Samsung Mini Yepp 64 MB MP3 Player YP-20S

by Samsung

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005OMMN
• Batteries: 1 AAA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,178 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Samsung's tiny, wearable Mini-Yepp is the world's smallest full-featured digital player, weighing in at a mere 1.13 ounces without battery. It comes with 64 MB of built-in flash memory and features an LCD display that shows music info and current date and time.

The Mini-Yepp has superb sound with a four-preset graphic equalizer and a powerful bass boost system that can enhance any musical style. The Mini-Yepp also features an advanced USB port for high-speed transfer of your favorite music. USB connections are three to five times faster than those using the parallel port, and they allow compatibility with both the Apple Macintosh and PCs running Windows 98, 2000, or Me.

The popular Rio-Port digital music software is bundled with the Mini-Yepp, offering a powerful yet easy-to-use system to organize your entire music collection and quickly transfer custom track combinations. The software is also CDDB-enabled, automatically retrieving artist and track information for millions of CDs (when connected to the Internet).

It comes bundled with full-length audio tracks from top recording artists, including Samantha Mumba, Monster Magnet, Blues Traveler, Queens of the Stone Age, and Black Eyed Peas.

The Samsung Mini-Yepp runs on one AAA battery. It is backed by a one-year warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

173 of 178 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A complete 3 month test review, February 12, 2002

By 

John Nelson (Springfield, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Samsung Mini Yepp 64 MB MP3 Player YP-20S (Electronics)

Bottom line: Great product for the money and the workout person.

If you workout, like being outside, or anywhere that you would like to have your own personal music playing without looking like some kid from the 80's with a giant walkman strapped to themselves, then this is the product for you.
First off I want to be straight forward with the downsides to this product. The battery will not last long, unless you use Nihm batteries or if you do not run your Yepp at full volume. The programing that comes with the Yepp leaves some to be desired in music organization, but not much worse (or better) then say Windows media player or Real One. The last downfall is the limited controls.
After all those listed short commings of the Mini-Yepp why on earth would I give it 4 stars. Simple because I would give it 5 stars except for those three down falls each easily over come.
First of all think about what you are wanting to buy. This is not a multi-gig player for thosse long trips. This is a COMPACT SUPER LIGHT WEIGHT short term player. YOu can extend battery life by using Nihm batteries and not trying to blast the volume all the time.
The programing is simple but just takes time to set up play lists and search for files. The easiest way is to organize the files on your hard drive and add them via the program by searching your hard drive, rather than your data base (unless you have a very good preset up data base, like name, artist, and all that jazz).
The last problem being the limited controls only matters when you have time to play with them. For the most part this product is aimed at the on the go person who doesnt have time to program in different sound levels and playlists all the time.
The great things about this player is it's fast uploading, decent memory (64), size, adn weight. I personally use this for when ever I am working out, doing Kata (Karate dance), biking or hiking outdoors, and many more.
So if you want a great product to serve your 1hr to 2hr workout or what ever this is a great subtle MP3 player. I would suggest this product over most of the other small players, unless you are looking for the super hitech, long travel MP3 player.

85 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You exercise -- this player is for you., October 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Samsung Mini Yepp 64 MB MP3 Player YP-20S (Electronics)

Pros:
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* This player is extremely light. This makes it fantastic for exercising. This is by far its best feature.
* Fast USB connection.
* Good LCD for a player this small.
* Battery indicator is fairly accurate.
* Sounds great at 128, good at 96, terrible at 64 bit rate.
* Handles Variable Bit Rate (VBR) which will save you some space and still have superior sound.
* EQ fairly good.
* Battery connections seem to be no noncorrosive -- so far no sign of corrosion from sweat on battery connections.

Cons:
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* No holder to snap onto your belt or shorts. Easily solved -- the player is about the same size as a beeper so use a beeper holder.
* Even at max volume not loud enough.
* The headphone cord is somewhat long for jogging.
* The battery runs out quickly. About 45min for a normal. rechargable AAA, about 3Hrs 45min with a brand new Duracel. This is at full volume.
* No memory expansion possible.
* Software included is ok but not great.

Update on 1/25/02 -- Solution for battery!
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I have now been using this player for quite some time. I have dropped it twice on a concrete floor in the garage and it survived it without problems -- maybe got lucky but seems to hold up well.

Apple's iPod is definitely the coolest player out there but all that weight and size makes it no competition for this player in terms of serious exercising like running a marathon and at a 1/3 the cost. It is so light and easily concealed I am still impressed with it. With 64MB you can fit about 80min on it long enough for most runs.

The big issue if you have read most of he reviews is the drainage of batteries. It is true it does drain a regular alkaline AAA pretty quickly BUT this is easily solved.

For [a reasonable price] you can get 4 rechargeable AAA NiMH batteries. Good for a little less than 16 hours of music!

So one battery lasts almost 4 hours and they can be recharged between a 100 and 1000 times so I think it boils down to like 1 or 2 cents of battery cost per hour.

NiMH have no memory effect which is important -- note the NiMH is important (don't go with NiCad they don't last long and most have a memory effect).

I think these NIMH batteries are better than brand new alkalines....

Sounds technical but really easy solution.

35 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best MP3 player on the market, September 22, 2001

By 

Alexander Nikolov "consumerist" (LONDON, EU) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Samsung Mini Yepp 64 MB MP3 Player YP-20S (Electronics)

This is the best mp3 player on the market now. It offers great portability, it is very easy and intuitive to use. The display is crisp and clear and easy to read. The shape of the player makes it comfortable and its weight - it is only 1 ounce! - makes it easy to attach to your belt which I think is one of its greatest advantages. The memory is twice that the previous model has and is enough for 1 hour and a half of music. I use this player instead of my heavy and bulky CD player while I jog in the GYM because it is skip proof and extremely light.