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Summary: Great MP3 Player, but Controls are a bit awkward
Review: I have had my yp-55 player for about 3 weeks now. I am very satisfied with the MP3 and FM sound quality. I load the player from my XP Windows Media Player which recognizes it as a removable disk drive, making it very easy to load with my playlists. The line-in and FM encoding option is a bonus, but I haven't experimented with these yet. I only have some minor complaints: Because the player is so small, I find the compact controls difficult to use (a price I am willing to pay for the compact size). In FM mode, the PLAY button saves the channel, it is very easy to accidentally bump this button and write over previously saved channels (fortunately it is easy to use the Auto Channel Setting feature to reset them). When in the case the fast forward and hold button are not accessible.
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Summary: need the use manual in english
Review: I have only the technival manual in Chinese I need it in English.
can you mail it to my e'mail: tafanelr@hotmail.com
I am ready to pay
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Summary: Exc. battery life, OS compatibility; poor software, ergonom
Review: I have researched many players, and I own two iRiver slim MP3 CD players.The battery life is excellent! I understand from other posters that there are troubles syncing
with the proprietary software. I use standalone programs from
both Linux and Windows. In both cases, you just hook up to any
USB port and use the Yepp like a hard drive, writing mp3 and
wave files to/from it. No problem. Player has been sturdy and reliable (the headphone cord is
falling apart, but no big deal), but if it gets knocked, even
lightly, while playing, it will turn off, losing your play
location. The controller software really sucks compared to iRiver's.
This software rates about a 1 if iRiver is rated 10. You have
very little ability to adjust things. Even though the battery
life is excellent, you can not pause or stop the player for
over 30 seconds without it turning off and losing your
location. If you get a phone call, you have to let it keep
playing or it will turn off. There is also no ability to
easily navigate through the filesystem so that you can sub-group
your tracks (with 256 M of mp3 material, I would think that
everybody would want to sub-group their material). I use my player mainly for audio books which I write in mp3
format. Users who don't intend to use their player for
audio books probably want to skip the rest of my review. The main frustration with this player is the difficulty of
navigation within a track. It was easier to navigate with
a cassette tape in 1985 than with this thing. Once the player
turns off, it has no memory of where you were in the track.
This will happen if you stop/pause for > 30 s (10 seconds
if you use the default setting!). As many reviewers have said,
the ff/rew mechanism is very hard to operate with one hand.
It is extremely unresponsive. It doesn't start "going" until
you hold it for 2 s., if you accidentally let go before then,
it goes to the beginning/end of the track and loses your
location. The ff/rew speed is not adjustable. For VBR (variable
bit rate) MP3s, it goes EXTREMELY SLOW for about 2:00, then it
jumps by about 5:00 every microsecond. It is impossible to
ff/rew about 4:00 with less than 5 attempts. For CBR (constant
bit rate) MP3s, it goes at 10s/click--- very slow. This player would really be excellent if Samsung knew how to make
operating software. The iRiver MP3 CD players I have suffer from
none of these ergonomic or controller software problems, but they
have hardware problems instead :( .
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Summary: much better than i river...
Review: I river felt plastic and cheap and if accidentally dropped, I'm pretty sure that was it...this felt SOLID... Iriver, when connected to computer, would occasionally loose its connection...that flimsy. Light plastic felt it could break easily. Menus can get tedious... Only knock on this one is that the case is useless, the voice recording is a little bit fainter than the IRIVER, the cover for the usb connection was a little loose, and the menus can get tedious, and because of arrangement of display, if you use one hand, to operate it, you have to use your left hand. But overall, it is much better than the IRIVER....
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Summary: Excellent Christmas Present
Review: I spent months researching mp3 players so that I might request one from my family for Christmas. With so many products and different options on the market it was a difficult task at first to try and sort through them all. I figured out early on that a jukebox or hardrive mp3 player was both out of my budget and probably too much storage for what I needed. I finally decided on the YP-55v and I couldn't be happier because it packs a lot of features at a high quality, especially for the price. First of the all the thing is small and lightweight so if you're looking for something extrememly portable this fits the bill. It comes with a case that can be used like a belt clip, and it also has a neckstrap.
Secondly, it puts out a lot of sound at a high quality.
The FM tuner (which was not a necessity of mine) gets good reception and is easy to program with your favorite channels. I haven't experimented much with the voice recorder but from what I can tell it works well.
The blue backlight is also a neat feature. Also, it seems really well made and especially with the aluminum case it avoids feeling flimsy.
