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the player supports m3u playlists and includes audiobook, podcast and fm radio capability and some 'sport' user features. I haven't used the earphones as I bought the unit for someone else. Build quality is quite flimsy and I doubt it would take being sat on or trodden on very well. the controls aren't very robust & I wonder how long it will last in a rough-and-tumble realworld environment. The advertised battery life is excellent although who knows if it will achieve anything like the advertised rate without setting all the power controls to their most economical & stingy settings. The unit has 'ReplayGain' technology which is 1 of the main reasons I bought it. A bit like AppleSoundCheck, it allows the volume of individual tracks to be normalised across a playlist by means of a tag - even if their recording levels are different, without changing or re-writing the recording. I find ReplayGain effective about 90% of the time across mixed media - downloads, ripped mp3s from cd and digitised LPs. A neat feature I haven't tried out is the support for using an additional widely-available cellfone-like memory card to boost the amount of content the unit can handle. That means the built-in 8gb can be hugely augmented by adding a card, or a selection of different cards. Only 1 memory card can be used at once, but don't see that as a problem. The controls are a bit customisable, so u can deselect the display of features u don't use. The only 2 or 3 downsides are: * the screen is v lo-res, especially compared to my nano, tho it does support albumart. * the track listings use a horrid large granular font and the list shows the recording filename, not the tag detail. Strangely tho, the 'Now Playing' info uses a far more legible font and uses the tag info. * The track listing info truncates long filenames quite excessively, so it can be difficult to navigate to the song u want if you use a dukebox-like storage strategy like me (all titles stored in 1 directory). Probably ok if u store stuff in folders and subfolders for artist, album. * the 'Now Playing' info truncates extra-long info strings for artist name, track & album names * building m3u playlists is a bit of a chore and not very intuitive, tho contrary to the buzz in forums online, it is do-able and it does work. I used foobar2000 with a couple of foobar addins and it worked out ok, but it didn't like using the same content in different playlists so I had to resort to some manual editing after building the initial lists, so I could include the same content in multiple playlists. All-in-all, seems like a great little unit for the price/performance point & so far I'd be happy to recommend as a full-featured inexpensive unit for the ordinary user. Get 1 4 ur gran!Read full review
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This is very easy to use . The radio is very good very clear no his The menu system is great the screen is readable and has adjustable brightness . So many little features . But sadly let down by an annoying prompt to tell you the volume will damage your ears if you progress to hi with the control . Well all I can say is what ever headphones I've tried in it ,inc the supplied ones . There is no chance whatsoever to damage your ears with this on full volume even with the gain setting all the way to 12 it's only listenable if your lying in bed or a quiet place . So the only way around this is to record your files at very hi volume levels . It's a real pity . But it's usable . And would recommend it for people who listen to music very quietly .
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The Clip works well, is almost weightless and makes it easy to carry a huge amount of recorded sound. It feels a bit flimsier compared to older models and the "shuffle" feature which puts this as the first option in any album is irritating for those of us who listen to things in order. But this is a minor niggle.
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Great device, really impressive sound quality for such a small device, very easy to use and upload songs, very light so ideal for sports but good build quality. Best I can say is that I bought 3 for my kids and will buy another for my wife after using the product.
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I have been using this MP3 player for the past week or so every day and the battery goes on and on with only one charge, it's great. Sound quality is good and it easy to put your music on. The SD card facility is a added bonus to this great little thing. My brother told me not to buy a cheep MP3 player as the sound quality will be poor and the battery will not last long. This was a good price and does all I want it to do. I would strongly recommend this product.
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