Tis the season, MP3 Player recommendation (UK)

[purdy hate machine]

sansa? are they in the uk?

I have heard some good things about Sansa but looking at their website I see a lot of their devices require Win XP min, are Sansa MTP devices?

[easyease]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125181 these are great, i got one and they are ace. this review says it all
"I bought this to replace a 1gig MP3 player which my wife had jogged to bits at the gym. It was £23 with the Google discount and for a 4gig player that is an astounding price. No issues with folders, just drap and drop, sound quality is very good with the supplied headphones which have quality chromed parts and connectors. Radio reception is excellent, I live 10 miles from a mast and a nice addition.

My daughter rattles on about buying an Ipod, I asked to her check the prices, her answer was 'If I get the Ebuyer one can I have the £100 that you would have spent extra buying me an Ipod", she's still waiting........

Buy it, you will not be disappointed."

as well as having fm radio to listen to you can also record the radio to its memory or use the built in mic to record notes, oh and it does handle ogg files even though the ebuyer description doesnt mention it.

[happy-and-lost]

I have heard some good things about Sansa but looking at their website I see a lot of their devices require Win XP min, are Sansa MTP devices?

I have a Sansa e200 series and love it to bits. It's fully Linux compatible, as it has a UMD USB mode. I put Rockbox on mine, so it plays almost every audio codec under the sun (including OGG, WMA, FLAC, M4A, etc). And... Rockbox has built-in Frozen Bubble

[keithcleaver]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/125181 these are great, i got one and they are ace. this review says it all
"I bought this to replace a 1gig MP3 player which my wife had jogged to bits at the gym. It was £23 with the Google discount and for a 4gig player that is an astounding price. No issues with folders, just drap and drop, sound quality is very good with the supplied headphones which have quality chromed parts and connectors. Radio reception is excellent, I live 10 miles from a mast and a nice addition.

My daughter rattles on about buying an Ipod, I asked to her check the prices, her answer was 'If I get the Ebuyer one can I have the £100 that you would have spent extra buying me an Ipod", she's still waiting........

Buy it, you will not be disappointed."

as well as having fm radio to listen to you can also record the radio to its memory or use the built in mic to record notes, oh and it does handle ogg files even though the ebuyer description doesnt mention it.

This is great. It looks very similar to the 512MB I own currently. How quick was the delivery?

[bobbocanfly]

I would seriously think about the Sansa e200 Series. I got an e280 (8gb model) for £80 GBP on Amazon.co.uk on the recommendation of some of the folks here. It is basically what the iPod Nano should have been and fixes all the problems it has (Except for ogg playback by default, but who seriously doesnt replace the firmware with Rockbox?). The batteries are replacable, movies by default (if you are into that sort of thing). Insanely good quality for the price. It fits all your requirements :

1 - As far as i can tell its pretty jog resistant and very solid so unlikely to break if dropped, but its still incredibly compact

2 - it has a 4gig model (Sansa e240?)

3 - Very Linux friendly (no problems here, provided not using MTP mode obviously)

4 - Music transfer is simply copy and paste. Couldnt be easier.

if you dont want a Sansa, look into Cowon as they are really Linux friendly, but avoid Apple like the plague.

This is great. It looks very similar to the 512MB I own currently. How quick was the delivery?

I bought a case fan with eBuyer the other week using the cheapest delivery possible, came within 4 working days.

[daynah]

I have a very old creative that supports ogg and a medium age creative that supports ogg, so I'm going to guess the Creative Vision (which I desperately want) supports ogg.

I REALLY suggest creative. Sound BLASTA!

[easyease]

This is great. It looks very similar to the 512MB I own currently. How quick was the delivery?

ebuyer re really fast turning stuff out, the longest time a delivery takes is 5 working days but you can pay a bit to have next day delivery if urgent.
the parcels come by citylink so you dont have to worry about the royal mail, lol

[easyease]

oh and by 5 working days i mean for example i ordered a new camera on monday and its going to be delivered on friday because i took the free delivery option as i spent over 50 pounds.

[ajifans]

Another recommendation for Cowon, they are platform independent and regularly come up trumps in Which magazine reports.

I bought by Cowon D2 in the UK.