By Anne Ahira

The Good

Wonderful for taking music, photos , and video out and about ; hordes of alternatives and options offered; most of the big names are top quality

The Bad

Pricing is not much different between big name brands and smaller brands

The Bottom Line

Purchasing a digital audio mp3 player is a good idea for even casual music lovers. The key is establishing which features is important the most to you and what size hard drive you're keen on .

Review

If you're ready to get the digital audio MP3 player bandwagon, but you're not certain which of the types on the market will fit your music listening needs the best, let's take a look at the options . All of the foremost digital audio MP3 player models have similar features.

The mainstream own screens ranging from 1.5 inches to 2.5 inches in size. LCD screens are habitually going to give you a more fresh, cleaner image than other types but if you expect playing clip on your player that won't be a important thing .

While you can purchase digital audio MP3 player models with hard drives as large as 250 GB, most people like to choose something smaller.

The most common sizes are in the 4 GB to 16 GB range. Take into account that photos and videos do consume more space.

Now if you don't need anything that huge and you just require a digital audio MP3 player that can run music then you may want to seek even smaller players, such as the iPod Shuffle. Some of these units are quite reasonably priced , hold decent amounts of storage space (around 1 GB or less commonly), and are frequently created to be more portable.

The Zune and some Creative digital audio MP3 player types include wireless synching. This indicate that you do not require to connect your player to your computer with a wire in order to transfer music or other file onto the player.

While most of the digital audio MP3 players on the market today are going to be quite good choices , stick to models you are familiar with.

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