My life is full of first-time experiences. As a oblivious infant, I experienced my first time walking. As a 5-year-old, I experienced my first time how to read, and speak cohesively. As a adolescent, I experienced my unbalanced emotions that I couldn't understand when I'm around girls. And now, as a modern electronic-enthusiast, I experienced my first time purchasing an mp3 player...or in this case, FLASH mp3 player.
~REVIEW~
Let me get right down to this: I LOVE this device. Any newbie who's under the same shoes I am, looking for good mp3 player at its core, should place this player on their electronics checklist. This review probably isn`t going to be THAT informative, because I don't know got-dang much about the selection of mp3 players. I took me quite a while to find the best player on the market with the green I little have on my wallet, and I believe this CREATIVE product is the right choice to make; right on the features, and right on retail.
The "CREATIVE MuVo TX FM" player is cool, because like what it says on the box, it's not only a mp3 player: it's a mp3/FM radio/microphone hybrid! The player is small, it can place well into the palm of an adult's hand. The screen is small too, but the buttons are big, and the text on the screen are quite readable, so the size is not that big of a deal. Plus, it shows how much juice the AAA battery got left. Like every music player affair, it has a standard play/pause, and volume button; the play/pause button also acts as a power button, but it's one of those power buttons where you press and hold it for a few seconds in order to turn off. The scrolling gray thingy on the black width side of the player controls the rewind and fast-forward of the song whenever it`s pushed either left or right, which also skips tracks the same way, and pressing it can activate the selection the screen highlights or go to the main screen.
On the mp3 side,...well, it plays mp3 songs obviously, and it plays well, and sounds clear and flawless (it also plays WMAs). Since I bought the MuVo TX FM with 256 Megs (approximately, meaning between 240 to 250), it can plays up to 4 hours of songs with 128 kbps. This player also has its own Equalizer, which is basically a bunch of bars moving vertically so the adjusted sound placement of the songs can be just right for the listener. It contains its own sets of EQs: rock, jazz, classical, or if you're a EQ pro, you can customized your own EQ to personalize.
I can pull the black piece out of the white area of the MuVo, and use it as a separate USB hard drive, which was the greatest thing about it, because it's the easiest way to drag in any files (NOT JUST MP3) from the computer and put it in the device shown as a separate drive without out all that yes-or-no legal-disclaimer nonsense. And I couldn't believe how fast the transmission is from computer to device; it took me almost a minute to put in all 25 4-minute songs. The MuVo package does include a CD program, and with it I can convert my CDs into mp3s; there are other programs that can do that, but I don't mind this one.
One thing must be notified: Licensed music files CAN'T be transmitted through point-A-to-B dragging, so you must transmit these types of files through a computer media program.
On the FM side, albeit without AM to back up, it sounds just as fluid as an mp3. I can save a preset to the radio stations, using the in-device menu, and up to 32 presets can I automatically go to any of my favorite rock/rap/whatever station. The reception is good; it's not great, though. Sometimes I have to wave my hands around like an airplane director with diarrhea just to hear the local college jazz station. Otherwise, the FM radio is a wonderful alternate if I don't feel like listen to my personal tracks.
You go to school, and you were snoozing while your algebra teacher is discussing about the Pythagorean theorem, this device is effective as a microphone. I went through the same situation, and this device works wonders as a listening stand-in. And up to 16 hours can I record any kind of situation I want to hear again, or forgot to hear the first time. Just a reminder, this takes up the same amount of Megs as the mp3s, so record it wisely...or not.
I made so much positive facts, the MuVo seems perfect, right? Sadly, not true. When it comes to putting the music files in the MuVo, I can't sort the tracks of my choosing, because the tracks are always listed alphabetically. For that, it became a time-consuming process to rename the whole files on the computer so the MuVo can list them the way I wanted, and that's tiresome. The play/pause button has a tendency to get a slow response when I press it, and like everyone who reviewed this product, the uncomfortable headphone included in this device can make a person spend 30 extra bucks on a new one.
THE FINAL WORD: Value. If a media player has a ton of features AND it cost less than $150, almost nobody would ever stop saying "wow!", and with MuVo, I still have the habit of keep saying that. Okay, it's not an Ipod, a Rio, or a Sony network walkman, and what I say is no different from every other positive reviewer for this item, but another positive review is just another example of why this is such a good buy and a good alternate for those who just wants to listen to music, no matter how much it can hold. Don't distant yourself on this one.
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