Customer Reviews:
 Poor Quality October 13, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Creative MuVo MP3 Player have problem playing particular mP3 songs. It plays WMV file songs smoothly. However, it always give a buzz when playing MP3. The voice recorder's quality is acceptable, but it consumes a lot of power when recording. If I were you, I would definitely give a thought on this MP3 player!
Becareful with the N200 October 7, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This wonderful player did everything it was said to do until it randomly stopped working about a week and a half after purchase. Finding myself truely disappointed and not having a fix for the problem or even an understanding of what the actual problem was, i returned the product. What suprised me though was that it had many good reviews on Amazon.com, but after looking at the forums on the manufacturer's own website (creative.com), and other forums found through google.com about the N200, i noticed that alot of people had had or were having the same or similar problem and complaints about the N200, especially about the the player turing off on its own and not staying on when it was actually turned on. This product, though excellent in every way when it actually works, needs to be recalled or seriously updated because it simply does't work after a short while. And you can't use things that dont work.
Great flash media drive...horrible MP3 player!!!! October 3, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Strengths: Lightweight size...User friendly...great sound quality...good battery life...easy to rip music from cd's.
Weaknesses: MP3 playing capability didn't last a month...cumbersome when wanting to record from the tuner...cheap feel, fagile design...wasn't worth the money.
Summary: I paid about $90 for this player, and that was with an educator's discount. The first week I had it I was quite impressed. It had excellent sound quality, and I had already ripped 2 or 3 cd's worth of soungs on it. Further more, with me being into music production, I really enjoyed playing my music and recording it through the line-in and encoding it as an MP3 file, so I could burn it to a cd or even email someone my music. So cool! The backlit screen is good, which I usually turn off during the day to conserve the battery. My only disapproval was when I wanted to record from the radio, which is a really cool feature. What you have to do is go to the menue and scroll till you get to FM recording, and then hit the enter. This puts it in standby mode, ready to record. When you hear a song you like, just hit the play button. When the song goes off, just hit it again to pause recording and to go back into standby mode, right? Wrong! When you hit the play/pause button to "pause" recording, you actually stop it. Then it saves what you've recorded as a WAV file, then it goes back to the normal tuner mode. This means that if you hear another song you want to record, you have to go back into the menu, scroll till you get to FM recording, and do it all over again. It'd be nice if Creative put a nice little button somewhere on the unit dedicated to FM recording, since by the time you're done scrolling through the menu to find the FM recording, you've already missed 6-7 seconds of the beginning of the song, which means a lot to me, but hey, whatever floats your boat. Other than that, I had no regrets in buying it, until...
Week 2.
I don't know what happened. It started out with my MuVo just turning itself off right in the middle of playing an MP3. It would only do this once in a while, but then it got more frequent. I thought it might've been the battery, but I tried different batteies. Same thing. It got to the point that when I was lucky enough to have it stay on, when I went to anything under the "Settings" folder, like to turn off the back light, or even when I adjusted the volume, it just cut off. After that, it wouldn't even stay on for a second. It'd come on, the little Creative logo would come on, and then it'd cut off. I felt so cheated! So I went back, and exchanged it for another unit, which I had for about 2 months now. And the one I have now is no better, only that it lasted longer than the first one. I've got songs on it, but can't listen to any of them, and my display looks weird and stuff. The only things it's good for now are the FM tuner and a flash media drive (and plus it makes me feel important when I walk around the school with it on my belt loop...I'm a teacher;-) I have lost all faith in Creative, and the only reason why I can't take this one back is because I've already had it for a month. I'm considering getting a SanDisk SDMX1-1024-A18. I can get an open box for $110. I hate that it doesn't have in-line recording, which is the only thing I miss on my little MuVo. Oh well, we all have to make sacrafices...
 Best MP3 Player Feature Wise For the Money September 19, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have never before bothered to review a product at Amazon.com, but the Muvo Micro N200 is such an outstanding little device that I felt the company that produced it deserved some positive feedback.
For 65 dollars, inclusive of free shipping from Amazon.com, the N200 as a value is tough to beat. It is compaitable with all the major digital audio services, including my favorites, Napster and Audible.com. It gets FM radio, which it can record directly, and it possesses a microphone and line-in capability, basically ensuring that anything the device's owner can hear can be put on the device for later listening enjoyment. I have transfered many cassettes to MP3 format with the line-in feature, and my mom has borrowed the device in order to record verbal notes for graduate school.
The device is tiny and fits well in any pocket, but comes with a belt clip anyway. The only downside I can thank of is the 256 MB of storage space tends to get filled up rather quickly for a Podcast and Audio Book addict like me, but for 65 dollars, I don't think there is a product on the market that can even come class to touching it. The iPod shuffle doesn't even have a screen, and its least expensive model costs 35 dollars more than the N200.
Karaoke recording. September 18, 2005
The line input for recording my Karaoke album works very well. It's simple and the recording quality is great for the money!
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