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First MP3 player/recorder with 6 GB HD

updated 01:45 pm EDT, Wed June 13, 2001

 
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Archos Technology has introduced the Archos Jukebox HD-MP3 Recorder, a 12.3 oz MP3 recorder and player with a 6 GB hard drive, which can record up to 100 hours of high-quality music or 500 hours of voice recordings.

The $350 device, which is only slightly larger than a deck of cards, connects to any analog or digital audio source, including home stereo, radio, CD player, separate microphone via stero or in-line jack, and encodes and stores the audio as MP3 in real-time. A built-in microphone also allows voice recordings, and the unit offers USB connectivity with both Macs and PCs. The Archos Jukebox Recorder will be available online beginning June 21, 2001 and is expected to hit store shelves later this summer.


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    Don't buy it

    Their Mac support is misleading. They do not offer iTunes compatability. The Hard Drive is formated to Windows, if you reformat to HFS it can no longer play MP3's. To make playlists you have to use MusicMatch. Not only does MusicMatch suck, but the Mac version does not provide compatablie playlists. a "4th party" created a playlist generator but it sucks compared actuall support from Archos. Buy the creative JukeBox instead. Oh and all these features were suppose to be enabled on their orignal product.

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    Creative's new jukebox

    Also happens to be cheaper.

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    Nomad Jukebox

    Creative's Nomad Jukebox is a great product; I like mine a lot. It has good iTunes / SoundJam support, too. Hard disk size is also 6GB. What the Archos seems to offer is a smaller physical size (the Nomad is the size and shapeof a portable CD player), and the ability to encode analog audio MP3 (the Jukebox can record, but only in uncompressed WAV format.)
    Personally, I don't think the recording feature is a big deal unless you want to use it for concert bootlegs or lectures or something. For encoding your music collection you'll definitely want to stay all-digital by using e.g. iTunes to rip CDs.

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    Re: Creative

    THe Nomad Jukebox is better and cheaper. I posted the first coment and when I bought my Archos it was cheaper.

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    USB interface?

    I thought this had potential until I read the interface part of the specs.

    I would think Firewire is a shoe in...

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    Jukebox Warranty

    I like the Creative Jukebox but I believe there warranty is 90 days-I find that strange considering most consumer electronics carry a 1 year warranty.

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    Re: USB

    It's not that bad bacasue you only use it to trasfer music. But agreed, a FireWire interface would be an improvement.

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    90 day warranty...

    Sony and Philips consumer electronics only offer 90 day parts and labor. After 90 days, you're under a 1 year parts only warranty. That means if anything goes wrong on day 91 it's likely to cost you around $100, at least.

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    Re:USB

    It's not that bad bacasue you only use it to trasfer music.
    Doesn't matter. 6GB is 6GB, data or "music" (actually it's data...)

    Slightly OT: Whatever happened to Iomega's Clik drive (Hip Zip)with 100 MB disks? The package looks good with the current 40 MB disks but would be even better with 100 MB disks.

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    Drivers

    Archos' support and drivers aren't too hot either. I needed to get a working driver for their Q-Disk, which is advertised on the box as Mac and PC, their technical support just replied 'we don't support macs'.

    if it's just to play lots of mp3's on the move. have a look at Freecom's Beatman mini CD player (plays mini CD-Rs and mp3s). about a 3rd of the price, uses dirt cheap mini CD-Rs and it's tiny :)

    http://www.freecom.de

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