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Any time you invest a few hundred dollars (or pounds, yen or Euro for that matter) in an electronic device, you’ll want to take good care of it. Whether you’re trying to extend your MP3 player’s life or prevent theft, these tips will help you enjoy a long, loud life with your player.

MP3 players are susceptible to moisture. If you alternate between a humid or cold environment and the great indoors, wrap your player tightly in a plastic bag before you get back inside. This will prevent moisture from invading and collecting inside the display screen. Give the player anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour before you remove it from the bag: you’ll be good to go after this.

You should also store your device in an interior pocket when you’re around water. Playing music while you’re boating at the lake is great, but dropping the device into the water won’t make for a happy ending. And if you store your player in a pocket, you also eliminate the problem of sand or dust getting in or salt corrosion from the seas spray if you are near the seaside.

If your model uses disposable batteries, you should make sure that any batteries you use are fresh and in good shape. The old AA that’s been sitting in Mom’s junk drawer since you were in grade school is much more likely to leak and ruin your player than a brand-new battery.

If you have a Flash player make sure it gets recharged regularly and you also run the battery down from time to time.

For the rugged types who like to enjoy music on the move while jogging, pumping iron or pounding the treadmill there are a number of MP3 player protective covers you should invest in, this becomes particularly important when you have one of the latest iPod video playback MP3 models with their notoriously easy to scratch screens.

Finally, be sensible. MP3 players are perishable and subjecting them to harsh conditions and difficult environments only shortens their lifespan.

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Every month, manufacturers unleash even more MP3 players to an increasingly confused public. Not only do these devices have wildly divergent features, but ongoing format wars mean the MP3 player you choose dictates where you can buy your digital music. These devices are anything but one-size-fits-all.

Luckily for you, you now have a handy guide to demystify everything for you.

First, there's the question of design. A player can have every feature in the world, but if the design doesn't match your lifestyle or if the interface is impenetrable, you still won't enjoy it. You'll want to look closely at performance; sound quality and battery life can make or break a player, especially if you travel a lot or have the so-called golden ears of an audiophile.

Before you start checking out specific models, you should have a basic understanding of the types of MP3 players available. Note: All types of player mentioned below can play other formats besides MP3, such as WMA, ATRAC3, OGG, or AAC, but we still refer to them as MP3 players.

Hard drive-based players
Most likely, a high-capacity player can accommodate every song you've ever purchased or ripped from a CD. Hard drives run from 20GB on up, and large players such as the 60GB Apple iPod can hold around 17,000 songs, assuming an average file size of 3.5MB per tune.

Pros: They store all your music on one device. They also tend to have more features and larger screens and are overall easier to use. High-capacity players give you the best bang for your buck in terms of price per gigabyte.

Cons: These players are usually built around a 1.8-inch hard drive; thus, they are larger and heavier than the others. Also, hard drives have moving parts, so these players aren't ideal for strenuous physical activity. Finally, most use rechargeable batteries (usually lasting 8 to 20 hours per charge) that you can't replace yourself, so after several years, you might have to pay for a new model or pay to get the battery replaced.

Straddling the line between full-size hard drive-based MP3 players and compact, flash-based players, these models aim to give you the best of both worlds by using miniature hard drives (about 1 inch or less in diameter) with capacities of up to 8GB. Players such as the Creative Zen Micro Photo can't store as much music as a 30GB Cowon iAudio X5L, but they feel a lot lighter in the pocket.

Pros: They're smaller and lighter than high-capacity players but still hold more tunes than flash-based models with the same price.

Cons: You get fewer megabytes per pound than you do with a larger player, and these models have many of the same disadvantages of larger hard drive-based units, including the moving parts that limit physical activity and nonremovable batteries that eventually wear out and need to be replaced. Luckily, many new micro drive-based players such as the Creative Zen Micro feature a user-replaceable battery.

Flash-based players
The original MP3 player design, these have no moving parts and are known for their shockproof operation and ultracompact dimensions. Devices range in capacity from 32MB to 6GB, though most new players don't go below 512MB. SanDisk's MP3 line, for example, includes exclusively flash-based players.

Pros: Flash-based players are tiny. They also have no moving parts, so their batteries last longer, and you can jog, snowboard, or bungee jump with them without causing skipping or damage. Many flash players include lots of extra features such as voice and line-in recording.

Cons: The aforementioned extras can make flash players a bit harder to use, and they have the highest per-megabyte cost and max out at 6GB.

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MP3 CD players
These look just like portable CD players, except they can read data CDs filled with digital music. You can burn approximately 150 MP3 songs (10 albums) on one 650MB disc. But if you want to take your CD collection with you, no worries--these devices can play standard CDs, as well.

Pros: These are the least expensive of all types of MP3 players, and they use incredibly cheap replaceable media (CD-R/RW discs).

Cons: They're large and can skip when jostled.

Which one you go for now depends really on budget, looks and personal requirements and, oh, of course the fact that you can buy from a merchant with a solid reputation for customer service and quality MP3 players at incredible prices.

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