See, this is exactly the kind of stuff I need to know. Thanks, Jon! (Back to searching, with new criteria)
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Yeah, when they say 1000 songs, they're really talking about shit quality.
Does it have to be flash-based, or would a hard drive one work?
He specifically asked for flash rather than a hard drive one, I think because the tiny form factor is the main thing (he wants it to be very unnoticeable that he's listening to music)
And song quality is a factor, since he's kind of an audiophile.
You may want to have a little talk with him about that apple problem of his.
Right now, Apple kind of has a lock on the market for flash chips, so if you want to get a player with the kind of capacity you're talking about, you have to go with a Nano.
Yeah, no one else has a flash player with anywhere near the capacity of the Nano. I'm not really sure, but I think the max for a non-Nano flash player might be 1 Gig.
The search for the perfect Flash MP3 player is winding to a close...but now that I've seen this, I'm sorely tempted: [link]
I think the Sony mp3 players look cool. Dunno much about them though (except they finally ditched their stupid propriatary file format/DRM scheme).