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Summary: I Really Wanted to Like It
Review: After looking at over 30 MP3 players (which included extensive research online and visits to several stores), I landed on the Yepp 30SH (128 Meg). Before I bought the player I read the reviews here on Amazon.com, and there was a pretty clear concensus that the software that comes with the Yepp is awful, but I am computer savvy and I was confident that I could figure it out. Besides, it was a gift for my wife, who is an avid exerciser, and this player was the best that I saw for jogging and the gym (lightweight, armband, clip, and sporty good looks). Big mistake. I have a great computer that runs on XP, and the software loaded just fine. I didn't even have the driver problems that many of the XP users reported. But when it came time to load songs to the player, the software just didn't work properly. For instance, it would only allow me to add five songs to the player, even though I selected 10. So I tried to add the other songs one by one. No luck. Then things that worked properly before (like adding songs to the playlist) suddenly didn't work at all. Then I tried to uninstall and reinstall the software, but the unistall will not work (I can select the software from add/remove in XP, but the uninstall routine fails - I tried several times and even rebooted and tried again). So I went to the manual and the Samsung/Yepp website, and I found both of them to be worthless. Frustrating. I know that if spend enough time I will figure all of this out and get things working properly, but that is time that I am not willing to spend. My wife and I both work, we have two kids, and spending hours upon hours trying to get songs on a MP3 player is simply not a good use of my time. At the end of the day I really wanted this thing to work, but now it is back in its very-cool packaging awaiting a return to the store. What a disappointment.
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Summary: makes running fun!
Review: Every time I browsed in electronics, either online or at a store, I looked at the MP3 players. I already had a iRiver CD/MP3 player (which I love) so it took a lot of rationalizing and techno lust to buy another player. But I knew I wanted something I could run with, and my iRiver was just too bulky. I was also looking at jukeboxes (iPod, Creative Nomad) but when it came down to it, I knew I needed (really, wanted) something really small to work out with. Finally I settled on the YEPP (128 MB version). The price was right and it was the smallest player I found with the most memory for my money. I love it. It does exactly what I want: I usually use the arm band when I go out with it (it also comes with a neck strap and belt clip) and I find it extremely easy to navigate with the little toggle switch when the song that's playing isn't quite right. I was able to put a little over 2 hours worth of music on it and I can devote it to just my running, which makes it a little more fun to go out and do it. The design is really clever: the less-used functions are hidden under a slide-out panel that also conceals the battery cover and USB connection. The display has a clock on it, which is handy for me since I don't wear a watch, and you have a lot of control over how much info it displays, how fast it scrolls, etc. And the great thing about MP3 players is that with no moving parts, they play forever on one little battery (this one uses a single AAA.) I'm using the software that came with it and while I've worked out the kinks and gotten it to do what I wanted, it took some time. Specifically, when you first load it and ask it to search your computer for music files, it does it, but it also included every audio bit on the computer, including every single tone for desktop themes, system alerts, cursor beeps, everything! Over 2000 files it turned up on my computer. Half of those were system noises, not music files. It was a huge pain in the butt to weed all those files out of the list of music files available. I did take the time to do it and I should only need to do that once. It doesn't matter too much to me, since I don't change the music on the player very much, but if I find myself doing so I might just download the software instead and see if that works better. The player itself is wonderful and I have a killer playlist on it now that's highly motivating. I'm very glad I got it. I like having the two players--I use the iRiver when I fly, which lately has been frequent, and this for running or walking, and it's nice having a dedicated playlist on one machine. So far it's been remarkably sturdy, but I'm not planning or hoping to test that very much. The ear buds it comes with aren't bad but I will probably upgrade to something a little more impact friendly--these like to bounce out of my ears sometimes. This isn't the machine to store all your MP3 files on, but for specific uses and tiny footprint, it's a super little gadget.
