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Summary: Can't skip? Read the ONLINE manual!
Review: A previous review said that you couldn't skip to the middle of a song with a MuVo. Not sure what the reviewer meant by that, but you can fast forward or reverse within a track by holding the jog wheel in the forward or reverse position. This feature isn't mentioned in the skimpy Quick Start guide that's included with the MuVo. To learn about all of the features go to Creative's website and download the complete 75-page user manual.
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Summary: Great product with some flaws
Review: Background: This is my first mp3 player. I have played around with my friend's iPOD and iPOD mini before so I have some experience with digital music players. What I liked: - Great value: Keep in mind that you are not just buy a 256 MB mp3 player. THe Muvo TX FM is also a USB hard drive, a voice recorder, and a FM radio. This was what made me buy the Muvo despite cheaper, comparable 256 MB mp3 players being on the market. - Great sound: The Muvo delievers a really nice sound and I find it indistinguishable from an iPOD. - Great headphones: The included headphones are very good and delivers a good range of sound. As an experiment I tried out a cheap $1.99 headphone and there is just no comparison. - Good battery life: 14 hr on an AAA battery. More if you listen to the radio a lot. - Accessories: You also get a protective cover/belt clip and an armband for exercise. The same cannot be said for other mp3 players. What I didn't like: - Earphone design: The earphones unfortunately don't fit my ears very well (I have small ears) and the left earphone has a tendency to fall out when I'm moving around. - Inability to skip to the middle of a song. The Muvo only allows you to play a song from the beginning. There is no provision for to to skip into the middle of the song. - Case design: The USB part of the Muvo (the black part) is very thick. This means that it can't be plugged into any recessed USB ports. This is not a problem if you have a desktop or a USB hub. Unfortunately, many laptops (including my Sony Vaio) have USB ports recessed into the case with an overhang. This makes it impossible to plug in the Muvo and requires you to buy a USB hub or an extension cable. Before you buy this product, try the following: take a usb cable and grab it with your pinkie flat on top of the plastic connector just behind the metal part. Attempt to insert the cable into an availabe port. If you can do it and not jam your finger, you are fine. Otherwise, you'll need an extension cable or hub.
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Summary: Easy to use, fun to own!
Review: I bought a MUVO TX FM 256 mb mp3 player for my wife, a runner. She's not too computer saavy so she had me get it set up, which took minutes. Install the software to allow the MUVO to be recognized by your computer, drag and drop mp3 files onto the MUVO (you computer sees it as a drive), and you're ready to rock. I found that it holds about 4 cds worth of music, plus a few single tracks.
The MUVO FM also holds an fm radio with more presets than you'll ever need. I set my wife's up with the 5 fm frequencies that provide the sound from the TVs in our health club, plus another 8 or so local stations she would listen to when running outside.
The best part is the unit's very small size; its ability to play FM or MP3's; and ease of use. It also comes with a belt clip and an arm band for use when exercising. Downsides? None that I have found yet...in fact, I bought another MUVO for myself!
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Summary: Love this little thing!
Review: I bought two of these little babies as Christmas presents for my wife and my son, and I am very impressed to say the least. It's been quite a while since I've come across a product that is this well designed. It worked out of the box, no software installation required, just copy your music files to it and they play beautifully! Everything about the player is intuitive - neither my wife nor my son bothered to even open the user manual, they just started using the player and got the hang of it in less than 5 minutes flat. That says something for the quality of the user interface, from both a hardware and a software perspective. The quality so far seems great, too, and battery life is incredible, considering it uses one AAA battery only.
And yes, the included headphones are not of the best quality but they are certainly usable. Overall, I am highly satisfied with this purchase - so much so that I have now gone ahead and ordered one for myself as well! You won't make a mistake choosing this player.
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Summary: Creative scores another 10 from me
Review: I decided to go with a Creative device because a few years back I bought a sound card for my PC and was very happy with it<br />
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The MuVo TX FM is a great little device that burns all other MP3 Players in it's price catagory. I am able to store my files from work, record meetings, and hook it up to personal speakers in my office. The only problem is that the headphones that come with it are a bit too big for the avarege adult ear.<br />
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I love the 5 band equalizer that lets me change the sound settings for diffrent kinds of music. It even has a custom setting where you can adjust it to your liking. The AAA battery last about 5 to 6 days if you use it regularly, so rechargeable batteries are a good idea. Overall, this is a great device for the music lover/computer guy.
