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 Money works! I returned Olympus WS-321M Voice recorder. November 4, 2008
This is my review update.
I was looking for something which has line-in recording with mp3 play. Most of mp3 players don't have line-in recoding. So I bought Olympus WS-321M voice recorder(Linein recoding.) It works great for voice recording but not good for line-in music recording.
After long research, finally I decided Iriver E100 for Line-in recording and mp3 play. It works great much better than Olympus WS-321M voice recorder(Linein recoding). I returned WS-321M when I have Iriver E100.
Pro: with $99.99
1. Line-in recording - you can hook up a headphone jack and record any sound from speaker specailly music or performance. recoring time is long enough. tape recorder has time limit 30min or 1 hour.
Ex, When I rocord music performance, I record sound and video seperately to make better. Sound recoding is done with Iriver E100 and edit with Video. It gives great result. Most music recorders are expensive.
2. External speaker - many mp3 pleyers don't have. Volume is not very loud but good enough for a person hearing. sometime, I don't want to use a earphone. It gives an ear pain.
3. Small and lighter Video Play - I like it. It converts and plays all my music videos and movies without a problem.
4. Radio, Voice recoding, 8GB Memory (ex, WS-321M has 1GB)
Con:
1. Plastic button and menu control. - Could have better material than plastic button. Menu control is not familiar with other product users. But after 1 day use, It's O.K. for me
2. USB power - should have regular A.C. adapter.
For me this is the best choice. With $99.99 I got what I want.
For me, money works I am happy now.
Iriver e100 review October 18, 2008
Fantastic value given the the features. Been using it for a few days and very please with the performance. Very light unit as well. Fantastic sound as well. A very simple device to use. No freezing unlike the Sansa 16gb player.
Definitely recommend it. 5 out of 5
 Buy another August 8, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought the iriver e100 2 weeks ago because I couldn't find the clix in Japan and the nano was $60 more. Well I wishh I spent the extra $60 already. If you have lots of music to transfer into the E100, iriver plus 3 handles it poorly; you must either select all or go through your collection song by song checking off boxes. I first used WMP which was easier but the music had chirps throughout loud & high pitched enough to cause me to wince. After a few days of this I reformatted the player and reloaded my music without media player (though I don't know for sure WMP was the problem) Using the packaged software there is no way to select whole albums, if you have thousands of songs in your collection this can be a real pain. The loud ear popping chirping is somewhat subdued now(I still do get some) but overall I'm fairly unsatisfied. The player itself is nothing special; unresponsive to commands as other reviews state and sound quality fairly tinny. Not the worlds worst player but you certainly can do better for the price...
 false hope July 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This thing is slow,I should have waited for reviews before buying it.It would be alright if it were a $40 dollar player.I listen to audio books and if you loose your place it takes forever to fast foreword.Buy if it gets cheap.
A "good little average" media player. June 6, 2008
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
Let me start this review by saying that I'm an above average user who has used a plethora of media players out there, so my reference point maybe a little different from yours.
This is a little device (See posted photo in user images) similar to the size of a credit card. It comes in many colors, so choice of color should not be a problem. I bought the black one, which is made in a matte plastic, which I am very satisfied with. Leaves fingerprints on the black surface, but doesn't really standout as the unit is not polished to a high gloss. The player is also extremely light, much lighter than any of the competitors (iPod Nano, Sandisk Sansa). This lightness maybe preferred by many users, but I find it too light (Forgetting its with you, and almost loaded it into the washing machine; also feels a bit cheap because of its weight).
I primarily bought this device for its built in speaker, to listen to audio books. Unfortunately, the speaker has quite poor volume (Nothing compared to the competing Samsung S5 or K5). But the iriver is a genius with file formats, and plays many formats, surprisingly plays 700mb, video files encoded with xvid (video) and mp3 (audio) quite smoothly. In addition to this it play Windows Media Audio / Video, Avi's (Xvid Compressed), Mp3's, BMP's, JPG's, PNG's, Text and more. It also has a full range FM tuner that allows 20 presets, which is a great feature. One of the best features the E100 has is the fact that it can record FM, Voice, and Line in Directly to its internal memory, and saves it in WMA format. Using a headset I recorded a 1 hour audio lecture of unmatched quality, and later edited on the PC for the sections I wanted out.
There are many reviews that oppose the navigational buttons on the E100 (Left and right buttons control settings and back to main menu functions, while up and down control the track / video / photo forward or backward). Though this is unorthodox the navigational "D" menu took me a day to master, and can be controlled quite easily after this initial learning. It is not at all complicated, though menus require a lot of clicks left and right to get what you are trying to do.
The expandable memory slot is an advantage and a easy way to upgrade this player to double its capacity via cheap micro sd cards. The problem here is that files on the micro sd are not read in the database for browsing by track, artist, album etc, but has to be accessed rather crudely through a file manager. I have used a 4gb micro sd with no problems. Keep this memory for adding lengthy movies, where you may store 5 - 6 full length movies that are easy to access on this media. The player can be used as a portable hard drive (Obviously). Battery life was quite good, though the bad news is that this player comes with no wall charger and must be charged via a PC or Mac's USB port (Powered of course). I use my iPhone's charger to charge this device (USB Charger with 5 volts output with 1 Amp total output).
The audio quality on the headphones is quite decent, but the speaker is definitely weak and unpronounced. Only listening to the device on full volume in a dead silent room gives you a semi decent listening experience. The good thing here is that many problems have been fixed via firmware upgrades provided by iriver, which I have got 3 times already since purchase in April. Hopefully they will address the speaker volume in the next update. One of the worse features of the device is the fact that the screen is terrible. It is sufficient for mp3 menu options, but falls far short for photo and video options. When in portrait mode the screen is clear, but when used in landscape mode (For photos and videos) the screen gets inadvertently polarized and produces poor and unclear photos.
The iriver e100 is a decent media player, but by no means the best. It has good features and poor ones as well. It could have been a great media player had there not been so many mistakes. Yet I believe that many entry level media player buyers will enjoy this player, as well as some advanced users (Due to advanced recording functions / file support), though the large chunk of the middle spectrum will be unhappy with the many quirks. I have used better players and worse ones as well. The iPod nano is still a heavy weight in its class, though for users looking to break away from the iPod and iTunes bundle, and jazz up their player with FM, Recording, Direct MP3, Photo, Text and Video and a speaker - at a lower price than the iPod, the iriver makes sense. This player is a jack of all trades, but master of none.
Pros:
Color Options
Lightweight
Multiple Files Supported
FM Tuner
Frequent Firmware Upgrades
Integrated Speaker
Line In / Mic In / FM Recording
Micro SD Expandable
Direct Copy without conversions
Cons:
Plastic Body
Poor Screen
Speaker Volume
No Charger Provided (USB Charging Only)
Micro SD Browsing Complexity
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