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Summary: iRiver makes high quality audio devices
Review: I had originally purchased the RioVolt 350 CD/MP3 player based on the manufacturer's glowing testimony of how great it was--I was very disappointed with the quality and soon replaced it with this player. Unlike the RioVolt, this player delivers on everything it promises.Besides the fact that it can play CD, CD-R, CD-RW in addition to MP3 it has skip protection that actually works even while you are shaking the player all around. The car kit does the job it is supposed to and there are no problems with charging or powering the player. iRiver seems to have hit the mark on this one. It is great for anyone who has tons of CDs and is just starting to get into the MP3 scene.
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Summary: really nice mp3 cd player
Review: so, i've had this for a year now, and the long and the short is that i'd recommend it as a first choice to anyone looking for an mp3 cd player. i did a ton of research, and decided to give iriver a shot over the comparable sony for price reasons, and i'm happy i did. complaints about battery life are from the undisciplined. remember to charge it every couple of days. you get 8 hours off of the flat batteries. that's not a design flaw, it's the nature of rechargable batteries. sound is nice. i use bose quietcomfort 2s when my ears are cold and sony fontopias when they aren't, and the noise to music on this thing is nice. it does beep too loudly sometimes, though, you know, when you turn it on or whatever. ow. the remote is cool to have, although it sort of makes the slimness less important, which is fine, since it's a cd player, not a spatula. i hardly ever take it out of my bag, except to charge it. like i say, i've had this for a year, and as much as i want the rio karma, i can't bring myself to get one, since this player works so well. i have no comment on customer service, and i have no comment on the overall quality of the product in terms of defects per 1,000, but then, neither do any of the other reviewers, and they seem to have no trouble calling things pieces of crap, so i'll go out on a limb on my single piece of experience and callthe iriver slimx 350 exactly what it is: the single most reliable piece of machinery every designed and produced. seriously, though, it's really nice. highly recommended.
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Summary: Iriver Slim-X 350 is Awesome!
Review: I was looking for a high quality portable audio device, and at first had wanted the creative zen, however, many customers had reported heaphone jack breakages, and this turned me off. I had owned the iriver IMP 150 before it broke by being under books in my backpack and thrown around...and I wanted another mp3 player that was just as good. This turned out to be just what I wanted. Not only does it have mp3 playback, it has an internal battery charger as well. Not noted in the editorial is that it also has an FM tuner built in! This made me very happy when I opened it. It also comes with an external tube for batteries (there is no AA battery casing because it is so slim) that you must connect to the player. The two NiMH batteries have slots inside the player under the cd. However, the carrying case that comes with it does have a little cloth tube just big enough for the external battery pack to fit in (they thought of everything!) It does take about a minute for the MP3 cd to being playing, but that is really not that big a deal. Overall I am very pleased..
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Summary: Not a Review of the Player
Review: This is not a review of the cd player, but of Amazon. I ordered this player two weeks ago. Unfortunately, UPS delivered it to the wrong house. I sent an email to Amazon and was given a refund within a few days with no hassle. So I just wanted to praise Amazon's customer support.
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Summary: Great MP3/WMA CD Player, super value!
Review: I always wanted to buy this player when it first came out but it was too pricy then. Now at [affordable price] gave me the green light without a second thought.
Wow, I am very happy with it. Great sound quality and light in weight. It was very good workmanship. Ear bud phones worked great, good sound quality. You really don't need to upgrade to another pair. The remote is full of features. It really takes sometimes to learn and remember them all!
It is a great player and great value. I highly recommended.
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Summary: What is this????
Review: When I first took it out of the package it looked great, and I was amazed with all the great things it does. Then the remote didn't want to work and the anti- skip(like it wasn't even their). This was the player I went to get after I decided to retire my sony(D-EG3)after 4 years of most gruesome use. I was disappointed with the iRiver SlimX iMP-350. Perhaps I'll stick with sony.
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Summary: Great product!
Review: I have had this thing for almost a year now, and I love it -- especially at this price point (which was $69 as I write this). The remote is easy to use, easy to read. And this whole thing is SLIM! It is tiny. It looks like it would barely even hold a CD. If you want a great CD MP3 player, this is the one.
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Summary: it works good so far!
Review: I owned this player for over one year, it works good so far, cd, mp3, but the radio is not very clear as wished. the only thing bothered me is the remote control is relativly too big but if w/o it, hard to get controling it. well, for this price it's good enough.
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Summary: Excellent Choice
Review: Pros: Nice design, comprehensive remote, excellent skip protection, decent sound, lots of options
Cons: Gets a little fussy with some CDs, remote is a little complicated at first -The sound comes in a bit staticky on the radio function, but overall, the sound is great; there are some customizable options for sound quality also.
-Design is great - slim, light, simple. I like that all the functions are pretty much on the remote.
-Setting certain functions like Shuffle or Repeat is not quite as self-intuitive as I'd like, but glance at the manual or fiddle around with the remote and it's fairly simple.
-I appreciate the timer that shuts the player off and doesn't waste batteries - nice for sleeping or long trips
-Blue backlight looks neat and is nice for the rather small font on the remote. Display is convenient & shows all the ID3 tags for songs.
-The player reads regular audio CDs fine, but sometimes the wait between songs on an MP3 CD is noticeable and a little annoying. Also, the player takes a little while to load when you first turn it on, and if you skip from an earlier song to a song way down the playlist - gets annoying, but it's not a big deal.
-I _have_ noticed that the player just won't play some CDs the first time around, don't know if this is a bug, or the CD is messed up..so it takes a little effort of turning on the player, turning off...but it always eventually works and it's just a small hassle (a minute or so to wait for player to turn off and on and load)
-Anti-skip protection is excellent; I use the CD player while walking _all the time_, sometimes going up and down stairs, short sprints (i.e. running to catch a bus or subway or train) and it has never once skipped. On the whole, an excellent buy, especially for the features it packs. Definitely recommend!
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Summary: Excellent software, not-so-good reliability
Review: The software (on the player, not what you run on your PC) really
kicks ass. You can adjust everything. Excellent menu system where
you can look at files in subdirectories, etc. Miles ahead of
competing products. I own 1 and gave 1 as a gift to my sister. I think the other
reviewers are wrong about compability. I write all sorts of
CDR's and CDRW's written from Windows and Linux, and I have no
compatibility problems. The problem is, sometimes there are
hardware problems where the player just can not load the disk.
This just happens to have to do with where it needs to read the
disk, because it "sometimes" happens with different disks of the
same exact type. With these same problematic disks, sometimes it
works ok and sometimes not. Usually I can get things to work
by squeezing the player "the right way". I'm not kidding. I think the button layout is excellent. Yes, the buttons are very
small. Yes, you can click the wrong button by accident before
you get used to it. However, this is about the best layout
possible to get all those functions into a very small controller,
and it is very easy to operate with one hand. I don't use the PC software at all because it runs only on
Windows. I write my MP3 CDs from Windows and Linux using various
MP3 and Burner programs and that works fine. If you are not
married to Windows and are comparing this to non-CD MP3 players,
keep in mind that you must use Windows for iRiver's non-CD MP3
players. The battery life is also good (not as good as some other players,
but good). Other reviewers must have timed their players before
the batteries were "broken in" or something, because I have a
2 hour work commute and am certain that my batteries last
according to iRiver's specs.
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