mp3 player music

1. ( 0 of 51 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 21 2008

   there is no clip.. which would be a lot easier for working out. the sound quality is bad. it's nice that there is a radio and it automatically sets the presets, but still, the sound quality is bad and i even used sony walkman earphones. the ipod is Much better. the only good thing about this is that u can just plug it to the computer w/o using wires, it's small, has a radio, and it has a display for such a tiny mp3 player. however, i would not buy this again, i'm thinking about getting the ipod nano or shuffle because i just need to be able to clip it to my shirt or pants when i work out.

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1. Posted: Mar 21 2008

   I have had two of these for about a year now. In that time, I've discovered these issues: 1. The Fireball PC software used to manage your music from a PC or Mac is kludgy, slow, and unreliable. I have never been able to get it to run without crashing on my iMac running Leopard. Escient claims it works on an iMac, but it doesn't, in my experience. (And I am running a brand new iMac purchased in December of 2007). As a result, I have to run the Escient PC software on a Windows PC rather than a Mac. 2. If you are used to music player software like iTunes, Escient's PC software will drive you nuts because it is so slow and crude. It feels like it was designed in 1996 and has never been usability tested or updated since. For example, there is no way to simply play all songs by an artist--which you can easily do in iTunes or Windows Media Player. With Escient's software, to queue up all the songs in your collection by an artist, you must first add all the artist's songs to a playlist, and then play that. For guests at your house who want to simply hear music by one artist, it's a perplexing, counter intuitive process. Also, the PC user interface is often very slow to load and refresh. (I am running it in a house that is wired throughout with gigabit switches and cabling.) 3. Escient playlists will not hold more than 500 songs. 4. When playing songs in a playlist, I found that the playlists often stop playing for no apparent reason. 5. With the PC software used to manage and play music from your computer, there is no way to scroll through albums and songs. Instead, you have to use a page down button, which only moves you through about six albums or songs. Because there is no way to scroll through your music library, it's a huge pain navigating extensive music collections using the PC software. I have contacted Escient about this, and they said they do not have an update to the PC software planned. Oddly, you can scroll through music when using the TV version of Escient's software. It's just that the scroll functionality is missing on the PC. 6. On the upside, Escient is extremely quick to get back to you when you contact them with support questions. I've contacted them about all the problems above. Unfortunately, the responses I have gotten to most of these issues is either that's just the way it is, or it's a bug in the software that Escient has not fixed. That or they involve complicated workarounds that defeat the purpose of installing a user-friendly system for managing and playing your music collection.

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1. Posted: Aug 30 2008

   i've tried sony, philips, zune and this little player sounds the best. for me the worst was sony then philips and then zune. with equalizer at normal setting, express accurately reproduces audio files. it sounds natural not like sony (2g nwz series)which sounds artificial. haven't tried ipod but express would definitely satisfy even the most discriminating audiophile.

2. Posted: Aug 26 2008

   I bought this knowing nothing about them and expecting it to be complicated to use. WRONG! I just put it into my USB drive, let the computer find it as "new hardware", and began moving my MP3 files to it. Done! I did read the little book to make sure I understood how to navigate between the MP3s - but that took all of 5 minutes. I am so impressed by this that my business partner and I are going to put all our teleseminar recordings onto these and sell them to our clients as well as attendees at an upcoming state-wide event! I highly recommmend this product!

3. Posted: Jul 30 2008

   The product is of great quality and reasonably priced. However, I later saw other Sandisk items on sale, so I would probably have gotten those if I had known.

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