Try using the shuffle like a hair clip

Personally, I don't think I could hoop with any kind of headphones or even Shuffle earphones, though I have never tried. When I hoop in my apartment I just have the sound really low.

I've been using my regular headphones with my ipod. The ones that go over your head and not the in the ear kind. I usually don't have a issue with them because they don't pull out as easily as the in ear one's which I don't like any way.
I also like to bum my husbands bluetooth headphones. If you have a cellphone that can play mp3's they are pretty spiffy and if you get a bluetooth dongle you can hook it up to the pc and set up a playlist of whatever you want.
I think I'm gonna get a pair of my own, it's getting to fight time over them because they are so nice lol

Hey Sue...I purchased this from a suggestion from someone else here on tribe www.amazon.com/Hisonic-Wi...=pd_sim_e_2

I love the product. It has taken quite a few hoops to the ears and has held up for 7 months so far. Drawbacks are that it is not I tunes accessiable. To get around that, I have to burn a disc off of Itunes and put it into another cd burner function on my computer and upload from there.
Another drawback is that it says it has a shuffle function, but I can't figure out how it works. So I have to manually press buttons to get to my song choice or just listen all the way through.
The price is right though!

My husband just got me a Motorola S9 wireless headset. I loved it! Until I tried it. The thing sucks up the whole nano battery in 4 hours. I can live with that. What I can't live with is the 16 times it turns itself off in the four hours. Sadly, it is going back to the store for a refund.

www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do

I picked this up at sams club a while back. I love it! It's great for going outside to hoop and still have music without making my neighbors hate me!

Works awesome with my ipod.

There's my 2cents.

ttfn,
:D

Decisions, decisions... I would love not to have to wear them at all, but it's not possible to play music outside here, even quietly. Yesterday I tried clipping my Shuffle to a headband, but there just seemed to be so much wire to dispose of! I bunched it up and clipped it to the band, but when I saw my head in the video I took I looked like I had a sort of robot brain thing going on!

I hadn't thought about using external headphones with my Shuffle. I could try that. Perhaps I need a better headband and to try that again. I've even thought about taping the buds into my ears with medical tape but that would feel horrid I think.

I'll keep an open mind for now and see what turns up.

Thanks for all advice. I will try the headband thing again, and see if I can borrow some external headphones to test. Then I'll see what I think.

I recently got this from amazon:
www.amazon.com/Hisonic-MH.../ref=sr_1_1

It does NOT come with an SD card, but that means you can spend as much or as little on storage as you want (I was able to pick up a 2G card for something like $12 at my local Best Buy).

It's a bit quirky to use--the files play in the order you upload them. I uploaded songs alphabetically by artist so it would be easier to find tracks.

The sound quality is not that awesome for songs with quiet bits--there's a low-level hum. But if you're rocking out to techno or industrial music, it's not really that noticeable.

It's reasonably comfortable for me, even though I wear glasses.

Overall I'm mostly satisfied with this--you get what you pay for, but it does the job well enough for my purposes at a pretty reasonable price. It only works with mp3 files and you have to transfer them separately, though, so I don't know how well it will work for a Shuffle owner (I don't own any Apple products).

Sue I am so glad you ended up liking them....I really love them myself. I think for anyone who already has a shuffle, they are perfect! And I find the sound quality to be fine too, even though I read that some people say it's not that great.

I'm resurrecting this thread because I'm curious if anyone has tried any other wireless options since 2008.
I'd love to get a pair of wireless headphones to hoop in.
There is a big range of available products ($20-$400).
While i'm probably not going to throw down $400 for a pair of headphones that i'm probably just going to whack in the ear with my hoop....
i'd rather pay some decent money for a good product with good sound than buy a cheap fix that is just going to fail/break/etc on me in a short time.

Yes, use Shuffle as a hair clip.

I do it and it works better that any other I've tried. Of course it sometimes falls off.

Usually I do a pony tail and clip the Suffle close to it on the top of my head. That way it doesn't start to pull the hair in any direction. Then I spin most of the wires around the root of the pony tail, put some pins there to make it stay there better. Then the earplugs into the ears and some pins again to attach the wires and you're ready to spin freely.

I really recommend this!