Samsung YP-MT6Z 1 GB Digital Audio Player Silver

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007M610Y
• Item model number: YP-MT6Z
• Batteries: 1 AA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,475 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 23, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Music just doesn't get more portable than this! This MP3 player is big on features llike a built-in FM Tuner, inline encoding,voice recorder and eight EQ pre-sets. One AA battery gives you up to 42 hrs. of playback. The 4-line LCD screen gives full view of ID3 tag information and SRS WOW technology which provides vivid 3D sound enhancement. You can also store and transfer PC files and music files with a simple drag-and-drop from your Windows OS.

Features

• Supports MP3, Secure WMA, ASF, WMA
• 1 GB Memory
• Improved GUI & Navigation
• Sleek Design with Metal Casing
• 42 Hours Playback
• USB 2.0 PC Interface
• 4-Line LCD
• Doubles as a Flash Storage Device
• FM Tuner with Recorder
• Voice Recording
• SRS WOW Sound Enhancement
• 20mW Output Power
• Product Dimensions: 1"(W) x 2.39"(H) x .95"(D)

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Product Description
The Samsung YP-MT6 Digital Audio Player offers top-quality sound, more storage capacity and longer playback time. Its streamlined body, minimal weight and simple interface means you'll never need to carry another MP3 player. Flash memory provides enough storage for all your favorite songs, for hours of playback - its long-life battery will keep playing for hours. USB 2.0 PC interface Large 4-line display 42 hours of playback on a single AA battery White

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

144 of 155 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice player with firmware flaws, March 25, 2005

By	Ken Broomfield (San Luis Obispo, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Revised review -- rating should read three stars. I've been happy with this player in three months of usage but have had three significant though surmountable problems:

-- Music files sorted wrong. Any files without a numeric prefix aren't necessarily sorted alphabetically--apparently only the first few characters of filenames are considered. This is especially bad for single pieces/songs divided into multiple files. So, even with a numeric suffix, such as "BachPartita1.wma", "BachPartita2.wma", and "BachPartita3.wma", files may not play in order unless you prefix them as "001BachPartita.wma", "002BachPartita.wma", etc. Fortunately, file renaming utilities can quickly rename groups of files, but obviously this is still tedious. Samsung support doesn't seem to understand the problem, and the version 1.101 firmware update doesn't fix it.
-- After two months without trouble, the player started spontaneously shutting down so often as to become unusable. After trying different batteries and other fixes, updating to the v1.101 firmware solved it, so probably the firmware or some data had become corrupted.
-- Custom settings get lost. When I copy music files to the player, I often find that all my settings for equalizer, radio presets, auto power-off, etc., have been lost and reset to defaults. I've worked around this by copying the SETTINGS.DAT file found on the player to my computer, then copying it back after copying music files.

So, Samsung's programmers probably aren't sharp, and one wonders whether similar problems exist on any Samsung MP3 player. I've seen reports of firmware problems on other brands of players. If I'd known about these glitches, I would have chosen something else, but I'm willing to work around them because I'm happy with the player in other respects. Feature-wise, it's the best choice among the Flash-based music players and doesn't have the downsides of the hard disk-based players.

I've tried repeatedly to post a complete review with more pros and cons of this player, but Amazon won't post it, and I have no idea why. The incompetence of Amazon customer service continues to astound.

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far superior to ipods, here's why, delivers the most value, a must buy, January 13, 2006

By	Mohammed K. Hassan - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Lets discuss this irrespective of the "space" here. By nature hard drive based players obviously offer larger space. Having said that, I'll write some questions to help you make your purchasing decision.

You can read the features above so I will not reiterate them.

[*]AA (disposeable) battery. Why is that good?
I don't like proprietary batteries. They are expensive, and after few months, they are out of production, non supported as companies come up with newer product models. So you're stuck. Now mp3 players (most of them) have the battery built in. What makes it even worse is that with exception to Creative players, most others are completelye irreplaceable. Ipods too! That is where AA, or AAA batteries come handy. They are found anywhere there is civilization. They are disposeable, cheap!
Of course this little wonder offers 40+ hours of playtime with just one AA battery. Ipods barely offer 10 hours of playtime. So compare that.

