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iRiver to iPod: Upgrade, downgrade, or the same?

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lights0ut:

--- Quote from: bascule on June 08, 2007, 03:41:33 AM ---I'm surprised EvilG hasn't jumped in here... so I'll do it for him

My personal opinion is that the Gigabeat is the best *sleek* option for RB at the moment.

I've used RB on an H120, Nano and Gigabeat and it's the GB I'm staying with for the fantastic screen, powerful processor and all-round good performance.

The H120 is excellent, but it's niche is the recording/tapers market which I don't move in and I personally think it's quite ugly.
The Nano is good for it's size, but I never really got on with the scrollwheel. That's a personal thing, however.
For me, the Gigabeat is the natural sucessor to the irivers in terms of button layout and functionality etc.


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I've owned a iPod video, but I've never owned an H300 so I can't really help mkozlows out ;)

Comparing the iPod and  the GB though, no contest GB hands down just about everything is better with it. The only things the GB lacks are recording, FM, and optical I/O (correct me....). I suppose you could through capacity in there too if you're wanting an 80GB, but I've found 40GB enough to keep me happy, you might get lucky and nab a 60GB though.

soap:
I am in love with the scroll wheel.
I always hated the buttons on the H300, and find the Gigabeat "X" interface worse.
That being said...
Every other metric weighs in against the iPods, so if you like your H320's buttons, I'd either buy a 40GB single-platter drive, or buy a new-used back-plate and upgrade to a dual-platter hard drive.  
OR:
Buy the backplate off of a H340, and put a single platter HD in there AND a big honkin' battery.  Can't beat that player with a stick.

99% of the time I have one of my iPods on my person, with my other players at home.

EDIT:typo
EDIT2:new idea

gnu:
I had a nano and I loved the scrollwheel.
Then I fried it (d'oh!) and bought a iaudio X5 30gb and I'm totally happy with it. The only thing it lacks is the scroll wheel, in my opinion.

Llorean:
I personally prefer buttons to a scrollwheel, you have a much greater degree of precision because you have distinct increments of movement. They also have the advantage that you can continually scroll without continuous hand motion just by simply holding down the button, rather than having to continually move your thumb/finger.

Anyway, the iPods have two main problems to expect: The battery life, as you know, and the fact that their processors are slower. This mostly manifests as the equalizer causing music to skip, and peakmeters on your WPS being a bad idea.

The iPods also don't have their own USB mode, but this is transparent enough that many new users have to have it explained to them that we're using Apple's emergency disk mode, not any USB mode of our own, it doesn't get in the way for many users.

In the specific case of the 80gb iPod, there's some new code for using the disk that may not be 100% reliable yet (there have been some reports of freezes).

mkozlows:

--- Quote from: Llorean on June 08, 2007, 12:10:26 PM ---Anyway, the iPods have two main problems to expect: The battery life, as you know, and the fact that their processors are slower. This mostly manifests as the equalizer causing music to skip, and peakmeters on your WPS being a bad idea.

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I don't care about the peakmeters, and don't use equalizers -- but I do use crossfeed, which I suspect has similar codepaths.  Is FLAC with crossfeed going to skip on the iPod (I have no sense for whether FLAC is a particular intensive codec)?  Because that would pretty much kill the usefulness for me.

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