iRiver Flash mp3 player (iFP 380T)
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Manufacturer: Iriver
Price at amazon.com: $129.95Usually ships in 24 hours
Used & new from $79.99
- Plays MP3 and WMA music files
- Plays up to 4 hours of music
- Real-Time MP3 Encoding
- FM Tuner und Recorder
- Voice Recorder
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Comment: For what it does, it's great! Rating:
In the days of the iPod and other double digit gig MP3 jukeboxes, you'd think that these puny 128MB flash players would be falling out of fashion. Wrong! These things are still popular, and the IFP-300 line is the best out there.
I bought this for several reasons: I wanted a music box a little more discrete than my aging CD player, and I wanted to be able to change my playlist easily and accomidate all the music I would want for a week. At this price, I got all I wanted and more. I can wedge this in my pocket, the batteries last very long, the sound quality is top-notch, and it comes with an FM radio and an excellent voice recorder.
When I encode the songs as 128kbps 44khz MP3s, I can fit about two hours of music on this jewel, which is enough for me. At that quality, my ears cannot discern the difference between that and a CD unless I'm deliberatly looking for the difference, which I never am and you probably won't be. I once fit 4 hours of music at 64kbps (long car ride), but I was able to discern an annoying degragation in quality.
A word of advice: in today's world, this particular MP3 player is taylored for me, but might not be for you. I have a modest CD collection which I can count on my fingures, and I can listen to the same song a hundred times and still enjoy it. If you have fourty CDs and can't bear to listen to the same song twice in one week or demand that your music be uncompressed, spring for an iPod. If you're someone like me but with a larger CD collection, consider this only a model with more memory. Also consider the new 700 line of MP3 players from iRiver. They seem to be basically the same as this one only different aesthetics and twice the battery life, at least according to the ads.
NOTE: When you buy this, download all the firmware updates from the iRiver website. One of the updates will let you mount the MP3 player as a removable drive in Windows as opposed to the third-rate propriatary software they expect you to use. I now just drag and drop my MP3s from iTunes.
Comment: Greatest mp3 player in ILLINOIS, the COUNTRY, the EARTH!!!! Rating:
This product is the best mp3 player in the universe. It can do anything a good one can. It has a smashing cool design and the sound quality is wicked. The only bad thing about it is that it doesn't come with a home(case). I don't think that i'll ever get a different mp3 player. this little guy can go virtually anywhere. you can easily fit a couple into your pocket. If I could change one thing about it I would make it more expensive because the price is irresistable.
Comment: One of my favorite things! Rating:
I love this player! Mostly because it is so easy to use. It has a USB port for downloading and whatnot, but you don't need a computer to put songs into the player. You will need one if you want to reformat the songs (put them in order or files), but with this player you can record with the line in feature straight from a CD player or the built in tuner. The only way you get four hours of music on this player is if you really decrease the quality of recording, that's the best I can say it. So it really holds around two hours if you want great, ungrainy sound and all. But it's light and pretty tiny so it fits easily into a pocket or crowded purse.
It's great!
Posted at October 11, 2003 01:47 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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