Mp3 Player

Overall this a great player with many capabilities. The FM tuner, voice recorder, pics, and video are specs that everyone knows but it comes together nicely here. Replacable battery is always a plus.

Sound is great. If you don’t like what you have you can manually adjust the equalizer settings. There are many to choose from. You might want to invest in some higher quality headphones though. The factory set isn’t bad at all, but you could go better.

I’ve heard a lot of complaining about the scroll wheel and the buttons. The wheel is easy to use and DOES NOT JAM as some other tend to think. Yea the Ipod click wheel is nice.. but this isn’t an ipod is it..? When pushing buttons, it seems that your pushes does not register but it does. No issues there.

Battery Life is great. Running through the menu, playlists, and all the other functions obvioulsy drains the battery but not significantly. It’ll last for at least 9 hours depending on usage.

Ease of use: You can’t go wrong with this player, and it is incredibly straight forward. The installation cd gives you a user manual just in case you have any questions but you can figure it out yourself by just running through the menus.

File transfer and media converter is straight forward. To easily create playlists the cd will update your windows media player, so make sure you install it. Media player tends to be moody at times, but once you start dragging and dropping your files, its easy.

Just something to point out. An earlier review said that the boot time was around 5 minutes or so. That’s totally exaggerated. I have a little under 6GB of USED space and it takes about 10 seconds max to boot.

Obviously, you should take care of your player. Buying a case is a best bet even though it comes with a slim fabric case. Take care of the player and it’ll take care of you.

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I wonder if there is any way i can get my mp3 player tuned with a vista look. That will be great feature, because at this moment i don’t know such a theme.

I have heard that the Creative mp3 players will have an Windows Vista operating system. Really my opinion is that maybe they will launch a theme that will look like vista but i don’t know how they will implement an operating system on a mp3 player.
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Replacing the battery yourself is a pretty easy task, but if you’re the kind of person who frets about dings or if you have no mechanical ability whatsoever, your best bet is to send your iPod to Apple or a quality third-party shop to get the battery replaced.

Apple’s iPod battery-replacement program will cost you $99, plus $6.95 for shipping. Apple will take a week or two to put in a new battery and return it to you.

You can also choose SONNETT IPOD INTERN REPLACEMENT BATTERY ( BAT-MINI ). But sites such as PDASmart and ipodbattery.com sell replacement batteries for more like $29, and in some cases–especially if your iPod is quite old–can actually double your battery life. So if you’re adventurous or too impatient to go two weeks without your magical music box, then read on.

The iPod batteries are all standard off-the-shelf units, so it doesn’t matter where you buy them. PDASmart.com and ipodbattery.com are both good sources. PDASmart.com provides both detailed instructions and the plastic disassembly tools noted above.

Opening the case
Turn off the iPod, and place the hold button on (so that orange is showing). Insert the edge of your tool of choice vertically between the plastic and the metal, next to the FireWire port. Insert the tool as far as you can, then slide it up and around the sharp metal upper-left corner of the iPod until it’s about 10mm from the edge. At this point, pry up and release the first of the five clips (on the left side) holding the two case halves together.

Once you’ve released the first clip, continue to slide the blade down the side of the iPod, and the remaining four clips will come apart fairly easily. With one side of the iPod case released, you can now lift the plastic case half away from the metal portion. With it will come all the electronic components, in one unit. Congratulations–your iPod is now open!

Removing the battery
First- and second-generation iPods have the battery attached directly to the hard drive by two strips of rubber featuring some sort of evil adhesive. This stuff sticks! Use your screwdriver or another thin, flat implement of choice to loosen the battery from the hard drive. Try to keep the rubber strips attached to the hard drive and not to the battery. When it’s free of the sticky death grip, disconnect the battery and throw it away.

Installing the new battery
The new battery will install only one way because of the length of the connecting wires, so plug it in and lay it down on the hard drive. Line it up so that one edge isn’t hanging off, and press it firmly so that the adhesive grips it.

Putting it back together
Once this is done, you can just snap the metal half of the case back on. Charge up your new battery, and your iPod will have juice again!

I am using a dual-processor Mac production computer with about 1.7gb of RAM, OSX Tiger, and all the “bells and whistles.” Everything is up to date and I have never had problems with the pc.

Everything seems to go fast except my iPod, which uses the standard USB connector included with the device out of the box.

It often takes well over an hour and a half to transfer (”sync”) a gig of media, and this seems a bit excessive to me considering I do the same thing with my USB external hard drive in a matter of minutes. I tried purchasing a third-party firewire iPod connector only to find out the iPod 30gb video model is not compatible with this type of connection.

If you haved this problem this is how you can resolve it:
Using a usb 1.0 port. a usb 2.0 port would be much faster, check it out on your computer.

I personally like the iPod with the iTalk microphone. However, the iTalk doesn’t work with the 30G or 60G video iPods.

I also know a very cool one with good one-touch voice recording, the ZenVplus(139-179).
You can get much cheaper ones, but I dont really know which exaltly.
By the way, the ZenVplus is much like the Nano, very cool. If you can afford it, get it.

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