[*]The music formats.
Majority of the online music vendors use WMA format. Guess what? Ipods don't play them. Its because they want to force people to buy from itunes store (true for other Apple products, and Microsof is accuesed of monopoly!). With this Samsung player, you are not bound to a specific vendor. Dump your music in it, regardless of the source, it will start playing. Not to mention Samung player also plays more music formats than ipod.

[*]Line input.
Do you have old cassetts? Old records? VHS tapes? Got your favorite songs or any audio on them? Guess what, you can use this player to make mp3s from ANY audio source. Just connect the included cable and press record on the player. You don't need a computer for this. Line input is not available for Ipods even as an expensive add on.

[*]Built in mic.
Need to record your lecture? Capture a moment? Record live concerts or any other events with this feature. Now this is available for ipods. You can get an extra thing to carry for around $40 or more. Then again, Ipods are capable of handling only 1 accessory at a time. You have to remove other add on such as a remote

[*]Control without seeing?
Many people buy Ipods just to show off, "hey, look, I'm controlling an Ipod, look at me! Oopss, I forgot I can't operate it from my pocket! I need to have it in my hands to do everything, except the "hold" switch". Yah. Of course thats true. This Samsung player, you can operate from your pocekt, change volume, skip songs, on, off, pause basically everything. Obviously you'll need to look at the menus if you want to change the settings, but it no way requires you to look at it. You can operate it with your eyes closed. Ipods are incapable of being controlled without looking. There is a remote for ipods (another $40 extra) which has 3/4 buttons such as back, forward, volume up and down only!

[*]Size? Yes it matters.
Please have a look at the images I have added. You can see for yourself how "small" it is. It comfortably fits in your palm. A bit cube shaped so its easier to hold. Just a little bigger than an AA battery. Its just above 2 inches in height, and little more than a half inch depth.

[*]Flash? yes please!
I always prefer flash players to any "hard drive" based players. Sure the space is small, but flash players are more reliable. The reason is, in hard drive players, there are parts moving, spinning and if for any reason they are dropped accidentally, or experiences a big jerk, it is more than likely that the drive data reader (the magnetic head) being displaced. In plain English, your fancy hard drive player won't play anything any more. This is true for Ipods and any other hard drive player as well. Now flash players on the other hand, shake them with all of your might, nothing will happen, and the music will also be skip-free. Basically flash players are generally VERY stable, solid, not allergic to simple or tough shaking, jerk etc. Unless you break them with a hammer, or drive your car over them, flash players are very sturdy, tough guys.
By the way, if you don't believe me, you can try shaking your hard drive player but be WARNED, you might very well damage it parmanently!

[*]Others things about this player.
- Body is made of aluminum (2 sides) and plastic (2 sides) (Its one of the VERY few mp3 players that are extremely well built, built to last! Even some newer models from Samsuing are fully made of cheap plastic, which most other players are made of anyway).
- Portable storage. It comes with both cable and a mini plug so it can be uses as a storage drive. Its plug and play, platform independent. Translation, you can use it at your computer, your friends computer, your secret lovers computer, your boss's (if you're allowed) computer etc. Only few hard drive players are plug and play, but most of the flash players are plug and play.
- FM radio. It wasn't important for me, but its there. Reception is pretty good and again you can directly record from FM radio without any wires to mp3 format. You can even change the region, if you're moving outside the US.
- Advanced SRS, WOW effects, detailed, customizeable equaliser settings, display mode, default volume etc. As it might come as shocking to many, Ipods aren't the only players that "shuffles" music. Its a common feature that many many players have built in. You can set to normal, repeat 1, repeat all, and of course shuffle all songs in this Samsung player.

