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Summary: Works fairly well... for a while
Review: After having using the RoqIt almost daily for the last 5 months, it works really well, with some exceptions. The problem I have found most recently, the battery contact has broken, making the battery useless and requiring the unit to be plugged in for power. (Hopefully the manufacturer will fix this) Also, the random play only seems to use songs from a few folders instead of all as it seems like it should. It also suffers from random lockups which stop the music when you least want it to. The carrying case and the remote are lacking as well. On the plus side, the sound quality is decent, and the the backlight can be set to stay on all the time, which is nice for using in the car at night. Another nice feature is the ability to pick the next song you want to hear while the current one is playing.
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Summary: Very Cool!!
Review: All I can say is, this is by far the best thing i have ever purchased. Now i can take all of my music wherever i want. Only 2 things that really arent much of a problem, but i had a time getting it into the carrying case, and the navagation is a little frustrating, but like the guy in the other review said once you get your folders straight its excellent! Doubles as a external harddrive, what else would you want in an mp3 player? Unless you are a mac user (in witch case you would probably want the ipod) this is the one 2 get period.
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Summary: It Sounded Like a Good Idea...
Review: ALthough I had no trouble whatsoever transferring music from the Windows Media Player, this device, in addition to being rather bulky, has TERRIBLE sound. Even by adjusting the bass to the maximum setting and lowering the treble, all my music sounded as though it were being played through a tin can. I returned it the next day. KEEP LOOKING!
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Summary: Works Great but Read the Specs....
Review: D-Link says this is a 7.7 ounce player, but check the specs. It's huge. The 7.7 ounces is without the battery, carrying case and harness you'd have to buy to run or exercise with it.Yes, it's half the price of the Apple iPod, but it's twice the size. Again, this thing is HUGE. It would be better advertized as a portable hard drive that also plays mp3s. But if all you want is a portable hard drive, you can do much better in terms of size. It does work well, installs easily, and at 10 GB it has twice the storage of the iPod. But the iPod also doubles as a portable hard drive and with the firewire it does downloads at about 40 times the speed of USB. Do you really need more than 5 GB in such a small package anyway? If you can switch to Mac conviently, iPod is the product you'll want. If you're stuck in the PC world, then Roq-IT seems to be the best alternative for now, but you just know that won't last long...
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Summary: Just an FYI from the D-LINK Website
Review: D-Link Systems, Inc. has issued an End of Life (EOL) Notice for the DMP-HD610 and has discontinued production of it as of Thursday, August 01, 2002. Technical and RMA support for this product shall continue until Sunday, August 01, 2004.
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Summary: Best there is!
Review: First of all, this unit is manufactured by SSI America and can be found on the Web at ssiamerica.com. I reccommend this unit highly especially if you have a large amount of music on your hard drive. I have loaded over 25 gigs on a 30 gig drive! I bought mine about 11/2 years ago and went thru the necessary "learning curve" with the unit. I first had a 20 gig drive and later had to change to a 30 gig drive since I ran out of room! The main problem I have encountered, and have also read in the reviews, is disconnecting the USB cable too quickly after transferring files to the unit. This causes an "interuption" in the loading process resulting in an "incomplete" downloading and an unknown number of files not being transferred to the unit. To correct the problem one must find the last file that was loaded completely and "reload" from that point. I spent much time with this problem until I finally found that the units' drive was still "working" after the files had been transferred. These are the files "buffers" which also must be transferred. If you hold the unit up to your ear after you think the transfer is complete and you still hear "clicking" from the hard drive, the transfer is not complete! This is very important. The manual says to wait "at least 20 seconds". I think 2-3 minutes is more accurate, especially if you are loading a large number of files. Other than this problem, which seems to be the majority of objections to the unit, I would say this to be the best one out there! I bought one of the first and am very pleased with it. I use it in my car plugged into my "aux. in" line on the radio and never ever have to listen to the radio stuff again!
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Summary: Worked great - for about an hour.
