonder about that thing...

...and for $70, you can get 4 times the storage in an iPod Mini, with the ability to see what you're doing and 4 craptacular games.

The quiz game is super fun on someone else's iPod and I will NOT stand for you saying anything bad about solitare... it's gotten me through some hard times

I assume you refer to the "Party Shuffle" feature. I've never really used it. I prefer to compile my playlists manually and then shuffling them. But hey, it's still a neat feature.

While I find the new iPod quite cool, it isn't what I'd buy. I'm still shooting for an iPod Mini or a 20gig iPod. I can definately see how the Shuffle would be nice to have though.

I still don't understand why you'd buy a mp3 player in the megabyte size range. I know people don't have gigs and gigs of music, but you can store so many other things on them, and if you pay only 100 dollars more you get... 10? 20 times the storage capactiy that you're paying $150 for already?

No comprende.

I still like my PoGo Ripdrive. 30 gigs, an FM Reciever and recorder, line in recorder, microphone, text-file reading, playlist creation using the mp3 only, and more- all for $250. The size of a 4 gig iPod mini? or a 10 gig normal iPod?

I guess it is somewhat safer to e.g. go snowboarding with a flashplayer than with a hard drive based one, with all the mechanical parts in it

If it really is that cheap, I would certainly get one

It's actually a bit different (and new, as far as I can tell). It just picks songs randomly out of your library and adds them directly to the device.


Exactly. Perfect for some, definitely not for all. Like a 40GB iPod. Or a Photo iPod.


See the above. Perfect for certain people or certain situations. Just not for you.

No screen.

Having used radios with no way to tell where you are, and having used broken cd players with no lcd display, i can easily say this will be an extremely frustrating appliance.

i'd rather have an iriver... only time i really ever use my portable cd player for longer than 1 cd is when i go on a trip... so most of my whole collection on one device vs a large binder holding less than half of my cds would be MUCH easier

and iriver over ipod because it supports ogg... and the fact that it shows up as a hard drive so i won't need extra software (plus the fact that i don't like itunes anyway)

The quiz is fun, yes, but I can't play the Solitaire game. I really need my colors to help differentiate the cards.

I love my 5GB Rio Carbon. Only $200 too.

I heard that the Rio Carbon has a massive problem if you try to use different headphones. Since the casing is metal, it causes static to build up, and it ruins the sound quality for the headphones... Notice anything like this Rivin?

I was looking at players in the 300-350$ CAD range, and it looks like its Zen Touch vs iPod Mini. I'd almost definitly get the Mini, since the extra space on the Touch wouldn't matter TOO much for me, and since the Mini's UI is much better, but apparently Apple still hasn't smartened up with the battery issue. The Creative one has a proprietary battery as well, but it doesn't seem like anyone is whining about that. What's the deal with these battery rumours?