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Summary: Look at other products first
Review: I do not like the Archos player at all. The first thing I noticed when I turned it on was the display... it is very hard to see. The back lighting is brown and with today's technology this is very antiquated. To move around within the menu is not intuitive at all. There is a music queue option but you can only queue one song at a time. While listening to music the buttons on the player do not work like a standard CD player. Example - when listening to a song and you hit the back button it does not go to the beginning of the song you were listening to but back to the song before it, so to listen to a song again you have to hit the back key then the forward key to get back to the beginning of the song.
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Summary: Avoid it! - piece of junk
Review: ...The first unit received but failed. The HDD failed and it never stopped charging. Also, the unit canot work as USB HDD when battery power is low even when adaptor is connected. I then returned and requested another unit. Guess what! The second unit cannot even boot up!Maybe this is a good product in "concept". However, the quality is really BAD! If you do not want to waste your time in returning and replacing. Avoid this stupid unit. I am EXTREMELY MAD!
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Summary: This is a GREAT Jukebox
Review: This is an great jukebox! It is very easy to use and move music to and from. It is just like having an external hard drive you can drag and drop music too. The 20 GB size makes it almost hard to fill up with music! It comes in handy and the battery life is great! Would highly recommend if you like taking a lot your music with you!
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Summary: Compared to Creative Zen
Review: If you have any experience with computers, that is, if you know how to navigate directory tree and copy files, then look no more - Archos is the way to go. You'll get an extra hard drive on your computer and that's all you ever need to learn. I originally made a mistake buying Zen from Creative - it has a lame interface (the only way to access harddrive is with their special application, which I think plain [is bad] and a lot of limitation. Returned it next day and ordered Archos - very happy now.
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Leonid.
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Summary: It holds over 3000 songs, and fits in the car? Awesome!
Review: Imagine cruising down the road never hearing the same song twice... Sure the MP3 is a lossy compression format, but if you have a good source, and encode with VBR or 128kBPS or better, it sounds better than a cassette! I have actually have plugged this unit in to my home Dolby stereo, and while I can hear some MP3 artifacts, it still sounds GREAT. Note that the unit also doubles as a hard drive, so you can store data (files, photos, videos) and transport them to other computers for use. Supplied firmware is adequate, but Google for ROCKBOX and install it instead. Unit has been in almost daily use for over a year, and in the mobile environemnt, so if that's not a positive review.... Isn't technology fantastic!
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Summary: Excellent with different OS!
Review: I've had this gadget for over a year and even though my first unit crashed after a month (with a new unit speedily shipped from Archos) I have nothing but praise for it. But the true potential of the Archos is only unleashed with the Rockbox Open Source replacement firmware ... Get it right now and throw that clumsy Archos-firmware out the door...
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Summary: Came defective, repaired, but still not 100% recommended
Review: The product suffered from abnormal powering on and off out of the box, which was due to either a defective casing (not allowing the batteries to make proper contact) or hard drive power issues. In any event, Archos accepted the drive for repair (be patient with their email & web support, it gets there), and I just got it back. It seems to be working fine, the screen flickers a little when the drive is being accessed, and it crashed once on me, but nowhere near as unstable as it was before. Still, I can't genuinely recommend this product (for the price) 100%, I'd stay away from hard drive based MP3 players altogether, and wait until memory card players approach higher capacities with more competitive pricing.
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Summary: Inexpensive for what it does!
Review: I got this the same day my fiance purchased an Ipod. He had absolutely no problems getting his Ipod working while I struggled with the Jukebox due to its horrible instruction booklet. So I trashed the booklet and used common sense (which took about 2 hours to prevail). Now on to the music, what a great sound quality. The ease of use became second nature and was comparable with the Ipod once I got the hang of it. Then I decided to listen to a song on the Ipod and the sound quality was actually inferior to my Jukebox at first my fiance thought I was crazy then he listened to my Jukebox and he was hooked and was soon online ordering one! I must admit the Ipod is smaller but it now is unused in the utility draw. Even the songs I downloaded with horrible sound quality became enjoyable. I love my new gadget and so does my fiance and after we are married I will let him in on a little secret. The wife always knows better ;.)
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Summary: pretty nice
Review: This is a nice mp3 player. If u dont like to listen to music that much or do not have that much cd's i dont reccomend this because it has a lot of room for songs. But u can also use it as a back up hard drive for your laptop so it can also be useful for other things. It playes well the earphones are worthless throw them away and buy something that is works well. I actually did have one problem were it just wasnt turning on. but it was to good for me just to return so i had amazon get me a new one and it works well. I definently reccomend this mp3 player
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Summary: Great box, terrible manual and interface.
Review: Every high tech programmable gizmo has to have some kind of Enter ("yes") key. Sometimes this Enter key is the "Play" button. Sometimes the Enter key is the "Menu" button, and sometimes Enter is one of the function keys. This interface is designed to aggravate.
If you start to record, you won't be prompted with any chance to give the track a title. The last title will be used. You have to have the presence of mind to change the artist and title before you start recording.
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