shannonr Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 I am searching for a good deal on an MP3 players. They will be for my 7 year olds for Christmas. I don't want to spend too much on them since I know they will probably end up broken or lost. They will both use them for music but one has dyslexia and will use hers a lot for recorded books. I would like to stay under $50 each for them (or less!) if possible. Thanks!
queenofshopping Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 there were 2 cheap ones as part of toys r us's 12 deals of christmas this past week but both are over now, too bad u missed them...nothing in best buy's circular for next week for that cheap, sorry...maybe wait for this supposed big sale that walmart may or may not be having? (see posts on the holiday board)
fairydustcrissy Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 I am searching for a good deal on an MP3 players. They will be for my 7 year olds for Christmas. I don't want to spend too much on them since I know they will probably end up broken or lost. They will both use them for music but one has dyslexia and will use hers a lot for recorded books. I would like to stay under $50 each for them (or less!) if possible. Thanks!Have you seen the disney ones? I saw them at Target, they were 49.99. Seems like it would be great for a kid!
dealluvr Posted December 10, 2005 Posted December 10, 2005 check out jc penney in the toy section they have some for 19.99
queenofshopping Posted December 11, 2005 Posted December 11, 2005 there's a 128mb memorex @ target for $48 this week, depends if you have boys or girls tho bc it's pink
queenofshopping Posted December 11, 2005 Posted December 11, 2005 oo just saw 50% off all craig mp3 players @ toys r us this week, not the greatest things but decent enough
dtdoda Posted December 11, 2005 Posted December 11, 2005 Probably too much for a 7yr old but this seems like a good deal to me. Sandisk Sansa 512mb MP3 player $99.99 with a free Napster starter pack and a Best Buy $50 gift card! I can't post the link since I am a newbie but check the best buy website.
RossMAN Posted December 11, 2005 Posted December 11, 2005 Geeks.com has the Creative NOMAD MuVo 128MB for $24.99 It's a good name brand but the capacity is on the smaller side, when newer MP3 players are 512MB and 1GB. Just something to consider.
Marcster Posted December 11, 2005 Posted December 11, 2005 Geeks.com has the Creative NOMAD MuVo 128MB for $24.99 It's a good name brand but the capacity is on the smaller side, when newer MP3 players are 512MB and 1GB. Just something to consider.That might work though... A lot of kids listen to the same sing-a-longs over and over...
queenofshopping Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 Geeks.com has the Creative NOMAD MuVo 128MB for $24.99 It's a good name brand but the capacity is on the smaller side, when newer MP3 players are 512MB and 1GB. Just something to consider.wow, that's the exact one that was my very first mp3 player, & i paid $100 for it even on sale...of course that was almost 2 yrs ago but that just shows ya how quickly today's technology can become yesterday's news
shannonr Posted December 12, 2005 Author Posted December 12, 2005 Thanks for the replies. I think I will probably get the one at geeks.com. What is a WMA file? And it looks like it doubles as a flash drive as well, correct?
Marcster Posted December 12, 2005 Posted December 12, 2005 Thanks for the replies. I think I will probably get the one at geeks.com. What is a WMA file? And it looks like it doubles as a flash drive as well, correct?Many digital MP3 players can double as a flash drive. The reason is that when they are connected to the computer, many of them show up as a drive letter under My Computer. You can load them up with pictures, text files, etc. and use the digital MP3 player to move them over to another computer... An MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) file is about one tenth the size of the original audio file but the sound is nearly CD-quality. Because of their small size and good fidelity MP3 files have become a popular way to store music files on both computers and portable devices (such as iPod). Developed by Microsoft, Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a competing compressed audio format to MP3. Microsoft claims that WMA features better audio quality for the same file size as a comparable MP3 file. Files may be recorded on CD-R or CD-RW media for playback in compatible DVD players and computers. Files are usually named as "*.wma". http://www.palgrave.com/strategy/mp3.htm For some really dry reading material:http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000027.shtml
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