The Best in High-Capacity Portable Mp3 Players

As music listeners gradually make the transition in their collections from CD- and tape-based music to digital files, a huge new market is developing. That is, everyone who can is doing their best to get into the portable mp3 player market. Easily the most popular device, Apple's iPod revolutionized the industry by integrating its product with their own iTunes software and iTunes store. Coupled with snappy marketing and those hard-to-miss white earbud cables, the iPod came out early and grabbed a large part of the market share. But other manufacturers have more recently joined the game. Creative Labs offers some formidable competition for the standard 30GB iPod with its NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 40GB mp3 player. And Toshiba's Gigabeat MEG-F40S 40 GB rounds out the most popular of the high-capacity digital audio players. How they stack up - and how they price - can help you make the right decision if you've been waiting to make that leap to digital and go portable with your mp3 player collection.