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4.5 stars
"An excellent MP3 player"
Pros: Easy use, very sturdy, FM player, records, Windows Explorer directory structure, excellent battery life
Cons: I lost mine
Summary: I had this great player for 4 years, until I left it in the gym and it was gone forever. Now I am searching frantically to find a new or used one, but it's been discontinued. This player has no fancy looks or UI. But in every other respect, it is awesome. Let me reminisce on what I loved:
(1) You could control the directory system on the player itself, so your mp3 files go where you want them to go. Also, they are categorized by whatever directory they're in, not by their ID3 tag.
(2) Battery life! On a single AA battery, I got around 30 hours of playtime. With rechargeable batteries, this thing was amazing. I rarely needed to recharge the battery more than once every two weeks.
(3) Recording! With the built in mic, I could record lectures at school at a number of different bitrates, and even the low quality bitrates (32 kbps, 8 kHz) came out fine. So a 1:20 lecture took up around 35 MB.
(4) Joystick: no need to take it out of your pocket to change the songs or pause/restart the player. With only 3 buttons and the stick, everything was very easy to do without looking at it.
In the last year that I had it, it would sometimes power down on its own, while a song was playing. This happened about once a week. Then again, I used to clip it on my shorts and wear it at the gym, so I hit it a number of times with the weights. Either way, it was a very minor problem and negligible for me when compared to the overall awesomeness of this player.
IRIVER: PLEASE BRING THIS PLAYER BACK!!!
