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Summary: Mine broke after 6 months of use
Review: After half a year, mine doesn't play music anymore, but the USB drive still works. And I've treated it well, it was never banged around. Appears to have a quality problem... avoid it...
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Summary: Good value, but has some issues :
Review: I have my 128mb Muvo for over a year. Here are some things to know about it:1. Song playing order is set according to the order they were transferred to the muvo.
(And if a song is deleted, the next song copied to muvo will take it's place.) So the only way to set the song order to your liking is to copy the songs one at a time after formating.
2. The sound using the original headphones absolutely sucks! you must get headphones which emphasize bass. I recommend "Sennheiser MX400" which makes my muvo sound superb!
3. Muvo uses a hidden file called: SETTINGS.DAT
If it gets deleted (for instance by regular Windows formatting, instead of using the supplied formatting software) the device won't work! (I keep a copy of this file on my pc, and put a copy of it back on my muvo when ever I need too... but you can also restore the file using the supplied formatting software.)
So if all of the sudden your muvo buttons don't have any effect, now you know why....
4. File transfer is slow (USB1). It takes over 10 minutes to have your muvo filled up with 30 songs. Still it's my favorite player do to it's size, versatility and great sound.
Bottom line -
Once you know what to expect, and you get to know your muvo - it's a very nice device!
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Summary: A good MP3 player
Review: I bougth my Muvo MP3 Player a few months after it came out and still own and use it. It's pretty durable, I've dropped it several times and it still works. I use it everday to listen to music as well as transfer files. It's also very easy to use. You just drag and drop the songs that you want, and it's played in order that you copied it, even though it list it alphabetically. My only complaint is that it doesn't have a lock function as well as having to start from the beginning when you stop playing it.
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Summary: poor quality
Review: I loved my 128 nomad muvo mp3 player with armband for running with some of my favorite songs without the hassle of radio station commercials. The problem is it broke after only 9 months of very light useage!Creative labs needs to improve the product quality. My muvo will not turn on,but the memory module is good!I would not recommend this unit.
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Summary: undependable
Review: I was disapointed in the quality and controls. The USB connection worked great, It did not need any drivers or installation to work under XP, but the unit stopped working after a few months and had to be sent back to Creative for repairs. the repairs cost as much as a new player so why bother.
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Summary: Great -- While it Works
Review: This is a great product while it works. It is compact, reliable, and easy to use (just drag your music files to the player as if it were a removable disk drive). But beware: it WILL fail. I had three and all failed completely within a year -- one within two months. Once your player fails you are pretty much out of luck. Creative support is almost non-existent; but if you can track it down you will have to pay $20 to have them "look at it" and ultimately nearly $80 to replace it. In this product's defense, it could be pointed out that many MP3 players have a limited lifetime (e.g. even the iPod's batteries run down within a couple years and are costly or impossible to replace) so it could be argued that product failure is not in itself a reason to avoid this product (that's why it doesn't get just one star). But the MuVo just doesn't last long enough to be worth the price: two months of 128 Mb of music for $90 (or 64 Mb for $80) just doesn't compare with a year or more of many gigabytes for a couple hundred (even the overpriced Porsche of players, the iPod mini can he had for $250).
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Summary: A little too expensive for the features
Review: A friend gave me this as a gift, which I'm glad she did because I'm not sure if I'd want to pay for it The good things about the player is that it's very simplistic. It only has two pieces to it, so you don't have to worry abot a bunch of cables or anything. You slide out the flash drive, plug it into your USB port, and start copying files to it directly from Windows Explorer, which recognizes it as an additional hard drive. The player will hold around 15-18 mp3 songs encoded at 128kbps. This is plenty for someone like me who only runs for 20-30 minutes. It's also nice to have a flash drive that I can easily transfer files with. I have not experienced any effect of the player cutting off the first second of each song like another reviewer said. Every song starts right up at the beginning. The cons: AT first, I couldn't do anything with this device until I formatted it. Windows would recognize it, but not let me remove or copy any files to it. I tried it on several computers and could only listen to the songs already on it until I found the format software, but it works great now. The player doesn't have an LCD screen, so you can't see what song is playing, although this isn't really a problem with only 64mb of storage space. Another problem, is that it didn't come with the armband. You have to order it seperately from Creative. For a portable MP3 player designed to be used with exercise, this is ridiculous. For the price they should have thrown it in, or at least put a belt clip on it. I have to wear shorts with pockets in them to carry it with me when I run. I also have to hold the headphone cord to keep it from flapping around. The armband would have prevented all this. The player does come with some earphones that suck and a neck loop that is great if you run in the woods or at night where no one can see what an idiot you look like. The player also features a "loop" button that allows you to start recording a point in one of your songs, press a button, and it will loop the section you recorded over and over. I have no idea what the point of this was, or why they wasted time with it. As far as I can tell, it is completely useless. My biggest complaint is the battery life. It holds one AAA battery. This is nice for the compact size, but I would have rather it been slightly larger and held tow batteries. I like my music up pretty loud, and my battery is dead after 45-60 minutes. That is unacceptable. I've seen reviews that say the battery life lasts 12 hours at 60% volume. I have never seen that. I have to buy batteries in bulk just to be able to use it. What's more, the Muvo will actually drain amps from your battery when it's turned off. For the life of me I can't figure out why. It's a flash drive, so there should be zero reason it needs to keep power up. It is not very significant, but if you put a brand new battery in and don't turn it on at all, in about two months the battery will be dead from the drain. WMA files also consume more battery usage than mp3 files. The player also has a skip button that lets you skip tracks and fast forward, but it can act flaky on WMA files, and instead of seeking through a song, just skip right to the beginning. There is also no repeat feature. After the last song, you have to hit play again to restart it. No random song feature either. Although this player is pretty much outdated now, it would be a decent player. I like the basic design and the controls are easy to use. It's just not worth the current price, and it has too many flaws to use for serious athletes.
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Summary: I posted in October about this one
Review: well I did try a few things and the thing seems to be working again after I had given up on it. I downloaded the latest firmware from the website and also reformatted it. Now its working again so I'm crossing my fingers to see how long this one will last again.
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Summary: it stops working -- dont buy it
Review: Mine died after 3 days and I didn't drop it or anything. Other complain of the same issue. Really stay away from this one.
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Summary: Finally an MP3 player that is easy to use
Review: I tried two other players before I purchased this one. The first one (Rio Sport 64MB) did not sound very good and the software it came with was bad. The second one I tried was the Philips/Nike. This one was way too complicated. You had to go to the Philips website and download software to load the correct drivers for it to work. After doing that it still didn't work. I finally bought The Nomad Muvo 128. It does not need software or a cable. All I did was use Windows Media Player to copy music from my CDs, create a playlist, plug in the Nomad to my usb port and transfer the playlist. It was so simple. I was able to get about 2 hours of music onto the player. I did not have to do any type of conversion to mp3 files. The sound is good too. I have only had it for a few days. So far so good.
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