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D-Link Roq It 10 GB USB MP3 Player/Hard Drive DMP-HD610

D-Link Roq It 10 GB USB MP3 Player/Hard Drive DMP-HD610

List Price: $229.99
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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Decent MP3 Player, Good ext drive
Review: The quality of sound coming out of this thing is rather nice...but the weak bass does hurt it.

As an ext drive, it has what you are expecting. Simple to install (on older OS) if you had to, and the newer OS recognizes this drive without any driver installation. Plug into a USB port, then about 5 seconds later this drive is ready for use.

And you can't beat the price - quality ratio. Not the best of Ext Drive or an MP3 player but it does the job. ... the worst that can happen is that you paid alot for a USB 1.0 ext drive.

Can't go wrong if you ask me.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I hate this case
Review: this case that this thing comes with is very weird its very very hard to get the thing in but it has holes that align up the the headphone jack usb port ac power place line out and the power switch and its kinda hard to press the buttons on the side either side of the face of the thing like this

X X

X X

Thats kinda what it looks like the x's represent buttons theres more buttons than that but those are the annoying ones. You kinda have to push the plastic covering pretty hard because the plastic is tight because the case is too small the machine is too big the the buttons are on the like a curve. By the way it a bit hard to get it in the case too

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT BUY IT!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is horrible. I would give this negative stars if that was possible. I chose this over the ipod to save some money and I couldn't be more sorry. Now I have to buy one anyway. First of all - it's HUGE! You could never use it to work out. Second, I have never had such a buggy piece of electronics. Third of all - it's DELICATE. I slid it across my dining room table and the back popped up, revealing the hard drive and NEGATING the warranty - that was on the second day I had it. Unless you buy better headphones than those provided the sound is average at best. This is by far the worst purchase I have ever made on Amazon. There are a billion mp3 players out there - choose another!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Something Special You Can't Find Elsewhere
Review: This is not the most advanced Jukebox on the market, in fact it's probably one of the oldest ones available. It's also known as the Neo II but is exactly the same player. It's big, too big to carry like an iPod and the battery will last 6 hours if you are lucky.

Here's the part that I find amazing. First: The sound quality is very good and Second: This player has the most wonderful shuttle capability that I've ever seen!

Here's how I use it: I immediately removed the 10 gig drive, it's as easy as sliding off the removable cover and then slipping the drive out. I replaced it with a (formatted) 40 gig drive and loaded it to the max. Then, I turned it on and selected "Rand All" with the program button and it sits on my desk, pumping wonderful music into my Bose table radio all day long! I never hear a duplicate, the device never fails and it responds instantly when you press "pause" on the wireless remote (included) should a phone call interrupt my flow.

Yes, I have traveled with it; It's been to West Africa and Europe, it's been on countless flights criss-crossing the US and on a plane, driving my Bose noise-cancellation headphones, there's nothing but bliss.

It's been retired to my desk because I do carry an iPod now when I travel but sometimes I still take the Roq-It because the display is so big and beautiful, so much bigger than any other MP3 Jukebox out there.

So depending on what you need it for, this jewel is "the bomb" if you aren't focused on size or battery life - particularly for the price. It's been dependable but there may not be support since it is discontinued.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Something Special You Can't Find Elsewhere
Review: This is not the most advanced Jukebox on the market, in fact it's probably one of the oldest ones available. It's also known as the Neo II but is exactly the same player. It's big, too big to carry like an iPod and the battery will last 6 hours if you are lucky.

Here's the part that I find amazing. First: The sound quality is very good and Second: This player has the most wonderful shuttle capability that I've ever seen!

Here's how I use it: I immediately removed the 10 gig drive, it's as easy as sliding off the removable cover and then slipping the drive out. I replaced it with a (formatted) 40 gig drive and loaded it to the max. Then, I turned it on and selected "Rand All" with the program button and it sits on my desk, pumping wonderful music into my Bose table radio all day long! I never hear a duplicate, the device never fails and it responds instantly when you press "pause" on the wireless remote (included) should a phone call interrupt my flow.

Yes, I have traveled with it; It's been to West Africa and Europe, it's been on countless flights criss-crossing the US and on a plane, driving my Bose noise-cancellation headphones, there's nothing but bliss.

It's been retired to my desk because I do carry an iPod now when I travel but sometimes I still take the Roq-It because the display is so big and beautiful, so much bigger than any other MP3 Jukebox out there.

