Tobiasly’s Blog

My previous Digital Audio Player (a Neuros Digital Audio computer, no longer in production) was either lost or stolen on my recent trip to Las Vegas. I was quickly going crazy without having my music with me at all times, especially since WLRS has decided to quit playing music during morning rush hour in favor of the incredibly boring Lex and Terry show (check out their sucktacular website, complete with a homepage that makes the all-too-common amateur mistake of a pointless Flash animation on the intro page. Although you should watch this one all the way through, since it ends with a hilarious picture of the two DJs in some dorky pose trying to look hardcore).

So, I set out to look for a new DAP. My list of criteria was rather simple, or so I thought:

• At least a 20GB hard drive
• Ogg Vorbis and MP3 support
• Small, portable design
• A good, usable, intuitive interface

Since it had been a while since the Neuros — the first DAP to support Ogg Vorbis — was released, I figured that by now the list of players fitting this bill would be quite extensive. I was wrong. Any time I found a player that fit the technical criteria, some more digging around always turned up a pile of reviews trashing its usability.

Just when I was about to give up, I found the iAudio M3. Read the rest of the article to find out why I chose it and why I recommend it to anyone looking for a digital audio player themselves.

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