Rating: 
Summary: YP-910 ROCKS
Review: I Found this player to do everything it says it will. The software is simple to use and easily found all my tracks and set them up in the Napster program. The FM transmitter is a very nice feature. It works great it both my vehicles. No more cd"s flying around the car. The FM radio works great also. My battery meter looked as if it was going to die after only 4 hours, but I set it down and let it play for 3 1/2 more past the last bar on the meter. Plan on 8 to 10 hours playing time with no downloading.If you follow the instructions on plugging in the USB and disconnecting you will have no problems. Some reveiws claim you cant make playlists,when you can make as many as you want with over 200 songs in each playlist. The Napster Yp-910 works with Napster or Windows media player. You can find these units for around 200.0 dollars now, way less than IPOD. The Dell jukebox is 15 gig for 200.0. The only thing missing is ripping software in the Napster player. So far this has been a very easy to use and quality player. I bought a cell phone belt clip and took it to the shoe repairman and had him sew the male end into the belt loop of the case that comes with this player. It makes it alot easier to unclip it to search for tunes or put away than undoing your belt. Also, Radio Shack sells an armband that is used for small walkie talkies that fit this unit perfect on sale for 1.50.
Rating: 
Summary: Lot's of promise, little results
Review: This was my second hard-drive player. The first was the HP-Iriver 20gb and I returned that one. This one is also going back. I was looking for a device that would work with Windows Media Player and Napster's new music service, so the Samsung fit the bill. Unfortunately the device doesn't play playlists. The best you could do is play all the music on your device, or individually select songs. Neither of those are handy. You can play recently transferred songs which suffices until the songs you want no longer show up in that list. Support from Samsung is poor. The radio reception is also poor even when you are outside and expect decent reception.
Rating: 
Summary: Really Junky. Stick with an iPod
Review: The antenna is worthless.
Transferring songs MUST be done through the Napster software and it reuploads the ENTIRE list everytime you want to update music. It's a real pain. You cannot just copy and paste mp3's to the player. Song lists cannot be created on the fly and this is needed for a player that holds 5000 songs
Rating:
Summary: NICE CONCEPT, BAD ITEM
Review: Ok, I figured this would be a good idea, since I am using Napster for all my downloads now, why not get an MP3 player directly from them. And the 20 free songs was a good way to finally get me to purchase this item for the insane price of 400 dollars at the time (8/2003). Ok down the to nitty gritty. The idea is nice, when it actually decides to work, which is rarely, it works really well and relatively easy. Download a song into napster, right-click the song on napster and it automatically downloads into ur MP3 player, disconnect the player from the computer, and boom, instant music. Good Concept right? Yea for the first 2 months. After that it kept crashing, losing every song Ive downloaded into it, and just stop working all together. I had to replace it twice! Thank God for Best Buy. DO NOT BUY THIS ITEM WITHOUT A REPLACEMENT PLAN. Or better yet, just dont buy this item. Save yourself the headache. If you do decide to buy this item, be prepared for the thing freezing on the opening page with the little napster logo mocking you as you cant get the thing to start. Get ready for all your songs to automatically dissappear for no apparent reason, and be prepared for the annoying problems when you connect the USB to your computer and it keeps disconnecting for no reason. Its just to much of a headache. I have 2 more returns for this thing then they give me my money back. Im going to bring it back again tomorrow since it froze on me again. Only one more to go. I give it one more month. DO NOT BUY THIS!
Rating:
Summary: nice try, lousy software
Review: Purchased a new Napster and when it works it's okay and the FM transmitter is a nice idea which works okay in my area with few competing stations. Very limited range.The software really sucks. For $300 and with 20GB of space they should have made it so you can load software and edit the data more easily. Software hangs very easily and if anything happens while you're loading it, guess what; you get to start all, over!
It takes forever and a day to load too and you have to be careful because the little green bars that are supposed to be showing your songs being loaded are not always accurate. Watch the % reading over on the left in the tree. Manual is lame and there is no support on-line at Samsung.com. I'd give this one a no-go. I suspect many of the 4 and 5 star reviews out there may not be the real thing.
Rating: 
Summary: It is the equivelent of the S word.
