Rating: 
Summary: Best Product
Review: The Neuros has by far been the best electronics product I have used in a long, long time.Pros: Large hard drive, price (esp. compared to ipod), support from company (upgrades to PC software and unit firmware) Get one, you won't regret it! I'll respond to a few complaints I've seen: USB 1.1 support only, no USB 2.0 - the company is working to produce an upgrade and is it really that big of a deal? You upload the song once and listen to it over and over. With 20 gigs, do you really need to change out songs that frequently? Size - it's not much bigger than the competition and it comes with all of their extras as included features. User Interface - Huh? Those must have been to previous revs to the software. Everything was very intuitive for me. As I said above, company support is great!
Rating:
Summary: Best Product
Review: The Neuros has by far been the best electronics product I have used in a long, long time. Pros: Large hard drive, price (esp. compared to ipod), support from company (upgrades to PC software and unit firmware) Get one, you won't regret it! I'll respond to a few complaints I've seen: USB 1.1 support only, no USB 2.0 - the company is working to produce an upgrade and is it really that big of a deal? You upload the song once and listen to it over and over. With 20 gigs, do you really need to change out songs that frequently? Size - it's not much bigger than the competition and it comes with all of their extras as included features. User Interface - Huh? Those must have been to previous revs to the software. Everything was very intuitive for me. As I said above, company support is great!
Rating: 
Summary: Lots of little Minuses, a few big Pluses
Review: There are a few really irksome things about this machine. Other reviewers commented on a lot of them: I listen to a lot of world music, and it just wouldn't accept tracks with foreign characters in their names (vowels with accents, etc.). The interface is AWFUL -- it quits at the drop of a hat, it can fritz out on you after seven hours of attempting to load all your music and leave you with nothing, etc. It is incredibly slow and unwieldy. I have twice lost my entire database when I let the battery run out. On the plus side, the new versions of the firmware let you boost the wireless signal, and even in downtown Washington DC I was able to use it with little problem, just flipping up or down the FM band to find a station that worked. It's really cool to be able to carry my whole music collection around and have it play through any radio -- REALLY cool. I haven't had much luck making the HiSi feature work, but who really cares -- not my cup of tea anyway. Plus it has support now for ogg files. I've had some problems, there are some things that don't work the way I would want them to, but overall, I'm pretty happy. It looks like you can get these things on the cheap now, too -- probably a good bargain.
Rating: 
Summary: Lack the basics.
Review: This player simply can't play mp3 files from the directory. Your pre-defined m3u playlists are ignored. You must use a sync manager, either the in-box NSM or some downloaded open source software, to build a database out of the mp3 ID3 tags. Otherwise the files simply won't play and there's no way around. This machine generated database mess up your existing file directory and you'll get nemerous strange playlists simply because they all have the same "unknown artists" or "track 01" etc. And don't expect Karajan and von Karajan appear as the same person unless you are ready to spend hundreds of hours editing your file tags.
This issue applies to all Neuros mp3 players, even the newest 80G model. The Neuros users have been complaining about this since last year but nothing has ever been done up till now. I'm very disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: Not for your Average User
Review: While 20 Gb of music is a good thing to have, try some other player instead. Right now Neuros is in its infancy. User interface is horrible and sometimes completely illogical.
FM Transmittion function is practically useless in my car, battery charging shows "chargin" even if you don't plug the AC adaptor in the outlet but merelly connect it to the unit. USB 1.1 is very slow for such amount of music. And, if you have special characters in the file name it's synch software will refuse to copy it to the unit. Files are not cached properly (hard drive starts every time you skip to the next song or rewind the current song), unit stops playing if you go to the menu.
Perhaps next verion will be much better, but for now, even if you get $100 rebate... you certainly would be better off with other player.
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Summary: Great player that gets better every day.
Review: [Update: Version 2.0 of the firmware has been released - a major rewrite of the operating system. Download it from www dot neurousaudio dot com] This is my favorite player. It sounds better than previous ones I've used (mostly a Creative Jukebox), and periodically gets new features that users have requested - most recently a 5-band graphic equalizer that makes it sound even better still. More new features (such as timed recording from the radio) are on the way, and show up automatically when you sync. The FM broadcaster is great for using in the car (I leave the unit in my pocket on random play and drive), and the FM radio has a great 'what song is that?' feature (HiSi) that records a 30-second sample of the song and indentifies it for you the next time you do a sync. There is support for Linux and Windows, and you can play Ogg Vorbis files, too. They're patent-free, and sound better than MP3 files using the same amount of space. I've been very impressed with DI's responsiveness on their website forums to solving problems and talking through new features that users want. My Creative Jukebox had issues with battery charging that were eventually partially fixed by a new firmware update, but I had to manually track it down. The Neuros does firmware updates easily and automatically, and is just more fun to use.
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