iRiver H320 (20 GB) MP3 Player

Pros: Color Screen for pics, Radio Tuner, Ease of use, Compacity, Text Viewer
Cons: None yet

Overall this little gadget is amazing. It has all the features I was looking for with a brilliant color screen. This comes in handy to load some digital camera pictures and other text articles. I paid only $315 from best buy (had coupon). Although it is a little thicker than the ipod it is much much better for what I need. Also I think the ipod screen is just dull to me.

Pros: Sound puts others to shame, plays video with a firmware change
Cons: Somewhat awkward interface, discontinued.

This is a truly great personal music player that doesn't lock you into a particular system or format. It can handle DRM'd music, but is equally at home with MP3, WAV, and (best of all) OGG files. Almost all computer systems automagically see it as a UMS (USB Mass Storage) device, including Linux.

The sound quality from the Philips UDA1380 chip is superior to that from almost any other portable. Couple the iRiver H320 with a decent pair of headphones such as Grados and you'll be amazed at the sonic quality.


"Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited!"

Pros: GREAT Sound
Cons: none

I have a H20. My wife has a Nano. No comparison. Iriver is easy to setup as a regular HD on the cpu, no mess with media ports. etc.

The unit is rugged, and should be as it is 5 times the size of a nano. GREAT SOUND in my Infiniti and on my home BOSE system.

Pros: Well built, bright screen, great sound.
Cons: Complex interface, small control buttons

I purchased the H320 about a month and have taken it along a several trips since, using the IRiver wireless to play through the car radio. The sound is excellent, the screen is large and very bright. I replaced the earphones with after-market for comfort.

Setup was breeze, since the H320 thinks its a 20gb hard-drive and you just copy files over using Explorer. Navigating around is a little counter-intuitive but you get used to it. Playlists, which required you to download WinAmp and build them on your computer, are a little complicated but work well once you get everything straight.

The unit is well-built, which is a plus if you are like me and tend to drop stuff or let it rattle around in the car. The buttons could be a little bigger, so that they are easier to use but they're tolerable. Battery life is great and I really appreciate that you can charge it via a USB on the go, so you don't have to carry an extra AC adapter.

All in all, if you like having LOTS of music to listen to, this is a great unit, with a great design and phenomenal sound.

Pros: Hold Pics, Color screen, Looks cool
Cons: Takes long to turn on, controllers are hard to use

The Iriver H320, is the best in its class. Its can hold jpeg images, 20 gigs worth of songs, you can record form any device; u can plug it into a cd player and copy that cd(with out needing to use a computer). You can still use a computer to transfer songs. It also has a feature that is very rare in mp3 players, 2 head phones or ear phones can be pluged in at one(so two people can listen at onece). The coolest thing is that you can use it as a video player, only if you know how to video types. There are only 2 bad things, one is that it takes a long time (1 min) to turn on. The other is that the contriollers are hard to use, u have to get use to them.

Pros: Battery Sound File Tree and ID3 Support Beautiful Screen
Cons: Navigation Design

I've had this product for around 10 months now and I'm reporting it's still in great condition. The battery life is still great and a new firmware has been released called "rockbox". Visit rockbox.org for more details. This player has incredible sound quality that every type of music lover can enjoy. If you like lots of bass, you can adjust bass levels, it has set EQ's and sounds fine under most headphones. The file navigation is sub-par but I don't really mind it. The database mode "ipod type navigation" takes around a minute to boot up and is very annoying. That's why I use just normal folder view.The h320 is also equipped with a beautiful color screen which with new firmware from iriver can display movies at 10 frames per second.

Pros: Great sound quality on FM tuner
Cons: Software problems and lack of support.

The insstruction manual states that if you have a Windows
SE operating system you must install the software and
driver provided. Did that, but the installation process cannot recognize the driver file iRiverH.inf file. I then tried another computer with XP Professional OS, this time
the install hardware procedure could not recognize the
existence of the H320.
Internet support: miserable contradictory information and
no drivers available. Then spent 26 minutes on 800 number but never got through. I am returning the H320. Too bad because it has great features.

Pros: Records high quality audio, plays wavs, plays video avis (reformatting for size is needed)
Cons: Case problems, and the database sometimes loses the ability to recognise dragged music files

Excellent device, but beware of the carry case with the press studs -- I dropped two H300s in quick succession and in different ways with this.
[1] Screw holding case top belt clasp was supplied loose and dropped the device on my first walk outside. It survived the drop perfectly, but was bizarrely stolen soon afterwards
[2] Replacement fell to the ground (despite the screw being fixed with superglue) when the lower fastening of the case unbuttoned without warning -- seemingly when my jacket tugged at the earphone cable slightly.
Again, the H300 seems unaffected by the fall onto the pavement, another plus.