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Summary: Creative scores another 10 from me
Review: I decided to go with a Creative device because a few years back I bought a sound card for my PC and was very happy with it<br /><br /> The MuVo TX FM is a great little device that burns all other MP3 Players in it's price catagory. I am able to store my files from work, record meetings, and hook it up to personal speakers in my office. The only problem is that the headphones that come with it are a bit too big for the avarege adult ear.<br /><br /> I love the 5 band equalizer that lets me change the sound settings for diffrent kinds of music. It even has a custom setting where you can adjust it to your liking. The AAA battery last about 5 to 6 days if you use it regularly, so rechargeable batteries are a good idea. Overall, this is a great device for the music lover/computer guy.
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Summary: Second One and Still great
Review: I got the Creative Labs MUVO 64 MB a few years ago and twas great. Never had a problem with it, not once. Only that it could carry 1 hour of mp3's or 2 hrs. of wma's. But that was a lot then, for a flash memory mp3 player. Now, with the MuVo TX FM 256MB it's what was great before but with more memory, FM radio, Voice Recorder, and an LCD screen to let me know what I am listening to. In my opinion, more reliable then the ipods because who the hell needs 100 hours of continuous music play. Although I do have to admit that the ipod is good to backup your files, if you have a whole lotta files to backup.
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Summary: Less than it appears
Review: I was all set to like the MuVo TX FM - it was small, but the important controls were easy to get at and I liked the design where it plugged right into a USB port. I bought this for my wife to use during multi-hour car trips to visit her mother (along with a Belkin Tunecast II, which I liked a lot, so she could listen through the car radio.)
I loaded it up with several of her favorite albums, using Windows Media Player 10. Very easy. Showed her how to use it, and she was on her way.
She called me on arrival to say that the player worked fine - but why did it play one song from one album, then one song from a second album, then a song from a third, and back to the first again? I was puzzled and annoyed. Had I somehow set it into a strange playimg mode?
At home, I read through the manual, not seeing anything that could explain it. Several days later she gets home and I take the player to look for myself. What I discovered was that WMP10 had copied all the song files to the "root directory", so that it played them all in alphabetical order! Since the tracks were prefixed by the track number, it played all the track 1 songs, then all the track 2 songs, etc. Yuck.
Ok - my mistake. I see that WMP10 has a setting to use folders, and I can see from the manual that the player can use folders. Fine - recopy the albums with folders, turn on the player, and.. what the... "No Music"?!?!?!
I mount the player and look at the contents. There's a top level Music folder, then folders for the artists, then folders for the albums, then the songs - just the way it appears on my disk. My Rio Carbon (love it!) has no problem with this. Hmm...
Some experimentation shows that the MuVo TX can "see" only one level of folders - any more levels and it's helpless. WMP10 can't, automatically, flatten the file structure to the right amount. Sigh. Ok, load Creative's MediaSource application - surely it can deal with the MuVo, right?
Wrong. Not only can MediaSource NOT store the songs in the right folder structure, but it annoyingly creates two entries in its library for each track I have, one with a track number prefixed and one without. Furthermore, the user interface is far inferior to WMP10, lacking the multiple view options WMP10 has.
So it seemed that the only way to get the MuVo to play songs in the correct order was to drag-and-drop the individual album folders and to name the songs in track order. Sorry, that's just too much work, so back went the MuVo to the store.
Right now, I don't know what I'll buy instead, but it isn't going to be anything from Creative (and that includes the Dell Pocket DJ, which had looked intriguing until I found out what it was underneath.)
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Summary: Creative NOMAD MuVo TX FM 256 MB MP3 Player -A great value!
Review: I was going to purchase a different mp3 player( headset type) until I read several bad reviews.
So, I started searching products and read 2 EXCELLENT reviews regarding this product.
I purchased this product and think it is an EXCEPTIONAL value for what you get.
1. FM transmitter- very clear
2. Tiny size
3. Simple and well thoughtout controls
4. Very good Microphone to record( Apple sells separately for $49.00)
5. Rubber Case - I already dropped it, and it was saved by the case.
6. Arm band- ( Apple sell it separtely for $29.00)
7. Battery -included -lasts 15 hours( don't use usb port to recharge).
8. Software
9. Earphones - OK
No, this isn't an Apple- iPod, but for working out at the gym, biking, walking carrying it around. It is everything you could ask for.
Excellent value , I strongly recommend this to you.
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Summary: Awesome, Easy to Navigate, Best Value
Review: Super pleased with purchase- best value, small, sturdy, super easy to navigate- and drag and drop...sound wual is awesome- perfect for gym, comfortable arm band. Would be cool if they made it with the M port, but it's still cool. Creative labs by far the best brand out there for players.
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