Review: Got it in the mail, opened it up, plugged it in, and dumped about a gig of mp3's to it. It seemed to be fine. I could browse folders, play songs, etc. Great! Then I dumped the rest of my MP3's to it (about 7GB total) and went to watch TV. Came back later and saw that the file transfer had completed, and all my folders and songs seemed to be on the device. Again, great. So I unplug the USB cable and restart it, like it says to do on the screen. What do I get? "HARD DRIVE ERROR - CANNOT READ HARD DISK - CHECK DRIVE AND RESTART" Now I'm [angry]. I've had this thing for exactly 1 day. I haven't even taken it out of the house. I haven't dropped it or even moved it from my desk. Restarting the device does nothing to fix the problem. I can't check the drive because the USB connection doesn't work anymore either. So I have a lovely 200 dollar paper weight. I try to call D-link support, and after waiting on hold for 45 minutes, I get a message saying "please leave your contact information and an agent will get back to you". Yeah, right. I'm not holding my breath on that, if you can't even pick up the phone at 4:30 a.m., the deadest time in any call center. I bought this one because I'd heard so many bad things about the Archos, and I couldn't really afford anything like the IPOD. Guess I'm going back to CD's, because every portable MP3 player I've tried either has great performance but a laughably small storage capacity, or plenty of room for all your music, but no guarantee of even basic functionality due to ... hard drives and components. Oh, and the thing is way too big. And the carrying case for it [stinks]. It's so tight you can barely squeeze it in, and then it covers up all the interface buttons. Very disappointing.
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Summary: D-Link Roq It
Review: Had it for one year. Locks up; cannot locate any vendor on Internet or locally who sells lithium ion rechargeable batteries for D-Link. Love to use, but not working well for short period of time. Mother of two; enjoys traveling with music. Thought this would be the best buy. Need to rethink next purchase of MP3 player.
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Summary: Sometimes annoying, but generally good.....
Review: I actually would give the Roq-it 4 1/2 stars. Yes, it is not an Apple iPod, but rather a reasonable substitute for much less money. Its 2 MB buffer performs well during exercise (indoor cycling, rowing, and climbing)which is my main reason for purchasing it. Its instruction manual has clearly been written by someone who did not grow up speaking English, but that seems to be the case these days. The user interface is not intuitive. But once you get the hang of it, it actually works well. You can store things in folders in a heirarchical fashion. Learning to navigate around is all that remains. The only real negative is the lack of a "lock" switch. Its large, easy to use buttons are great to work with, but can be inadvertently touched - if you don't watch out. This certainly is a step up from the Flash-ROM based MP3 players. It is somwhat large as is the "Creative" Hard Drive based systems. Its price is reasonable as well.
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Summary: ... but when it _doesn't_ work ...
Review: I bought this product...for my brother...He wanted a way to transfer files from his desktop computer to his laptop from work...it failed to install on his laptop. The instructions say it works with the default drivers from Windows 2000, but when it was plugged in, a driver installation wizard appeared because it couldn't find the drivers. We tried a bunch of things with the supplied driver disk to no avail. The USB-to-IDE adapter inside the unit is a ScanLogic SL11 chipset so we got the development kit installation off the Internet (which was the same as the drivers provided by DLink) but got no further. We gave up on the laptop. I took a crack at it and successfully installed it on my PowerBook G3 and uploaded a song to it to try it out. It seemed to work okay. I went back and deleted all the files I put on it but apparently took some of the driver files as well by accident. The unit was now crippled and wouldn't work at all. I think there's a way to reload the software from a PC--except that we couldn't get it to connect to a PC. I was pretty disappointed that the "firmware" in the unit was so frail that a little overzealous deleting and you end up with a paperweight. In all the process a nightmare. I did get a refund and eventually got him a USB powered hard drive instead. The selling features are very strong--a battery powered USB hard drive that can be expanded with larger laptop hard drives and also doubles as a portable MP3 player. Pretty cool ... if it only worked.
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