The Cowon M2 description, instructions, evaluation, and comparison with the Cowon D2.

The Cowon M2 description, instructions, evaluation, and comparison with the Cowon D2.

Cowon M2 MP3 / MP4 Player (32GB) (Electronics)

Customer Review

The Cowon M2 is an instrument with good sound and a long battery life. He plays all possible formats in particular OGG what each one Linux and open source friend should be a concern and each of the values ​​the better performance of this format compared to MP3. Even very low bitrates MP3 are supported, which is interesting for those who might like to like high bit rates for music and appreciate good sound quality, but choose to save space very low bit rates to the naked, spoken word. This is an improvement, for example, compared to the older model D2.

The M2 is as wide as a debit card, shorter than this and of course thicker in approximately. The processing does not look as wertig as yet at the Cowon D2. He has keys
Enable for On / Off / Hold / extinguished display (depending on the length of holding the button)
for Play / Stop,
for track jump forward / backward,
(gleichtzeitig smart reset at pressures of plus and minus five seconds) for up / down
and a menu button.
Clearly missing is the sound of the slider D2s, the M2 is ready with just a little, and cheaper uneleganteren button to press on.
All physical buttons are slightly raised. For my D2 I have a rubber sheath that can freely adjust the keys, so that they appear then now slightly recessed. In this way they are protected from inadvertent pressure in the pocket. Hopefully there is for the moment (10'2014) on the market is still very new Cowon M2 soon such an envelope.

A detailed instruction manual is the package has not been settled, it is only the names of the buttons and connections explained on paper, how to load the device correctly, how to connect it to your computer and again logs off of him, and how to update the firmware , That was about it. The not entirely intuitive compared to my Vorgerät Cowon D2 operation I had to tap through my trials; only later I found a manual on the device itself, but not in great detail fails.
For my taste the Bedinung of M2s is slightly complicated as compared to D2, and Cowon has to (as you would put it in the Linux world) can be a favor reinforced Klickbunti-reproach.

Here is a short manual for the most important things:
Let's start from the four-page menu, which is available in two designs available, which can be selected via the "Theme" option in the menu.
You can see the pages of the menu up and down slide and so between a themed Bildchen (called Daily Life UIs = Daily Life User Interfaces), which perhaps with the screen saver of the computer is comparable (more variegated mottos can be selected by clicking on the touchpad to scroll change) and the menu.
The individual points of the menu, you will access by slow single click or double click. The selected functions (radio, music, etc.) can be left by physical Menu button again and thus reach back to the menu.
If you have pushed away the menu and then changed to the slogan-Bildchen, missing all displays other than your time. However, from the slogan-Bildchen out not how to change from a function out of the menu button to the menu, but you have the themed little picture up or untenwegschieben to switch to the menu.

Musiknaviagtion:
I love the Order my albums Category, in folders and subfolders. The Samsung Galaxy mp3 player, for example, should the supposedly not control, and show everything in one interface, among other reasons I decided again for a Cowon. At first glance, it seems, however, the Cowon M2 have the same deficit. If you select the menu "music", so you only have one view with two albums drawbacks:

Shortcoming 1: Eben all albums are on one level. So I can neither music categories, yet differ audiobook directions, even music and audio books from each other.

Shortcoming 2: You only have one photo albums as View (Navigation: slide your finger to the left or right). This means you can see tiles, not the names of the albums. Alas, there is no image file in the album folder, then a music icon appears, making appropriate folder indistinguishable. The name of the folder you can read now, if there is in the image file name, which is then used instead of the music as a symbol tile. Or you can go in each folder into it, then the folder name is above the list of files (sometimes comes the file xyz_10 occurs xyz_01!) Appears.

The solution for the shortcomings 1 and 2: In the menu, there is also the browser function. So you can navigate by folder, such as for music and for audiobooks and descending possibly in other categories, so you want to create it yourself. What with one player can be helpful for the review so large capacity. In the Browser View of the files the order with me in all cases agrees (xyz_01 occurs xyz_10). However, I feel that scrolling through the menu to browser through a cumbersome.

Manko 3: Whether you are in the music function, or examined with the browser for its files if the folder name is long, so you can read but only the beginning, because the name does not migrate. Since the Cowon D2 was even better. Even long filenames are on the spot and are unreadable. Only when you have selected a file that is being played, then wanders her name through the display so that you can read even longer names. This is true but mind you only for the file, not the folder name.

