MP3 Player advice.

[cdave]

My trusty iRiver H100 has croaked. The joystick broke loose, and the
last ditch attempt to solder it back on fried something, and it won't
turn on now :(

So I thought I'd ask LJ for advice. My entire audio collection is
around 10G at the moment, so I don't need a huge (by today's
standards) player. I'm not fussed about video at all. I do however
listen to a lot of podcasts / audio books, and having the ability to
store several bookmarks is a big plus.As is mounting as a usb drive,
since I intend to download things at worked and the machine here is
tightly locked down, so I can't easily install stuff on it.

Research so far indicates the Sandisk Sansa range might be the way to
go. Anyone had one of these?

I was tempted to just stick the latest podcasts on my phone, but it
doesn't have a standard headophone socket, so I can't use my noise
cancelling headphone on the tube.

Any other recommendations?

p.s. appologies to anyone who had this as an email already.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to just stick the latest podcasts on my phone, but it
doesn't have a standard headophone socket

I worried about that for my SonyEricsson phones (P990i and K750i in particular), but I found that you could get a converter plug for about five pounds or so, or better, you could get a decent set of in-ear phones with in-cord microphone (a "hands-free") for under £20 and the earphones in those unplugged leaving a standard earphone socket PLUS the ability to use it as a hands-free (even with the noise cancelling headphones).

But if you're determined for a standalone, my friends like the Creative Zen machines.

[cdave]

I've had one person say their Zen's use a database, and another say that their Zen Nano can be mounted. I'll need to look into it more.