Iriver drops MP3 player prices for the holidays
Iriver LPlayer: cute and affordable
Iriver does a solid job with its MP3 players. They're always packed with features and generally offer good sound quality. The company isn't exactly known for competitive pricing, though, so it's always nice to see lower tags on its devices.
For the holiday season this year, Iriver is slashing prices on the Spinn, the LPlayer, and the E100. Starting November 1, you can pick up a 4GB or 8GB Spinn for $189.99 or $229.99, respectively (down from $249.99 and $279.99). Prices on the E100 and the ultracompact LPlayer are being cut by $40 for the 4GB versions and $60 for the 8GB versions, bringing the final pricing to $69.99 and $99.99--downright cheap given the plethora of features.
Read the full review of the Iriver Spinn.
For more than five years, Jasmine France has covered a variety of tech products for CNET--from scanners to keyboards to GPS devices--but she's happiest where she is now: sitting atop a pile of MP3 players, "testing" every music service known to man, and jamming a variety of earbuds in every shape and color into her absurdly small ears. E-mail Jasmine. 
It's been a LONG while since my last iRiver device and I've since added loads of non-DRM AAC files to the library with my past forays in the world of Apple. With that sort of consumer profile, any device I buy now has to address AAC usability even if it can't do FairPlay. It's why I've gone with Sony, Creative and Microsoft players, which have adopted non-DRM AAC capability. Conversely, it's why I haven't gone with an Apple device of late; no WMA support for those few thousands of WMA files in my library from my...(ahem)...iRiver days that out of sheer laziness haven't been re-ripped just to play nice for an iPod.