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10 Mar, 2018
on the whole very good vfm
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!