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2.0 stars
"Mhhh not quite"
Pros: Very pretty.
Cons: bad ogg support, wmp required
Summary: OK, I got one of these from my wife for Christmas. Here's what I see:
Good:
- Very Pretty
- Seems to sound good, though I have nothing to compare it to.
- Plays ogg (ok, kind of, see below)
Bad:
- IRiver advertises that it plays ogg files. It does, but you don't put them into the player in the same way as you do MP3's, and you can't have all of the things with ogg that you should be able to (ordering by title, genre, author, etc). I had to call Tech support to figure out how to add them to the device
- Forces users to use Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Media Player. I have not (and have spent considerable time) been able to make it work under Linux or Mac OSX. The device should simply show up as a USB storage device: it doesn't. This is a serious drawback
- The headphones that come with the device are even more of a joke that you expect. For a device this expensive you expect a bit better. It is nearly impossible to keep them in your ear without surgery.
- The interface is not the best. When you pause the device for more than a few seconds you have to reboot it in order to get back to where you were, about a minute.
- It's capacity is somewhat small for the price. Not a big concern for me (It has enough capacity for audio, which is the primary function for which I'll use it) but video may be a different thing.
- There's no way to upgrade its capacity to take advantage of falling prices in memory. This is very unfriendly.
- Tech support is spotty
Fortunately for iriver some of these are fixable by firmware, so I hope they read this review.
I'll likely keep it because it sort of does what I want it to, but barely and in a half- assed way.
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