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Rating: 
Summary: Not flashy but it works
Review: -great sound(with the right head phones)THE ONES IT COMES WITH ARE JUNK.
-NOT AS SMALL AS SOME WOULD LIKE.
-IF YOU WANT A CLEAN CONTROL INTERFACE GET AN IPOD.
-SOFTWARE IT COMES WITH IS HARD TO LEARN AND COMPLEX TO USE AT THE BEST OF TIMES
-THE NUMBER ONE THING IT HAS GOING FOR IT IS THAT IT IS CHEAP.
-IF YOU HAVE THE EXTRA MONEY GET A ZEN OR AN IPOD.
-WARNING! IF YOU CHAGE THE SOUND SETTINGS TO FAST AND TO MANY TIME THE MP3 WILL SKIP FOR SOME TIME.
OVER ALL IT IS CHEAP AND IT WORKS
Rating: 
Summary: Low Price Even Lower Quality
Review: -Wow 10GB for around $100
$100 well wasted.
-9hrs battery life
Goodluck with getting 45-60mins of playing time,
not including the mysterious shutdowns during play.
-Uploading new musics
While transfer is rated @ 1.1 Usb. Be ready with a new batch of coffee, for the complete index has to be updated on the player itself with every new file input.
-Quality of craftsmanship
Let just say things start to fall apart in less than a week. Exterior fixtures start to come apart. Interior sounded to have loose parts.
***NOT WORTH THE MONEY/TIME.
***NOT WORTH THE MONEY/TIME.
***NOT WORTH THE MONEY/TIME.
***NOT WORTH THE MONEY/TIME.
***NOT WORTH THE MONEY/TIME.
Rating:
Summary: Junk Junk Junk Junk Junk
Review: A friend had the misfortune of buying this hunk of junk. She bragged to me about how much money she saved over buying an iPod. She finally gave it to Goodwill and spent the money for an iPod. She wasted 100 bucks.So what was wrong? First, she never could understand the cryptic menu system. Second the case was horribly made, it cracked in 3 places with fairly delicate handling. Battery problems and other random button problems did not help. If you are reading this review obviously you want advice, so here is mine.... Consider this review a coupon for 100 bucks off an iPod. You will just throw this thing away and buy a real product later so save the 100 bucks to begin with.
Rating:
Summary: Not flashy but it works
Review: I received the Classic CHD500 as a Christmas gift. I was skeptical about using this or any MP3 player because of lack of experience with any unit. However, I finally broke the seal and started to work. I found that my major problem was learning to use the Musicmatch player/recorder software that comes with the unit. There is a tutorial on their website that helps. Once past the learning stage, I found that transfer to the player was fast, easy and reliable. The CHD500 automatically indexes your downloads and makes retrieval and playing easy. AND...with the built in equalizer, you can taylor the sound to your preference. The sound quality is really good. I did make a change that helped the sound quality. That was to substitute the earphones from my old Sony Walkman. These are the type that fit into your ears - Model MDR W10. The price was $ from Circuit City and comes with a $ rebate.
I have loaded several albums so far. The unit will accept 250 hrs of mp3 music (15 GB hard drive), which will handle my needs for a long time. The major question to be answered is long term reliablity. So far, so good.
Rating:
Summary: Great Sound - Moderate Price
Review: I received the Classic CHD500 as a Christmas gift. I was skeptical about using this or any MP3 player because of lack of experience with any unit. However, I finally broke the seal and started to work. I found that my major problem was learning to use the Musicmatch player/recorder software that comes with the unit. There is a tutorial on their website that helps. Once past the learning stage, I found that transfer to the player was fast, easy and reliable. The CHD500 automatically indexes your downloads and makes retrieval and playing easy. AND...with the built in equalizer, you can taylor the sound to your preference. The sound quality is really good. I did make a change that helped the sound quality. That was to substitute the earphones from my old Sony Walkman. These are the type that fit into your ears - Model MDR W10. The price was $ from Circuit City and comes with a $ rebate.
I have loaded several albums so far. The unit will accept 250 hrs of mp3 music (15 GB hard drive), which will handle my needs for a long time. The major question to be answered is long term reliablity. So far, so good.
Rating:
Summary: Cheap and Junky
Review: I wanted to like this product, I really did. It had decent storage for a cheap price. But, I guess the old addage is true, you get what you pay for. Especially with electronics. Mostly, I think the combination of it being a first generation product and the complete and utter lack of technical support on Classic's part make's it a piece of crap. For now. If they can get their act together I think it'll be a decent player. But for now stick with Archos.
Rating:
Summary: Wanted to like this product.
Review: I wanted to like this product, I really did. It had decent storage for a cheap price. But, I guess the old addage is true, you get what you pay for. Especially with electronics. Mostly, I think the combination of it being a first generation product and the complete and utter lack of technical support on Classic's part make's it a piece of crap. For now. If they can get their act together I think it'll be a decent player. But for now stick with Archos.
Rating: 
Summary: Get what you pay for
Review: Let me start with the good things about the CHD500: 1) Price!! (beats the crap out of other HD drive based products)
2) Great for backing up stuff from u'r stuff and laptop with its large memory
3) Sound is good (when it does play) and the line out feature is cool Now the bad things: 1) It freezes often
2) Baterry life sucks. I can barely get 1 hour after charging for 10 hours. (This might be a problem with just my player because I have read some good comments about the battery)
3) Navigation is way too complicated. Cannot create playlists on the go, cannot play songs at random, cannot browse for other songs when a song is playing
4) Takes a long time to load a new song Bottom line: If I could turn back time, I will pay the extra $100 and go for an Ipod. Also I've heard good things about the CHD1000.
Rating:
Summary: Cheap and Junky
Review: My friend actually recieved this product as a gift. After only a few weeks, the audio jack had already broken. She gave it to me to repair. I noticed how cheaply the whole thing was put together. The connector was cheap and chinsey and it was only held on with 3 tiny surface mount solders. (No wonder it fell off.) Fourtuanately, I was able to fix it, and it worked fine. A few days later, the battery had come loose, and I again fixed it by opening it up and bending the battery contacts to hit the motherboard. A while longer, and the jack broke off again. This time, it is much worse, and it is impossible to just solder it back on. After much time searching the internet, I found the number and called Classic only to reach a messaging system. They called me back 2 weeks later and told me that they could not send me parts, and that I would have to send it to them. So now I am stuck, without being able to fix it. I will probably buy a broken one on ebay to fix it. Anyway, you could just buy this for the IBM travelstar HDD inside it, since it is probably worth more than the MP3 player.
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Summary: This Sucks
Review: This product is total crap.. It messed up almost immediatly after I got it the buttons fell in and the screen blurred.. Don't buy it!
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