What the fuck? OwlManAtt is looking into a mp3 player? Has the world gone CRAZY?

Why yes, the world HAS gone crazy, and I AM looking into mp3 players. It was quite nice of you to ask.

As odd as it sounds, I have finally decided that I have enough music to justify buying one of these little bastards. However, I still don’t need all that much in the line of storage space.

So, I pulled up Amazon.com, and began browsing. I noted that Amazon sorts the music players by storage capacity, so I sized up my music folder. It comes to a grand total of 207mb, meaning a 256mb player would be perfect for me. I probably won’t carry all of the songs, but if I do, I’ll still have room for about a dozen more songs.

Originally, I was looking for a player that supported Ogg Vorbis. These seem to be few and far between. It won’t be much trouble to re-rip/encode the twelve or so songs that I have as .oggs, so just mp3 support is fine.

I looked through the choices for awhile, and narrowed it down to two players. Both seemed to be perfect. One was from Creative (the guys behind the best damn soundcards in the universe. Soundcards that I’ve been using since the days of doom2.), the other from SanDisk (they’re famous for making little memory cards for cameras).

They were both sleek looking, and (as it seems), both are supported under Linux as an every-day mass storage device. So I took a look at the price.

The SanDisk beat out the Creative easily. A twenty dollar difference is A LOT when you’re piss broke. So I now want the SanDisk thing, it’s only about seventy bucks.
See? Woohoo. I want one.