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Rating:  - Frustrating, complicated, useless.My nine year old bought this with her Christmas money. She could not use it...it's just too complicated. So, I bought it from her thinking it would be great on my desk at work...well, I spent HOURS trying to convert files blah blah blah to get my music on this thing, never got it working. On top of that, the radio gets very poor reception, even with the antenna plugged in. I gave up on this and bought an Ipod. It took me 10 minutes to get everything set up on the Ipod. I guess you don't need to spend hours swearing, installing and uninstalling software, and converting files to listen to music, you just need to NOT buy this product, get an Ipod. I hate music match, and I hate this Shoqbox. I gave it two stars for cuteness and good speakers. Rating:  - worth the priceIf you want to enjoy this product, which by the way you can get at sams club for only 50 bucks, there are a couple of things I would recomend, so that you don't run into the same problems most of the people here did. First off, do not plug the thing untill you have installed the software and read the manual which is also on the disc. Connect the device direclty to a usb to the computer, DO NOT USE USB HUBS!!!! Before you unplug the device use SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE, on the botton right hand side of you monitor skipping this very simple step could result in the device freezing, and you would probably have to use the reset button on the back and would have to use the Device manager that is specifically for this product and you may end up resetting the device to original factory settings or updating the firmware alltogether. If you download the latest firmware be aware that when you press to the next track it skips a little, which can be annoying. Although the latest firmware allows you to use windows media player, I could not load up a playlist I was able only to load up music. Besides music match is not that bad. If your player does not power up when you open it the very first time all you have to do is press the reset button on the back with a pen. ( reading the manual could have saved many people here a lot of frustration). So there it is, I am enjoying very much this product, which by the way I got a one year extended warranty for only five bucks more, do not be concerned by the freaked out reviews posted here I'd bet that all of them could have been resolved easyly. Now is there room for improvement? definately, expandable memory ogg vorbis for example, but com'on fifty follars I think is reasonable for what you get. Last but not least, although this device has built in alarm clock is mostly a digital audio player as advertised on the original packaging, you can get an alarm clock at the 99 cent store which by the way work much better. Did I mentioned that this device's volume can fill a room with decent bass, I've showed it to many people and they can believe how loud it is. You can hear a very minimal distortion at the highest volume, almost perfect. Enjoy. Rating:  - Cruddy Unreliable DeviceThis is an unreliable piece of junk. Went through two before I decided to stop myself. Check out the reviews of the 512MB version, they're applicable here, too: two DOA units was enough for me. I believe the problem is the power charger: on both units, there was no 5V DC output from the charger, so naturally the device couldn't power up. Good idea, silly putty execution. Rating: - Philips - LISTEN UPYou have a _great_ product here. I loved having it. The sound is good, and rechargeable batteries make it so convenient. You need to do two things with this product: 1) Allow music to come from a SD card 2) Use USB 2.0 Then you will have a winner and I'd definitely get one. I returned mine. Rating: - HUGE sound, GREAT producti got the shoqbox about a week ago at best buy. it was on sale for $99, and hey, even amazon can't hardly beat that! i am so impressed with the shoqbox!!! this thing is TINY, and yet produces so much sound you would think you were listening to a full sound boombox! its insane! granted, its not bose or anything, but if you want something portable with great battery life, an FM tuner (which actually works, i might add), an alarm clock (upgrade your firmware), and space for about 50 or 60 songs, this is perfect! it is really amazing how good the bass is considering how small it is! it does not distort even at the loudest volume, unless you are listening to poor-quality songs. there are a few drawbacks, of course, the main one being that there is no expandability via sd card or something (256 is all you have), and you HAVE to use the MusicMatch software included (a real pain, and slow... believe me, i tried the windows explorer route, dragging and dropping into the player's hidden folders, but it didn't work)... but overall the benefits far exceed the slight drawbacks. oh yea, one other thing: the line-in jack is PERFECT,,, you can hook other MP3 players or whatever up to it and the sound is just as great! i definately recommend this product.
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