PNY E-Commerce 1GB VIBE MP3 PLAYER FM TUNER W/ ( P-DAFD01GU11-RF )

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, however, buy the 512 MB
Review: Excellent product. Easy to use and lots of useful functions. Please note that you should be aware of converting your music Cds into MP3 or WMA files and you also must have a computer with a working USB port.
I have owned the 512 MB and now the 1 GB. I highly recommend the 512 MB as the 1 GB only offers an additional 227 MB of storage space for your data (723 MB total). The boys at PNY are working on this problem so buy 512 MB that offers 496 MB total. Also the 512 MB is an executive looking black unit while the 1GB is pasty white in color (yuck!).
Hope this helps.



Rating:
Summary: Doesn't seem to play WMAs despite what PNY says
Review: I have about 20 or so WMA music files that
have digital rights management on them. These
files play fine on a Gateway mp3 player but not on the
PNY Vibe 1GB. So this means I have to burn the WMAs
into an audio CD, and then rip the songs from the
CD into MP3s. What a pain. PNY's tech support hasn't
responded.

Unlike the previous reviewer, I am able to use the
full 1 Gbyte capacity. There appears to a limit to how
many files can be put into a single folder. I just create
multiple folders. In two folders I have about 125 songs each.
The Vibe can play through each mp3 song across all folders
with no problem.

The navigation takes a little while to learn.

If you don't need WMA support, then whenever you can get this
on sale, it is a good deal.

Rating:
Summary: Nice design, good sound, fatal flaw
Review: It's a nice unit - small, light and it sounds very good. Why, however, have a 1 GB unit that only allows 255 entries? Try as you might - once you hit 255 entries (folder names and filenames each count as an entry) you can not add another song no matter how much memory you have left. I have 256 meg left and my unit can not accept any more songs.
Let's hope PNY comes up with a firmware fix.
Customer Service for this unit does not exist - only a FAQ which does not address this issue.