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I have the iRiver iFP-390T which is very similar. It worked great for a while and could hold around 5 full length CD's. My problem with it is that they fall apart easily. I now have a non-working MP3 player and nothing to show for it. The warranty is only 30 days, I have had mine for around 90 days. The buttons on the top no longer work they are broken. If you push to hard or to often on them they will snap and break very easily. Save your money and get a better made and more durable MP3 player.
I have only used this device once, however it works pretty good. In recording from an FM band which is the main reason I got it, it does a good job. At times the buttons are a bit erratic, and you do need to download the instruction manual or you will be lost. However overall I got what I wanted.
the only reason i bought this one is cause my girlfreind has it. but i take it to class with me and use it every day all day long. i'm into bike riding and take it with me, work out with it,hang out with it, and it has never really failed me. the only two down sides are that the little joy stick is starting to crap out on me... but i've had it and beat on it for almost 2 years now! and it only hold 128(90 songs low res), if you put it on shufle then it's not to bad. and it was like $170 new! now ones like this are like $50 bucks! o-well. IRIVER MAKES A GOOD PRODUCT!
There is an as yet unspoken reason to find this series of iFP's (meaning 380, 390, 395). When flashed with the UMS firmware, the iRiver Manager software is longer required, and your line-in recordings and voice recordings are named .mp3 automatically. Also, the bitrate of the line-in recording could be set up to 160Kbps, and 128Kbps for voice recording. Using the UMS firmware also means being able to load whatever you want onto the player as if it were a USB key. This was true for the UMS 1.0 firmware and I'm not sure if it still holds true for newer versions.
Of all the mp3 players out there, this series has the *best* quality microphone recordings. Just remember not to pocket it while you're recording since the microphone is very sensitive.
The sound quality and recording ability is really great. Its very handy and you can even record sound when its in your jeans pocket. It does'nt eat a lot of battery. You can record any form of music. The only problem is with the buttons. If you use them frequently it just stops working. After continuous use of 5-6 months I kept it aside for about a month and then it stopped working. I called i-river and they exchanged it for a new one. This I dont use that frequently now. But in all Im happy with it.
In the days of the iPod and other double digit gig MP3 jukeboxes, you'd think that these puny 128MB flash players would be falling out of fashion. Wrong! These things are still popular, and the IFP-300 line is the best out there. I bought this for several reasons: I wanted a music box a little more discrete than my aging CD player, and I wanted to be able to change my playlist easily and accomidate all the music I would want for a week. At this price, I got all I wanted and more. I can wedge this in my pocket, the batteries last very long, the sound quality is top-notch, and it comes with an FM radio and an excellent voice recorder. When I encode the songs as 128kbps 44khz MP3s, I can fit about two hours of music on this jewel, which is enough for me. At that quality, my ears cannot discern the difference between that and a CD unless I'm deliberatly looking for the difference, which I never am and you probably won't be. I once fit 4 hours of music at 64kbps (long car ride), but I was able to discern an annoying degragation in quality. A word of advice: in today's world, this particular MP3 player is taylored for me, but might not be for you. I have a modest CD collection which I can count on my fingures, and I can listen to the same song a hundred times and still enjoy it. If you have fourty CDs and can't bear to listen to the same song twice in one week or demand that your music be uncompressed, spring for an iPod. If you're someone like me but with a larger CD collection, consider this only a model with more memory. Also consider the new 700 line of MP3 players from iRiver. They seem to be basically the same as this one only different aesthetics and twice the battery life, at least according to the ads. NOTE: When you buy this, download all the firmware updates from the iRiver website. One of the updates will let you mount the MP3 player as a removable drive in Windows as opposed to the third-rate propriatary software they expect you to use. I now just drag and drop my MP3s from iTunes.
I love this player! Mostly because it is so easy to use. It has a USB port for downloading and whatnot, but you don't need a computer to put songs into the player. You will need one if you want to reformat the songs (put them in order or files), but with this player you can record with the line in feature straight from a CD player or the built in tuner. The only way you get four hours of music on this player is if you really decrease the quality of recording, that's the best I can say it. So it really holds around two hours if you want great, ungrainy sound and all. But it's light and pretty tiny so it fits easily into a pocket or crowded purse. It's great!
i haven't had the problems with the player breaking, in fact i use this thing probably more than my cd player! it is EXTREMELY handy to have, too, as it fits in your pocket (ANY pocket) with earphones too! (the sony h.EAR are the kind i use). i haven't had the firmware updated, but i can bear the less-than-great software that comes with it. the sound quality is amazing, the equilizer works wonders. i wish it had a bass boost on top of the equalizer, though. if you get the right headphones this won't be a problem, though. overall, the best thing about this mp3/mic/radio/line in recorder is that it has GREAT battery life! it's insane! overall, i would highly recommend trying this mp3 player!
