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Summary: Inconsistent MP3 playback
Review: I was holding off the portable mp3 market for a while. In my opinion all these devices did not provide enough "oomph" for the buck. Last weekend I decided to finally give it a spin...just for fun. So I went to the Best Buy and among many players I chose this Iomega product. To my surprise this little toy does deliver great sound at 128 bitrate. Perhaps sound is much better than from my portable Aiwa CD player. Aside from this, it is quite bulky and doesn't sit snuggly on a belt and must be worn in a pocket by all means. I dropped it 3 times while trying to figure that out. Fortunately it fell on the bottom each time and it did not break the flimsy disk cover. But the biggest downside of this supposedly MP3 player is totally inconsistent MP3 playback! I would transfer my mp3 files to the player and it either does not want to recognize them or doesn't place them in the playlist or worse yet gives choppy play. Each time I have to convert MP3s to WMA format, which is very slow on my P3-450. As a result of this problem, I am going to return the player to the store. Nobody mentioned this problem here before so I assume it is a defective player.
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Summary: How should I say???
Review: I was a little bit disappointed on its physical condition--not light enough to take with jogging, and looks not so cool as I had expected. And it took me a few hours to make it run--it couldn't recognize .mp3 file until I downloaded something from website of Iomega and updated the firmware, while I almost was going to give up and return it.
However, it is rechargable, so I don't need to buy lots of battaries, which is harmful to our earth and also expensive. What's more, I can hardly find another MP3 player with more than 50M memory at a price below 150.
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Summary: Amazing!! Pros And Cons!
Review: This Is A Really Cool MP3 Player. I Made A List Of The Pros And Cons Below:Pros:
Doesnt Skip
PZ Disks Are Cheap Compared To Flash
USB Connection (Compared To Slow Serial Connection)
Great Sound Quality! Cons:
**Earphones!!! AWFUL!!! But Just Get Another Pair (14.99 In Canada) And You'll Be Smiling Spin Up Noise (Not That You'll Really Care Unless Your Volume Is On 1) Hehe!! Another Amazing Innovation From Iomega!!!
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Summary: Iomega HipZip--Not bad, but a couple of issues
Review: It seems to work fine after the initial set-up. But it is not Audible-ready out of the box. You have to go thru a pretty complicated and time-consuming software upgrade online. First you have to re-set it by sticking the end of a paperclip into the guts of the machine. I think re-setting it is something akin to re-formatting a hard drive, which is a little scary. Then you have to download a new operating system, which is a BIG file that takes a long time to download and eats up a bunch of your computer's hard drive. My big concern though is that the battery is not replacable. It's a "permanent" rechargable battery, and according to the owner's manual, when the battery kicks the bucket you are supposed to just throw the whole player away and go buy a new one (great marketing scheme, eh?). They even put the housing together with those wierd star-shaped screws, so you can't take it apart to try and replace the battery. They manual says the battery should last "years and years". But anyone who has a cell phone or a portable phone at home knows there is no such thing as a "permanent" rechargable battery. I'll be pleasantly surprised if I'm not sawing into the housing in 3 months to see if there's a real battery in there to replace. And then there's the whole separate issue of filling up our landfills with dead MP3 players . . ..
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Summary: A nice, tiny MP3 player
Review: I have had 4 different MP3 players previously that all have broken. When my last one broke, I took it back to the store ... and decided to try out the Iomega player. I wasn't too thrilled that you could only get 40mb on a disk but I decided to give it a shot. At first I could get 8 to 9 songs on a disk if I was lucky. Then I upgraded my computer from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Professional and put on Plus! for XP. Plus! comes with a program that converts audio files from MP3 to WMA (Windows Media Audio) which is supposed to be smaller files. I tried it out on my disks, and now I can get 20-23 songs per disk with no sound quality loss. So if someone does buy this player, make sure you get a good converter program that will go from MP3 to WMA (the one that comes with it, is horrible). A must buy!
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Summary: use with linux pretty simple!
Review: I purchased the Iomega Hipzip recently. It seems to work very well with linux. Redhat 7.1 recognized it immediately and an icon popped up on KDE desktop when I plugged it into the machine, which greatly suprised me. I was expecting to install drivers and update the kernel to get it to work. Again, I was surprised. I first had purchased the i2go 96 MB mp3 player. I have not been able to get it to work under linux (yet), and became irritated that their software is proprietary. I have to reboot my machine into windows to use the i2go software. Even using a windows emulator doesn't work well with i2go's software. That's the main reason why I decided to purchase the Iomega Hipzip. Many of my linux friends recommended it.
I only give the Hipzip 4 stars, because it does have moveable parts. Also, I have to record the songs at 128 instead of 192 (to fit up to 12 songs versus 7). I look forward to a PocketZip that can hold 100 MB. Hopefully, Iomega will come out with one soon!!!
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Summary: BAD
Review: This mp3 player is very bad. I have had 5 of them and they have all screwed up. Also I think it is stupid to have the disks because it is very anoying to keep changing disks. It almost deafeats the Idea of an mp3 player because you have disks!
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Summary: I have a question
Review: I don't own one yet but can you tell me(if you have one),does it scroll own the menu of the song title?or if it doesnt then what is the maximum number of characters allowed?
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Summary: Great product, great price
Review: The the small size of the disks means you can easily carry a few even in your pockets. The "loud whirring" some people have complained about is very faint (at least with mine) and only occurs at the start of a track, and I've never had it skip. In my mind the carry case with belt clip make up for the larger-than-average bulk--heck I never carried my RIO in my pocket anyways--and the Li ion battery is a nice plus. My only complaints are minor:
1) the earphones aren't great
2) the backlight control is stupid--as far as I can tell the only way to turn it on is to go through 3 menus...now how can I do that in the dark? should I just leave it on all the time?
3) when copying files to/from the drive via Win2K nothing seems to tell you when the drive is done reading or writing, you just have to listen closely
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Summary: Great product, great price
Review: I've had mine for a few days now and love it--it has a few drawbacks listed below, but these are overwhelmed by the key selling point: the cheap disks! The the small size of the disks means you can easily carry a few even in your pockets. The "loud whirring" some people have complained about is very faint (at least with mine) and only occurs at the start of a track, and I've never had it skip. In my mind the carry case with belt clip make up for the larger-than-average bulk--heck I never carried my RIO in my pocket anyways--and the Li ion battery is a nice plus. My only complaints are minor:
1) the earphones aren't great
2) the backlight control is stupid--as far as I can tell the only way to turn it on is to go through 3 menus...now how can I do that in the dark? should I just leave it on all the time?
3) when copying files to/from the drive via Win2K nothing seems to tell you when the drive is done reading or writing, you just have to listen closely
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