Portable CD-R/RW/MP3 Player?

Eldie asks: "My ancient (1995) portable CD player has finally rolled over and died. I'd like to replace it, and I'm not looking for something as grand (read: expensive) as an iPod. I'd like to have something a bit more useful than the baseline -- it should at least play CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and MP3s. It would be great if there was some sort of useful hierarchical MP3 interface so that I didn't simply end up having to skip back and forth through 100 tracks, 1 track at a time. Is there anything out there that fits the bill?" This was touched on almost 3 years ago, where quite a few of you had useful recommendations. Three years is a long time, however, and it would be interesting to note if there are any better (or cheaper!) options out there. If you were to look for such a player, today, what would you buy?

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I'm looking for a toilet tissue that's both soft and absorbant, but I don't want to pay a premium price.
I've looked at the bargain brands, but I didn't think they would get my question posted on Slashdot.

Can you geeks tell me what your experiences are? I've recently come into some money and want to
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[TwistedGreen]

I'd definitely go with the Turbo Ass-Reamer 5000-XT line of papers from AssCo. The XT stands for eXtra Thickness. It costs a bit more than your usual paper, but man is it nice. That 16-ply softness just can't be beat. Plus, it even comes with a free musical toilet paper holder that plays well-known game themes from the C64! You just can't go wrong with AssCo.

But yeah, CD players? That's kind of old tech, and completely uninteresting. Does nobody have any good questions? Slashdot these days...

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[S. Baldrick]

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[evilad]

I know this isn't exactly what you had in mind, but you should consider a nice, flexible AssAuger.

Rather than helping you clean up afterwards, it simple helps you avoid the need for taking a messy old-style dump in the first place.

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[Endive4Ever]

In a perfect world, you would get a player that does CDDA, FLAC, APE, MusePack, MP3, Ogg and nothing else.

No, in a perfect world we would have a player that you could throw any CD, even an AOL CD, or a handful of gravel off the ground into, and it would play any music requested.