So depending on what you need it for, this jewel is "the bomb" if you aren't focused on size or battery life - particularly for the price. It's been dependable but there may not be support since it is discontinued.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: D-Link
Review: This is the best buy for anyone who's on a budget, looking for a high quality Mp3 player. It is easy to use and set up with ample memory, even for the most eclectic tastes in music. I have everything from Heavy metal to Jazz on mine. The battery life is a little short, but they are rechargeable so it really doesn't matter. Although it is a little bigger than other players, it is light and cheaper. The sound quality is just as good as CD's (if not better) and no songs can get messed up because of greasy fingers, like with CD's. However, when the battery is running extrememly low and you're kinda running "on fumes" then the songs begin to skip, but they really don't get messed up at all, unless the battery is more than like 3/4 empty.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DEFECTIVE Unit
Review: This is the third MP3 player I've purchased. I've had two RIO products (the 500 and the 800), both of which I've really liked. I decided to move up to a jukebox unit and shopped around before deciding on the DLink Roq-It. From a price perspective, it seemed a good choice -- but the price only matters if the product works. My unit was defective out of the box. The battery contact was soldered in an incorrect location, making the unit not function at all on battery power.

In addition to that, I was surprised at the size and weight of the device (even though I had considered this before purchase). It is HUGE and is completely impractical for use while working out. Although, in fairness, that is probably true of all the devices in the jukebox category. The controls are very cheap and the operating system itself is very slow to respond to the controls.

The worst of this device, besides the simple fact that it was improperly manufactured, was the programming capability. There is no playlist function on the device itself. When you're dealing with 30 or 40 songs on a 128MB device, that's not such a big deal. Random play etc. is sufficient. But for a device that stores hundreds of tunes, a playlist capability is essential. Don't believe the advertising hype: this unit DOESN'T have this capability. They say it handles M3U playlists, but not on the device, only on the software on your computer.

For what it is worth, the machine worked flawlessly (when plugged in), being recognized in Windows and then showing up as an additional hard drive on my system. But it gets a one star rating for the defect, the documentation, the controls and the technical support. Technical support was rude and very unprofessional. I've returned it and will wait to buy a RIO Riot when it comes out.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I wish they had a choice of less than a star
Review: This is the worst electronic equipment I have ever invested in, this player had bugs and defects packed into it right out of the factory, it is hardly surprising that DLink decided to discontinue the production of this unit. What adds insult to injury is that instead of owning up to their obligation to provide care within the warranty period, DLink customer service is playing games to claim that the warranty is void. This is a sheer case of shrugging any responsibility. As a paying customer I am totally dissatisfied with the product and the customer care(what makes me feel better, is that there are at least 3 other people who share my view and that means that DLink will find it extremely hard to survive in this world of customer delight)
NEVER BUY ANYTHING FROM DLINK!!!a few dollars 25 more(competitive jukebox) is worth a functioning product..

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wonderful device for the money
Review: We bought the ROQ-IT primarily as a substitute for a 300 disc CD changer, not so much for as a portable device. I like the large display screen on this compared to the tiny screen on the Archos Jukebox. Copying files over is a breeze and the files are transferred at a rate of about 40 megabytes per minute. The only software you need to install is the USB driver and it is less than 550K in size, which is nice if you want to take the Roq-It to another PC and use it as a portable hard drive. You can leave the installation CD at home and just take a floppy with the driver on it. Everything the player does it does well.

I read many of these reviews (and the info at the D-Link web site) before buying the Roq-It and there were still questions I had that were only answered by trying it. So I'm here to fill in the gaps for you. First of all, there are two shuffle modes. You can play random selections from the folder you are currently in or from files throughout the whole hard drive. It would have been nice if there where a third shuffle mode to shuffle through songs in the current folder AND it's sub folders but there is no such option.

In regular continuous play mode, there are a few options. You can play a folder then stop, play a folder then repeat, or play one folder after another until they have all been played. There is also a mode to continously repeat just one song. It would be nice if you could find songs strictly by track title like you could with the Creative Nomad Jukebox. But if you have your songs organized, it's really not hard to find the song you want. And frankly, I expect that most of the time we will just be playing this in Random All mode anyway. The Roq-It does look at the ID3 tag information while a song it playing. It displays the track title, artist, album, total time, and current time index simultaneously. But it does not use ID3 tag info for finding or listing songs. If it did have that ability and a Playlist feature, I would have rated it 5 stars.

And just think: only a couple of years ago you would have paid this much for a 10GB hard drive alone. By the way, it's not really 10 GB, it's about 9.35.


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