Final Verdict:
Please don't give in to the "hype" and just buy an ipod. Do compare the features, prices. Ipods are overrated, overpriced and offers very little for the money you pay for it. So if money doesn't matter to you, all you care about is how fashionable, how cool it looks, maybe Ipods are for you but if you are a serious, conscious, educated consumer, this Samsung player is a must buy. This is one purchase you will not regret. I'm actually getting a second one too!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm lovin' it!!, December 8, 2005

By	mikajlo "jamike" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

This thing is great. I think it's my fourth or fifth mp3 player and it's the best I've had so far. I previously had Rio Carbon, which I really liked, but it got stolen, and I decided that my next mp3 player need to be flash based, since I hardly ever used one Gig out of the 5 Gig harddrive it had. After spending several hours researching, my choice was down to iRiver ifp-799 and this one. I decided to go for Samsung, because: 1) it is almost (...)cheaper 2) it has USB mass storage function, which is pretty useful when you want to carry any other documents or files with you 3) it has an international guarantee, which is very important for me, since I spend a lot of time abroad (Europe) 4) it is a lot smaller and looksway cooler than iRiver. I guarantee you, you'll have a lot more people wowing about this than about iRiver.

Once you get this thingy, you'll see that it is a whole LOT smaller than it seems to be on the pictures online, or even on the Cnet video. It is literally the size of a little thicker AAA battery! Speaking of which, powered by a AAA battery, it lasts for more than 40 hours of continuous play! No need to carry around an adapter or worry about having a worn out battery after a couple of years. Just get a 50 pack of AAA batteries from Amazon for (...)and keep listening... For how long? 2000 hours? Yes, that's right! Listen for two hours each and every day and it will still cost you 10 bucks to keep it alive for 3 years!!

The display seems to be a little too small, but it just big enough to contain all the information you can possibly need. I really liked the feature showing you the next song on your playlist on in the folder, so that you know what's going to follow. The backlight is of a nice blueish color and you can setup the time for the backlight to stay on after the player is on idle, and also the contrastof the display. When setup to a higher value than the predefined from the factory, the display is ver bright and sharp, and overall easy to read.

The controls are not as intuitive as on most other players, but reading the manual for about 5-10 minutes will explain everything in detail. After this, you'll really like the fact that the player only has three buttons plus the joystick. Once you become familiar with a couple of little tricks about the controls, you'll find it very easy to navigate.

The earplugs could certainly be better, but none of the mp3 player producers supplies high quality earphones. Not even Apple. While better earphones are not a complete necessity, you might consider getting them instead of the Samsung supplied ones.

This player, unlike some other players doesn't take too long to boot up. After about 4-5 seconds, it is ready to provide you with music. Some people say that it is a con that the player doesn't have a Power ON/OFF switch, but I think that holding a play button for about 1,5-2 seconds it really not that big of a deal.

What I dislike about the player is its sound quality. While it is not horrible by any means, it could be a lot better. It's fairly easy to tell that iRiver 799 (my friend has it), and also my old Rio Carbon have better sound than this thingy. On teh other hand, the quality is really not that bad, considering that I was also able to tell right away, that Apple's 4G iPod's sound quality wasn't even comparable with my Samsung. Simply, if you are an audiophile and need perfect quality sound, go for iRiver, iAudio, or Rio (which I think is a little behind iRiver and iAudio, who clearly lead the industry in sound quality). If you are like me and just look for something to listen to on your way to class or when traveling, go for Samsung, it will certainly cover your needs.

Another con could be that you have to remove the plastic cover (which is fairly nice by the way, and doesn't make it look any uglier than without it) if you want to remove the battery. I don't really see this as a problem, since you'll be changing the battery only once a month, or so.

I also really like the fact that you browse your music library using a folder system, just like in Windows. You can't look up songs based on artist or genre. This is however a matter of personal preference. I prefer the folder system and find it a lot easier to go around than the ID3Tag system, supported by my old Rio and also all iPods.

You can also build playlists on the go, which is pretty neat. It also tells you which song you already have in your list, so that you don't add it twice by accident. The playlist feature is really simple and can only store one playlist, but I think this is sufficient and fulfills its purpose.

It is kinda hard to switch the HOLD button when the using the plastic case, but this is a minor flaw and wouldn't keep me from buying this thing again.

If this device doesn't break and works reliably for me, I don't really have anything I would not like about it. Some might not like the sound quality, but again, you need to know what are you going to use it for. For everyday use, the quality is more than sufficient.

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