The (nonupgradeable) 256mb of storage is great too. You can store about 50 songs (give or take a few, depending on length) which is roughly 8 hours of music. The absolute best part of this product is the extreme simplicity of it all. It has great features, unique design, and the easiest music transfer you can imagine. Plug into your computer with the USB cable and it shows up as a removable drive on your computer (the window pops right up on the screen). Then just click and drag or copy/paste and it very quickly transfers the songs you've selected. It comes with a software CD but this is a music manager and is not necessary to transfer music. You could be anywhere, say a friend's place, just plug it in and transfer files without needing to install anything.
Overall, amazing product at a fantastic price and I would recommend without hesitation.
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Summary: Great = Simple functionality
Review: Myself, I like this player because of its simple design. The player doubles as a USB jump drive. First this means that you can store data other than MP3s on it for transport to other computers. Second, it means that you do not need to use the management software. This makes the player compatable with Windows as well as Mac and Linux (my own choice). You can also share with others without the need for them to have the manufacturer's software on their PC. The line in record and FM record are nice functions also. Of course the ear buds are not great, but then no player near this price will include nice headphones. The only truely bad feature of this player is the included case. It is terrible. Small complaint though!
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Summary: Flash Memory Versus Hard drive ... which is better for MP3s?
Review: Okay. Here is a write up, that I did, on the comparisons/contrasts on MP3 players. Mainly, the Harddrive versions (I.E. Rio Riot/Apple IPOD -both of which I own) and the flash memory type... (I.E. Memorex 3642 Mp3 Player, of which I own as well).
What prompted this little jaunt (of which you may send to as many people as you like) My (expensive) Apple IPOD died during a sync last month. Just me copying files over to it, and the battery ran out of juice. I would have not attempted to copy music had I known the battery was low, but the battery read FULL STRENGTH. Anyhoo, I called Apple, they said return it for maintenance.
I did. Sent it back.
They returned it, still broke. To my suprise, there is only a TEN DAY return policy. TEN DAYS. I did not realize this at all... and will not ever buy another apple product. So, after a month or so of messing around trying to find another MP3 player... I decided to go with a flash memory MP3 player, the ones that use memory sticks. SO, here are the pro and cons of these devices. Pro's for the Memory Stick Mp3 players -Cheaper. WAY CHEAPER than Hard drive types. -If you go into music match and file convert to MP3 Pro and shrink the size of your MP3 to like, say 3o percent... you can really make a good Kompression. Example. My Memorex MP3 player has 32mbs of memory on board. It is expandable to 256mb. 32 mb will basically let you put one cd's worth of music. It is easy to put music on and off of them, due to your computer reading the USB as just another hard drive, so you drag and drop to put on, delete them to take them off. But, after you shrink your files to MP3 Pro 30 percent, you can put twice as many. So, basically a 256mb chip will allow me to put 208 songs on my little less than palm size MP3 player. And it wieghs like 3 ounces. - More on memory. These little chips are the size of the upper part of your thumb, at least my thumb anyway. They come in 128mb, 256mb, 512mb and even though there aren't any MP3 machines out there to handle them YET, you can even buy a 1.5gig thumb size chip thingy. Considering the size of the chips and the shrinking kompression I told you about earlier, I could shrink my whole KOLLEKTION down to 10 of those 1.5gig chips. At the current shrink rate I am at 5 DVD's, which are way bigger and more fragile than these little chips. - Not as fragile as hard drive type. You can drop one of these chips and not scratch it. I wouldn't stomp on one with my foot, nor get one in water, but they are encased in plastic. Ruggedish. - Batteries last for like two days. There isn't much going on here, no moving parts, no laser or hard drive to put power to. Most of these flash Memory types have a single AA battery. I use a rechargeable type, so we are talking very low cost here.
