I've been hearing good things about...

[HTA!]

The Sandisk Sansa e200 series MP3 player.
My Nano is about to bite the dust, and really getting a new apple product isn't going to happen right now.

So I looked these up and would like to know if they are compatible with Itunes music files.
All my music is stored via Itunes, however I do have some that is not MP4 format.

Is it possible to convert these if need be, and any other thoughts on the player itself?
8GB for only $90? f*** Yes.

Doing a little research, and as I feared it may be incompatible.
Is there any hope?

[Riosan]

If you have ever bought anything from iTunes, and you buy another mp3 player, it's like throwing money away.

It's how Apple gets you, if you don't buy anything from iTunes, you're free to buy another player. If you bought crap, you've thrown money away and Apple gets your cash.

[L10]

I have the Sansa e250 (the e200 series 2gig) and I have no issues with it.

I like it more than my brother's ipod, my brother likes it better than his ipod.

I read some complaints about the radio feature and it locking up.

1) To get out of the radio just hit the home/power button
2) If it locks up, you don't have to take out the battery as everybody claims, just hold the power button for a while it'll eventually shut down.

And about the formats, you could probably just get a converter to change it to a .mp3

I have no regrets, I love my perches.

[Friendly Hostile]

If you're worried about compatibility, burn all your m4a files to CD's and rip them back on the computer as MP3's.

[HTA!]

If you have ever bought anything from iTunes, and you buy another mp3 player, it's like throwing money away.

It's how Apple gets you, if you don't buy anything from iTunes, you're free to buy another player. If you bought crap, you've thrown money away and Apple gets your cash.

Exactly... there are in theory some ways around it but they are massively time consuming. :(

I can always get on BearShare and download like hell for a year.
Only like... $13 or something for unlimited downloads.

[Silverhawk79]

www.m4p-mp3.com
www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/index.shtml
www.xilisoft.com/audio-converter.html

Have fun.

[Zovistograt]

I have a Sandisk e260R, although I recently replaced it with a Zune, which I like better.

It's a decent mp3 player...I just had some firmware problems.  Like, I had to format it 4 times, it glitched a lot toward the end of my usage of it, and once it scared me by doing something akin to being possessed.

[Jono2]

or you could move to canada and download whatever the intercourse  you want for free.

[HTA!]

www.m4p-mp3.com
www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/index.shtml
www.xilisoft.com/audio-converter.html

Have fun.

Itunes not supported. :(

[HTA!]

or you could move to canada and download whatever the f*** you want for free.

I'm mainly concerned about viruses, not the actual downloading.

[Jono2]

or you could move to canada and download whatever the f*** you want for free.

I'm mainly concerned about viruses, not the actual downloading.

you generally won't get viruses unless you're being stupid (downloading a file that's supposedly music but a .exe).

[Mystic]

Viruses don't come as .mp3 or .flac I'm sure.

[Beatnik]

Honestly, I think getting something as small as 8 gigs is a bad move. Getting a larger music player, like an 80 gig Zune, seems like a much better value to me in terms of gigs per-dollar. I recently got an 80 gig Zune and I love it. Sometimes the firmware is glitchy and the software you have to install on your computer is intercourse ing awful, but it's easily my favorite music player I've ever had the pleasure of using.

Like, I had to format it 4 times, it glitched a lot toward the end of my usage of it, and once it scared me by doing something akin to being possessed.

Oh, did it put a song into ultra-fastforward for no reason at all? That happened to me last week, and I basically heard the Alvin & the Chipmunks version of Cream.

[Jono2]

are ipod files just simply not compatible with other mp3 players?

because you can take the music on your ipod and put it onto the computer your ipod is linked to

[Friendly Hostile]

are ipod files just simply not compatible with other mp3 players?

because you can take the music on your ipod and put it onto the computer your ipod is linked to

The Zune can play .m4a files.