Portable Media Devices - Buyers Guide

There are two types of MP3 players or digital audio devices: flash-based players and digital hard drive-based players. Flash players hold files in the internal memory or external memory cards, they can hold up to 8 GBytes of music. While the hard drive-based players can pluged to a hard drive that can hold up to 360 GB of audio-video files depends of the hard drive capacity. So, this means that you can bring your entire music collection with you - on work , for example :)!

MP3 players are so well-liked that people have found many other uses for it. The most popular use is for podcasting. This feature allows the users to automatically download radio-like programs, or TV-like video feeds, and other audio inputs, etc., directly from the internet into the player. These could be downloaded and played at the owners` comfort.

MP4 players are even more cool. They can play audio as well as video files. Apart from the MP3 and MP4 extension these devices can play WMA/PlaysForSure, AAC and ATRAC, AVI, ATV, ACT, SMV, MPEG4, MTV, DMV, MPV others.

If you are looking to buy an MP3 or MP4 player check for all of these characteristics . But one of the most important is the battery life. Portable players are mostly used on the move, so it would be uneasy to charge them. iPod boasts the highest battery life among all other players. There are a lot of accessories that you can purchase along with your MP3 or MP4 player. The Merchants provide headphones along with the player, it`s a good idea to buy the ones that best fit to you.