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Summary: Great Machine-Lousy Doc
Review: after I spent a day figuring out what the manual and the CD didn't explain I fell in love with the machine. I never could get "yepp studio" to work, but I have windows Media Player and its adequate.
The SRS and WOW sound modes are pretty good with 64kb WMA files which give me +/- 5 hours of music.
The headphones are free, but I have Sony noise cancelling ones which are excellent. The combination of the yepp and my Sonys are much better than my CD payer was.
If you can get 4-6 hours of music into a package this small it is worth putting the effort into the startup. the human factors and controls are a little quirky, but maqke sense once you figure them out.
I'm sold, my portable CD player has been retired.
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Summary: Awesome Little Player - Much Better than I Ever Imagined!!!!
Review: After reading all of the reviews for the Samsung YP-55V, I decided that I had to get one for myself. And I must admit, I was not disappointed in the least.This player is everything that everyone here has raved about... and much, much more! Everything that I have used so far, except for the [bad] headphones (which all MP3 players come with regardless of how high-quality they are), has worked flawlessly and wonderfully! I still can't believe how far technology has come as to allow me to fit so many songs on such a tiny player! The sound quality is excellent, the design and layout of the unit is so cool-looking and innovative, and the battery-life is unprecendented. Most of all, loading songs onto the player is as simple as transfering documents onto a floppy disk - you just copy and paste, or drag-click, all of the songs you want onto the screen that opens for the USB connection you just enabled (mine was labelled drive F:) and let it do its magic - I was able to transfer 23 songs in less than three minutes! This player is by far the best portable sound unit by dollar that I have ever seen! To tell you truth, a lot of the problems that other reviewers were experiencing didn't happen to me: The USB cover on my player wasn't loose in the least; I found the case for the player to be really great (and yes, you can still changes tracks while the player is in the case, by simply twisting the body of the player while holding the top still); the buttons for the player, while a little confusing and bizarre at first, actually became very intuitive and second-nature for me quickly (although I still hate using the volume button, but it's no big deal); finally, I tested the radio feature (haven't tried the mike out yet, though) and it worked great, nearly flawlessly actually. I guess some of the reviewers' players had small defects, but mine seems to work perfectly! Anyway, to summarize: GET THIS PLAYER! NOW! Seriously, it is an unbelievable little piece of technology, and man, is it ever little! I was in the exact same position as most of you readers a couple of days ago, trying to buy the best MP3 player out there, and being overwhelmed by the huge number of choices available! Even after doing extensive research, and reading tons of user reviews for all of the players from numerous websites, I still wasn't too sure if buying this player would be the right choice, since for every single player out there, there are literally at least 5 reviewers who give it the full 5 stars and rave about it like morons (ironically, the same could be said of me), whether it's actually good or not. So I basically had to look at all of the 1 star reviews and see which player truly had the most flaws. And even still, there wasn't a clear winner, but I went with my gut instinct, and bought the Samsung Yepp 55 player, and I can honestly say that it was one of the best purchases I've made in years! Note: I actually got the Samsung Yp-55i, which has 192 MB memory instead of the 256 MB of the Yp-55V model, since it was significantly cheaper, and I figured that 192 MB, although not upgradeable, was enough memory for me. So if any of you are looking to spend a little less cash to get a player with exactly the same features and design, but that can hold a little bit less songs, go for the Yp-55i (although it isn't listed here on Amazon or Samsung's Yepp site itself - I bought mine "in-store" from Best Buy, since it isn't even listed on their website!).
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Summary: Walking the kid
Review: An electronics fan from Philly Cheesesteak, PA wrote "This player rocks. I use it in the gym....walking the kid, etc"
Walking the kid???
Sad parenting if you need an MP3 player to "walk your kid."
Sorry but this is no petsitting.
Please, don't build silencing walls between you and your child.
You would be well advised to discard your new toy and TALK to your kid for entertainment. Find toys BOTH of you will enjoy.
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Summary: Amazing sound, I love it, but get the new firmware!
