Anyone have an Archos MP3 player?

[neomits]

What kinda quality are they?

I just found out about This little item and it looks freaking sweet

 

[Utterman]

They look sweet, but IMO, the screen is too small. If you want something that will play movies on a tv, this would be really sweet

 

[IcemanJer]

no, I wouldn't spend the money on that particular unit... I'd save it for the Anchos 20GB Studio one. Much better value.

 

[Waveslidin]

I bought an Archos Jukebox 6gb player when it first came out over a year ago. It worked for about 4-5 months and then stopped playing. Interestingly enough, I could still hook up the usb cable and use it for storage (it was visible as a drive in windows explorer and successfully copied and retrieved from it). It just wouldn't play anything when not connected to the computer. Tried to contact Archos and got the runaround. Maybe they are more reliable now, and customer service is better, but my experience wasn't the greatest.

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: Waveslidin
I bought an Archos Jukebox 6gb player when it first came out over a year ago. It worked for about 4-5 months and then stopped playing. Interestingly enough, I could still hook up the usb cable and use it for storage (it was visible as a drive in windows explorer and successfully copied and retrieved from it). It just wouldn't play anything when not connected to the computer. Tried to contact Archos and got the runaround. Maybe they are more reliable now, and customer service is better, but my experience wasn't the greatest.

do they have firmware upgrades that you can install..?

 

[Waveslidin]

Originally posted by: IcemanJer

Originally posted by: Waveslidin
I bought an Archos Jukebox 6gb player when it first came out over a year ago. It worked for about 4-5 months and then stopped playing. Interestingly enough, I could still hook up the usb cable and use it for storage (it was visible as a drive in windows explorer and successfully copied and retrieved from it). It just wouldn't play anything when not connected to the computer. Tried to contact Archos and got the runaround. Maybe they are more reliable now, and customer service is better, but my experience wasn't the greatest.

do they have firmware upgrades that you can install..?

Yes, I even had successfully installed one before. I still worked for a while after the upgrade, so I'm pretty sure that is not what caused it.

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: Waveslidin
Yes, I even had successfully installed one before. I still worked for a while after the upgrade, so I'm pretty sure that is not what caused it.

d'oh. that sucks.