iriver E100 4 GB Multimedia Player (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 0.4 x 3.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00171UYXE
• Item model number: 1E1004BLK
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,243 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 19, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The iriver E100 is a full-featured multimedia player for all of your music, video, photos, and more. It features 4 GB of flash memory, 2.4-inch color display, built-in digital FM tuner, dual speaker, integrated voice recorder, full-motion video play at 30 frames per second, and fast USB 2.0 transfers. iriver offers a 1-year limited warranty.

Sleek design in stylish black.

FLAC Sound Source
The E100 provides rich sound that's closer to the original sound, by supporting the codec for Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files, as well as a variety of codec for music files in the form of MP3, WMA, ASF, and OGG. Plus, SRS WOW HD sound field technology is incorporated into the E100 to help you enjoy even richer sound.

Seamless Video Quality
The player supports various codec for video files, such as MPEG4 SP, WMV9, and XVID SP, and helps users encode video files in an easy and convenient way with iriverplus3, providing 30 frames per second (fps) video quality. The E100's stylish design and compact size let you enjoy video content anytime, anywhere--easily, conveniently.

The E100's intuitive D-Click interface helps you easily find and manipulate the photo you want.

Photos, Files, FM Radio
Using iriverplus3, you can save JPEG, BMP, PNG, and GIF image files directly to your device. The intuitive D-Click interface helps you easily find and manipulate the photo you want. In addition, image slide show helps you enjoy your own photo album with cool background music.

You also can save and manage TXT files easily. You can save and manage files to a Text folder by connecting a USB cable directly to your E100, making it possible to view documents anytime, anywhere.

And without any additional devices, you can listen to FM radio with your E100. Station ranges from 87.5 to 108. Plus, record the radio in WMA format.

What's in the Box
iriver E100 multimedia player, earphones, quick start guide, warranty card, installation CD and manual, and USB cable.

Product Description

1. Very stylish, affordable and packed with great extras E100 comes with built-in a pair of Stereo Speaker, Micro SD Slot, new D-Click System, Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support), 262K Color 2.4” TFT LCD with colorful GUI, FM Radio with recording, Voice Recording, Photo Viewer, and Text Viewer. It natively supports MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG and FLAC audio file formats and MPEG-4, WMV9 and XviD video file formats featuring video bookmarking, sequential playback option. 2. Intuitive iriver New D-Click System E100 provides comfortable usage with ‘iriver new D-Click System,’ which is operated by clicking the housed menu button in the four directions with square middle OK button easily and satisfyingly clickable. UI (User Interface) is intuitive and easy to control. Take pleasure in the new D-Click System. 3. Simple, Stylish, and Durable Design E100, with rounded corners and a clean face, is smooth, durable, and resistant to fingerprints and scratches. Its’ compact size and weight still lives up to iriver's usual standards of quality portable Audio/Video player. . Music Files - E100 supports most popular audio formats MP3, WAV, WMA, and OGG and FLAC – both lossless file formats. Providing abundant base and three-dimensional sounds with playback featuring A-B repeat, play modes (normal, repeat, repeat one, shuffle, shuffle + repeat), presets EQs (normal, rock, pop, classic, soft, jazz), a 5-band custom EQ, SRS WOW HD audio enhancements (SRS, TruBass, Focus, WOW, Definition), fade-in, scan speeds, ratings, and bookmarks . Video files - E100 with TFT LCD (320 X 240) resolution supports Xvid, MPEG-4 SP and WMV9 SP of 30 frames per second. . Line-In Recording (Internal MIC and External MIC Support) . Built-in Stereo Speakers . Covered Micro SD card slot supporting cards up to 4GB in size.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

68 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A "good little average" media player., June 6, 2008

By	Gaurang Patkar (Dubai, UAE) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: iriver E100 8 GB Multimedia Player (Sky Blue) (Electronics)

Let me start this review by saying that I'm an above average user who has used a plethora of media players out there, so my reference point maybe a little different from yours.

This is a little device (See posted photo in user images) similar to the size of a credit card. It comes in many colors, so choice of color should not be a problem. I bought the black one, which is made in a matte plastic, which I am very satisfied with. Leaves fingerprints on the black surface, but doesn't really standout as the unit is not polished to a high gloss. The player is also extremely light, much lighter than any of the competitors (iPod Nano, Sandisk Sansa). This lightness maybe preferred by many users, but I find it too light (Forgetting its with you, and almost loaded it into the washing machine; also feels a bit cheap because of its weight).

I primarily bought this device for its built in speaker, to listen to audio books. Unfortunately, the speaker has quite poor volume (Nothing compared to the competing Samsung S5 or K5). But the iriver is a genius with file formats, and plays many formats, surprisingly plays 700mb, video files encoded with xvid (video) and mp3 (audio) quite smoothly. In addition to this it play Windows Media Audio / Video, Avi's (Xvid Compressed), Mp3's, BMP's, JPG's, PNG's, Text and more. It also has a full range FM tuner that allows 20 presets, which is a great feature. One of the best features the E100 has is the fact that it can record FM, Voice, and Line in Directly to its internal memory, and saves it in WMA format. Using a headset I recorded a 1 hour audio lecture of unmatched quality, and later edited on the PC for the sections I wanted out.

There are many reviews that oppose the navigational buttons on the E100 (Left and right buttons control settings and back to main menu functions, while up and down control the track / video / photo forward or backward). Though this is unorthodox the navigational "D" menu took me a day to master, and can be controlled quite easily after this initial learning. It is not at all complicated, though menus require a lot of clicks left and right to get what you are trying to do.

