portable music players

Šarūnas sarunas at mail.saabnet.com
Fri Oct 3 11:20:51 EDT 2008


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Travis Roy wrote:
>> Meizu M3 Music Card. Plays OGG, FLAC and a variety of other audio
>> formats. "Appears" as USB storage, where audio files can be simply
>> copied to.
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/02/meizus-m3-music-card-unboxed
> 
> Have you used one of these? A former coworker got an "iPod knockoff".
> It looked great, had some great features and seemed solid.
I own M3 8GB for 1.5--2 years by now I think. Don't use too often
though, only while on a bus/plane.

> Until after about a month. The headphone jack broke. He managed to
> open it up to take a look since it was useless anyway. The inside was
> substandard. Bad solder joints, crappy plastic. That's what ended up
> being the problem. The headphone jack wiggled lose on the inside and
> basically snapped off the board.
Nothing has broken/gone bad so far. Didn't have a chance to take a look
inside :) Exterior quality is inferior to that of an iPod, IMO.

> I'd be careful. I like looking for deals to, but with something that
> gets banged up like portable music players do, it might be worth it to
> go name brand, or at least that's been around long enough to have a
> bunch of people use it.
I have skimmed through http://www.meizume.com forums before buying and
wasn't scared away. Plays OGG, mounts via USB, no management software
required, small, laconic design --- those were the criteria in my case.

Šarūnas



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