Customer Reviews

I-Jam IJ-100-BL-32 32 MB MP3 Player (Blue)

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The I-Jam is a cute, compact, light and an overall great MP3 player. I workout a lot and find it MUCH easier to clip this on my hip than a cumbersome tape player. The sound is excellent and it's extremely easy to set up and download music. The negative aspects of the I-Jam is that it comes with (2)16MB multimedia cards. They can only hold about 4 songs each and it's difficult to change the cards while working out. You can purchase 32MB multimedia cards (...) which allows you to record about 8-9 songs. It would be much better if the company added a 32MB card instead of the (2) 16MB cards. Overall for the price, weight, clarity, and size you can't beat it!

The downside - the 16mb cards store next to nothing, and the coveted 64MB MultiMedia card will cost more than 2x the price of your player! Bottom line: can be gotten cheap, but expect to pay an arm and a leg for memory if you wish to olay more than 3 mp3 songs/16MB card. I would wait until Sensory Science Rave 2300 (with great cheap 40mb memory modules) drops down to reasonable price range.

i love this player. it is very small and light weight. i take it every where i go. it is inexpensive and has a radio with it.

Here is what you get:

IJ-100 MP3 player, Wrist strap, Ear Buds, Belt Clip, 2-16MB Multimedia Cards (not SmartMedia), Parallel port Mulitmedia card reader, Software, No batteries (2 AAA)

Features:

Memory- No built-in memory, one slot for Multimedia card, Sidemounted Power switch, Backlit display with very small characters, AM/FM/Hold button, Stop button, 16 volume steps (high powered output (~50mW), Bass and treble controls, Random Play, A/B repeat, 3 Presets for FM tuner, Plays back 32 - 160 Kbps encoded data

Pluses - Small Size, FM tuner w/3 presets - Perfect for 3 TV channels at the gym, High power audio out - Will drive other headphones, Card reader and cards can be used like a removable 16 MB hard drive

Minuses - Small size - hard to read display, Memory card limitation - only 16 minutes at 128 Kbps

Recommendation: If you are looking for a high quality MP3 player pass this one up. Get something with more storage. If you need a simple player and don't care a lot about sound quality (64Kbps is OK) this is the unit for you

Think about it... It would cost that much for a pager-sized walkman, let alone an MP3 player. An obvious drawback is the 2x16MB memory cards, but at 96 (rather than 128kps) not a lot of audio is compromised, while gaining space for another song on each card (bringing the total available playlist to around 10).

Not bad...10 songs...I would suggest a small case for the card that is not in the player (should you decide to bring it along...a good place to store it is behind the player in the case which comes with the i-jam hardware) software is easy to use and install...the Jam Station hardware allows you to keep your printer hooked up (thus avoiding the painstaking process of switching parallel interfaces each time you want to transfer files.)

another plus is the audio output, which is unheard of for most MP3 players, and certainly a bonus for a player of this size and cost. Adjustable treble and bass is also a welcomed extra, and should improve your listening experience. Wear it to exercise, wear it on the bus, use it whenever you need some customized music. and if you get bored of the 10 songs (almost a full CD's worth) just turn on the radio and keep "jammin"

enjoy this great little product...

I bought 2 IJAM 100 MP3 players at a boxing day sale (12/2001), spent 15 hours TRYING to get them to work, and they are flaky, half baked products. DO NOT BUY!!! Why?
IJ-100 CRASHES if you have ID3 tags on your MP3s
IJ-100 CRASHES if you look at it the wrong way
IJ-100 CRASHES if you strip ID 3 tags, test individual files, and then load more than 3 file on the MMC card.
IJ-100 CRASHES if you use WINDOWS EXPLORER to transfer the files to the MMC instead of MusicMatch
IJ-100 Documentation/manuals [are bad].
IJ-100 DISTORTS HORRIBLY (Clicks, grunge, AM, etc) if the MP3 files are loud (higher volume during encoding)
IF you actually get it to work for a track, the audio quality is MEDIOCRE.
FM in unit is useless, very noisy, incapable of holding a station with any quality audio maintained

...DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!

I-Jam started off to be a pretty cool little MP-3 player when I bought it a year ago. Last year I was thinking that MMC was going to take off and everyone would have 256mb MMC cards for $50 by now. Well, guess what!??! MMC didn't take off. You are lucky if you can find a 64mb MMC at a reasonable price. But oh wait - there's more. It seems with all the popular media formats (MP3, WMA, etc), the I-Jam isn't so flexible about reading. Now I can't even get three songs to play consistently on this beautiful red player. So now I am shopping for another mp3 player. On the bright side, it is small and the FM tuner works awesome! Three presets isn't enough, but still good enough to make it useful as something more than a small anchor for my aquarium.

This is a pretty good player only problem is it has a VERY limited amount of memory. And thos little card thingies are expensive. The one line display is hard to read, and the parallel port drive is a hassle. Another piece of technno junk to clutter up your computer desk. I had mine fo about 4 months now, and it has been really good to me. Especially at school, its very tiny, and can be hidden very easily. The sound is AWESOME,and its pretty easy to use. But sooner or later, I'm going to hand it down to my sister, and buy a bigger, and better one.

There is simply no competiton for the IJ100. For the price the quality can't be beat. Although there are better players out there, none can be bought this cheap. The only downside is the low memory capacities, and the high cost of bigger memory cards. The sound is as good as a CD. The radio also sounds good. In the end, this player is well worth the money.

ps...this is matt's girlfriend and i was 15 when he wrote this. WOW he is a flaming homo and we are breaking up right now

I-Jam is small, light and cute. The blue one got a transparent case which you can see the ic board. If you compress the MP3 songs to 48kB HQ, you can get 10 songs into each 16MB disc. In addition, you can use the Multimedia disks as portable memory for your data.