I have a couple of older Sony MP3 players, and both are well made, sound great, and came with excellent ear-buds. Sony offers Media Go software for Windows, which will recognize iTunes files, but you can always drag and drop files straight from iTunes. If so, consider the 8GB Sony NW-E394 Walkman at £75. Examples include the 8GB AGPtek M07, which can handle up to 128GB, and the AGPtek Rocker (no FM!), up to 256GB.Īs an iPod owner, you might prefer a name-brand product. However, there are plenty of alternatives that support larger cards. The 8GB Kubik Evo (£26.90) might do, but it only supports SD cards up to 8GB. They are a handy way to move a lot of data around. I use SD Cards on my desktop (via an Anker USB3 adaptor), three laptops, a Roland Edirol digital recorder, a DSLR and several compact cameras. What would stop me from buying an HccToo is its lack of an SD card slot. This is better value, but you don’t really need the extra storage space. There’s also a 32GB version of the HccToo for £26.98. Music buffs will appreciate its ability to play MP3, WMA, FLAC, APE, AAC, OGG and (for speech) ACELP files. I’d never heard of this machine, but it’s the #1 Best Seller on .uk, so you can browse the 639 customer reviews. They won’t be as well made, but they are so cheap that you won’t lose much by getting it wrong.įor example, you could buy a 16GB HccToo Music Player on Amazon for £18.98, saving £30 off the “list price” and £130 off the cost of a Nano. Many of these players look like knock-offs of the fifth-generation Nano. It would be much cheaper to buy a traditional MP3 player with basic audio functionality – including, of course, FM radio.

In other words, if you buy a Nano, most of the money pays for features you don’t want.

Alternative MP3 playersĪpple extended the Nano’s life by adding features such as a photo library, video playback and some “fitness” features, such as a pedometer. In fact, they work exactly like other MP3 players: you download files to your PC using software such as Apple iTunes and Audible Manager, then transfer them to the portable device. While Apple isn’t making any more Nanos, existing devices will continue to work. However, the newer model requires a newer operating system: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, or Microsoft Windows 7 or later. Note that the latest 2015 Nano looks identical to the seventh-generation 2012 version, it just comes in fewer colours. The seventh-gen iPod Nano is launched in 2012.

Agptek mp3 player with spotify