Creative MuVo TX FM 512 MB (Eng/Jpn) (73PD051100018)

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Summary: Help
Review: Alex Williams, Did you find out why some 512MB muvo tx fm come with an armband and some come with a neck strap. I have recently purchased this mp3 player from Amazon.com and haven't received it yet. I would like an armband but am afraid it will come with a neck strap which would be useless for exercising.
FYI- I see you would prefer the neck strap. If I receive my muvo tx fm with a neck strap I would be willing to make a trade for the armband.

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Summary: Excellent device
Review: Got mine (512m) two days ago. I needed to download the firmware update from the Creative.com site, because it kept turning itself off at inappropriate times. But since the download was installed, it works great! (Listening to it as I write this.)

The included software was a bit klugey, so I just use Windows Explorer for the more mundane stuff. I'm a subscriber to Audible.com, and the book I downloaded to it works great, after downloading the necessary update for Audible Manager.

It's really nice to have a player I can stick in my pocket, listen to audio books, music, or FM radio, without having to burn CD's.

Get one!







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Summary: Neat technology, but almost too small.
Review: Great little device which holds plenty of music (although, I would love to have had a GIG). After debating this one versus the new Creative Micro, I decided to go with this. It is really small, takes one standard battery, and lasts a long time on one battery. The fact that there are no cables necessary to connect to your computer was another plus (although the recessed USB ports on my tablet PC make this feature useless). It works great for voice recording, and is okay at picking up radio signals. It works as a portable file storage to shuttle files from the office to home. Really, my only problem has been that the buttons and the jog dial interface are TINY. Sometimes it is frustrating when trying to navigate or change folders. The headphones that came with this aren't great, but I bought some nice Sony earbuds that work great. I wish it came with an FM transmitter built in so as to be able to easily connect it to my car stereo, but then, very few manufacturers offer this feature.

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Summary: I Love This Player!
Review: Great product. I loved the 256MB TX FM which came with the armband and belt clip. But this one comes with a flimsy neck cord? What the heck am I suppose to do with that?
I feel like I got ripped off. Of course you can buy the armband kit at creative for $20!

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Summary: Right price for excercise music
Review: I am very pleased with my MuVo TX FM 512 MB. Ordered from J&R music world online. Came with the armband and belt clip, as advertised. The software it comes with is very good. At one point I did encounter a problem downloading my music. I emailed tech support and Creative answered promptly, and within minutes, I was back up and loading music. Also love the fact I can use this to carry data as well as music and does not require cables to download. I would strongly reccomend buying this product and purchasing it from J&R.

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Summary: Pretty Cool Unit..
Review: I bought this at Christmas to have something that I could take to the gym. I was sold on its size. I had started shopping for a mini iPod but opted to go this route as the size was much smaller. I only want it for the gym and didn't see the need for a unit any larger. The built in FM radio was a nice feature as well.

What I also liked was that it can operate on a standard AAA battery and I didn't need to send it back in like the iPod to get a battery replacement. Battery life is long on your standard alkaline batteries.

No special cables needed to transfer data which I thought was another positive. I am forever misplacing cables and there always seems to be so many of them for each gadget or device that you own. This is pretty self contained in that respect and I'm very happy with it.

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Summary: Neck Strap vs Armband
Review: I ordered my muvo tx from Amazon and it came with the neck strap rather than the arm band. Kudos to Amazon's painless return policy and very responsive customer service.

Creative has three versions of this product. The European has the belt clip, the Japanese versions have the neck strap and the U.S. version has the arm band and clip.

It seems if your order comes from JandR than you get version with the arm band.

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Summary: Sweet MP3 Player w/FM Tuner - Where's the AM?
Review: I'll keep this review limited to a simple breakdown of my impressions of the player and what can be improved. Hope this helps in your decision to buy one.

Pros:
1. Tiny (3'L x ~1.40'W)
2. Great sound even with the supplied headphones (although a bit bulky with the padding...but good nonetheless)
3. Good interoperability (see past reviews/creative specs.)
4. Nice backlight.
5. Energy effecient
6. It doesn't come in SILVER! Woooohooo! I'd even choose a bumblebee yellow-cyan model to express my anamosity towards the flooded silver color prosumer electronic market (hmmm...an attempt to break stagnant consumers into buying new components to match the cheap silver components??? ;)

Cons:
1. Cheap plastic coated parts / platicky tactile feeling
2. Neckstrap Inside! (so you can annouce to the world your an idiot)
3. Bacteria/crud trap with the slider...
4. Can be a pain to remove the unit from the housing...slippery plastic with the power button in your way (I guess it depends on how you try to remove it.)

