Waterproof MP3 Player - anyone try it?

connundrum

Hey,

Was half thinking about giving this a try, but €100 is still a good bit of dosh. Anyone try it yet?

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agrajag

connundrum wrote: »

Hey,

Was half thinking about giving this a try, but €100 is still a good bit of dosh. Anyone try it yet?

Link

Haven't tried it, but been thinking of getting myself this instead

Highway_To_Hell

I was thinking of getting a case +headphones for my Ipod Nano3 but still a bit iffy about submerging my ipod in water.

zardette

I have one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WATERPROOF-PLAYER-phones-armband-COLORS/dp/B0016RGOYM

and I find its great as long as you use a tight cap. Its good with a front crawl backstroke and butterfly for some reason doesn't work that well for me with the breaststroke maybe thats just bad on my part

I can also flip at the end of the pool with it on.

I use it for long swimming sessions so as not to fall asleep (well 1.5 hrs thats long for me)

Hope this helps,
Z

TarfHead

I have heard George Hook, on his radio programme, extolling the virtue of a waterproof player he uses on his morning pool swim. Can't remember the name, but if you e-mail the show, I'd say they'd get back to you.

hutchyontour

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DonalB

I've had a Finis SwiMP3 for about a year and a half. Training for the English Channel last year my coach didn't want me using it, but I did use it before training with her and I use it occasionally again now that it's over, but usually only on rare days when I'm doing something like 7 to 9k pyramids or I'm just getting in to tackle my depression.

It works extremely well. Yes the bone conduction really does work, no headphones or leaking cases to worry about after much reading and research at the time I ruled out all other options having talked to various people who had tried them.
Usual drag and drop controls to copy music on, no conversion required. Takes a day or 2 to get used to the controls with no screen but it's easy apart from that. About 4 hrs play time on my version was the bigggest problem as that was only about 2 days swimming when i was using it a lot.
I found it difficult to find goggles that it would work <well> with, although that was because the older version tended to put the straps out. It works perfectly with Aquasphere Kaimans, my preferred goggles now for long distance. However that was the previous version, V2, the new V3 looks even better.
256mb seemed very small compared to another mp3 player but I fit 60 tracks at 129kbps, which sounded perfect in the pool. Once or twice after transferring something new on, I would realise it wasn't going through the full list. In this cases I would first do a system reset, if that didn't work (once) I did a quick reformat and then transfer on the full list of files again .