My GF and I are thinking about getting her Mom an MP3 player + Yahoo! Music Subscription (or comparable) for mother's day.

I don't think we want to go the iPOD route, (overpriced) we want a subscription service thats easy to operate and has unlimited transfer to the player for a monthly fee. I am trying to figure out the best service and the best player thats compatible with that service.

5/11/2007 4:33:09 PM

Yahoo Music is pretty awesome...they actually use a lot of machine learning algorithms to exactly focus on the kind of music you want.

5/11/2007 5:03:07 PM

what is a good player that an old person could figure out?

5/11/2007 5:32:04 PM

I am guessing that with an old person, it's figuring out the software to download music/sync that's going to be more complicated than the player itself.

5/11/2007 5:33:16 PM

it cant get more simple than itunes and an ipod.. really. ive had had a few different mp3 players and the ipod/itunes is the most mom friendly of the bunch by far. the ipod is simple, itunes is simple, and buying music for it is simple.

shuffles start at $80...

5/11/2007 5:41:38 PM

iPod shuffle is pretty easy to operate (press play), but buying music for it could get $$$.

5/11/2007 5:43:06 PM

Rhapsody isn't terrible and Sansas are pretty nice.

5/11/2007 6:10:19 PM

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"but buying music for it could get $$$"

Eh, if his old people are anything like my old people they have a lot of time on their hands and a lot of CD's. Many grandparents actually started buying CD's when record needles became harder to find.

5/11/2007 8:33:10 PM

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"Rhapsody isn't terrible and Sansas are pretty nice."

Good Call I did not see this post yet but we got a Sansa last night and information on signing up for Best Buy music store (rhapsody) and Yahoo! music.

5/12/2007 2:06:35 PM

I had a lot of problems with the sansa...and the bby music store thing.

it wouldn't sync right. obviously, I was an idiot.

5/12/2007 3:04:50 PM

I've never really had a problem with my Sansa. Any issue I've had boils down to Real being a horrible company and Rhapsody being questionable software.

It works a large amount of the time, but there are moments where (like with everything Real), you just want to shoot someone in the face.

[Edited on May 12, 2007 at 4:35 PM. Reason : .]

5/12/2007 4:34:42 PM

the sansa is a damn good player.

5/12/2007 7:47:20 PM

Yahoo! Music vs. Rhapsody????

5/13/2007 12:32:47 AM

Wow, people actually pay for music?

Unbelievable...

5/13/2007 12:56:39 AM

while rhapsody has a good selection, i cannot condone supporting anything released by Real.

5/13/2007 1:58:41 AM

they new wireless sansas are nice as hell


they use yahoo! music



I have a creative zen vision: m that I use with napster


napster's ok, but their UI is terrible - slow and bloated. plus I can't use it to send non-napster music to my mp3 player (wtf gay)

5/13/2007 1:41:14 PM

I can't install the latest rhapsody player on my laptop for some reason. It just crashes.

5/13/2007 1:42:09 PM

my dad has a xm radio... i think for the 60+ market that's the shit because they have the jazz and oldies stations.... no menus or choices just listen away

5/13/2007 9:07:52 PM

word...I am getting addicted to XM Escape.

5/13/2007 9:25:42 PM