iRiver H10 - Remix Blue MP3 Player

great piece of machinery...

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 27, 2005 | 8 out of 9 found this iRiver H10 - Remix Blue review helpful

Pros: FM radio, Pictures, Sound Quality

Cons: (relatively) slow scroll speed, earphones aren't amazing

Its simply awesome. But my one qualm is that when you have 18 gigs of music on here by tons of artists, and you're searching through artists to get the one you are looking for, it takes a short while to get to the middle of the alphabet. They cou...ld have made the scroll speed a bit faster (despite already giving you options to speed it up). Of course you can go from Z to A, or A to Z, but it just takes a few seconds when you're trying to get to L. Otherwise, its a fine piece of machinery. Recording from the radio is superb (with control of audio quality)(and the fact that this feature is included is a plus). Voice recording is clutch! You can remind yourself to fix the ID3 tags of certain songs. Or anything else you want to record (I thought about recording numbers from a Modest Mouse concert, but I left my H10 at work.) The touch pad is nice, but in all reality, all you reeeeallly need is up and down. Which is fine because it serves the same function. My last thing, perhaps, is that the earphones that come with it are not bad, but nothing amazing. Obviously they need to save on costs somewhere because the whole thing is so inexpensive (I got mine on sale from best buy for 250, plus tax, so 270). At least they're not white headphones!! Someone mentioned this in this in their review, but you no longer have to graze in the fields with the other ipod sheep. The first thing I did was use my old better headphones, without giving the original ones much of a chance. For maximum efficiency... I suggest taking a few hours out of every day for a week or two before ordering one, organizing all of your music files, and fixing their ID3 tags and file names so you dont load double music onto your iriver. It was the best thing I could have ever don,e and very rewarding. Read more Less