KB Gear JamP3 Digital Audio Player (Silver)

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Summary: Poor choice with so many others available!
Review: Beware of buying this if you have Windows XP!
This little item has caused countless hours of frustration. KB Gears website has the e-mail tech support routed to the webmasters address (which I am sure he loves)and their tech support phone number (NOT toll free) has been disconnected. Hmmmmm I wonder why. Do yourself a favor and spend more money on better product!

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Summary: Poor volume/ no winows XP
Review: First used item with windows 98, it worked ok but volume is very low and will not go very loud. I returned item and new Jamp3 has same problem. I just upgraded computers, I now have windows XP, I cannot get software to work with XP. I can find no support from KB gear. Item way overpriced on this web site.

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Summary: Poor sound and no help
Review: I bought this for something to listen to and move around with. The volume is so low - at 100 you still can't hear the music. I tried to call the number that is on the user's guide and it is out of service! Not a good sign. Wish I had never bought the thing!

Rating:
Summary: Poor sound and no help
Review: I bought this for something to listen to and move around with. The volume is so low - at 100 you still can't hear the music. I tried to call the number that is on the user's guide and it is out of service! Not a good sign. Wish I had never bought the thing!

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Summary: To Darn quiet
Review: I bought this MP3 player expecticting that I could listen to it on a buss full of people, but the things max volume is about the equuizilent of a whispering ant. DONT BUY THIS UNLESS YOUR GOING TO LISTEN TO IT IN A SILENT ROOM ALL BY YOURSELF!

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Summary: Frustrating
Review: I got this today and couldn't wait to load all my songs. Well, I got this at noon, and barring work and a math test, I'm still trying to get the thing to work. I've managed to download two songs! Don't get me wrong, I like this product, but the software is irritating. First it wouldn't load. Then it refused to recognize my MMC. If you want an MP3 player, this may be it. But you may need loads of patience!

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Summary: Not a recommended buy
Review: I just bought the jamp3 and I have to say I'm taking if back to the store. I had problems loading it on Windows 2000. After following the work-around for this , it was more troble than it was worth. Next I installed it on Windows 98. I had trouble trying to reformat the internal memory. Then for some unknown reason, it would load more than 5 songs. To me it will be worth spending a little bit more to get a better quality item

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Summary: good stuff
Review: i must say that i was really discouraged when i read the reviews on the jamp3. saying that "it was the worst mp3 player ever". so i finally got a hold of my very own. i had never had a mp3 player and i was happy when i got it. a little scared because of all the bad reviews, but happy. so i loaded it up and started playing. the volume starts off on 50 but i guess the other people never saw the volume buttons on the side cause it went all the way up to 100 and it was laud. i mean i'm a musician and i deal with laud music every time i perform (so laud it makes the ear drums rattle) and even i say its laud. i have an aiwa xp model cd player and the jamp3 is just as laud if not lauder.
now about the batteries. it does drain batteries. i have rechargeable batteries and they do get drained quickly. i don't know if it drains any faster than my cd player though. i think about the same. i bought some regular sony batteries just to check and i'm still using them. they have gone about 3 days now.
software is good and pretty easy to use. i don't think this mp3 player is for kids but definitely for teens and above. the only problem is it does ask you for a code key when you are installing which i couldn't find anywhere. they say its on the front of the cd but i don't see it. that doesn't mess up the install though and everything works pretty good. doesn't take very long to download either which is good.
the only thing i would have liked it to have is a power adapter plug. i don't know if other mp3 players have that, and they are probably not made for that. i mean what would be the point in doing that when you can just play a cd? the mp3 player is for when you are on the move and don't want to haul around cds, cassettes, 8 tracks, or even 4 tracks. can't forward through the song either. that's not bad because you have all your favorite songs in there anyway. can skip the song though so at least you can do that. memory is not too bad. if you listen at 32 kbps it sounds like an old cassette... so i don't recommend that you use that. i use about 64 kbps and it sounds so much cleaner. i got about 9 songs on my jamp3 on just 16mb of memory. i will be buying the mmc card soon though.

Rating:
Summary: good stuff
Review: i must say that i was really discouraged when i read the reviews on the jamp3. saying that "it was the worst mp3 player ever". so i finally got a hold of my very own. i had never had a mp3 player and i was happy when i got it. a little scared because of all the bad reviews, but happy. so i loaded it up and started playing. the volume starts off on 50 but i guess the other people never saw the volume buttons on the side cause it went all the way up to 100 and it was loud. i mean i'm a musician and i deal with loud music every time i perform (so loud it makes the ear drums rattle) and even i say its loud. i have an aiwa xp model cd player and the jamp3 is just as loud if not louder.
now about the batteries. it does drain batteries. i have rechargeable batteries and they do get drained quickly. i don't know if it drains any faster than my cd player though. i think about the same. i bought some regular sony batteries just to check and i'm still using them. they have gone about 3 days now.
software is good and pretty easy to use. i don't think this mp3 player is for kids but definitely for teens and above. the only problem is it does ask you for a code key when you are installing which i couldn't find anywhere. they say its on the front of the cd but i don't see it. that doesn't mess up the install though and everything works pretty good. doesn't take very long to download either which is good.
the only thing i would have liked it to have is a power adapter plug. i don't know if other mp3 players have that, and they are probably not made for that. i mean what would be the point in doing that when you can just play a cd? the mp3 player is for when you are on the move and don't want to haul around cds, cassettes, 8 tracks, or even 4 tracks. can't forward through the song either. that's not bad because you have all your favorite songs in there anyway. can skip the song though so at least you can do that. memory is not too bad. if you listen at 32 kbps it sounds like an old cassette... so i don't recommend that you use that. i use about 64 kbps and it sounds so much cleaner. i got about 9 songs on my jamp3 on just 16mb of memory. i will be buying the mmc card soon though.

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Summary: This Mp3 player stinks
Review: I originally bought this at [a local store] for $... I didn't know much about mp3s then and I figured that 16 mb's was alot but it isn't. The second this bad about it was the battery level. After playing about two songs the battery life is almost dead. I bought two brand new batteries and they were dead by the end of the day. If i were you I would avoid this mp3 player.