Wishlist:
1. Belt Clip (The J&R excerpt maybe wrong...I am emailing amazon now to find out if this is true: [includes] "...sports armband, belt clip..." - if this is the case, I want that as well. The neckband is silly and impractical...this player NEEDS a belt clip. The armstrap is silly looking but both (how creative for CREATIVE to tweak extra profits by including this as a seperate addon) are sold seperately on Creative's site boosting the player's overall cost to ~+$30. In addition, there is no case for this nor is there a case available on Creative's site, except for the more expensive HD versions. How can you NOT include a belt clip!!!!!!

2. AM Tuner

3. Compact Flash removable card (applications: in case of r/w cycles failure; create a removable library; prolong life of the unit in case of accidental damage to the flash memory, etc....)

4. Place the power[play|pause when on] button on the bottom - it's a pain unplugging the usb device from the housing or **** engineer it so that nothing has to be removed, maybe a retractable sheeth?****

ADDENDUM (12/25/04):
1. To A.J.: I assume you meant that I hate the neckstrap which is true. I primarily purchased this for size and function (jogging/exercising,etc...) Now imagine jogging around with this unit choking your neck and punching away at your chest (hmmm...potential lawsuit - no warnings on the box :)?) Sorry, I can't really say...J&R states, as well as "FYI", that it includes a belt/armstrap...but I did not recieve it...and EVERYWHERE that I trolled for a picture of it, I came up empty handed (aside from the pics that creative is hawking it - as a addon accessory of course - again, tweak the profits like Coke's "revenue management" with it's 1.5 "smooth serve" nonesense.) Their packaging of the unit hides any included accessories (the box doesn't state what assesories are included aside from what the unit does. I guess whatever was readily and cheapily availble at the time they would include so they could go to print without worrying about including it in.) BTW, the armband looks pathetic...hope you don't live in a "bad" area (easily to snatch and steal) or want to appear like a fashion dufus. Sorry if I'm nagging on this, but what idiot engineer at Creative decided against a TRUE belt clip (again, the belt clip I saw on creative was not really a clip, but a rubber case thats attached by nylon strap.) My god, 2 cents more worth of plastic that would put this player above all the competition!!! Couldn't they just have charged an extra ~$3.00 for a protective case that includes a real belt clip! Anyways, maybe you don't mind what I so obvisouly do....hope you enjoy more than I did. Good luck AJ! And let's not forget about AM stations...that's another paragraph!

2. Many thanks to amazon for providing fair resolution. I have been a long time customer of amazon.com and appreciate their service and support and will continue to do so. THANKS Amazon!

3. At this point, I'm not dealing with any of junk out there. I'll bite the bullet and jog / exercise without one until the idiot tanks out there listen to consumers. I'm going to hold off until a Compact Flash version comes out with a real belt clip. I hate to throw a unit away like this just because the fixed flash memory can longer be written to. With a removable card, that wouldn't happen - just replace the CF card. igo2 has a unit like that, but they are just UGLY (i2Go eGo)! Just imagine in 2-3 years from now, our garbage dumps will be full of AOL CD's and Creative Muvos :(

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Summary: What a nice gadget
Review: This is one fine product. The sound quality is great, even though it's such a small product (very small). I have about 60 songs (wma and mp3) at 128 kbps on my unit now, and still quite a bit of space. Alot of people complain about a product that does to much, but Creative handles it all well. The microphone is handy for recording boring Philosophy lectures while dozing off in the back of lecture hall. FM radio is ok, but I hardly use it. The screen is intuitive, and user friendly in my opinion. It's so cool how you can just remove the usb unit from the battery module, plug it in a usb port, and transfer songs in about 5 seconds (really fast), and plug it back in. Don't even get me started on the great battery life. Another cool thing is the replaceable battery modules. You can get a color to match your personality from Creative's website. I have a metallic grey one, which just looks awesome. This is definitely one of the best mp3 players on the market.
One uncool thing though is Creative's customer service. There is no US toll free number, and there is not as much product availability as say, the ipod shuffle, but you really shouldn't even need Customer service. Also, the included software sucks; I just use Windows explorer to transfer files (drag and drop), create folders and such. I would have given it 4.5 stars because of the mentioned negatives. But it still is the best mp3 player on the market right now.