RipDrive MP3 Jukebox - 30 GB

by PoGo! Products

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• ASIN: B0001FSCPY
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #399,630 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 30, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The versatile Pogo RipDrive 30 makes it easy to take your music collection with you--just plug it into your PC and drag and drop files via USB 2.0 connection from your desktop to the player, which shows up as another drive. This 30 GB player is compatible with both MP3 and WMA files, and features a voice recording capability and built-in FM tuner with 20 presets. It's powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery with up to 10 hours of playback time; it's also user-replaceable, enabling you to purchase additional batteries to keep the music flowing.

In addition to an integrated microphone for voice recording, the RipDrive can also record directly from the FM tuner. Additionally, it features a line-in jack (with both digital and optical input) for recording from an external source, such as a CD or cassette player or TV.

The Ripdrive has a backlit 160 x 105-pixel LCD that displays song title, artist name, and battery level as well as the next and previous songs along the bottom edge of the display. It supports playlists transferred from your PC and can also create playlists on the fly. Other features include multilingual support (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian), external power via AC adapter (included), and user-defined EQ settings.

What's in the Box Pogo RipDrive 30, earphones, USB cable, direct record (line-in) cable, power adapter, battery, carrying case, CD-ROM with driver for Windows 98, and printed user manual.

Product Description

High Capacity MP3 Jukebox Many of you old-time ThinkGeekers probably remember the original hard drive based MP3 players we used to offer back in the day. Well, now that times have changed a bit, those folks have created a new and improved product- The RipDrive. Not only can the RipDrive playback your MP3 or WMA files, it also has the ability to directly record to an MP3 file format from any audio source using its line-in connector or internal microphone. Make MP3s of old vinyl or cassette recordings with no PC Required! The RipDrive has a built-in digital FM tuner with a direct record feature so you can save your favorite radio broadcasts. (Don & Mike anyone?) This puppy also doubles as an advanced digital voice recorder with an internal microphone which captures quality voice recordings. With up to 40GB of built-in hard drive capacity, you can always be sure you have enough space available for all your files. PoGo RipDrive Plays MP3 or WMA files Records directly to MP3 Built-in Voice Recorder Built-in EL Backlit Graphic LCD screen Built-in Rechargeable Battery Digital FM tuner with room for 20 presets USB 2.0 Interface for fast file transfers Supports LINE-IN recording from any external audio source (CD, Cassette Players, TV, etc...). Firmware Upgradeable ID3 Tag support (Version 1.0/1.1/2.0) User Defined EQ setting Rechargeable battery allows up to 10 hours of playback time on one charge DC-IN Jack for powering from external power source (100240 AC Adapter include

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Huge hard drive, everything in mp3, June 9, 2004

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Steve (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RipDrive MP3 Jukebox - 30 GB (Electronics)

I like that everything gets converted to MP3 format. I also like having 30 GB to record mega hours of voice or music recordings. My first unit had troubles stopping when I was in the record mode. And I also had troubles with that unit hanging at the end of a recording and then having to hard reset and lose what was recorded. I got a replacement and have learned to use both thumbs on the stop button to stop a recording. One caveat: Do not use a computer mic on the unit, it can fry the line in jack.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst mp3 Player Ever!, March 17, 2005

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O. Holback "asioux_" (Harlem USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RipDrive MP3 Jukebox - 30 GB (Electronics)

The Pogo Ripdrive was my secong ever mp3 player. i bought it after much deliberation and research becasue in addition to playing mp3's it also
1. Has an FM tuner with 20 presets
2. Has a voice recorder
3. Has in-line recording

and I'm kinda anti-iPod, I KNOW that somewhere there is a machine that's just as good.

I bought this thing last spring and it started misbehaving in the fall. It would freeze constantly, couldn't listen to 2 songs without the machine freezing and needing to be soft-reset. I contacted the company and was told to send it back. I did and they sent it back after basicaly only wiping the harddrive.

3 days later it began to freexe again. I contacted the company again, again, though I'd just gotten it back, I had to resubmit my receipt and send the thing back again. this time it took a bit longer to get it back, I called their cust service and they said a new on was in the mail and that if IT didn't work, I might want to look at my files for viruses.

i got the unit back and turned it over, lo and behold, the new serial number was the same as the old! Hum... I hadn't gotten a new one after all. I was emailed a firmware upgrade and put that on and loaded my music and guess what? It froze again during EVERY song. I used MediaMonkey to load onto the unit and it turns out it wasn't compatible so I took it all off and loaded from Windows Explorer.

Same stuff, I wanted to scream. By this point I was ready to throw in the towel and contacted them and requested a refund. They said no, you can only get one when you buy directly from the company and within 30 days. But, you know, I bought it in the expectation that it would WORK! I organize so many of my electronic gadgets through my computer and scan for viruses so often, it is highly unlikely that I have a virus.

So, I sent it back a third time and DEMANDED a new one. I was offered a new one and charged $20 for a new screen because the one I'd sent back had scratches not covered by the warrantee. They sent it back with the back of my old machine on it because, apparently, it also had scratches on it, so, they said, the serial number would be the same, but it would be a different machine. (smells like a scam) Meanwhile, I can find no scratches.

Same problem, different machine. It is just a shabby machine. It is big and heavy and there are only 30 people in their office so you KNOW you can't have your money back. I may just resort to using my mini disk player (remember when 5 hours of music on one disk was alot?)

Pogo stinks, it ABSOLUTELY stinks. you try to give the mom and pop company a shake then you get locked in. It was a $300 lesson for me, but believe me, I have learned.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Buy, January 14, 2005

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Blake Torgerson "Blak" (Seattle area, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RipDrive MP3 Jukebox - 30 GB (Electronics)

I bought this a couple months ago now. I haven't had any major problems with it. It has fell a couple of times and it still works. My only complaint is that sometimes it just freezes or turns off, it's probably because it's getting jumbled around in my pocket. It is a bit bulky, but hey, I have around 100 cds on here in 128 kb/s and it is only 13% full!
The sound quality is however good as the headphones you are using. I advise getting different ones that come with it. I got some 12 dollar Sony ear buds, they sound pretty nice. They actually have bass!
The five band equalizer on it is great. I love it. You can easily archive all of your music. I wouldn't say you can make playlists really fast...it's a slow and tedious process when using the RipDrive itself. The line-in jack works incredibly well and so does the microphone.
There may be better mp3 players out there, but absolutely not this cheap. I love this. Listen to it everyday during math class :) probably why I'm failing...

So...if you like music and care about how it sounds and what not, get this. If you care about what people think (people tend to make fun of this because it's big...haha) or just need something really little, still get it.

Hope I helped...I'm always bad with this review thing. But I tried!