Learn while playing a music file: Time, volume, symbol of the battery level, current elapsed time of the piece and total playing time of the piece. Here lies the

Manko 4: The D2 had contrast, displaying the bit rate, which I personally like to watch, also displaying the acoustic settings, the play mode (repeat etc.) and the playback limit (versus all folders on the player). To read this, you would have to go at M2 only through the settings. (Access:, then switch When the playback display Clicking the touch panel with the buttons appearing on the required page.) This is a matter of taste, but to me this is too complicated, I would rather see and have an overview.
After two weeks of use of M2, I note, moreover, that it is very bugging me not to see where I stand straight in the album. It also saves not with a symbol on the left top of the touchpad on the Albums view to change, because it is the mentioned, for defective view of all albums. In addition there is only, however, based on all files in the player. The one and the other does not say anything to me. I do like what's coming, whether in the audio book or in the respective music album. To find out where I stand, I need only the menu and in the browser click that is cumbersome, was at D2 not necessary, and therefore I feel the M2 to be deficient.

The Radio:
The radio can be operated using the left and right buttons on the touchpad or on the physical track buttons. Good. If you hold one of these buttons a little longer, so one gets the channel scan. But you can also drag a tab to the frequency display in the touchpad, which performs a similar function. Without a eingestöpselten headphones, which can be used as an antenna, but no receipt is practically zero.
I may be wrong by the way, but the reception of the Cowon D2s appears better than that of M2's me.

About the alarm and over the radio:
There are under Settings Time Alarm on "Next" on page 2 mode, the options to be woken up with music, FM radio or FM recording. Unfortunately, there is no ring tones. However, the radio function is ruled out in practice because one would have to go to sleep with headphones to have reception. Alternatively, connect the sake of the cable through an external speaker cable, but my discretion does not make sense, because you will want to use the M2 precisely because of its convenient, internal speaker for raising.

Expansion with SD card:
The D2 had big problems with expansion and hung on with 16GB cards and Ogg Vorbis files. The M2 can be expanded with a 32er Mikoro-SD card, I packed my computer, especially with Ogg Vorbis. The start time is extended by the extension, however, by more than three quarters of a minute. If, briefly pause while z. B. something (headphones are rude at checkout) from a shop brings, meanwhile, the device switches off (I think not an option this time default timeout). If you come out of the shop out back, one must first of all wait for a while until it goes on. It's frustrating.

My personal rating:

- Praiseworthy: Long battery life.

- Instant replay button bad music Navigation, long folder and file names are not legible: a star deduction.

- Radio bad: no deduction, that's not important to me, instead of using the M2's rather a good radio.

- Bad: The touch screen is easy operation resistant and jumps like to prefer to the next page, instead of taking the selected.

- Flawed: While a title is playing, too little information to be displayed. Both in terms of the file, the playback mode, the state in the gallery as well as the remaining battery power. One star deduction.

- Praiseworthy: good sound. But why one buys indeed an expensive device like this, which therefore does not catch above Stern loss.

- Praiseworthy: the Jet-effects, is much to read about elsewhere. But they are also in this price range is no salvation for the lost star.

The bottom line results that for me three star.

Conclusion and alternatives:
Buy the D2 if you catch him yet. Only I know, and only for I can speak. One possible option is also currently (10'2014) still current X9 from Cowon, a the D2 or the M2 similar device that me a cumbersome Klickidingsbums seems to be, according to the information available on the Internet not so. But if the X9 keeps up with the M2 and eats all promised encodings with all bit rates, and if he so well copes with the expansions as the M2, I do not know. And if, in contrast to M2, he makes up for its shortcomings and displays all the information that I can not say. The M2 anyway disappointed at all in front of display and operation. However, one must say, it is also not the end, when you get used to the operation. Although he does not run as long as the X9, but with 90 instead of 56 (D2) hours it is still absolutely sensational. And he's getting even with current maximum 32GB rather than just a maximum of 16GB. So if you do not mind my faults to above, can be accessed safely here. All others were warned.

great product! 19 Rank: 5/5
June 3
Not recommended 27 Rank: 2/5
January 15
Really great jacket! Rank: 5/5
April 6
I love 10 2 Rank: 3/5
December 9
Zlatan Rank: 5/5
March 9
Superb 948 Rank: 5/5
April 29

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