Better than its reputation - Price / performance ratio currently sensational

I recently bought the Zen MX Player here on Amazon for saugünstige 59.90 and have it received more than I had expected. An MP3 player with 16GB of flash memory, which you also can still expand with SDHC card? For such a price? And then also what is good? Sounds too good to be true, but this time it is true actually.

Okay, the device wins neither a price nor a design hi-Award. Look and feel are a bit plastic as standard, and sonically it is to my subjective perception in midfield. Since I had from my old iRiver still quite good Sennheiser earphones because I have the Creative Pegs do not unpacked and the same sample belongs with the old phones, and so the sound quality is worth listening. What I like: you can crank up the thing really neat loud. A volume limit can turn on you, but you do not. By contrast, a little disappointing falls the adjustment means equalizer from just 5 frequency ranges can be regulated, and the available 8 presets are not many and they are not good. For me personally composed not so much, because I always like to listen to my music and linear reluctant rumfummle at the frequency ranges of the EQ. Otherwise there there's a bass boost, which, however, as with many MP3 players at the expense of high frequencies. I do not use it.

For the filling of the player there are several ways: out Drag & Drop from Explorer, by synchronizing through the Windows Media Player or with the supplied software Creative Centrale. In the first method you should definitely pay attention to correct MP3 tags, otherwise there my navigation on the player difficulties. I would like to sync my media library of Windows Media Player with the Zen MX, which is actually quite good works, but unfortunately, unfortunately, the playlists are not taken from there (WMP vrwendet WPL-lists, and the Zen MX M3U lists). If you like playlists, you must either on the Zen MX create directly or use the Creative Centrale. And that can be quite cost-nervous, because in comparison with the Creative Centrale, the media library of Windows Media Player is itself a dream of comfort and reliability - what one's otherwise not really an honorable mention at the WMP. Well but after some fumbling and a few bites into the table edge I could tame the Creative software to the point that it now works quite well with the use of playlists.

Other navigation options are the usual: Artist, album and genre - MP3 tags provided. Unfortunately, the player does not seem to distinguish between album artist and participating artists, which leads to be divided up and listed the sampler with the Album Artist "Various Artists" in the whole participating performers. Who has many samplers like me, who then gets an eternally long list of artists. The music navigation manages a maximum of 4,000 titles. This means that, for example, in the list "all titles" everything will fall out the bottom, which goes beyond the 4,000. As my bitrates 160-320 kbit / s, this limitation should be enough for me. Supposedly (I can not try out for yourself) will be created its own administration for the additional memory (SDHC card in the slot), and thus there could again be managed 4,000 titles.

Oh, it's a multimedia player. So I had a look at the test images and the test videos, and look pretty in (on such a small display probably everything looks pretty from). Videos I will not play with certainly, because it makes me a) not interested, and b) everything would have to be converted into the proprietary format, which probably is only possible with the Creative Centrale and not sound like great fun. But maybe someone knows a software alternative and can post them in the comments? Images are displayed in the remaining only in conventional jpg format, other file types must first be converted, but which should not be a problem, because it lots of software - freeware - there that can do that. Perhaps briefly a word about the radio reception: default. The station search finds only the strong station, and unfortunately often only mono. The Many other players better.

I can not say as much, but it makes a good impression so far and holds now more than at my old iRiver About the battery life. I expect after repeated charging and idle games will run for well over 10 hours. Should I deceive myself, I can resent in an update to my review that yes.

Long story short, I am very satisfied because I bought a really good useful MP3 player is right little money. For 5-star rating I could give only one real top players, and that's the ZEN MX now times not. Purely qualitative I forgive a normal average of 3 stars plus 1 star for the unbeatable price / performance ratio.

I hope my review was helpful.