In comparison to the hard drive types, where you will get a solid 8 hours of playing, this really whupps up. - Size. Small. Very small. Mine is three inches by three inches. A square. But, you can get smaller ones. And the memory chips that go in them are the same ones you use for your camera. And you can put files on them. If you want to put a word doc on your memory chip, you can. Your Mp3 won't recognize it, but it is nifty storage. COMPARISON/CONTRAST - Size does matter. In the case of hard drive Mp3 players... lets face it, you can, if you so chose to, put a library of congress on these monsters. They are the caddilacs of the hand held devices, and guzzle batteries like gasoline. But when it comes down to it, size is the only thing they have going for them. I don't mean to downplay the hard drive types, but don't drop them, don't shake them, and after shelling out $499 to Apple you might consider insurance. Apple doesn't care about you or your apple after 10 days of ownership. - Price/Komparison. IPOD ran me $499 bucks. My memorex MP3 player ran me 45 dollars. The 128 memory chip runs you 50 bucks. Owch. There really isn't a comparison to the two. The memory stick Mp3 players just kick ? on this issue. And, you get MORE than a ten day return policy, since you buy these things at Target/Wal Mart etc... So, that is my review in a nutshell
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Summary: Everything you could ask for in a Flash Drive/Mp3 Player
Review: Over the past 3 years I have bought over 3 different mp3 players. I first bought a Creative Nomad II, then i bought the riovolt (cd/mp3 player the black one), then i bought my first flash drive/mpr3 player. Of all the mp3 players that I bought before i find the flash drive/mp3 players to be worth most for its value. I just ordered my Samsung YP-55V 256 MB Digital Audio Player with FM Tuner, like 1 day ago. The best thing i found with this is its attractice design and its ability to encode from anything. Most mp3 players, don't even have that function. So we got a mp3 player, that can encode like MDs, has a FM tuner, can record from the FM radio, and is a Flash Drive. All this powered by a plug-and-play USB 1.1 port, for 159 us bucks. Compared to any other mp3 player i've found on the market, this is the best. This player is really worth its cost. The iriver, is nice as well, has better design, but its WAY over priced and it has copy right limitations even on Mp3s. So it really defeats the purpose of a Flash Drive. If you are into flash drive/mp3 players, this is the ultimate player for you. but if you are looking for mass mp3 storage players, get the apple ipod, if you are looking for a mp3/cd player, get new sony model. anything else, go look elsewhere.
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Summary: not as good as I expected
Review: Some reviewers below give their credits to YP-55V just for its small compact size, mp3 and fm capability, which is not specific at all and could apply to most of the flash-drive mp3 players in market nowadays. I was in market for a mp3/fm player for my jogging. I bought it at Bestbuy for $139 plus tax basically for it¡¯s cheaper that iRiver iFP-390T which is selling for $169AR plus tax in the same store. Pro:
1 Cheaper than iRiver iFP-390T.
2 YP-55V uses 1 AAA battery which makes it smaller, while iRiver 390T uses 1 AA battery.
3 YP-55V has an aluminum case, comparing to the plastic one of iRiver 390T. But I don¡¯t know if this makes YP-55V stronger. Those manufacturers should conduct some devastating experiments to find out this. Con:
1 The quality and build of the earphone is so-so, worse than the one comes with iRiver 390T (a Sennheiser MX300).
2 YP-55V¡¯s playback time is shorter (up to 15 hrs) comparing to 390t (up to 24 hrs). It¡¯s a trade-off for the AAA size battery.
3 Multilanguage support is not as it is claimed. The truth is, Samsung don¡¯t have a universal firmware version yet to support all claimed languages, i.e., English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. English is supported in each version of firmware. For other language, you have to have the right firmware. The one comes with my item (ver. 1.500)only support English and Korean, rather than Chinese. I have to flash the firmware to a version of 1.511 to gain Simplified Chinese support. In order to get Traditional Chinese support, you need a Hong Kong version firmware (ver. 1.52). The latest version (ver. 5.7) added some interesting functions such as subfolder viewing/playing, but the language support of this version is poor. It took me several hours to search the Internet to figure out what¡¯s going on, to get the right firmware, to learn how to flash/update the firmware. I¡¯d like to share my knowledge here: How to update firmware for YP-55V
1 Download the right firmware.
2 Install it by running setup.exe
3 (the most tricky part) hold down the play/stop button while you connect the player with the computer via USB, which will turn the player into a ¡°recovery mode¡± necessary to update.
4 run the ¡°YP-55 Update¡± from Start->Programs->Samsung YP 55. Neither the manual nor Samsung¡¯s website are helpful at all for all of these. It¡¯s a huge waste of consumer¡¯s time due to the manufacturer¡¯s negligence.
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Summary: Excellent product!
Review: Someone said you can't make folders - sure you can. Someone said it doesn't work well with Windows XP - works flawlessly, you don't need Samsung's CD at all. My only 'nit' is that it doesn't support SDMI (digital rights management) so I can't download a protected WMA music file to it (well I can download it but it won't play). Samsung - where's the SDMI firmware upgrade?? Other than that, it's amazing. I'm using it with Sennheiser's PRC250 noise cancellation headphones on airplanes and it's just perfect. Oh, if your eyesight isn't great, it will be tough to read the tiny text on the LCD display.
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