Portable SD card reader?

[Simon Bags]

Hi People. Do I get on with itunes? Nope. Can I just about work out Media Player? Yes. Can I copy and paste mp3's from my explorer onto a memory stick or sd card? Yes.

Anyone recommend a portable sd card player or a memory stick player that I can enjoy on the odd plane flight? Please don't say Creative do one as I bought one of them a few months ago and it lasted about 5 days before it completely ate itself and now won't even re-boot or do anything. That was £70 down the pan.

Hit me softly, I'm not a whizz with all this stuff.

Thanks, Simon

[phil_cardiff]

Could you not just buy a cheap MP3 player and connect it via the USB lead to your computer?

[Simon Bags]

phil_cardiff said:

Could you not just buy a cheap MP3 player and connect it via the USB lead to your computer?

Won't that take me straight down the itunes path with setting up playlists and all the stuff? All I want, what I really really want, is a portable thing that I can plug into my computer and say sod all the gumph, just copy and paste these tunes from my computer to the mp3 player. Thought I'd done that with the Creative but noooooo, got to set everything up with poiting here, pointing there. I don't even need directory headings or folders or anything like that, just a list of about 200 mp3's straight onto it.

[phil_cardiff]

My mother in law bought a very cheap mp3 player from argos and asked me to put songs on it. I was surprised that I didn't need any software and that I didn't set up any play lists, just dragged and dropped the files.

[phil_cardiff]

Something like this would probably do it, though I'm not 100% sure.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180443?utm_source=go...

[Pupp]

Tescos do their own brand MP3 player (think it's supposed to be a clone of an IPod Shuffle or something), does exactly what you describe and is about the size of half a matchbox. Best bit is it's about 12 or 13 quid. Literally drag, drop, play...

[Finlandia]

Sansa Clip+, excellent sound quality, drag and drop.

[davepoth]

Ah hang on, there's more to this. How much music do you have?

At a guess you have more music than there was space on the iPod, meaning you had to select what got put on there.

If that's the case, buy an iPod Classic with a 160 gig hard disk, and you won't have to bother with all the mucking around (iTunes will copy the whole lot over without any fuss). You'll fit about 2,000 albums on at 256kbps MP3.

[Simon Bags]

Right, think I've found what I'm after. It's just a case of plug it in (it opens to a usb port), use windows explorer, drag and drop. And it's 4gb so should carry enough for the moment. Thanks for all the help though, really appreciate it.

Simon.

[cjs]

Why not send the Creative back and ask for a new one? I have a Creative Zen, 4GB, and it is a simple drag and drop, acts like an external HDD when I plug it into a USB port.