{"id":8871,"date":"2006-04-12T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8871"},"modified":"2006-04-12T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T19:03:48","slug":"el-cheapo-mp3-player-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8871","title":{"rendered":"El Cheapo MP3 Player Round-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=350 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/flashMP3.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Ars Technica has a really nice <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/reviews\/hardware\/flashdaps.ars\/1\" target=\"new\">round-up<\/a> of current flash-based, low-priced digital audio players. The piece takes a reasonably in-depth look at nine players, and ends with a comparison matrix and a best [blank] list: (Best recording capability: Samsung YP-7T, Best value: SanDisk Sansa m230, Best battery life: Samsung YP-MT6, etc.). <\/p>\n<p> The best player overall was the Samsung YP-MT6 (around US$100 street). For as low as $50 street, the SanDisk Sansa m230 looks like it has a lot going for it. Okay, it <i>looks<\/i> like something <a href=\"http:\/\/ronco.com\/index.aspx\" target=\"new\">Ron Popeil<\/a> might have designed, in the &#8217;50s, but if you don&#8217;t care that much about the look of your player, the Sansa m230 might be worth your gander,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a really nice round-up of current flash-based, low-priced digital audio players. The piece takes a reasonably in-depth look at nine players, and ends with a comparison matrix and a best [blank] list: (Best recording capability: Samsung YP-7T, Best value: SanDisk Sansa m230, Best battery life: Samsung YP-MT6, etc.). The best player overall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;El Cheapo MP3 Player Round-Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}