I-Jam sounds good to me.
Oct 12 '00
I recently bought an I-Jam 101 MP3 player. I think it's pretty nice. I don't have to pay for CD's just to get that one song I really like. Yeah, I could buy a single, but sometimes they don't make singles of the songs I want. That used to be a problem, but no longer. On Amazon.com I found an I-Jam player which was 85.57, but it came with a 50.00 mail in rebate. For around $30.00 it sounded like a deal. Since I've had it I've been fairly pleased.
The nice thing about this player is that it also has an FM radio feature. That's always nice to have because sometimes I just wanna listen to a radio station while I walk. The idea of moving MP3's to a mobile outlet was a great one. I was not sure what kind of player to buy originally, and Amazon had an opinion section. I read two opinions and I was convinced that this MP3 player would do the trick.
The only thing that I can find wrong with it is that the memory cards are only 16MB. What this means is that only 16 megabytes of music can be stored on each card. With technology the way it is that roughly translates to four songs (MP3's are about one megabyte per minute of music). Since the player I bought comes with two of these cards it's ok. The fact that I can buy more cards from I-Jam is even better. The only problem with this is that it would be cheaper just to keep buying the players which have rebates just to get the cards that they come with. One Scan Disk card that is 16MB runs for about $30.00. That would mean that for the same amount(considering the rebate) you could easily buy another player and get two cards for the basic price of just one. This is the only place where I think I-Jam has a major problem.
The installation of the actual software on your computer is another problem. The manual only addresses issues that deal with the media player which is installed onto your hard disk. It doesn't deal at all with the Shuttle program which actually transfers the songs to the card. The easiest way to avoid this is to make sure that the media player saves your downloaded music to your "C" drive. Once it does this just simply click and drag the song from your "C" drive list and drop it into the icon which represents the attachment which your card records from. The manual doesn't really tell you this and there's no information about it on the company web site either. I'm not really sure why though. It sounds great, and it was a good buy for me.
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