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Our MP3 player is aging, and for very complex reasons I had never gotten around to putting a CD player in the new car. I've been driving a lot. So for my b-day, Julie got me this:
2GB model, in green on black. It has its ups and downs, which include:
+ It's TINY. Like book of matches tiny.
+ The battery lasts forever. Creative claims 15 hours, and I've gotten that out of it easily.
+ Appears as a filesystem, making interfacing really easy.
+ Reasonably high quality audio, certainly better than our aging Nomad. Better than many other MP3 players.
- The screen is hard to see in full daylight. But in all other lights it's quite viewable.
- Despite Creative's claims, I've scratched the screen already. And of course there are no screen protectors available yet except from Creative's website. For $20. *sigh* Oh well, I can buy an iPod Nano protector and trim it down.
- Like virtually every other player on the market, this one relies COMPLETELY on tags. It lets you make folders and build up a filesystem any way you like on the player, but then completely ignores that filesystem and organization in favor of the ID3 tags. Of course 90% of the mp3's on my hard drive don't have good/correct ID3 tags. There are lots of options for how to listen to music once you've got the tags in place, though. And if you're a bit careful when loading the player, you can make playlists during file transfer that play things in order.
+/- The EQ is... interesting. It has lots of options for EQ, customization, and bass boost. However in practice I leave the EQ off 99% of the time. The smart volume, too. The signal coming out is hot enough that it sounds good through the Volvo's stereo. The supplied headphones are REALLY low-end heavy. I've read a bunch of reviews that say upgrading to even a $20 set of Sony phones makes the listening experience much better, but to be honest 99% of small headphones have inadequate bass so I think I'll stick with the included low-end-heavies.
I think the coolest feature is that you can plug the player into a PC and play audio from it without loading that audio onto the PC.
Ok, that is all. Thought I'd share!
2GB model, in green on black. It has its ups and downs, which include:
+ It's TINY. Like book of matches tiny.
+ The battery lasts forever. Creative claims 15 hours, and I've gotten that out of it easily.
+ Appears as a filesystem, making interfacing really easy.
+ Reasonably high quality audio, certainly better than our aging Nomad. Better than many other MP3 players.
- The screen is hard to see in full daylight. But in all other lights it's quite viewable.
- Despite Creative's claims, I've scratched the screen already. And of course there are no screen protectors available yet except from Creative's website. For $20. *sigh* Oh well, I can buy an iPod Nano protector and trim it down.
- Like virtually every other player on the market, this one relies COMPLETELY on tags. It lets you make folders and build up a filesystem any way you like on the player, but then completely ignores that filesystem and organization in favor of the ID3 tags. Of course 90% of the mp3's on my hard drive don't have good/correct ID3 tags. There are lots of options for how to listen to music once you've got the tags in place, though. And if you're a bit careful when loading the player, you can make playlists during file transfer that play things in order.
+/- The EQ is... interesting. It has lots of options for EQ, customization, and bass boost. However in practice I leave the EQ off 99% of the time. The smart volume, too. The signal coming out is hot enough that it sounds good through the Volvo's stereo. The supplied headphones are REALLY low-end heavy. I've read a bunch of reviews that say upgrading to even a $20 set of Sony phones makes the listening experience much better, but to be honest 99% of small headphones have inadequate bass so I think I'll stick with the included low-end-heavies.
I think the coolest feature is that you can plug the player into a PC and play audio from it without loading that audio onto the PC.
Ok, that is all. Thought I'd share!
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