What is everyone's feeling on what type of player to buy? I have owned two solid state players: 128MB MuVo & 6GB Sansa. It seems like solid state players are better in all cases. First of all, they use less battery and are typically smaller. Second, it forces the user to do the work ahead of time by rating songs & syncing those or manually selecting songs. I find that when you're on the go--just like when you're in your car--you really don't want to mess with listening to junk. At home, I am more willing to listen to the junk so I can rate it out of my sync playlist. Who wants 11 thousand songs in your pocket if 80% of them are garbage. I find that about 10% of the songs I rate are good.
Few questions:
1) Where can statistics be pulled up? I would like to see quick statistics on issues like Rating spread, number of total albums, artists, genres, average song duration, average song bitrate, date range and number of date values, etc.
2) It seems like people are approaching "enough" solid state. I have 6GB but I did sync with the second quality setting and can't fit all my 1K songs from my Favorites playlist. If I were to lower the quality and get a more normal size, 8GB, I think I could quite comfortably fit everything I like and own at the moment.
3) It seems like most jumps in solid state have always been to double capacity--except for the Sansa 6GB model. Will the next flash player be 16GB? That is getting huge! I mean honestly, that would be double my current mix. Unless people start going crazy with syncing, I would be content with even 8GB at the moment. I doubt my collection & favorites will double in the next few months or whenever we see 16GB.
4) I only wonder at that point, and perhaps the 32GB or 64GB solid state players, if then the HDD players will go to hundreds of GB. The big issue here is video, obviously. But, on a small screen, the quality can be a bit lower.
New conversation on this issue welcome!