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(More customer reviews)My Archos 20GB died after more than two years and being dropped one too many times... So, after too many moments of silence, I started looking for a replacement that was sturdier --> and less than $200. Fortunately, iRiver ended this nightmare quest for me. After buying and returning nine different alleged mp3 devices this weekend, I'm keeping this one.
The iGP-100 is in the same price range as much smaller Flash players (including iRiver's own Flash products, which seems odd). It's got everything I want, except expandability, but at a gig-and-a-half I ain't complainin'... and it's less than 1/4 of the weight of that darn Archos brick.
The iGP-100 doesn't come with any extras besides the charger and some earbuds I'll never use. A sports arm-band would have been nice, though! Lifting weights with it is going to be awkward until I find one that fits.
Windows XP treats the iGP-100 like a removable drive and no funky software is required to drop WMA files on it and start jammin'. In fact, it doesn't seem to come with any software besides drivers for obsolete operating systems, which is cool and probably kept the price down. Windows Media Player 9.0 does everything else a guy (or gal) could need with regards to music management. We hates Music Match, yesss, we do, so not seeing it was bliss.
Within 120 seconds of opening the package, I had copied eight (8) CDs worth of 64kpbs WMA (three CDs of Creed, four CDs of Nickelback, and the entire soundtracks from XXX, Scorpion King and Daredevil) onto it and was rockin' with 1.1GB still free on the player. The USB 2.0 is very cool after suffering with every other slow USB 1.1 player I bought and returned this weekend...
The quasi-jog-dial navigation could be better, but I'll get used to it. Lot's of wandering into the system menu by accident to start with... The whole "long click" or jog-dial thing isn't something I'm used to. And one could wish for replaceable batteries of a standard type, just in case, but not with this one.
A slightly smaller, squarer form factor would be ideal... the roundness is a little awkward.
Nevertheless, the iGP-100 beat out both of the RCA Lyra players (they have great XP driver support and SD expandability but no way to organize/play music in folders -- I don't want to listen to 500 songs on random repeat, that's as bad as the radio), the iRiver 256MB Flash player (requires funky software and doesn't act like Flash drive), anything by Sonic Blue (I returned both the Rio Chiba and the Rio Cali == junk), the TDK Mojo 256 (in spite of good technical support and customer service, it's junk -- it ate the contents of my favorite SD card full of tunez and spat them out and does *not* act like Flash drive) and anything by Mpio (they seem to use the same junk software and firmware as TDK and their English, well, it isn't).
All in all, I'm tired of standin' in the return line and I've tried all the other < $200 alternatives already, so the iGP-100 is the one I'm keepin'.
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