Creative Labs Muvo NX 256 MB MP3 Player

Rating:
Summary: i seem to be the only one who hates it
Review: bought it here for $75 and thought I won the lottery...downloaded my music into it and then began the headaches..i couldn't play back any of the tunes...the owner's manual/user guide is sad and incomplete,in all 20 languages. ..the cd-rom which lists a user guide had none..and so i had either a faulty unit or i just couldn't figure out how to play back the tunes with the included instructions...either way it's on the way back to amazon with some great tunes that someone in the returns/repair department might get to listen to.

Rating:
Summary: good utility, poor music
Review: Somehow,the music is'nt great. I ripped the music from original CD's using Muvo's software, but this tiny player can play things right, but music is'nt that rich when compared to other MP3 players like iRiver or iPod. It has a shrill, mechanical undertone (ya, i tried to fix it by adjusting the equalizers, but no good),and lacks the normal bass.
An advice for Amazon: I know Jeff's gotta big store, but please send me CDs, not boomerangs!! Sorry for the wry humor! The included software cd was very wavy and cud'nt play. It almost damaged my ultrabay device of my thinkpad.I had to download the required software from www.nomadworld.com
Endnote? Just buy it for the heck of it!

Rating:
Summary: Great little doohickey
Review: Well, got this for my birthday to work out with. I wanted a nice and small unit for jogging, that would hold at least an hour's worth of songs and work in Linux.

Since I use Linux 100% of this time, this is great, because it just works! I have usb and mass-storage compiled in my 2.6.8 kernel and can mount the drive (it uses fat16). The file names get truncated to 8.3 dos format when you copy them to the device. Also it doesn't like spaces in the file names.

My only compaint is that the ear buds are a little large and get uncomfortable after about 20-30 minutes.

It takes about 5-7 minutes to fill the device from 0 to 256mbs. I kinda wish I had gotten the USB2.0 version, but I can't complain, it was a gift.