Cowon D2+ 8 GB MP3 Player (Black)

by Cowon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001UHOBRU
• Item model number: D2P-08BL
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,610 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Video and audio player with FM tuner, voice recorder, and text and photo viewer 2.5-inch, 24-bit QVGA (320 x 240) touchscreen LCD with 16 million colors Up to 52 hours of music playback (10 hours of video) on one charge SD/SDHC/MMC/MMC-plus card memory expansion DRM-protected content and BBE+ support What's in the Box Cowon D2+ (Black), stylus, earphones, USB cable, Quick Guide, installation CD.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Audiobook Player- mid size version, April 24, 2009

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S. Carpaccio (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowon D2+ 8 GB MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

This is the best audiobook player. I also have an Ipod 80GB Classic and had a Zen Vision M. It leaves both for dead.
- superb sound quality.
- excellent bookmark function- 256 bookmarks. It returns to the bookmark and continues to the follwing tracks (unlike Zen which just stops, as do many other players, and windows mobile players).
- the touch screen is very nifty and the smart menus pop up nicely. Navigation quickly became intuitive.
- the standard folder structure makes loading books and tracks very simple. I am over Itunes and do not miss it.
- 16GB or 8GB or 4GB of internal memory, then an SD slot which means you can have as many SD cards as you want. bookmarks work on the current SD card no worries.
- excellent for music albums.
- the video function works well when I test it, although I am not interested in using it routinely.

If you're looking for the best portable audiobook player, you've found it. But if you just want to listen to audiobooks on your computer get ViddyMP3 for free. Or if you want to tinker get Rockbox free software for various portable players. I think the D2 is great for music too as its sound is clearly superior to Ipod and Zen to even my untrained ear.

It does not do playlists, but really who needs them? I mainly used to use them to work around Itunes bugs.(maybe I like compilation albums, but I can just compile a folder of MP3's any way I like).

Wishlist- on the fly erase & click for more details on the bookmarks (but still the best for bookmarks), playlists (OK already).

Tips- use the stylus supplied for navigating the touch screen.
- when you first ever turn it on, be careful as the first thing you do is set language and I accidentally clicked Korean!! It took a while to return it to English, ha ha.
- If you're not sure just buy the 4GB Black version [...], and later expand it with an SD card.

Note that Cowon also make the S9 which I have not seen. It is more expensive and uses a different screen technology.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of everything, but!, July 11, 2009

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William Webster "disgusted" (Scarsdale, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cowon D2+ 8 GB MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

I have many Cowon products. To name a few. The D2+ and a D2 16gb. I have
an A7 16gb and a A7 8gb. Lastly, I have 3 8 gb U5's. I will cut right to the chase! For sound and other on-board excessories (radio reception, battery life, expansion capability and picture capability) you can do all the searching and exploring you want, Cowon blows all other MP3 players totally away. Lastly, it is so easy to drag and drop files and folders!

Ok! Here comes what is completley horrible concerning Cowon's Marketing!

1. The Manual has just got to go and be rewritten in order a person can
see the directions and understand them.

2. Customer Service might as well be on Mars, they are unreachable by e-mail or by phone.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bought this because of Audible compatability...(update), February 28, 2010

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D. Brayton (Portage, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cowon D2+ 8 GB MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

...And it won't bloody well play my Audible files 0- out of the box...

I would like to love this player. I could totally deal with the almost entirely useless manual, the lousy support site and the somewhat complicated navigation, if only I could play my audible books. The sound on this thing is absolutely incredible. I am not an audiophile, but this player could totally turn me into one.

Unfortunately, the primary use I make of an mp3 player, is listening to audiobooks. And while the bulk of my collection consists of mp3 audiobooks, I also have several from Audible. I am not terribly keen on the idea of converting Audible books to DRM free mp3, because the only conversion software that will convert has to convert in real time - which means that a 27 hour audiobook takes 27 hours to convert. Besides which, I really like the sync to my audible manager, which allows me to listen to the books on both my computer and player, while keeping my place in the book.

After wandering through several google hits, I finally found a forum that was able to explain how to fix the problem. Apparently what you need to do is format the drive with windows and then install the latest firmware update ([...]). I am glad that I don't have to send this player back - at the same time this player is not terribly user friendly right off the bat. There are no indications on Cowon's website that you need to format the drive before installing the firmware update, nor are there any indications of the problems with Audible. And the instruction manual is a joke - I was only able to figure the player out through trial and error.

Finally, a hint for those who will be using this player for audiobooks in mp3 format - create a whole new folder to throw onto the root directory. You have to open the player as a drive, instead of syncing, but this way you can separate your audiobooks from the music files. Personally, I am really not keen on mixing music and books, because it prevents you from being able to just shuffle all your music - not to mention it bogs down the list of music.

When I have used this player more, I may be back with some more tips - but I doubt I will add anymore stars. I bought this player under the assumption that I would just plug it in, load it with books and be on my way. I am way too damned busy to be wasting the time I have on this - had I known this would happen, I would have bought something else.