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Summary: Best MP3 Jukebox Currently on Market
Review: I purchased the D-Link Roq-it two months ago. It worked flawlessly until I found the screen flickering and the unit unable to work properly. After sending back the product D-Link replaced my battery and I have had no problems since. While I have heard of other problems, this is a very functional unit: using a 10 GB IBM Travelstar 2.5" laptop hard drive and 2 MB buffer it plays thousands of tracks without skipping. The player has an IR remote (like your TV) for home use and a 5 hour Li-ion battery for portable use. The unit has both line out and headphone jacks and fast USB 1.1 800 k/s transfer. The unit has a bright, large LCD to display ID3 track information and can be used as a portable hard drive. Unfortunately it is as large as a CD player and has good sound quality but poor bass response. This player, however, beats all on the market as of 4/1/02. Here is why:Archos players: Ni-cd batteries, no true line out, small LCD.
Creative players: Ni-cd batteries, poorly designed, no hard drive functionality.
Ipod: less memory, Mac compatible only.
Treo: no hard drive functionality, dim backlight, no ID3 support.
XP3: same as Treo You be the judge. You'll find smaller players, but none as functional as the D-Link Roq-it 10 GB.
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Summary: Waste of Money
Review: I purchased this for my son when this was a new item. There had been nothing but trouble with this ever since. The unit shuts itself down before the battery is dead and then the unit doesn't turn itself off! Finally, it has the equivalent of hard drive crashes once every 5 times you use it. Save your money and buy something else. Finally, like some other reviewers stated, they do not own up to their warranty.
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Summary: Waste of Money
Review: I purchased this for my son when this was a new item. There had been nothing but trouble with this ever since. The unit shuts itself down before the battery is dead and then the unit doesn't turn itself off! Finally, it has the equivalent of hard drive crashes once every 5 times you use it. Save your money and buy something else. Finally, like some other reviewers stated, they do not own up to their warranty.
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Summary: This is the most incredible MP3 player on the market.
Review: I recently purchased this D-LINK 10GB USB mp3 player and can only say good things about it. Before I purchased this specific player I had a D-LINK 32MB mp3 player that performed perfectly. I decided to invest a good amount of money into another D-LINK product and I can only say good things. Use of the player is very easy. Its a drag and drop format. Of course having two thousand MP3's as I do, organization is a major issue. All I had to do was organize my mp3's into different folders. For example, I had 7 folders. ROCK, R&B, CLASSICAL, JAZZ, ITALIAN MUSIC, FOREIGN, 70'S etc. etc. All you need to do is open up a folder and fing your song. The sound of the player is amazing. What more could you want?? I would say that the only bad thing about the player is that it looks like the first release of the Nintendo Gameboy. Its ugly, plain and simple. If you have a lot of mp3's and you like to travel (without taking your laptop with you) get this player. Do NOT get the ARCHOS just because it "looks better". It may look much better but the reliability of the D-LINK is unsurpassed. TECH support is A++. My advice: if you have money to spend on a 6GB-20GB mp3 player GET THIS ONE!! (DON'T BE FOOLED BY ITS UGLY APPEARENCE!!)
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Summary: Brilliant sound and simple to use
Review: I trolled the net trying to learn more about this player before taking the plunge, but am shocked by how WELL this machine works. I find its size entirely reasonable considering that I can store 150 CDs on it. I would suggest vigorously organizing your music on this hard drive using your PC. Once in a directory, you can set it to play at random. By doing this, this unit becomes your own radio station. To think that I was considering paying the Audi folks for a CD changer for my car!
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Summary: Best bang for the buck, works great, mega space
Review: I was a little uncertain when I purchased this as DLINK is a networking company and the product was just released. However, it works great. Sound is good. Scrap the cheap headphones it comes with though. Battery life is good. USB setup is a no-brainer and you are off and to the races. The unit is much lighter than expected(and the arcos model that I bought and returned). The screen is also a lot larger and better than the archos unit. I have taken the unit in my backpack cycling, on a motorcycle, in the car and carried while working out with no issues at all. 10GB for around $200 is finally here. My only minor gripe is that the play button isn't embedded enough and can sometimes be tapped through the carrying case. I would recommend this item though!!!
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Summary: doesn't contain conversion software
Review: I've always wanted all of my 100 or so cd's on one player. I couldn't findan XP friendly device until i came across this thing. It is designed to work as both an mp3 player and a USB hard drive. The mp3 function did not work. Fortunately for others, the mp3 function didn't work because I had to use the worst music software in the world... (GASP)... RealJukebox. That is the only reason why the mp3 playing function didn't work. The contols looked confusing, and d-Link could have improved the design by more than just the device's bulk (it was quite large). The hard drive function, however, works to perfection. The major flaw is that it doesn't come with ripping software, so you will need MusicMatch 6.0 or 7.0 to do anything good with it.
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Summary: Good Jukebox
Review: I've had the RoqIt for about two months now. Most of the time it worked fine, but it would also to lock up, skip and generally mess up every so often. Then one day one of the connectors to the battery fell off and I sent it back under warranty to get it repaired. Now it is much better. I use it as a portable radio station while I'm driving with it on random and it is great. It sounds like they have a problem with the power connectors to the battery, but they repair it with no problems. Recommended.
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Summary: Not so great
Review: It seemed to be a really good MP3 player when we first got it, but now after only 2 months, it keeps locking up. Couldn't register it with D-Link because there's no serial number on the back. They tell us to try sending it back to ...them.
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Summary: A professional musician's viewpoint
Review: Just a few points for those musicians out there thinking to start playing their backing tracks with an mp3 player (I've been using mini disks for years.) The fact that the player can be set to leave the back light on if you want is a real plus. While you're playing back your tracks, as they're playing you can see all at once: artist, album, title, total time and elapsed time. One point, I found that after I converted my wave files to mp3 ( with MM Jukebox) I had to put in "00" or a track number (must hit the "apply" button and the "OK" button) in the track number of the mp3 tag to get it to display properly. Another thing I like is that the external power supply is very small, probably the smallest "wall wart" I've ever used. If you need to use play lists what you do is create them in MusicMatch and save. Then you go to the directory where they are saved and copy them to the player (they have to be in the root directory). When you access them in the player it shows that it is "parsing" your list and then you can use it. The controls are very easy to use on the job ( I am a keyboard player). The only thing I could wish for is the ability to "auto pause" after every tune so I wouldn't have to stop it by hand. As to sound: I find it to be very good. It doesn't have the bass boost that my Nomad Jukebox has, but that really only matters for headphone listening. And with good phones it's not bad. Also, unlike some mp3 players it plays back all CBR and VBR rates except mp3pro, which I assume could be added via firmware upgrade later. (I've experimented with mp3 pro and am not certain how useful it would be to me. I don't think it sounds better, but it does make for smaller files.)
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