Comments on: Top 5 MP3 players for less than $50

CNET's Donald Bell rounds up the best MP3 players that cost $50 or less.

[zmnatz]

You can get a 2GB Sansa clip for $20 at office depot until the EOB saturday. Or just find the ad somewhere and price match it somewhere else. I got one of these on sunday

[4dthinker]

The Sansa Clip 4gb model is usually $49, and the 8gb version often can be found for that same price. Still under $50, and a far better choice than anything else on your list for those who have large music collections. With memory prices continuing to drop, your $50 list may soon be full of 3" touchscreen players. ;)

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[jwant_fp]

It's products like these that make me wonder how apple thinks they can get away with their pricing.

[BigGuns149]

Until recently it was really quite easy. Before iTunes tracks were unprotected the only players that could easily use said tracks were iPods so anyone who had any desire to buy music off iTunes didn't have much choice unless they knew how to remove the copy protection.

[pburkeiii]

these types of players were out long before the ipod, i do not know why they are described as shuffle "clones" they do look in a way like older shuffles, but this is no reason to give Apple the credit for the product

[mark_lllwww]

Each of us has to make choices and accept trade-offs