Pros: No software needed plugs into any comp, sound quality, picture quality,ease of use.
Cons: So great a product someone may steal it

The sound quality is awesome, plug and play is so easy to use and the device can also be used as a portable hard drive. I've now bought a second for my daughter.Much superior to my old ipod.

Pros: Lots of space, portability, easy to use
Cons: Instruction manual could use more explanation.

The iRiver is amazing. It has great portability, a beautiful color display, user friendly buttons and an overwhelming capacity for MP3s and WMA files. I did find that the instruction manual needed more information. I also had some difficulty when first plugging in the device with the USB cable. Although the user manual indicated that software installation was unneccesary with Windows XP, it repeatedly prompted me to insert software disc and install, which I did. This created problems with my computer freezing, but once I uninstalled the driver software, everything was fine! Also, it was not very clear how to manage files/folders on the device. This is done on your computer by connecting the iRiver with the USB and then clicking on the new drive that is displayed. You can also upload pictures, but I find that I don't use this capability much. It comes with a durable hard case and head phones. I love it!

Pros: The player RAWKS!
Cons: The company sucks!

I will start with the good. The player itself is pretty rock solid. Awsome features for a great price! Now on with the not so great things. The player itself is incredible! The company itself is horrible! They chose to not include USB On The Go in the US version but did with all other countries. They have not yet updated the firmware on the player. Any other version of the firmware will play videos. They chose to not include a remote with the retail packaging in the US. They launched the player with NO accessories to sell and are still, 6 months latter lacking many of them. They have a horribly slow turn around time on support requests. One request took 3 weeks to get a response for. The program that they give you to make the catalog of files on yoru player is total garbage. The player itself supports WMA, mp3 and OGG, the software (Mood Logic) only reads MP3 files.

I have been without my H320 for about 2 weeks now due to a hard drive issue. iRiver has yet to get back to me in regards to the warranty work.

:-(

Pros: Smaller than Ipod when you consider all the features it has.
Cons: None.

Supports most audio formats, FM radio with 20 preset, records from built-in internal mic, external mic, inline, etc. in other words it records from all sources, view photos, read text, and plays video with digital sound! With a firmware upgrade (v 1.25k) from iRiver's international site, the H320 and H340 plays video. Video has to be formatted to the required specs but that is not a problem. Go to misticriver dot net for all the info and if you don't beleive me! Can your Ipod do all that? Only if you pay an arm and a leg for a video camera or portable dvd player, ipod fm receiver, ipod external mic and the latest, most expensive ipod that lets you view photos. That comes to about US$1,000.00. Don't worry, carrying all of your cool Ipod stuff shouldn't weigh more than 10 lbs. I'd guess around 6lbs.

Pros: Great playback and features including recording with internal or external mics.
Cons: You have to look up some controls. A problem if you have goldfish-like concentration.

I've had one of these players for about 3 months now and during that time have used it pretty much everyday.

I bought this player as a replacement for my old minidisc player and was especially keen to get a player that could also record using an external mic as I make music with found sounds.

It took me a little while to get used to the navigation and other controls but now that I am I find it very easy to use. The sound quality on playback is very good and it's also a good recording device with low enough noise for my purposes.

I like the idea of upgradeable firmware and have upgraded so that I can now watch film on it and play back wavs should I want to (Having said that I haven't tested the film playback but there's plenty of info on this on iriver forums.)

Overall very pleased with this and have been listening to more music than ever as a consequence.

Pros: Durable, Open Codec, Superb Sound, Color Screen
Cons: Manual is too simplistic, heavy, no USB on the Go

I am more than happy with this amazing device. I agree with all the reviews. I bought this unit instead of buying more memory cards for my camera. I have not yet 0figured out how to save files directly from my camera without computer...but I am getting closer to figuring it out.

I believe iRiver manual is so vague because this machine has so many options and many could be viewed as illegal. This is to the consumer's benifit. You will not have to purchase more software. Although I did purchase Moodlogic.

Do not buy a fm modulator for your car. The quality of those devices are horrible. You are better off upgrading your car deck to include direct plug in.

Buy this thing!