Innovative music player — not an iPod!

[soulxtc]

iRiver's ‘clix’ handles music, video, photos, games, FM with aplomb

"iPod" has become a generic name for all portable music devices — just like Walkman was a generation ago. When people lust after a music player, they rarely say they want to buy a MP3 player or say they want something to hold their WMA, OGG or WAV files. They usually just go out and buy an iPod.

But there are a brave few people who search out and devices that won’t use Apple’s AAC compression or the iTunes Music Store.

If you’re in that camp, I’ve been testing a terrific little player you should know about. iRiver calls it the clix.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14233843/


http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060807/060807_Clix-hands_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg

[Auggie2k]

I hate Sonys restrictions more that Apples. And Creative seem to be creeping behind in the "piss you off" department.

[thepuzzler]

The reviewer said he could fit 200 songs (at 96kbs wma) on the 2 gig memory. Something doesn't add up there, thats nearly 10 meg a song for a 96kbs wma track. wtf?!

It looks nice though, I must admit.

[SexyAsh]

The reviewer said he could fit 200 songs (at 96kbs wma) on the 2 gig memory. Something doesn't add up there, thats nearly 10 meg a song for a 96kbs wma track. wtf?!

It looks nice though, I must admit.


They could be guns and roses tracks with 17 min guitar solos in the middle every song

..... possibly

[Auggie2k]

Perhaps there are dedicated partitions of memory for all of the games/music/videos ect.

200 songs at 96Kbps? Jasus I wouldn't listen to one at that bitrate, the noise would drive me mad. And WMA!

[thepuzzler]

You could fit at least 200 V0 lame rips (APX -new) almost perfectly on 2 gigs. Mind you for listening on headphones V2 (APS) is probably good enough.

[mfgbypooter]

so when you gonna give one away?

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[soulxtc]

so when you gonna give one away?

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uh, I already did, and I uh won, yeah.

[Andrew110]

Creative Zen Rules!


Period.

[Andromedon]

I must agree with the majority of everyone else on this thread, it sounds like another rip off to me. When will an ideal handheld mp3 player hit the market?

[.:sp00ky:.]

"iPod" has become a generic name for all portable music devices

since when?

and also

I thought WMA/96 would be an acceptable compromise between sound quality and storage space
and I think you only found out that a mp3 was10 miniutes before you reviewed this player :/

[mountain_rage]

I had a Iriver for a month and it was plagged with battery problems and a button stopped working, returned and the new one didnt even work out of the box so I said screw it and tried a rio also broke within a month. So after all that I just didnt bother with a music player and listened to the good old fm radio.