I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get a good mp3 player that stores like over 100 songs for like around $200... any electronic stores or maybe a good online site?

Well you could search for a player and it's lowest price by going here:

http://datacenter.ibuyer.net/ierp/a...1004&locid=1004

In terms of a specific player, did you have anything in mind?

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I wanted the one with huge amount of memory for storage of a lot of songs... like the ones called memory sticks or something similar that will store a lot... do u know of any?

Oh by the way, that site, I can't find any portable MP3 players on there, the closest thing is like writeable CD players and mini-discs but no mp3 players... do u know of anywhre else?

I'll look more into higher storage MP3 players, but I believe out of the box most of those are in the $400-$500 range, but I'm not positive. As for the memory stick, that's Sony's MP3 player flavor, and I think they don't hold more than like 64MB....

As for the site, go to the link again, on the side under the hardware category click "Multimedia". When the new page loads, on the side click "MP3 Plyr/ Other Devices".

There's your list of MP3 players...See if you find anything nice in there :-)

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Thanks a lot!

If you have a CDRW... Personally, I would stay away from the MP3 players and get a portable CD player that plays MP3s (unless you want to use this for running and working out)

You can store up to 10 hours of MP3's (6.5 MB per song) on a single CDR (650 MB) vs. just ten songs on a flash chip.

I saw a CD/MP3 player for $149 by RCA after rebate at Soundtrack. Model #RP2410. I haven't looked for it online, though. It also has 40 second anti-skip protection too. Aiwa has one for $199 (*XPMP3) but without skip protection.

Also, Dave was correct. What you are looking for is called the NOMAD and i'm pretty sure it's made by Philips. It's super expensive but you can hold a ton of music--hours and hours. It's blue and looks cool. The price is currently dropping. I think it's now around $350-400.

I hope this isn't totally what you weren't looking to hear.

James

my mistake, the Nomad is made by Creative Labs

It's the Nomad Jukebox you're talking about. The older Nomad was just a Creative Rio that took memory cards.

There are currently five different memory standards out there on the market for MP3 players...Thankfully, only two are really dominant:

Compact Flash - Currently the dominant type of memory. Cards currently offered have memory capacities of 480MB or more. IBM and others also develop miniature hard drives called "MicroDrive" which can use this interface in most newer players/digital cameras. This interface, called Compact Flash+ or CF+, also allows for use of generalized I/O devices. Socket Communications has made serial/parallel I/O controllers and ethernet adapters which fit onto a CF+ card.

SmartMedia - Co-created by Toshiba, these things are really small and kind of fragile. Originally used in the Rio, they have a maximum capacity of 64MB, but cards those big are only readable in some devices, due to an original limitation in the implementation of SmartMedia.

MultiMediaCard - These cards are about 1" square and were used for a little while in digital cameras, such as the original HP PhotoSmart.

SD Card - Successor to MultiMediaCard, they look like wider SmartMedia cards. There are only a few players that currently support this. It's basically the lovechild of MultiMediaCard and the Recording Industry's SDMI.

Memory Sticks - Used only by Sony. More durable than SmartMedia, and thinner.

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I saw a new MP3-CDRW player made my Rio (Diamond?) in an newpaper insert for Circuit City. It costs around $160.