I got a MuVo.....

[poltr1]

Two weeks ago, I ordered a Creative Labs MuVo V100 MP3 player/voice recorder. Creative was running a sale on them; the 2 Gb model was around $30. I wanted the MuVo because it was a combination MP3 player and voice recorder.

It arrived yesterday afternoon. I spent a few hours last night and this morning playing with it, installing the software, and trying to get the thing to work. The voice recorder works, but I gotta crank up the volume to hear it. I plugged it in to my computer, which recognized the device but didn't (and still doesn't) assign it a drive letter. I can plug it into my laptop, which does recognize it and assigns it a drive letter. I tried copying MP3 files to it, but it stopped at around the fourth or fifth track.

I went to Creative's support page. What they suggested didn't work. I couldn't find a phone number for their support, but I found a place where I could send them an email.

I'll play with it some more, but if I don't get results within a week, I think I'll try to send it back.

Has anyone else had similar problems with their MP3 players?

Comments

[trektone.livejournal.com]

Fwiw, the main devices I've used for listening to mp3's on the go have been a (now-retired) Palm Tungsten E, an iPod shuffle, and the iPhone. Since all had proprietary software to handle the download/upload/sync processes, my experiences may not apply to what you're doing, but with the Palm I occasionally had problems loading both mp3's and pdf's to the SD memory card, and difficulties now and then with the Palm recognizing the loaded data. Since I didn't have to reset the Palm very many times, it wasn't a big deal to me.

As for voice recording, I understand there are ways to hack the iPhone today, but I look forward to third-party software to be able to do so in the future.

No, but...

[urban-terrorist.livejournal.com]

All of our MP3 players have been IPods, and Apple does a good job. The don't record though, so they wouldn't meet your requirements.

Oh, and they do work fine with Ubuntu and a GPL replacement for ITunes. I haven't tried installing ITunes under Wine. Itunes works fine on my Mac. Wonder why .