undyingking | MP3 players -- geek wisdom sought

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I'm thinking about getting an MP3 player, but rather than go into the tiresome business of researching the market myself, I thought I'd see if any of you guys are reasonably up to speed and could make recommendations!

Required features:

lots of storage (10s of GB);
decent sound quality;
easy to hook up to PC;
most important, easy to hook up to hifi aux in, ie. to act as a de facto hifi component;
can run off mains;
decent battery etc performance
decent headphones (or, ability to replace headphones with decent ones).

Not-required features:

considerations of portability / durability etc (unlikely to take it anywhere more exotic than the garden);
support for dozens of obscure / proprietary file formats;
wonderfully intuitive / one-button interface (it's likely to live on shuffle);
coolour screen etc;
stunning looks.

And a price of somewhere around the £150-200 mark I guess. Any thoughts?

(Do these things come with digital radios at all these days? That would be cool.)

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bibliogirl.livejournal.com

Mo, if you want to know about DAB stuff recording onto cards etc., talk to our mutual friend who isn't on LJ (which probably nails it down more or less uniquely these days ;))

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undyingking.livejournal.com

I shall do, although I think for the purposes of the current purchase I'm happy to remain ignorant about it -- my radio listening tends these days to be 'whatever's on Radio 6' rather than wanting to record specific shows.

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bibliogirl.livejournal.com

Yeah. With only one exception in the last year and more, everything I've wanted to listen to was available on Listen Again anyhow, and I already have the tech set up to capture that.