MP3 or a digital audio player to those in the know. For those people that are just catching up to technology or are a step or two behind technology, it is a listening device. You can down load music and take it with you instead of taking your tape deck and box or cassettes, or taking along your CD player and carting the pouch with your collection of CDs in it. These little devices can be taken wherever you go, the gym, the park, or sitting on the bus.



There are so many choices when it comes to choosing an MP3 player that it boggles the mind. You may just want a simple one without all the fancy gadgets because they will just confuse you. Or you may want every conceivable feature that is offered because you understand how to use them all and they make you feel so ?in the know?.

Whatever your case may be there are some basic questions that you need to answer before you purchase an MP3 player.

1. What do you plan to do with your MP3 player? Is it for taking out or is it for aiding your current in house entertainment center? In other words do you want your storage to be on hard drive or flash-based? Hard drives tend to skip if you are moving unless there is a memory buffer. Flash based units are smaller and your pocket can hold them easily. They cannot carry as many songs as a hard drive can unless you buy a memory card

2. How good is your eye sight? Those display screens are extremely small and you must if you want to seek what music is being played. The screen also help you go through the options of controlling the volume, shuffling songs and using the equalizer. Be sure to check it out under all conditions such as indoors and outdoors. Is there glare when you try to read the screen?

3. How are you going to download music to your MP3 Player? You need to

be able to connect to your computer so that you can transfer or download files

of music. This requires connecting your MP3 Player to your computer with a

cable. Sometimes the cable is included in the packaging and sometimes you

need to purchase it separately. You can use a USB or FireWire to transfer

the music. USB is the slowest.

4. Does the software you need come with the player and can you understand it? Most players come with that software and some of it is easier to follow than others.

5. What type of music files does your player support? You need to copy

computer from a CD or you can download it from a Web site. You can save it

on a variety of files. You need to know what type of music files your player

supports.

After you answer these five questions you can then select the style that will fit your life style and start enjoying ?your? music because you get to select it and you will love them all.