CreativeLabs CREATIVE MUVO SPORTS C100 256MB ( 70PF100100000 )

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Summary: Great Value Digital Music Player
Review: Before you consider purchasing this device make sure you have considered the media player you will use and the on-line music stors that the media player works with. This device works very well with Windows Media Player and its related store partners.

For the price this is a great digital music player. The display is very large, it comes with all of the accessories you will need and it has a memory expansion slot. The device's integation with Windows Media Player is very good, much better than I have seen with the Iriver devices.

I have found that the player does segregrate the built-in memory from the expansion slot memory. As far as the PC is concerned they are two different hard drives and the player sees them as two different directory stuctures. I do not think this is a big deal, however when putting songs on the device using Windows Media Player and when playing songs you will need to first select which memory card you want to use.

I have had problems with a 512M Sandisk secure digital card I bought for use with this device. When playing songs from the card the device shut itself off or stop playing intermmitently. Creative's tech support were not able to help and I now have to ship the unit back to them.

Overall, assuming my defective unit was just bad luck, I would recommend this device for cross-training.

Rating:
Summary: Great product with expandable memory.
Review: i bought it when it first came out and got it for under $100. it is water resistent and the earphones that is comes with are not bad. it gets radio and sounds great software comes with the thing where u can change format. battery life is good and screen has a blue light which is big and easy to read. Great product.

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Summary: Unbelievable Sound
Review: I did a lot of research into the MP3 Players before I purchased. This one seemed to fit the bill of what I needed. I wanted a little more memory, but will purchase extra memory. It will take up to 1GB. The sound is absolutely great! Easy to use. Very easy to see compared to the tiny little things they are selling that you need a magnifying glass to read. The drag and drop interface is very simple to use. Just plug in and it recognizes it. For the money, can't be beat. I also just replaced the battery for the first time, and I got almost 20 hours out of it!
Buy It!

Rating:
Summary: Better than I expected
Review: My needs (well 'wants') in a portable MP3 player were pretty specific.

Small, flash based, regular battery powered, MP3/WMA, durable, expandable, drag 'n drop, inexpensive.

The C100 in most respects covers all these and even includes some bonus stuff. First off, I'm replacing a Rio Chiba 256MB with this one. While the Rio was nice and suited my needs the lack of Drag 'n Drop was the reason it went up on eBay. Since I travel a lot, having to deal with installing and uninstalling the proprietary software was just too big of a pain. I tried both Rave-MP 256 and the Lexar L600 512MB, both of which were returned for various reasons. As it stands now, I'll be keeping the C100.

*Pros

Expandability. Even though the package says it will only take a 512MB SD card I gambled and put in a 1GB PQI card and, drum roll please, IT WORKED! I now have 1.2GB (395 WMA songs) loaded up and ready to play!

Sound quality is excellent (as are most Creative products) with plenty of volume (goes up to 25).

The supplied headphones (yes, you read correctly!) are great! First thing I do with any MP3 player is trash the enclosed headphones and plug in my Sonys. The supplied headphones are not only comfortable and durable but they sound fantastic with a thumping bass I could never get from my Sonys!

The case (while a little larger than I'd like it) is very durable and splashproof.

The rubberized outer casing and armband are comfortable and solid.

Battery life is good, not great, but good at about 14-15 hours.

FM radio. It sounds good and picks up local stations strong.

*Cons

The joystick/button pad, while easy to figure out, is a bit too stiff and plasticky feeling. It works it just doesn't feel like great quality.

Memory usage. The C100 doesn't pool all the memory together. You have to manually tell it you want to play songs from internal or external memory.

Random play. As far as I can tell the random play only works within folders. It won't randomly play a song from the pool of
395 songs.

Folder/Song viewing. You can select any folder you want for playing but you can't look inside the folder and see the individual songs. Kinda weird - maybe I just missed some setting somewhere as other Creative products have this ability.

Price. I got it considerably cheaper that the current Amazon price. Just gotta do a little on-line price comparisons but it seems well worth $70.00 I paid.

Overall I'm pleased with it and wouldn't hesitate to recommend to anyone with needs similar to mine. The firmware is upgradeable and I'm hoping future releases will fix the memory/random and folder viewing issues.

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Summary: most underrated flash player!
Review: surprised the bejeezus out of me...i got it because the price was right (under $99)and it was expandable with sd cards... the ads say 512mb only but my 1 gig works right off the hop and works both with FAT32 and FAT formats unlike Mpio fl-100 players... the sound is excellent and loud enough compared to any of the rios i've tried (chiba 256 and forge 512 w/ 1.30 fw)..downloads are fast and loads as 2 hard drives and it does pool the songs together unlike what some reviews have said... playlists are available via folder mode...
...fm stereo is decent for a player of this size..picks up all local stations and transmitted ones in the gym.... armband is much better than rio's yet i wish it came with a belt clip instead..the built is durable compared to others that size..the rios felt cheap and felt the baterry cover was gonna break off... the usb cover is attached and better than rios...sound is better than the mpio fl-100 and doesn't crash with the larger 1 gig sd cards... just wish the backlight was bright like the forges are and the volume buttons were separate from the cntrol pad like the forges are. Other than simple aesthetics this player rocks! A 512 version would have been dandy but i can't complain as the 1 gig card was a surprise and works great!