The beauty part of wanting an electronic gadget to spruce up your life is that you know exactly what you want, the electronic gadget. The ugly part of wanting an electronic gadget to spruce up your life is that there is approximately 50 different variations of every gadget. Which one is best for you and which one do you need to purchase? Consider the following.

> What do you want out of your MP3 player? Those who are looking for the type of player that can store their entire music collection or just enough to make it through a 5 hour flight without hearing the same song will want something with a large hard drive, 20GB or more. Those who are looking for something to jog with that will hold a few hundred songs will want to look into a flash drive player, something durable with little space.

> What type of files are you looking to download to your digital audio player? If you don't have much of a personal music collection and are instead relying on various sites to download your collection then make sure the player you are getting will play those files. If you are simply burning or ripping from your own personal collection any player will do.

> What type of battery life do you need in your MP3 player? Make sure that the player you are purchasing is capable of playing for the amount of time you need it to on a full charge. Players range from 10 to 50 hours on a full charge, just make sure you know what you are going to get out of yours and what you need before investing a few hundred dollars in a player.

> What types of extras do you want on your MP3 player? While you may just want a player that plays your music and does nothing else, it is increasingly more difficult to perform that task. Most come with video capabilities, personal organizer capabilities or the like; just make sure that yours does everything you want it to do before you spend the money!

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