Good MP3 Player (1 GB)?

I'm really sorry if this is the 1-millionth thread on the topic, but if it's still legitimate, I need some advice. I'm looking for a good MP3 player, and although I've done some research on the internet, I don't exactly know a whole lot about the subejct. Three amazon reviews on one product saying "this sucks"/"I love this" don't really help.

My only experience was with a Trekstore 230-something MB one, and it wasn't exactly a good one. Cheap, yes, but it broke really quickly, and had a few bugs before that as well. So I'm not too keen on the whole Trekstore product range.

What narrows is down are basically the following points:
- 1 GB (don't need more, don't want less)
- should cost less than 50 Euros due to limited budget
- a rechargeable battery (don't want to buy a new one every couple of days)
- want a display, no matter how small (which rules out the Zen)

That basically only left me with one product, the Sandisk, but there weren't really a whole lot of reviews about it. Does anyone own it and knows if it's any good? I can't find its equivalent on an English speaking version of amazon, so this won't tell you much: Amazon.de: Sandisk Sansa Clip Tragbarer MP3-Player 1 GB schwarz: Elektronik: SanDisk

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

If you didn't require a screen, I would obviously recommend a Shuffle. Otherwise, there are always the USB stick MP3 players, which should be good enough.

Some of the ones at the top of this search look pretty good:
Amazon.com: 1gb mp3 player

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, I can't really use American amazon, as I live in Germany/Scotland. And a shuffle costs more than 50 Euros....

Yeah thank you for the tips, I'll use American Amazon right now.

Umm... I have a Slide3, but I got it on sale, so im not sure how much it REALLY is.

i am going to buy a DAP soon too (budget 100-130EUR incl. shipping costs for a 4GB mp3-player).
A great place for a quick overview of all well-sold products is .:: mp3-player.de :: Your Personal MP3-Store :: Größte Auswahl an MP3 Playern
A great place for reviews and test results is MP3 flash, which is a serious FREE quaterly mag on news|reviews|tests|ads on MP3-players.

*FYI* The DAP technology leaders are the Korean brands (Cowon iAudio; iRiver; Samsung) - the first company to produce commercial mp3-players was Mp3man (MPMAN, Inventor of the mp3 player), also a Korean company. Trekstor and SanDisk products are cheap in price with, generally speaking, a cheap plastics touchNfeel (and dont seem to be satisfactory in the long run according to amazon user reviews). The ipod shuffle (and all other ipod variants) has a nice, expensive touchNfeel, but no screen/display.

Good luck! And let us know your final choice!!

You should try checking out BestBuy. They've got a good assortment of MP3 players. I think a wave of new products just came out last month.

The Zen Stone MP3 Players from Creative Labs have a display and are at or under 50 euros, so you might consider them. They have a Europe-based site as well.

EDIT: ...Or not, if the cheapest ones with a display still have a 2gb capacity. Drat, never mind.

I'm not sure about the price over there in Euros, but the RCA Lyra players have never really done me wrong. There's a bunch of different models [depending on if you want a screen, rechargeable battery, and a bunch of other things], so you'll probably find something you like.

...Actually, looking at the RCA website, they don't seem to have the Lyras listed anymore. Maybe they've stopped making them. :/ In any case, I've heard good things about the Opal player as well, and they're apparently pretty cheap. Check them out here:

RCA Audio/Video - mp3 Players