Customer Reviews

Victorinox SwissBeat MP3 Player 2 GB (Silver)

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Being a fan of Swiss Army products, I was waiting for the 2GB version
of this device to show up at a reasonable price. When I got it, I
really liked the small size and the fact that it supports what people
call "USB On The Go" which simply means that your computer will
recognize it as a flash drive and you can copy MP3 files to it without
any special or proprietary software. It also has it's own USB
connector so you don't even need a cable. Now for the bad news.
There is *no* support for playlists and *no* support for playing based
on the folder structure, even though the documentation implies that
these things are supported. To be clear, the documentation states
that it supports the ability to create a playlist in, for example,
Windows Media Player and then "sync" with the device. This does work,
but you can't access the playlist once the music is on the device, and
there's no guarantee the files will play back in the order you specify
in the playlist. This is really a deal-breaker for me since it misses
the point of why people create playlists in the first place. A third
(somewhat related) flaw is that, when you try to play by "CD" (i.e.,
the ID3 "Album" tag), it messes up the sorting and plays things in the
wrong order, even though I'm fanatical about making sure my file name
ordering and ID3 "Track" tags are 100% right. I'm going to try to
contact the Swiss Army people and see if they will accept suggestions
for firmware fixes but if I don't get a quick response this thing is
going back.

The second paragraph under product description:

::The silver-metal Swiss Army Knife housing that stores the audio player offers a knife blade, a combination nail file and screw driver, a scissors, a retractable ballpoint pen, a LED mini light, and a key ring.::

The file doesnt have a screwdriver tip, there is no ballpoint pen, and no LED mini light. And no key ring.

It's still a really cool product, but I REALLY don't like being lied to, particularly about something so expensive. An LED light , screwdriver, and pen were all features I really wanted and contributed to my buying the product.

I can't comment on the performance of this item, as I've never used it. I plugged it into my USB2 port to charged it, and, when I looked at the display, I found that I - with my less-than-20-20-vision - couldn't read it.
I suppose it should have occurred to me that something which fits inside a pocket knife might have a rather small display, but I was carried away by the coolness of the toy,
Just something to consider.