# Iriver: an excellent company with accessible players.

Category: accessible Devices

## Post 1 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2006 11:53:53

Now, I from this I am opening a can of worms with the words accessible. I own an iriver h10 5 gig player and by accessible I mean that you can use it without any particular transfer software. It syncs quite well using windows media 10 and music can also be placed on it by copying and pasting with the iriver showing up as a hard drive in my computer. There are audible clicks when moving through the menu however unlike the ipod they are not heard through the headphones but generated by a speaker in the player and are quite soft. The equalizer is excellent and the sound can really be customized. Get your's today!

## Post 2 by BB (move over school!) on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2006 14:33:48

And where did you get this from?

## Post 3 by guitargod1 (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2006 16:52:28

The I river players are very nice but they need to drop their prices and come out with a sixty gig player!

## Post 4 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2006 6:13:48

isn't this the player that you can make talk with I believe the rock box software?

## Post 5 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2006 7:40:25

Good morning all. I got the H10 from staples and it can also be had from bestbuy and circuit city. The one that talks with rockbox I believe are the Archos units and perhaps one iriver. you can find this out at rockbox.org. yup, there a little expensive I agree but it is sure nice to find one that supports WMA and that I can use easily.

## Post 6 by drummerguy425 (Veteran Zoner) on Saturday, 25-Mar-2006 1:34:04

I was sort of considering getting an I river but I here there pretty expensive, so I dunno if there even accessible, I need to get some peoples oppinions on it.

## Post 7 by The SHU interpreter (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 03-Apr-2006 23:29:26

what size are those players? are they better than Ipods? or are they the same?

## Post 8 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2006 8:18:46

Here are my thoughts on this. First: I don't know that iI can say they are better then IPods. All of these little boxes play music but have different interfaces. So it really comes down to what you are comfortable using. Ipods are great because there small and offer the click wheel which gives great access to the unit.Also, a user can tell when they are at the beginning or end of a menu because the clicking will stop even if you move your hand around the wheel. The reason I didn't get one is because I have music that I have purchased in the Windows Media format and the Ipod doesn't play it. Yes! I could spend the time conferting the files to MP3 but I really have more important things to do so I elected to go with the Iriver. I do have a creative labs 40 gig zen player but find it hard to work with since there is no audible verification when moving through the menus. Here's what the Iriver offers that I like. It also has clicks for the menus and although they don't stop like the ipod it's still something. The equalizer is extrmely good. it's a 5 band graphic that enables complete molding of the sound to the way you like it. (okay!us sound guys love this feature(.. It syncs up with windows media player easily but even better you can copy and paste music to it because it is recognized as removable drive. Also, updateing the units firmware is a snap and completely accessible. and!!!!! yes!!!!!! they are the same size as an ipod.

## Post 9 by Juliet (move over school!) on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2006 14:57:42

I've never seen the harddrive-based units, so I can't really comment on those, but I have an Iriver t10, and wouldn't trade it for the world. With it being a flashbased blayer it doesn't have as much memory as a harddrive-based player, but I've still found it to be fairly easy to use, and to have a lot of the same features as the ones mentioned.
Mine only has 512 megs of storage space, but it was recommended to me that I get a flashbased player over a harddrive-based player since from what the person recommending them told me, the harddrives could crash, and if that were to happen, I wouldn't have a clue as to how to go about getting it fixed.

## Post 10 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2006 16:37:21

The problem I have with Iriver is that their flash based players are very very out-of-date size wise. Their biggest one (unless I'm wrong) is only 1gb whereas the iPods are up to 4gb and I've seen some 6gb players out there now. I want at lesat 4gb of flash memory to store my music/books etc because I generally only use those players on long / international trips and I want enough music to keep me interested for at lest a week of listening.
Also iPods work great with audible.com and I don't know if iRiver does.
I'm considering getting one of the 4gb iPod Nanos and update the hardware with RockBox but it's a bit of an expensive venture.
Hopefully iRiver are about to catch up though.

## Post 11 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2006 16:47:47

I'm curious WillieTheWoof. I take it that you've had the Iriver player for a while now so should be able to tell me, what is the battery life like with them? It's just that I do quite a lot of travelling and need something that could say, give 20 hours play back without a charge. In your experience could the Iriver player manage that? The same question to anybody reading this who has used the Ipod players. At the moment I am using a portable MP3 CD player purely because if the batteries die, I can easily change them but that does mean carrying around disks, batteries etc. So a hard disk MP3 player really would make life much easier but I've never really known what to go for. Any help would be appreciated.

## Post 12 by Jesse (Hmm!) on Tuesday, 04-Apr-2006 22:45:21

The new iPod 60GB battery lasts for I think 20 hours of music playback without a charge. I'm glad I got an iPod.

## Post 13 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2006 4:33:50

I've really been looking into this and i am going to get a iriver or an ipod soon.
From what people on here have said, the iriver seems more blind friendly compared to the ipod; but there is a total at school that has the 20 gb ipod, and i think he can use it ok with out the rockbox stuff.
I saw a iriver pmp 140 player on ebay go for £150 new, but i couldn't bid coz i don't have any money.
The thing is thougbh, i'd never use 40 gb up with music, but considdering the size of the unit, i think i would use it for music playing and portable storage to, which would mean that i would use the 40 gb.
Also, the pmp 140 has tv out, which might not be that good for me, but coz it excepts mpg's and stuff like that, i could just put a film on it, and plug it into the tv so that my family and friends could see it.
Sounds cool.
BEN.

## Post 14 by WillieTheWoof (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2006 19:00:58

Unfortunately, the battery is about a 9 hour 1 on the h10 5gb that I have. Larger players may have longer life. You would probably want to get a second battery for the unit. It is removable so you can switch.

## Post 15 by Juliet (move over school!) on Thursday, 06-Apr-2006 15:45:48

the latest fermware for the Iriver I have does support audible files, it had a lot of bug fixes with it that I didn't even know existed when I first got the thing, but from what I've been able to tell so far, it seems to work better, and though I'm not an audible user, I thought that was a neat feature seeing as how I was hearing about other users of the site and how they had to constantly convert the files if they wanted to do anything other than simply listen to them.

## Post 16 by ItsAConspiraZ (This site is so "educational") on Friday, 07-Apr-2006 0:08:46

Roc on; I have the h10 with a 20gb hard drive. I have only recently figured out how to get just which song you want. I used to deal with the whole player jusg going on shuffle. Willy, when and if you used shuffle did it repeat songs? I found that quite annoying. Anyway the only slightly ambiguous thing is the tuchslider which you can get used to pretty quickly. The clicks are prety quiet; a lot less loud than the ipod's but you can change the scroll speed so it doesn't zip down the menus. Anyway it's pretty cool.
P.S.,
I didn't think anyone actuall used WMA - I used to but then began to wonder why a) my songs would randomly expire (apparently it was automatically drm-inating them or something) and b) why there were random swirly artifacts all over the place.

## Post 17 by Icedearth (Zone BBS Addict) on Friday, 07-Apr-2006 0:46:07

Hi,
I actually have an Iriver H320, and I'm currently using it with the rockbox software. Not a bad piece of equipment if I do say so my self. Anyway, the rockbox software has a utility which can speak the menus and the files along withe their accompanying dirrectories. I love this thing. If you want to know more, and how to get rockbox going on your Iriver, feel free to contact me. Also, for thos who like ipods, the rockbox software with the voice feature currently supports the Ipod videos, photo, and nanos. Again, great piece of technology if I do say so myself.