Because sir_ophiuchus whined about it...
... This is my new mp3 player. It is decent, except for a few features:
Otherwise, it is a most excellent mp3 player. The wireless LAN thing works within an astonishing range (while in my back garden, twenty feet away on the x-axis and fifteen away on the y-axis), it played Cosmic Jam perfectly well. The built-in speaker is powerful, and the quality requires me to set the volume to 15. And it can still be heard by other people. The buttons seem a bit unresponsive, but that's not much of a bother. Though the fact that it gets so greasy so fast (like a black DS does, and for the same reason) does detract from the aesthetics of it.
... Yes, I'm slightly proud. It's the first thing I've bought with my own money that's more than €60.
Also, I'm buying a flash card for it tomorrow. Thinking 4GB, for some anime and pics.
- For a start, the built-in MSN messenger thing doesn't allow for underscores. Those who know my MSN address know that it has a rather prominent underscore. So, woo.
- The buttons do NOT, in fact, act like a phone's keypad. They do, instead, act as cursor keys. Use them to put the cursor on the correct button on the screen, then hit the middle button to select the correct letter. And they put a MESSENGING CLIENT into this.
- The shuffle feature is very... dodge. Occasionally, it'll play the same track again, even though, when I hit back, then forward, it doesn't do it again. Essentially, the shuffle plays the track again like a CD skipped. Which is odd.
- Speaking of going back, the shuffle is pre-determined. If a song plays, hitting next goes to the next song. With my old mp3 player, hitting back would take you to a different song, and hitting next would do the same. It was an adventure, which prompted philisophical musings about uncertainty! Now, hitting the back takes you back to the last track, and hitting next takes you to the same track. Essentially, you can listen to a song, go to the next, then hit back to listen to the previous song, then next to listen to the same next song, etc. It's not bad, as such. It just seems like a pointless change from the old, random shuffle.
- If you try to shut it down while it's playing, it takes about half a minute to shut down. If you've stopped the track (by pressing Pause, then Back to go to the beginning of the track, which changes the Pause icon to a Stop icon. Yes, Creative mp3 players don't have a stop button), then try, it shuts down faster. My old one would shut down within five seconds, whether music was playing or not. Also, the screen didn't start flickering like a tape with tracking.
Otherwise, it is a most excellent mp3 player. The wireless LAN thing works within an astonishing range (while in my back garden, twenty feet away on the x-axis and fifteen away on the y-axis), it played Cosmic Jam perfectly well. The built-in speaker is powerful, and the quality requires me to set the volume to 15. And it can still be heard by other people. The buttons seem a bit unresponsive, but that's not much of a bother. Though the fact that it gets so greasy so fast (like a black DS does, and for the same reason) does detract from the aesthetics of it.
... Yes, I'm slightly proud. It's the first thing I've bought with my own money that's more than €60.
Also, I'm buying a flash card for it tomorrow. Thinking 4GB, for some anime and pics.