Top 5 best MP3 players

by Tom Merritt

Everybody's all smitten with smartphones, but what if you don't want to be interrupted with a call while you're listening to your music? What if you don't want to risk your precious and expensive smartphone at the gym? What if you want to carry every song you own in one player? If this describes you, take a look at our top 5 best MP3 players. They play some video, but mostly they play music. Sweet, sweet music.

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Topics:: Top 5

Tags:: mp3,; mp4,; video,; players,; best

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by zzone-com October 16, 2009 2:38 PM PDT: i am guesssing 78%; Like this Reply to this comment


by derelicte37 October 16, 2009 2:42 PM PDT: 91%; Like this Reply to this comment


by chaeymaey October 16, 2009 2:57 PM PDT: 91%; Like this Reply to this comment

by jfortun October 16, 2009 3:00 PM PDT

You start the piece out by explaining this is about the music experience and then give the Zune HD the number 3rd place? I can see giving the Touch the edge because of the App store (and some of those apps are music related), but behind the Nano? Are you kidding me? The Zune (and the service and software that goes along with it) are second to none for the music listening experience.

cnet shows it's bias I guess.

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by rafacst October 17, 2009 3:25 AM PDT: oh, the bias card. no one will ever get tired of playing it. :P; Like this


by asudesigner October 16, 2009 3:04 PM PDT: Umm, mixed reviews = 50%?; Like this Reply to this comment


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by davinp October 16, 2009 3:23 PM PDT: You guys forgot about the Creative Zen X-fi player. Creative's ZEN players have had FM Radios since 2001, long before iPod. The X-Fi player is the only player with the x-fi technology which improves the sound quaility. It also an SD car slot and built-in speaker and wifi for chatting; Like this Reply to this comment


by MaczTechBoy October 16, 2009 3:44 PM PDT: 91% I'm a huge fan; Like this Reply to this comment

by kenwarf October 16, 2009 3:45 PM PDT

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by kyanni October 16, 2009 3:50 PM PDT: 92% positive review for the original ipod.; Like this Reply to this comment


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