[Romantic Old Bird]

Yes an ipod is an mp3 player.

As for picking up a cheap one - well you can pick up very cheap ones, but they don't have much storage space.

If you want to put on a lot of albums = you will need to spend more. To store 6000 tracks you need about 20mb. The cost for a player to store that much ranges from about £140-£200

If you only want to store a few albums you can get one for just a few squids.

Kelkoo is a good place to look