iRiver T60 2GB MP3 Player Colour BLACK Best Buy

It,s tiny , lightweight with good battery life and surprisingly good sound . Only the fiddly menus and toggle let it down . - 21 Dec 2007

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Me and my MP3 players part 37.....or so it feels like. I don't want to bore anyone who may read this review too much with my past travails with MP3,s, but it's fair to say I have not had too much luck. I had an Xclef 500 which weighed the same as a house brick and played with regular glitches till the day it just glitched for one final time and hasn't worked since. My next purchase the Ibusbi had fiddly touch controls , was half the size and weight and worked fine until the day that decided it would just keep turning itself off . The cheaper Logik HM500 was quite possibly the worst thing I have ever bought. It froze frequently , lost files some of the time , had appalling battery life and after only six months lost everything on its hard drive and wouldn't rebuild the data under pain of boiling in hot oil and nasty incantations.
You may have noticed a predilection for non name cheaper players here and maybe that the problem? However I don't believe in paying lots more money for name brands either. So I bought the Iriver in part exchange even though it's 2GB capacity is no where near big enough to accommodate my entire music collection. It's a tiny flimsy little thing with a screen so small a resident of Lilliput would have to squint. Loading the music is straight forward , though the software copies your music collection and if you have a large collection like me this can be a lengthy process. Frustratingly the instructions are contained on the disc and for some reason my computer would not load the PDF files so I had to work it out by intuition .
I managed the loading of music onto the player fine but even though the unit has few actual operational buttons its menus are perplexing and quite fiddly to use and I had trouble navigating between the FM radio and the music files. The jog stick is clunky to use also but I have got more adept at handling it and it loads up quite quickly and its easy to steer through the music. The T60 caters for the usual formats and I really like the fact that it picks up a song exactly where you left it after turning it off.
Battery life is good on this and of course using ordinary AAA batteries and one at that means you can carry spares so need never suffer running out of power half way home from work . The headphones aren't great but are not as bad as some will make out and the sound quality is excellent , much better than on the Xclef , so it, s clear players have improved exponentially over the years. It records voices and notes and has a voice recorder though that is of no interest to me it may be of paramount importance to someone else.
The portents are good that I may not suffer the gremlins and atrocious build quality that I have with other models. Loaded to the gills with music, if this model continues to impress I may invest in another(The 4GB version) so I can rotate the two and enjoy more of my music collection. Heres hoping the next instalment of my affiliation with MP3 players is some considerable time off.