Rating: 
Summary: Yeah, I guess it's small...
Review: but that's about the only thing it has going for it. I'm currently waiting for the software to search my entire system to pick out every sound file that exists on it. I'm not talking about just MP3s, but every .wav and silly soundbyte that comes with Windows. This is funny to me since the player will only play MP3s. My advise to anyone looking at an MP3 player is to consider software. You can get used to small buttons and can buy better headphones, but you can't replace the bad software as easily. The Yepp player's software is so bad, that I'm convinced the programmers went out of their way to make it so. You can't drag and drop files into it, but instead have to parse through every sound file on your computer to find songs you want to download. My software took almost 20 minutes to search the computer for all the sound files and at the end I had 6000 files to search through. I have only a few hundred MP3s on my machine, so the rest of the files came from Windows and games that I installed years ago. This takes forever, when all I really want to do is go running, but it takes me half an hour just to pick songs and to download them all. To sum it up, the Yepp player is small and the sound is good, but it takes a half hour of frustration to get it to work. Plus the battery runs out after a short time. Pretty pathetic. I wouldn't buy this product again...
Rating: 
Summary: Good toy, sneaky software
Review: The Yepp itself is terrific -- a really cool toy for big boys. Good sound, pretty easy computer interface, etc. But BEWARE -- maybe I'm just computer illiterate, but the Yepp comes with an MP3 software package that will allow you to transfer up to 50 tracks to your Yepp from CD's, and then it locks itself. You have to go online and buy an upgrade that will unlock it and let you download more tracks. It's a modest amount of money -- $20 for unlimited downloading capability -- but the idea is annoying. Why not just include the software and raise the price a bit? And why is this not made clear in the marketing or packaging of the Yepp? I think it makes Samsung look cheap and sneaky -- which you don't expect from people who can make such cool stuff.
Rating:
Summary: Battery hungry, yet handy music machine...
Review: Update: The Samsung website has no support/software for MacOS 9 or X, thus star rating is reduced to two stars! I got this little gem for working out. It holds about a CDs worth of music. the volume cranks and the sound is excellent. the headphones that come with are weak, get a better pair, like the sony earbud-type headphones. the armband holder is good, but you can't access controls, you have to squeeze it out of the holder, a minor inconvienience. the controls can be locked, but only when it's playing, so you run the risk of draining your battery if the play button gets pushed while in your gym/other bag. it uses a single AAA battery, which will last about 1.5 times through the 64MB of music it can hold. It eat's batteries, maybe because I play the volume loud). I finally bought some rechargable AAAs for it, which are handy. I use a mac, and the Yepp software it comes with is OK, but somewhat slow to load tunes (about 10 minutes to load 64MB from scratch). This unit does what I wanted it to do, which was to provide good music in a small package for working out, so all in all I'm pretty happy with it.
Rating: 
Summary: size is best feature
Review: This is great for running. It is light, and fits perfectly in your hand. It is easy to skip songs, and adjust volume while running. Things I don't like are the arm strap (to big for me), headphones it comes with (lightweight and won't stay put), and the fact that I can never get it to turn off - I just take the battery out. And I go through a ton of batteries.
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