Samsung P3 Palm Theatre Plus 32 GB MP3 Player (Silver)

Unlike the other reviewer's experiences - I have been using the P3 for the last few months without any problems. I do use the Samsung Emodio application to manage my mp3 and video files (instead of Windows Media Player) as well as directly copying and deleting files on the P3 as it shows up on my computer as just another disk drive - Windows XP, may behave differently on Vista or Windows 7. This includes converting various movie file formats to *.svi for the player. Speaking of which - I've downloaded both movies and soccer games - the screen is actually just big enough to watch movies and sports programs fine - great for traveling. With 32Gb - I can load all my mp3s and 3-4 videos.

I also used the bluetooth feature - paired with 2 different Motorola bluetooth headsets fine and kept it listed for easy switching and reconnections. I don't know if it is the P3 or headset, but I get drop-outs periodically - only for a fraction of a second.

The vibrate feature...Read more

I purchased this item as an upgrade to my Samsung P2 8gb because I needed more storage capacity. Overall the P3 has many of the functions of the P2 so I was familiar with set-up and functions. Or so I thought. When I first plugged the player into my PC, the player started to transfer all of the photos and music files from the PC. I have over 32gb of this stuff so it crashed the player. Nowhere did I see that in order to select the items you want to load, you need to deselect the "sync when connected" box in the options tab. Once I reset the player and deleting the files I didn't want I was good to go. After I downloaded my files I noticed that very little of the album art was showing up for the music files even though the album art is displayed in the Library. It seems that this is a known problem using Windows Media Player 11 for those who rip CD's because the album art is not embedded in the file and does not transfer to MP3 player. So now I need to research on the internet for a...Read more

This player is lacking in certain features that I consider to be essential. Perhaps I am spoiled by Apple, but I believe that when you play everything by a certain artist, the tracks should have an album hierarchy and not a an alphabetical one. This means that if I want to listen to everything by a certain artist throughout their career (especially if I want it in order), I have to create a playlist.

Additionally, a major source of irritation for me was that the player will never be at more than half-volume when you turn it on. In other words, if I have the volume at 75% when I turn the player off, when I turn it on again it will be at 50%. If, however, I have the player at 10% volume then turn it off, it will be at 10% again when I turn it on. This is ostensibly to protect your ears, but I need all of the volume that I can get from the player when attaching it to my car's stereo through the headphone jack.

Finally, though this product boasts the ability to add...Read more