What are the best MP3 Players I can buy?
iPod? Sony? Now that CDs and tapes are officially dead, MP3 music is the way to go. MP3 songs are just a special electronic file format for digitized music, allowing you to store and playback songs on your computer, portable MP3 players (like the famous iPod), your car stereo, or home stereo. So what MP3 Players are best? Depends on what your music needs are. MP3 players comes in 3 main sizes/categories right now: flash memory based, micro hard drive based, and normal hard drive based. Let’s start with the normal hard drive based MP3 players. A little larger than a deck of cards, these music machines contain a small hard drive inside, like the ones found in laptop computers. The Apple iPod has pretty much owned this category. These players come with capacities ranging from 20-60 gigabytes (GB). An average MP3 song takes up about 3 or 4 megabytes (MB), so that means you can hold about 250 songs per gigabyte, or 5000 songs on a 20GB player. Obviously, most of us don’t have more than 5000