Review: Before reading my review, if you already got one of this, get the new 5.7 firmware for folder navigation, playlists and lyrics support. Just go to google.com and search for "YP-55 firmware" This is the third MP3 player I own and I must say I love it. I researched a lot of MP3 players before buying it and I'm confident it must be one of the best flash based players on the market. Sound is amazing and loud, and the YP-55 feels like a quality executive item, it is not a flimsy toy like mi previous iRiver. The WOW function is incredible, it nicely spatializes the sound in your head making it sound pretty amazing. You must hear it to believe it. You can configure everything from the menus. USB transfers are quite speedy, a lot faster than my previous players and my digital camera. Battery life is quite good, too. May be because it doesn't consume power from the battery when downloading songs, it is powered by the USB port when doing this. Package includes a nice and small USB adapter for direct connect for those times you don't want to carry around the USB cable. Out of the box it does not support playlists or folder navigation, but it does with the new firmware 5.7. Overall I am pretty happy with the YP-55 and the only con I can find is the included headphones. Like every other MP3 player, it comes with low-cost earbuds. Sound is adequate but not great. Once you get better earphones, there is a HUGE difference in sound.
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Summary: Amazing sound, I love it, but get the new firmware!
Review: Before reading my review, if you already got one of this, get the new 5.7 firmware for folder navigation, playlists and lyrics support. Just go to google.com and search for "YP-55 firmware" This is the third MP3 player I own and I must say I love it. I researched a lot of MP3 players before buying it and I'm confident it must be one of the best flash based players on the market. Sound is amazing and loud, and the YP-55 feels like a quality executive item, it is not a flimsy toy like mi previous iRiver. The WOW function is incredible, it nicely spatializes the sound in your head making it sound pretty amazing. You must hear it to believe it. You can configure everything from the menus. USB transfers are quite speedy, a lot faster than my previous players and my digital camera. Battery life is quite good, too. May be because it doesn't consume power from the battery when downloading songs, it is powered by the USB port when doing this. Package includes a nice and small USB adapter for direct connect for those times you don't want to carry around the USB cable. Out of the box it does not support playlists or folder navigation, but it does with the new firmware 5.7. Overall I am pretty happy with the YP-55 and the only con I can find is the included headphones. Like every other MP3 player, it comes with low-cost earbuds. Sound is adequate but not great. Once you get better earphones, there is a HUGE difference in sound.
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Summary: Why to buy
Review: Great MP3's. This will encode on its own. Plug the cable in to your headpone jack on your computer, CD player, ANYTHING with a hwadphone jack and it will record it as MP3. Even gameboy or your TV. This means stuff that streams on realplayer or WMP can be MP3.
Windows XP sees it as a letter drive via USB so you can move files easily.
USES BATTERIES fast when making MP3 though, 1-2 hours. Get rechargeables.
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Summary: BEST MP3 PLAYER UNDER ... DOLLAR!
Review: Hi Guys! I have tons of things to say about this mp3
player. First, I had days of research between SONY MD Players and MP3 players. I decided to buy SONY MD PLAYER(Sony MZ-NF610 High Speed Net MD Walkman Recorder), but THIS Samsung YP-55V CHANGED MY MIND. SONY md player has advantages and disadvantages. Advantages are.. it is easy to have more than 256mb of musics due to $... priced mini discs where you can store 700mb of music. BUT! Sony's software prohibits you from copying & loading any MUSIC FILES more than 3 times! This was really annoying.. Should I go for MORE MUSIC & Cheaper Price? but I can't copy mor e than 3 times.. which makes me worry because I like to copy & delete and make n ew mixes everytime I
want! You might buy Sony MZ-NF610 High Speed Net MD Walk man
Recorder because it has FM/AM/TV/weather band and lets you copy from radio,cd,and other cd units and record your voice. BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT it wont let you can not load your recorded files back to your computer? ... THIS samsung YP has the same fuction of recording & guess what? YOU CAN LOAD IT TO YOUR COMPUTER and COPY & DELETE MORE THAN 3 TIMES OR WHATEVER YOU Want! Better than Sony MZ-NF610 High Speed Net MD Walkman Recorder ! 256mb is 4 hours of music with 128 kb MP3 files. More than enough for short road trip or jogging. this 256 Mb provides you 128 min of music at 128kbs & 180min at 96kbs. It has *256MB Built-in Flash Memory *FM Tuner *Negative Bac klight LCD Display *ID3 Tag Display (title,file name) *Multi language supp ort
