opinions on MP3 players, Please help me

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I will being on a 2 day road trip very soon. The only way I can do this without losing my mind is have some toys. Like puzzle books and a something to use to listen to music using my noise cancelling earphones. I actually thought that the earphones could have be used just to cut out noise then I found out that it only works if I am listening to something. Darn.

Could anyone recommend a easy to use MP3 player? I would like to have one that has a screen so that I would be able to select a certain piece of music. Also the operating system for my computer is Windows XP.

My other options are to buy a 4 G memory card for an old MP10 player, or my PSP. However, I am having trouble finding all the pieces of the PSP recharger. Let alone the cost of the memory card could be as much as a new MP3 player.

Any suggestions? The lovely younger man I live with said the only way to select one is to play with one in a store for about 5 minutes. So I figured by doing this it's the equivalent of having other peoples fingers doing the same thing.

Thanks everybody. irene

I like the Sansa Fuze...

iPod.

What a waste of money.

I just have an i-pod. It's a tad expansive, but i-tunes is good for organizing songs.

and if you have a problem with song prices you can use media converter to get audio off of YouTube videos.

And if you have a problem with Itunes or Ipod - god forbid...

Creative Zen.

An iPod's okay, but I'm not a fan of the proprietary file formats and the popularity factor of it (it's "cool" to own one).

I personally own an 80gb Zune, which I do like a lot more than the iPods. However, like Vista, the software's a memory hog, though it's vastly improved over what it was when the 80gb was first released.

IPod??! ! RUN - SAVE YOURSELF!

ITunes only does mp4s, so if you ever do want to go with another mp3 player you will have to repurchase all the songs you bought from ITunes. It's like going to the furniture store and buying a sofa for the same price you could have gotten it at any other furniture store, then later finding out that if you put it in a room that's painted any color but white the store won't let you sit on it!

I decided not to stay with IPod cuz they don't stand behind their warranty. I had spent several HOURS looking on numerous pages for the link to return an IPod under warranty, and when I finally found it, it kept "timing out" (yeah, right, blame MY computer that never times out on anything else) every time I tried to get a confirmation number, and they wouldn't let you return an IPod without a confirmation number. After 2 DAYS of trying to return the stupid thing I just gave up.

I now have a SanDisk Sansa (I think it's an E260, but I may be misremembering) and I'm much happier with it. It has an FM radio, it can record either voice or songs from the radio (which I use if I hear a great song and don't know the name - I can replay it until I get the lyrics right, type them into a lyric search engine, find the song title, then buy the whole song from rhapsody). It's awesome, and not hard to use at all. You just use the included installation disk to add it to your computer. It has plenty of memory (4 memory-thingies sorry, can't remember the name right now, I think it's gigs but am afraid I'm guessing wrong) so I have over 1,000 songs on it.

I must say, the microphone for voice recording is a little weak - I have to take it out of the neoprene case I carry it in and speak directly into the mic, or it won't catch the audio. Other than that I have no reservations about it. You couldn't use it to record minutes from a meeting at work, for instance - it doesn't have the range.

I would go either SanDisk Sansa or Creative Zen. I was going to make Sansa my next MP3 player, but my iRiver has yet to die, the damn thing is sturdier than steel! Soooo I have yet to purchase a Sansa.

Sorry, but iPod is "the" MP3 player. Just cause you can't afford one, or can't stand to own something "trendy", doesn't mean it's not a good product.

Exactly! I really hate how people hate iPods just because they're "trendy". I own an 80 gig classic, and my iPod is my favorite thing in the world. I could care less that it's trendy, it holds all my music, is easy to hold and use, etc.

How about people who hate it because you can get a lot better player for under half the price?

You can't get a better player for under half the price. iPod is overall the best player.

Asides its lack of proper battery (or battery life), abysmal format support and forcing you to stick with them, Apple is a great buy...

if you don't want anything fancy another vote for sansadisk stuff.

Battery life could be better. What do you mean by abysmal format support? "Forcing you to stick with them?" I can use my iPod just fine in Windows, MacOSX, or Linux. If you are so inclined, you can even hack the iPod and replace all the software on it with a Linux distro designed specifically for that purpose.