Review: I can sum this player up in one go, but I feel it is not suitable for this website. However I will let you work out the word for your self. Starts with S and ends with T and is abusive in the middle and means poo. The antenna is a pain in the behind having to take it off and put it back on again was hell. The navigation is not user friendly at all. The USB 2.0 connection. Well that is only on new computers and expensive computers around here and not all of us are rich. But even so we are and the USB 2.0 is as slow as USB 1.0. Cheap nasty crap crap crap. Napster is a painful purchasing process, and I heavily reccommend the iPod, which I replaced this stinking piece of garbage with. Also, I recommend the 20GB iPod, my model, because it is smaller and lighter than the 40gb, but still has the features and accessories of the 40gb. It is the best of both worlds, plus provides Firewire AND USB 2.0 support for Windows (a 32 bit extension of a 16 bit patch for a 8 bit operating system designed by a two bit company that cant stand one bit of competition) users. Neway in conclusion get an iPod 20gb as an alternative with FM transmitter, so you can listen to your ipod in your car without cables! or anywhere else you have an fm transmitter with no input slot.
Rating:
Summary: Not what I Expected
Review: It is very difficult to download/upload it crashes a lot, and it give you a lot of warnings, i regreet to buy this items SKS
Rating:
Summary: Not what I hoped for!
Review: This device did not live up to my expectations.
It takes a very long time to upload or download music to the device, several hours in fact for about 10 gig of music and my computer was worthless for anything else while this was in progress and this computer is a a new box with 512mb of mem.
I could not get the FM transmitter to work well enough to listen to in my car no mater where I put the device. And the player froze on me way too often. You better bring a pin with you no mater where you go because you need it to reset the player. There is a tiny pin hole on the side to reset, kind of a ctrl-alt-del for the player and I have had to use it almost everytime I use the player. On several occasions after rebooting the player, I recieved a warning on the display telling me there was a problem with the software and to reconnect it to the computer to correct. That was the last straw when that happened the second day into my week long vacation to the Carribean.
The Napster software and service in not much better. I entered the code number for my 20 free songs but the software would never download the songs when I try. A call to Napster told me I had 20 free songs credited to me, but the problem was with my computer, but they were never able to help me isolate the problem. I still cannot download the free songs, and will not put up with being sent to hold one more time. I bought it at Best Buy and after two weeks of pure fustration it goes back this afternoon.
Rating:
Summary: Once it got working, it's great!
Review: Took me a bit of effort to get it working the way I wanted it to, but once I got all of those little problems worked out it's been a champ ever since. Very happy with the unit *AND* very satisfied with Samsung's technical support which has been excellent. It was no challenge at all to set up and get the 20 free Napster songs - in fact the biggest challenge has been finding 20 songs I really wanted that I didn't already have on CD. If you want to read more I've written a bit about my experiences with this device on my technology blog at http://schorrtech.blogspot.com. -B-
Rating:
Summary: Looks good on paper but the "extras" don't work
Review: I bought a 6GB Archos Jukebox back when they first came out and have loved it to death (literally). I introduced my friends at work to MP3 players and they all bought an Archos Jukebox 6000, too. When my jukebox buttons wore out and my hard disk died I decided it was time to move up to a more modern player. I looked at the IPOD, of course, but didn't care for the weird touch wheel and a few other things about the display model I checked-out. I really liked the look and feel of this Samsung model, though, and decided to take it home. I decided that the FM Receiver, FM Transmitter, and Line-in recording were really great extras for the money (a rebate available at the time made it equivalent in price to all the cheaper 20GB competitors). But when I took it out of the package I was quickly disappointed. No DC adapter available. FM Receiver only picks up a couple of strong stations in our city. As terribly as the FM Transmittter works they might as well have left it out. The unit appears as a hard drive in Windows, but you can't drag music onto it or it won't be able to play it. You have to use the included Napster 2.0 software to put music onto it, and that crashed horribly under XP every time I tried to load new tracks. You have to make your playlists in Napster 2.0, also, and when you copy that to your player it re-copies every track (and often crashes in the middle). The buttons all worked ok once I figured out that where one intuitively would assume the volume and track selectors were located had actually been implemented in reverse. The final blow, however, was the browsing interface. You can't browse by either filename or by genre. I'm returning this as soon as possible and getting an iRiver iHP-120.
| 
