What are the advantages of using a mp3 player versus a memory stick? In other works is it worth purchasing a mp3 to use with this?
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There is none if you run it off the mp3 you can not use the controlled on the top you can't skip tracks,memory stick is better cost less and weighs less and more room to put things in it
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I haven't got the memory stick to work with the hipo yet. I only can get my ipod to work with it with limitations.
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I just use the memory stick so I don't have to take my player with me or charge it. All the controls work with the stick. If you are worried about the battery life just buy another battery like I did or get a little battery supply like the Anker to recharge it. If I want to play certain songs then I use the Sansa. But I don't see no advantages except the playlist.
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This device requires a "player" of some kind (IE: IPOD, MP3, Walkman,....) as it is just speakers with a small amplifier of some kind. *I have been using an IPOD and this lasts about a week on a single charge using it every day for about 2 hours! My IPOD I have to charge every 3 days!! Both of mine work great!!
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Safety. Ear phones in the ears deafens the outside world too much. I have two mp3 players plus an awesome LG blue tooth ear phones to connect to my iPhone. However, I can't hear traffic when I'm blasting my rock music. This speaker is loud but I can still hear traffic.
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I already owned 2 mp3 players prior to purchasing this product. I believe the biggest benefit to using your own mp3 player is the ability to organize your music and quickly and easily being able to change artists/genres etc. based on your mood. Using a memory stick, you would be able to skip from track to track, but not necessarily select the artist/song you'd like, i would imagine it just skips to the next song in the queue. If you currently don't own an mp3 player, it might not be absolutely necessary to purchase one. With the amount of music I currently have on my mp3 player, I can't imagine just having to skip track to track just to find an artist/song i want to listen to. Hope this helps. I already owned 2 mp3 players prior to purchasing this product. I believe the biggest benefit to using your own mp3 player is the ability to organize your music and quickly and easily being able to change artists/genres etc. based on your mood. Using a memory stick, you would be able to skip from track to track, but not necessarily select the artist/song you'd like, i would imagine it just skips to the next song in the queue. If you currently don't own an mp3 player, it might not be absolutely necessary to purchase one. With the amount of music I currently have on my mp3 player, I can't... » Read More I already owned 2 mp3 players prior to purchasing this product. I believe the biggest benefit to using your own mp3 player is the ability to organize your music and quickly and easily being able to change artists/genres etc. based on your mood. Using a memory stick, you would be able to skip from track to track, but not necessarily select the artist/song you'd like, i would imagine it just skips to the next song in the queue. If you currently don't own an mp3 player, it might not be absolutely necessary to purchase one. With the amount of music I currently have on my mp3 player, I can't imagine just having to skip track to track just to find an artist/song i want to listen to. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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Biggest benefit to running off an MP3 player like an iPod is you can set up a playlist and have it randomized, whereas when you play off a USB stick it just plays them in file order. The downside, as stated by Anthony, is that you can't used the controls on the top to skip songs.
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MX also will have much better functionality for the SD card. Zen does not import songs/videos into its menus, MX will.I have had the 16gb Zen for a year and a half and love it. My only complaints are 1) lack of accessories such as external speakers with docking options 2) limited SD card functionality and 3) the organizer software is substandard. #1 is worth putting up with since I usually use it outdoors or at the gym, the MX solves #2 and I use WMP instead of the organizer when loading music.If you're looking for an alternative to iPod Nano, this should be at or near the top of your list. MX also will have much better functionality for the SD card. Zen does not import songs/videos into its menus, MX will.I have had the 16gb Zen for a year and a half and love it. My only complaints are 1) lack of accessories such as external speakers with docking options 2) limited SD card functionality and 3) the organizer software is substandard. #1 is worth putting up with since I usually use it outdoors or at the gym, the MX solves #2 and I use WMP instead of the organizer when loading music.If you're looking for an alternative to iPod Nano, this should be at or... » Read More MX also will have much better functionality for the SD card. Zen does not import songs/videos into its menus, MX will.I have had the 16gb Zen for a year and a half and love it. My only complaints are 1) lack of accessories such as external speakers with docking options 2) limited SD card functionality and 3) the organizer software is substandard. #1 is worth putting up with since I usually use it outdoors or at the gym, the MX solves #2 and I use WMP instead of the organizer when loading music.If you're looking for an alternative to iPod Nano, this should be at or near the top of your list. « Show Less
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Neither. This device is pretty bare bones. It's really just an MP3 player. Micro Sd and standard SD card would be for a smart phone or a tablet (and a Nintendo DS handhelds and certain cameras inexplicably). Not quite for a Walkman.