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Summary: couldn't get off the ground
Review: forget about all the driver and software problems, all the small buttons, etc. i got this thing home and couldn't even get it to turn on. obviously, a lemon, which can happen to any product, granted. but, given the the shortcomings others have mentioned, in light of this, i have to give it the one star. also, it's made pretty cheaply of flimsy materials. stay away from this product!!!
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Summary: Good product
Review: Here you have what many people looks for:
Size, memory (128MB), weight, many features of the program.
Look no further if you're on sports, motorcycles, travels, etc. This IS the MP3 player you have to get.
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Summary: Disappointing Results
Review: I actually tested the Yepp-30SH (the only difference is 128 MB). The packaging is attractive and a great example of marketing. It's actually fun to open up the package and get all of the parts out. The player is small, light, compact, fits easily in your hand, and it certainly does not lack any means to be carried around. Getting the battery in and listening to the sample tracks is a snap. Connecting to your computer is difficult at best. I should have known things would be challenging when I saw a small card with manual installation of drivers under WinXP. Sure enough, I had to go through the manual installation - and I found the help card to be worthless. I had go through the properties of the computer to track down the device and work through the correct drivers. After about 40 minutes of work - the player was recognized. I thought this was supposed to be USB? The software that comes with the player is horrible. Finding tracks on your computer (or across a home LAN) is difficult, and managing them to get to your player is far less than intuitive. I was never able to transfer a single file to the player, so I was unable to determine if the 7MB/sec transfer rate was accurate. My model hung up at the first 2k of the file. I eventually gave up and put the whole product back into its attractive packagins. I can not recommend this product to anyone using WinXP. Driver setup is a pain, and the software is difficult to use. You are better off finding a different product.
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Summary: Easy to use!!
Review: I am by no means a computer genius therefore I was looking for a mp3 player that was simple to operate. I found the software very easy to install and downloading music from my pc to the yep player takes no time at all. Best of all it is small enough to take running, biking ect... It comes with a armband that you just slip on. And it does not skip!!
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Summary: One of best MP3 players you can get!!!!!
Review: I bought a...Samsung YP30S 64 MB player...on June 17 and have used it ever since. I have not occured any problems at all except for the lack of memory. However you can fit approximately 20 songs recorded at 98kb quality (near-cd quality) and 16 songs at 128 kb quality (cd-quality). I have dropped this player about 3 times and still works great. The best way to record songs on to this player is to make a list by dragging the songs you want and then save the list. Its easy to use and worth the investment.
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Summary: Bad for Mac users
Review: I bought the 128 MB version. I bought it because it said it was Macintosh compatible. What they don't tell you is that the functionality of the software is terrible (very limited) on the Mac. Forget getting music from a CD.
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Summary: Small Simple and Powerful
Review: I bought this item used, and it didn't include the software... so the first thing I did was download the software free from the samsung website, which is way better than what comes in the box (my roommate has the same model). The headphones that came with it aren't good, but I have some cool back-band headphones from philips. A really cool thing is that this player can play variable bit rate MP3s, so I've got 28 full songs on my 64MB model, and it sounds the same as 96K mp3s. Battery life is good on alkalines, alright on the NiMHs that I use with my PDA. Oh yeah, it is very customizable, Samsung has a program you can download to make your own (even animated) logo to replace the YEPP logo that shows when you turn it on. Also it has a feature that is a necessity for me, Shuffle play, I can't stand hearing music in order, and it also can show the time remaining on songs, which is pretty cool. So the player is about as customizable (if not more so) than a full-size music player. Incredibly light (1-2 Oz.) and a little larger than a Zippo lighter. Which is pretty amazing!
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Summary: Old product, beware!
Review: I bought this thinking I was getting a current product. Wrong. The software for reading CDs that it comes with won't read from my CD-R. It says it doesn't support Mac OS X (only 8.6 or 9.1). The web sites it takes you to have copyright dates of 2001. ... I think I'm going to have to return this, which is too bad, because it seems like a good jogging companion (you wouldn't want this otherwise, no radio, hard to read and operate except for the most basic functions without squinting at the thing).
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