The expandable memory slot is an advantage and a easy way to upgrade this player to double its capacity via cheap micro sd cards. The problem here is that files on the micro sd are not read in the database for browsing by track, artist, album etc, but has to be accessed rather crudely through a file manager. I have used a 4gb micro sd with no problems. Keep this memory for adding lengthy movies, where you may store 5 - 6 full length movies that are easy to access on this media. The player can be used as a portable hard drive (Obviously). Battery life was quite good, though the bad news is that this player comes with no wall charger and must be charged via a PC or Mac's USB port (Powered of course). I use my iPhone's charger to charge this device (USB Charger with 5 volts output with 1 Amp total output).

The audio quality on the headphones is quite decent, but the speaker is definitely weak and unpronounced. Only listening to the device on full volume in a dead silent room gives you a semi decent listening experience. The good thing here is that many problems have been fixed via firmware upgrades provided by iriver, which I have got 3 times already since purchase in April. Hopefully they will address the speaker volume in the next update. One of the worse features of the device is the fact that the screen is terrible. It is sufficient for mp3 menu options, but falls far short for photo and video options. When in portrait mode the screen is clear, but when used in landscape mode (For photos and videos) the screen gets inadvertently polarized and produces poor and unclear photos.

The iriver e100 is a decent media player, but by no means the best. It has good features and poor ones as well. It could have been a great media player had there not been so many mistakes. Yet I believe that many entry level media player buyers will enjoy this player, as well as some advanced users (Due to advanced recording functions / file support), though the large chunk of the middle spectrum will be unhappy with the many quirks. I have used better players and worse ones as well. The iPod nano is still a heavy weight in its class, though for users looking to break away from the iPod and iTunes bundle, and jazz up their player with FM, Recording, Direct MP3, Photo, Text and Video and a speaker - at a lower price than the iPod, the iriver makes sense. This player is a jack of all trades, but master of none.


Pros:
Color Options
Lightweight
Multiple Files Supported
FM Tuner
Frequent Firmware Upgrades
Integrated Speaker
Line In / Mic In / FM Recording
Micro SD Expandable
Direct Copy without conversions

Cons:
Plastic Body
Poor Screen
Speaker Volume
No Charger Provided (USB Charging Only)
Micro SD Browsing Complexity

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic for musicians., December 6, 2008

By	L. Bradley "Muse of the Woods" (Olympia WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: iriver E100 8 GB Multimedia Player (Black) (Electronics)

I got this player because I wanted a one I could take out to the woods with my me, plug in a decent microphone and record acoustic guitar songs. This player works great. What the specs don't say is that the line in is stereo not just mono, so you can use nice stereo mics, so its better than I thought. Also the recording quality is really quite good through the line-in. Its comparable to the line-in on my macbook.

Beyond that, its a decent player. The battery life is good, the sound quality is fine (a little worse than my ipod but WAY better than my $20 player) The headphones are okay, the video is watchable. Its a little slower getting around than my ipod, it lags a little but it really doesn't bother me much.

One thing you should know is that you need access to a Windows computer when you first get it to configure the player and install the latest firmware, and also to put movies on it. After that, you change its settings so it can communicate with Linux or your Mac, which it does fine after the changes have been made.

The only disappointment was with the Micro SD expansion. I have not found a way to record directly to it, and it freezes on startup if it is inside, so you can only insert it once its on. Also it doesn't integrate with the music library, so unless you intend to watch movies/listen to long audiobooks from the Micro SD card, just skip the expansion card.

However because of the quality stereo line in recording, I give it 5 stars.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars iRiver E100 Review, December 19, 2008

By	John Petrula - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: iriver E100 8 GB Multimedia Player (White) (Electronics)

The iRiver iFP-899 has been an indispensable companion for recording college lectures and meetings. I was looking forward to trying the new E100 because of the larger storage size and display screen. Unfortunately, the E100 is a major disappointment. Numerous web sites detail the poor sound quality, slightly undersized enter button, and other problems. Let me focus on a few seldom discussed issues.

Many people report sporadically having the iRiver Plus 3 software not recognizing the E100. The dust cap on the E100's USB connector can interfere with fully inserting the USB cable connector by catching on the dust cap. Should this occur, the E100 will display Power & Play, and Power Only which makes you think everything is OK when, in fact, the iRiver Plus 3 has not actually recognized the E100. If you fully insert the connector without catching it on the dust cover, the E100 will display Power & Data, Power & Play, and Power Only - the iRiver Plus 3 will now recognize the E100

For the last five days, the iRiver Tech Support at 562-758-6393 has not returned my calls. They have not replied to my email. By-the-way, the iRiver Technical Support is outsourced to a third party company.

The iFP-899 has an Automatic Gain Control (AGC) setting for recording which does not appear in the E100 settings. When I recorded a talk with the E100, the sound level was so weak that it was almost useless. I looked at the file with Sound Forge and found the signal was down in the mud. In contrast, the iFP-899 recorded the same talk without difficulty.

Having External Mic and Line-in recording are a major plus which separate iRiver products from others. However, what good are they if there is no incoming signal level indicator to let you know how much to adjust the line-in gain. Moreover, adjusting the line-in gain should not be buried in the settings but readily available while recording. The E100 needs AGC and Peak Limiting for the internal mic, external mic, and line-in to be effective. With such features, they could address a large market of users who would like to directly record from wireless microphone systems in lecture halls and churches. Let's hope they add such features.

The feature list of the E100 would have set the E100 above the competition. Unfortunately, the implementation was not up to par. Let's hope the next version puts iRivers back in the driver seat for producing dynamite products which outshine the competition.