[Podder]

Thanks, guys! I haven't bought earphones yet. Should I search and/or post a new msg for this? I was hoping someone could recommend quality earphones. I read there are some Koss ones that are good.

In reply to some followup posts:
I went to the power save options and I have two settings, sleep time and power off. Edit: I went to admin's post for the 'how to' on set time and power off time. I think I might have solved this issue. I hope so. I made the changes according to the instructions in the post so hopefully this will prevent the player turning off all the time. Thanks, admin!

I didn't buy an adapter yet. I will be looking into this.

Finally, my main concern currently is the quality of my recordings or should I say, the quality of the sound of the mp3s loaded onto the player. I am thinking that, perhaps, this should be a separate post. It might already be an issue with these ipod clones and maybe I will find other posts on this?

My problem is that I have some songs that 'crackle' or have distorted sounds. There is crackling on some songs while others sound clear. In addition, some songs have the bit rate constantly changing. The mp3s are from various downloads. When I play these same songs in WMP or VLC, for e.g., they sound fine.

Can anyone comment on this, specifically? How would an ipod fare with mp3s not bought from iTunes in comparison to these clones?