iRiver - IFP-895 -MP3 PLAYER 512MB

 (3 customer reviews)

Originally intending to buy a Creative Muvo Micro N200 256 MB or San Disk 256 mb player, I saw the $99.99 (after rebate) IRiver player at Best Buy and bought it quickly, expecting a long-time name in the business like IRiver's MP3 players to work well. And, when I arrived home, I was surprised to see it work like I imagined: easy to use. It came with some pre-loaded songs from the most common genres: Rock, Pop, R&B, Classical, and Jazz which was nice, though most of them weren't from today's biggest artists.

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IRiver gives you three booklets that help you install the system easily, and I quickly did so with no prior knowledge about IRiver's software or system itself. I was quickly placing my music onto the system, and to my surprise, after placing 14 songs and 2 large audiobooks on the MP3 player, it was still well and fuctioning with lots of space left for more.

This is decent space. A lot of people want the more expensive 4 Gigs and 6 Gig players,...Read more

While researching for a way to put my old vinyl albums on cd, I thought my only option was to invest in a usb turntable (although I already owned a turntable), since I didnt want to hassle with connecting my stereo to my pc. Then I found this Iriver iFP-895 digital audio player. I snatched it up immediately as the model has been upgraded and is no longer being manufactured. It solved all my problems. Complete with usb cables,line-in cables,headphones,installation cd, battery and case accessories,it comes with everything you need to start recording right away. This litle machine has so many features its hard to know where to start describing them all.

First, it uses one AA battery so no wasting time recharging and hunting for that plug box. Just pop in a new battery. I pulled an all nighter recording albums,I was so happy to be able to digitize my music,and the battery lasted through the night and the next day and is still half full (theres an indicator on the LCD...Read more

I have had this player for almost a year now working with openSuse Linux and I am very happy. I used libiRiver with Konqueror suport in the beginning, but I am much happier since I updated the firmware to version 1.28 with UMS support, which makes it a simple USB memory stick.

Two small hints I want to point out:

- OGG support is great, but bit rate is only supported to a maximum of 225 kbps.

- If you need to format your player (my file system got messed up once and sound files were mixed and intertwined), you need to format the entire device, not a partition (as it is usually done in Linux with parted or with Yast2). Here is how to reformat the entire disk/player (change to root (su) first):

-- run "mount" and see which device name is being used to mount the iRiver.

-- run "umount /dev/..." using the device name found above.

-- run "mkfs -V -t vfat -c -I /dev/..." using the same device name.

-- unplug and...Read more