*Voice Recording *SRS WOW Technology *USB 1.1 Support (direct plug to PC) *Over 15 hrs. of Playback (AAA x 1) NOW DETAILS. multi languages..which are 4 languages, korean, Japanese, China & English.. if your a jpop fan, this is your lucky day! NO MORE BROKEN FONTS! ... Think usb 1.1 is bit slower? Yeah maybe so, but most of people have 1.1 not 2.0. Unless you purchased new computer or bothered yourself upgrading it. 5.7 MB sized 44 mp3 files loading takes only 16min 30 sec!(Max 4mb per/sec) now voice recording(max 17hour 20min) ..you gotta love this. You can actually decide the part you want to repeat to listen. You can mark A point & B point and repeat that part only from what you have recorded.. essential for students! specially when you have a foreign language class!! You can record from radio also. SRS WOW.. what is that? this provides you surrounded sound with 8 different pre-set equalizer such as classic,rock,jazz,r&b etc. and if you dont want that, you can set it for yourself with 10 differ ent treble base settings. BTW this mp3 player can play also
WMA,WAV files! now accessories.. earphone, usb cable, installation CD, AAA battery (yeah you get that too lol), neck strap (very convinient),carrying case (nowdays this is hard to see), direct connect usb adaptor, and line cable. Line cable lets you hook up with other devices , so you can record from cd,radio,cd players. USP adaptor ,,what a wonderful thing.. THIS PLAYER IS SKIP FREE! you can run and wrestle! wont skip! YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS! you DO NOT FIND mp3 players with THESE FEATURES under $...! now.. this software has FIRM ware.. blah.. which lets you update with features ( software wise ). This mp3 player also has normal, intro, repeat one, repeat all, shuffle mode like others. .... this device also let you encode mp3 files directly. You can adjust birates too. VOLUME could be reduced little.. like 1% or so.. but you wont feel that much of difference. Sound quality is also excellent. YOUR window recongize this device as removal drive even if you do not install driver. well~ but it is better to install the driver! ... the size.. yeah.. size.. very small.. if you have that paper glue you used at elementary school,, this device is smaller (heights wise ) than that! amazing huh compare to other mp3 such as i audio cw200 or iriver.. this is way better. More features.. design..covers and everything. cs200 buyers.. beware.. in korean , the company is selling cw300.. so you might want to wait.. if you want to compare that with this samsung yp-55v. iriver guys.. well.. believe in youself if that helps.. ...
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Summary: Rocky start but YP-55V is admittedly an excellent player
Review: How could Samsung have shipped this product with a brain damaged installation disk? Autorun on the installation CD put up a nonfunctional menu that couldn't even be shut down on my XP notebook. OK, so it might have been my computer, but same thing happened with another XP machine. The Samsung Yepp website was useless for support. Unlike another reviewer, I had to run the installation to be able to format the unit with Windows Explorer. I played around for an hour, finally successful by copying the contents of the CD onto my hard drive, then running install from there. What else I didn't like is that the player could not be recognized by a previous version of Yepp audio manager that came with my YP-30. This seems bonehead to me. Also, I miss the belt clip on the old unit. That being said, I took the 55 for a 2 hour run this morning and its sound is outstanding, and the controls are good once you get used to them. Then I mowed the lawn fo an hour...its the only portable audio device I have that can be heard over my lawnmower. Another little glitch...the YP-30 remembers it's place when you change the battery, the 55 goes back to track one. So bottom line is that it is an oustanding player once you get through the glitches to get it working. I just get the impression this unit was rushed out before thorough testing.
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Summary: BEST MP3 PLAYER!!
Review: I bought this MP3 player a week ago. First I got this, I was suprised to feel the smallest I've ever had. The Design was luxury, Cute, and Jog-Dial gave me FUN. Also, WOW sound keep me 5 hours listening, the battery keep 20 hours playing.
I reccomend this MP3 player, you would't be disappointed.
Rating: 
Summary: Not for those who arent electronic savy.
Review: I had a rio 535s which I loved but I wanted more space. I bought this thinking it would be just as easy to use....sadly no. I have windows xp bussiness and it seems to fight witht the mps player. Addtionally you need to know more about everything each step of the way. If you have big hands this is not for you the buttons are tiny and hard to use. Maybe it is just me but this does not seem worth the money....
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