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Firmware and Headphones have been improved
A few reviews need updating. Archos have been listening to their customers!* The headphones shipped with the product have been changed; they are of similar design but much better quality and have a volume control. * The firmware (the jukeboxs operating system) is updated! It is bug free and easier to use. The Archos Jukebox is good in fact its very good. It is a combination of 2 devices that naturally go together. There is an mp3 player and a USB hard disk. Once plugged in it appears as an extra drive on your computer, music and data files are copied across in the usual windows interface. Files can be transferred to other computers very easily, windows recognised the drive as soon as it is plugged in and installs it automatically. The music player is easy to use and high quality. Its only direct competition is the DAP suitcase which may have marginally better sound quality but is huge, lacks the hard disk functions and has half the battery life of the Archos. There are smaller, better portable hard disks around AND there are smaller, better sounding mp3 players available but none achieve both with the quality the Archos Jukebox does.
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Impressive
There is no doubt about it the Archos 6000 is an impressive piece of kit. It is a lot smaller than I expected and very easy to use. The manual is basic in the extreme but it is enough to get you going, and you can find a lot of online reviews which tell you all about the firmware fixes. For instance to change the volume press the "+" or "-" buttons at the same time as pressing the "on" button. The USB transfer of music file is fast and painless but it does eat batteries in this mode so make sure you have the DC adapter in when you initially transfer your music collection. My only point of contention with the device is with the current firmware which does not allow you to play random tracks across sub-directories but this seems to be a common gripe and hopefully a firmware upgrade will fix this. All in all this is the best high storage mp3 player I have seen, the fact that it doubles as a portable hard disk is just icing on the cake!
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Happy (mostly!)
Like: Massive storage, quality sound, loud with bud-style headphones, highly portable, no skips (yet!), fast transfer from PC, can store any dataDislike: No remote (pain), hard-disk contents mysteriously vanished on first use (had to reformat it - luckily only had a few tracks, hasnt happened since I fully charged the batteries), Playlists only work if theyre in the same directory as the tracks - cant span multiple directories... Overall: great product, even better if Archos release a remote and keep the firmware updates coming...
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Sony D-CJ01 Silver MP3 CD Walkman
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P>This Sony is really great... I got it earlier today and its played all the MP3s Ive thrown at it perfectly. The size, sound and build quality are great, and it does NOT skip! It lacks some features which were cool on the Rio - m3u/winamp playlist support, memories for the last 10 discs used, upgra..
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Rio Volt SP250 MP3 CD Player
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The Rio Volt SP250 is a neat, portable digital-audio CD player which handles MP3 and WMA tracks as well as standard audio CDs. It includes an FM tuner, too. Portable MP3 players have been around for a while and CD-based Walkman-style devices much longer than that, but a player which combines the two is more of a novelty. Rio Volts SP250 is the top model in a range of digital audio players which aims to play just about anything you drop into it. This is a versatile device. For a start, it can ..
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Logix EVzone Clik Mp3 Player
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The Logix Clik certainly isnt the smallest or lightest MP3 player you can find, but then it does much more than most digital music players. As well as playing MP3 and Windows Media files (WMA), this chunky silver player lets you record on the move, carry an address book (download it as CSV), check the date and time and copy files to and from the 40 MB of storage you get. And when thats full, you can either delete files using the eVzone Manager software, or pop in another Iomega Clik! disk and us..
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Saehan MP-F35 MP3 Player
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Its small, its light, its shiny and the brushed aluminium case of the Saehan MP-F35 MP3 Player contains more than just a music player. The play controls are arranged in a neat circle on the front of the player, with an LCD that shows what tune youre playing and what quality it was encoded at, as well as the volume, battery life and which function youre using. There are more controls on the side for using the radio, the voice recorder and the memo tools and a helpful reminder of what you can do o..
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Waitec Funky MP3 CD Player
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Very funky as its name suggests. A very resonably priced item for what you get at the end of the day. With its MP3 Tag recogintion it makes a mcuh better peurchase that the Jammin MP3 CD player offered by waitec, the extra features are well worth paying the extra for. Easy to use and navigate with a..
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