AVB MP-1GC "4-in-1" 1 GB MP3 Player

• 4-in-1 device: MP3 Player, USB drive, FMStereo Radio and Voice Digital Recorder all in one unit
• LCD EL Blue Back Light * Five EQ modes, including Classic, Rock, Pop, Jazz¿
• Support MP3 and WMA Play Format
• Store 240 MP3songs
• Eleven languages can be chosen for LCD manual and music titles

I picked up this player because I found it for a great price. I should have known that there was a reason it was so cheap.

The rocker on the bottom is really flimsey and feels very cheap. When using it to fast forward an audio file it will often stop fast forwarding and skip to the next track. I typically listen to podcasts on the player, many of them are 30 to 60 minutes long so it's important to be able to fast forward reliably for those times that...

It reboots when it's powered on and makes contact with nearly anything metal. If I'm listening to something and the case bumps something metal (sometimes plastic will do it too) the player reboots. Typically this happens when I'm in a grocery store and the player bumps the cart. I thought I'd solve the problem by droping the player into my shirt (it comes with a necklace-headphone-dangely-thingy). Unfortunately it will reboot if it makes contact through my shirt too. I have to assume this has something to do with static discharge.

Twice now it has caused my computer to crash. I will plug in the USB cable and the instant it makes contact with the MP3 player my laptop immediately turns off. Makes me nervous to plug it in to add content.

Also, it only supports a single level of directories. That means if you have your music arranged in album folders under your artist folders you will have to move all your songs into the artist folder or copy each individual album over to the player. By default Windows Media Player copies it over as Artist\Album so the player can't read any of the songs. Combine that with the 99 files per directory limitation and it's a fatal flaw.

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My husband bought me this player when I was REAALLY hoping for an ipod. I sure am glad I didn't get the ipod! I later tried to use one after this one and it wasn't nearly as user friendly.

I use this MP3 player for jogging mostly, but have used it countless times in the gym and at wal-mart while shopping. In reading the other reviewers comments I couldn't help but think perhaps they got a defective item? The one I have has been through the following:

-One pit bull chewing

-One solid night out in Florida rain and humidity (still works fine)

-a number of times forgotten in the car in the heat

-being stuffed in my shirt while jogging (it usually ends up as sweaty as I am)

I will admit I had heard (pun!)the ear buds weren't that great for sound, but I never really noticed. That part didn't survive the pit bull chewing fest. So I bought some gummy ear buds from wal-mart and it's perfect. The battery life on this thing is wonderful (~8 hours if I were to estimate) and gives an indicator of how much battery power is left. The backlighting works great and you can even select the color (provided I am referring the correct model, which I believe I am). I wrote this up on epinions.com as well. I'm now looking into getting one of these for my husband. He has long since abandoned his ipod (short battery life and just not as user friendly) and constantly uses MY mp3 player. Go figurewe've come full circle. I have had this item for about 3 years now and I love it. If you are as tough on equipment as I am I would strongly recommend it. Oh yeah, and if it gets wet, be sure to let it dry out before using it again. I left it in a sunny window sill for about 2 days to ensure it was completely dry before trying it. To methis little item is like Timex, "takes a lickin, keeps on tickin".

9/2011It still lives. The digital readout finally died but it still plays music and the color backlighting still works. Bear in mind these many years I have been sticking it in my sweaty sports bra to hold it in place. After leaving it in the rain a couple times. I would still buy another one of these. In fact I hope they are still around when this one DOES finally die completely.