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I use my mp3 exclusively for audiobooks. I'm a real junkie and listen nonstop all day when I'm not at work. The first one I bought was a Zen V. It had issues, but improved when Creative came out with new firmware. After using it for a year, the battery would no longer hold a charge. There was no way to replace the battery. So I decided to look for a player with a user-replaceable battery and bought a Zen Micro. It worked fine for a few weeks, then it broke and Creative said they could not repair it. I decided the battery was more of an issue than the bookmarking, so I bought a Sansa e250 v2. I've had it for about a month and it's great. Better than either of the Creative players. But it doesn't have bookmarking. Rockbox wizards are working on a new version that will work with the Sansa e250v2, so I'm hoping that will give it bookmarking capability. The resume playing works really well with the Sansa (unlike with the 2 creative players). Since I only listen to one book at a time and don't listen to music, the only time bookmarking is really an issue is when I transfer or delete books when the player is connected to my PC. (I have a Gomadic wall charger to recharge the battery at night.) I'm really not sure about the full time stamping. My library changed from netLibrary to Overdrive. Overdrive breaks audiobooks into multiple files instead of having one really large file like NetLibrary, so that hasn't been an issue. In 2006 a survey showed that 25% of the adult US population listens to audiobooks. It's really stupid that mp3 manufacturers continue to ignore our needs when the technology and software already exists to provide every player with full time stamping and bookmarking. If just one of them would come out with a reliable player with a user-replaceable battery and those features, they would probably rival iPOD overnight. If Sansa would respond with a firmware update to provide those features, the e200 series could be that player. Instead, they foolishly continue to ignore the pleas of audiobook listeners.
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Micro SD card is the best way to load music or flash drive works too or you can use as radio as much as you can use as speaker
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Hi! I am currently using this phone. I have a micro SD card in it with MP3 files, and though I don't use it for listening to them like an iPod etc, I use them for ringtones. I love that I can find MP3 or WAV files of my favorite video game or TV show themes and other music and set ringtones, without having to buy seperate ringtones... unlike my wife's iPhone that makes her buy ringtones from iTunes! Using MP3 for ringtones on the micro SD card has been super easy, fun, and they sound great.
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I successfully use a SD card. Never tried anything else. Don't see how you could. Can you transfer your MP3/4 files to an SD card?
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It's a horrible mp3 player. My recommendation is to get rid of it and just purchase a different brand mp3 player that works correctly. That's what I did with mine.
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You have to buy one. I had a tough time finding a cheap one with a small amount of memory then whenI finally did, I loaded the card with my kids music put in new batteries (because I thought they were dead) and found out that the MP3 player had died and I wasted my money on not only the SD card, but on on MP3 player itself as well :(
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i just baught a generation 1 itouch ipod are there any down falls of this purchase i should know of? I mean ive always wanted one and my old MP3 player died so i had no choice? It seems like a great idea it holds way more songs does a crapload more stuff and its a touch screen.
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SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 2 GB MP3 Player (Black)I am trying to help my daughter with purchase of a memory card she feels she needs for a mp3 she has purchased on Amazon from CrazyonDigital. Would a memory card be automatically included with the mp3 or does she even need one?
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Hi Tom,This MP3 player also features a microSDHC card slot, so you can expand its memory by up to 32GB with a SanDisk microSD or microSDHC card**Card(s) sold separately.This is from here: http://www.sandisk.com/products/music-video-players/clip-zip/
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It all depends on the features you are looking for. I just needed a mp3 player to play music in my car and when I'm traveling. So I was not interested in a 'smart' mp3 player, which are more expensive. The Ipod Nano is more expensive than the Sony walkman, but the Sony walkman had the basic features I was looking for.
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It comes with inbuilt 4 gb memory. You can add a micro sd card to increase capacity if you need to. It is an mp3 player.
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I plug my external USB drive into the computer. Not sure if it would work like an MP3 player. I think there is a driver on the MP3 player that allows the music to play.
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I have no problem playing my mp3. Sometimes those expensive phone players screw up a regular player-speaker. I have no problem with mine. The only problem I have is when my mp3 runs out of juice - then I just recharge and play over again.
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I don't think it matters. This is a consumer product with very little write speed requirements - not like a camera, you load the songs once and then mostly read the mp3 files. The songs are loaded from a PC that can be very patient while the files are written to the flash memory card. I would go with the least expensive - and I have done that in the past.