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Summary: You could have been a star...
Review: The good things about the player: it play's great, good bass boost, nice head-phones, and you can pick up 32MB (don't get a larger one, it won't work) smart media cards very cheaply and swap them in and out as you please.The Bad things: it's ugly, has a bad interface on it (compared to the old rio, the buttons are microscopic and hard to use especially if you are clumsy like I am, the software provided for it is extremely limited (no windows NT), there is no support from Eiger Labs. Keeping that in mind, I like mine.. and I use it all the time.
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Summary: good basic player
Review: The pros: -Very easy to use -Software is easy to setup, and easier than anything else I've seen for adding songs. - low price - media is now dirt cheap conpared to MMC media for stuff like the compaq pa-1 - Solid construction handled lots of banging around in my backpack and at the gym The cons: - No windows 2000 support, and none ever planned - Tech support is very slow to answer, and doesn't give any useful answers. - I had ordered this when they had a... rebate. 6 months later, never saw it, and contacting Eiger gets no results. (but this really doesn't count against the product) - No support for WMA. Yes, MP3 is the standard, but it's nice to use WMA (Windows Media Format) since it compresses files down to 1/2 the size of an mp3, so you can jam more music on the player. Notes: I just recently bought a compaq ipaq pa-1 and while it has more features, I HATE the software that comes with it, and I've tried every alternative. If the Eiger had supported wma, and windows 2000 for file transfer, I would have never bought the new compaq player.
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Summary: Great player, but becoming obsolete
Review: I bought this player about a year ago, and found it had a few advantages over the highly-touted Rio PMP300, which was its major competitor in this price range. 10 hours of battery life (on 1 AA battery), easy to use software, with awesome earbuds and a nice bass boost feature all make for a great player. The only problem I ever had with this was when the headphones broke (after about 6 mo. of constant use). They were easily replaced. It was able to fit 10-12 songs @ 128kbps (standard mp3 quality) depending on length. This was good, allowing you to fit every popular song for the week or so on there. As of this time however, this item is pretty much obsolete. I just ordered a RioVolt cd/mp3 player the other day, and that will take the place of this as my primary portable audio device. Compared to this, you can burn about 5hrs of mp3's on to a cd, then listen to them on the road. Bottom Line: Ok for the money, but these are getting cheaper all the time, and the cd/mp3 is the wave of future. You're better off with one of those.
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Summary: Forget it if you need any support.
Review: There isn't a rebate now but if it pops up again, forget it. Not only will you not get a rebate, you won't get ANY customer support. Not even an automated return email. The player itself is actually pretty good in sound quality if you get your computer software to work (GOOD LUCK), albeit a bit slow in downloading mp3s. You have to download 1 song at a time. It takes my 900mhz TBird about 1 minute per song using the parallel port. About 18 minutes to load up 64MB. Just my $.02.
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Summary: Good Deal, for the Price
Review: This is an excellent machine for the money. Very light andplays great. But you will have to upgrade it to 64MB ... . Even then, you will get slightly more than 60 minutes of music on it (128Kb - don't kid yourself into thinking MP3 is even adequate below that level, it's not). This does not play wma files - which sound just as good at 64Kb as mp3's do at 128kb. I returned mine and bought the Intel Pocket Concert - and I'm much happier. If you can afford better, I recommend you do not buy this.
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Summary: Very poor product!
Review: Indeed, this was a terrible product. I am a software programmer and consider myself very technically literate. I tried the player on three different computers - all of which had ECP/EPP enabled parallel ports. All were medium level, name brand computers with reliable motherboards. Two of them I built up from a formatted hard drive with no loaded peripherals (network card, sound card, etc). Not one of them could communicate with the player. I tried everything I could think of including inumerable combinations of IRQ/DMA/ECP settings. I also downloaded the most recent MP Manager software from EigerLabs thinking this may solve the communication problems I was seeing. Nothing I did seemed to help. At the end of my rope I contacted EigerLabs customer support. They are as bad as the reviews above say they are. Initially they were prompt with their replies. But as I started to ask tougher questions, the responses ceased. The "tough" questions I asked them regarded getting a list of computers (and/or motherboards) that they knew, for a fact, the player would work with. Knowing which motherboard the player had been proven to work on, would remove the glib response "it must be a hardware incompatibility" from the equation...
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Summary: REALLY NICE FOR THE MONEY--VERY EASY TO SET UP
Review: There are a lot of really good and bad reviews for this product, but here's what i think. If you have the common sense to read about what software this product supports then it will work perfectly. You won't need any customer support because it takes all of 2 minutes to set up. I was hesitent to buy it like you probably are, but if you're looking for a cheap, but really nice mp3 player, this is the one for you. If you have windows NT don't get this player because it won't work. If you have windows 95 or 98 like most of us do then this will work just fine. Don't be scared, it's definately worth it for the money.
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Summary: Are you kidding???
Review: This is great! I plugged it in, installed the software, (without reading the manual) and as soon as I erased the welcome mp3 that comes already loaded, I was uploading mp3s. They sound terrific even at high volumes. I ride a motorcycle, and it will be perfect for the bumpy ride. I do have a newer model PC, but if youre buying this type of toy, you should have a nice PC to begin with... Thumbs up! I may get 2 more for the kids. Im sure THEY will be able to handle it.
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Summary: Great Product
Review: This is a great product. I have been trying to decide on an mp3 player for a long time I decided on this one because of the price. I have no regrets. The only thing is there was not really an instruction manual or any info on the buttons. However They did include a paper saying how to install and get music. The earphones arent the best but they are fine. I have windows 98 and have had no problems with anything.
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Summary: Nice price and convenient!
Review: By the time I receive my $30 rebate from the manufacturer, I will have only paid $50 for this machine. That's pretty good for a machine with 32MB of flash memory built in. Fair warning--this product may or may not for the technologically weak at heart: it all depends on what happens when you open the box. Do you know where to plug it in? Will it work on your system? Can you figure out how to use the software? Once you insert the CD-ROM, you can approach the entire thing by using the extensive manual, or you can just gun it like I did. I am not a computer genius, but I figured it out in less than 10 minutes. NO--it isn't compatible with NT, but I would expect that they will release some form of software update at their website that would correct this problem eventually. But if you've got Windows 95 or 98 (the majority of us), you should be good to go. As far as plugging it in--it's quite simple. I have a Gateway Essential and the cable connects right into the port for the printer. The software was very simple to work--it uses a drag and drop system and songs take about 30 seconds each to copy from your hard drive to the player. Once the songs are on there, there's nothing else left to do but shut off the program, unhook the machine, and enjoy your music. Erasing songs is a breeze also. What I love about this machine is it's so small and durable. On days when the world's got me down, I can throw this machine across the room and know that it will be okay. :) The battery life is good, too. People in earlier reviews have complained about the company (whose website is none too fancy) and tech support, yada, yada, yada. If you knew what you were buying and knew the system requirements, you wouldn't have to resort to using those fairly shoddy resources. But if that's something you're concerned about for one reason or another, this is not the player for you. Go with the Diamond Rio--and expect to pay a lot more. I have no complaints about my player. I'm listening to it right now. It fits in my shirt pocket and it's like it's not even there. But just so you know, this should not be considered a replacement for a portable CD player. I recommend owning both since you can take a lot more music with you if you've got a CD player. Sometimes mp3 players get boring if you're going to work and have to listen to the same 10 songs all day long. If you want more memory cards for mp3 players, you will end up paying the same price you paid for the machine itself or more!
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