iRiver H-120 should I buy one?

[Atlantean]

I have been looking for a harddrive mp3 player recently, and have been looking at this and the ipod. The ipod is sleek and sexy, the iriver looks good, and has way better functionality, and way better battery life. I have heard that people are having problems with the harddrives on the irivers being noisy. Is this a big factor, and are they really that noisy? What one should I get ipod or the iriver?

 

[Ryan]

get the ipod - it's the best

 

[daniel1113]

The iRiver has more features, better battery life, and IMO, are much better looking.

And, they are relatively similar in price to the iPods.

Get an iRiver.

 

[AsianriceX]

Why oh why must harddrive players be so expensive?

That iRiver look so good.
linky

 

[Gooberlx2]

I would be checking in on the iRiver international forums as well as the misticriver forums to see if whatever shortcomings are livable to you.

misticriver
iRiver I18n

I have the ihp-120 and while I do like it.....I'm never going to use the voice recorder or digital/optical line-in. IMO iRiver has also really shanked it with the firmware of these players. In terms straight functionality it's kinda crap (no on-the-fly playlists, shuffle doesn't really shuffle, no gapless playback, no synching software, start-up time is very long when using the DB mode, etc...)

But there ARE nice things too. Sounds great, wonderful size, very stylish, No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

Just research it out I say. Be sure to check out the Rio Karma as well.

 

[Doggiedog]

Got a Rio Karma for my Bday.

Thing crashed on me a few days after using it. When I looked it up, seems like a common problem. Got it working again and so far so good. Sound is decent and having Ethernet is neat though I don't use it yet.

 

[lightpants]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I would be checking in on the iRiver international forums as well as the misticriver forums to see if whatever shortcomings are livable to you.

misticriver
iRiver I18n

I have the ihp-120 and while I do like it.....I'm never going to use the voice recorder or digital/optical line-in. IMO iRiver has also really shanked it with the firmware of these players. In terms straight functionality it's kinda crap (no on-the-fly playlists, shuffle doesn't really shuffle, no gapless playback, no synching software, start-up time is very long when using the DB mode, etc...)

But there ARE nice things too. Sounds great, wonderful size, very stylish, No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

Just research it out I say. Be sure to check out the Rio Karma as well.

No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

This was the deciding factor when I bought my ihp-140 last week- I am very Happy so far.

 

[Atlantean]

What about the noise issue I have been hearing about? Does the harddrive really make a lot of noise?

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: lightpants

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I would be checking in on the iRiver international forums as well as the misticriver forums to see if whatever shortcomings are livable to you.

misticriver
iRiver I18n

I have the ihp-120 and while I do like it.....I'm never going to use the voice recorder or digital/optical line-in. IMO iRiver has also really shanked it with the firmware of these players. In terms straight functionality it's kinda crap (no on-the-fly playlists, shuffle doesn't really shuffle, no gapless playback, no synching software, start-up time is very long when using the DB mode, etc...)

But there ARE nice things too. Sounds great, wonderful size, very stylish, No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

Just research it out I say. Be sure to check out the Rio Karma as well.

No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

This was the deciding factor when I bought my ihp-140 last week- I am very Happy so far.

The 2nd gen iPod I had also did this.

I assume it is the same with the 3rd iPod?

Koing

 

[UncleWai]

Originally posted by: Koing

Originally posted by: lightpants

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
I would be checking in on the iRiver international forums as well as the misticriver forums to see if whatever shortcomings are livable to you.

misticriver
iRiver I18n

I have the ihp-120 and while I do like it.....I'm never going to use the voice recorder or digital/optical line-in. IMO iRiver has also really shanked it with the firmware of these players. In terms straight functionality it's kinda crap (no on-the-fly playlists, shuffle doesn't really shuffle, no gapless playback, no synching software, start-up time is very long when using the DB mode, etc...)

But there ARE nice things too. Sounds great, wonderful size, very stylish, No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

Just research it out I say. Be sure to check out the Rio Karma as well.

No drivers needed for Portable HDD/Drag&Drop-ability, etc...

This was the deciding factor when I bought my ihp-140 last week- I am very Happy so far.

The 2nd gen iPod I had also did this.

I assume it is the same with the 3rd iPod?

Koing

Exactly. There are way too many misinformed consumers.

The practical advantages I see the ihp-120 has over the ipod are the optical out and the lcd remote.
The look of the iriver is just uncomparable to the ipod.....

 

[xochi]

Originally posted by: Atlantean
What about the noise issue I have been hearing about? Does the harddrive really make a lot of noise?

i've had mine for about two months. no noise issues at all. I was going to go with an ipod but the iriver had so many extras that the the Ipod didnt, e.g. FM, case, remote, optical out.

true the Ipod looks "cool" but i love my iriver, sniff