To be honest, I think you are really overthinking this. Using a phone as a player does work well, but I personally prefer something a little less fragile when biking; after all, it might fall out of your pocket or whatever and smash into the ground. Also, battery life on a smart phone isn't the best.

I still think a simple one like the image below would suit you fine, and is cheap enough not to be a "big deal" if it gets dropped/ruined. And this one even has an FM tuner.

http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US...1653136_sb.jpg

I have one very similar to this and it simply appears as an external drive in Windows when connected, so drag-n-drop works fine. Simple to use, fits easily into a pocket, and just works.

As far as sound quality, it's more in the headphones than anything. As long as the internal amp is even halfway decent and you don't turn the volume up into clipping, you won't be able to tell the difference between that and a $100,000 player when listening to MP3's on earbuds. Plus, you say that you plan to use only one earpiece when riding, which makes the SQ argument even more moot.

So, just pick a player already! :smile: Rip some songs off your fav CDs, copy them to whatever device, and that's it.

I tried copying songs from my pc to the scan disc i bought the other day. But it was taking to long to just coping one song. I cant imagine how long it would take to load 40 or 50 songs.

Well, that might be your computer. Not sure what you're running for OS (WinXP SP2 you sometimes need to force device manager to detect USB2), but if you are hooking it to a USB1 port, the port will limit the speed no matter what the device supports. But even at USB2 speeds, transferring 1GB or more does take a while.

Also, are you sure you were transferring a compressed sound file? If you just pulled the song off a CD, it might be in WAV format, which will be around 10MB/minute (as opposed to around 1-2MB/Minute for MP3), and so will take a very long time.

As far as i know i was just transferring the song from my pc, not sure if it was commpressed or not. I just ripped it to my pc Then tried to load it on the scan disc. If i could get someone to show me the right way it would probably be faster. I was just loading one song & it was taking over 3 -5 minutes.

OK everyone, who here lives near Largo Florida? Could you stop over and sort RCHippie out? :lol:

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The player fits in an envelope, someone want to dump their library for hippie?

If I had any music in a digital format I'd say send it here and I'd load it.

All I have for music is a handful of scratched cd's:neutral:

That wouldn't really help him out. It would give him music for sure, but he still wouldn't know how to work things. "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime".

Good point Brian. :yes: