Cheap MP3 players at ARIA

wolvesinwales

They had got a 128mb one at 16.39 but have sold out now but still got this one at £21.09. Also a 1gb one for £82.19.
Watch the postage charges though.

http://www.aria.co.uk/productinfocomm.asp?ID=10657&SpecialStatus=1

Sub_2

I bought an mp3 player from Aria a few months back, it's bloody awful.

It's one of the black ones that you mention are now "reduced", but I think this is pretty misleading marketing by Aria. No doubt they were for sale at the higher price for whatever minimum amount of time is necessary before they can drop it and label it as reduced, but this product line is permanently in their sale section, so there is nothing special about the current prices.

The fact that it was cheap doesn't make me feel any better about owning one, it's absolute junk and I'd advise anyone else to avoid them like the plague.

It feels pretty cheap in the hand, but I wouldn't expect anything else at this price and wouldn't have minded that. Unforttunately, it sounds terrible as well, and that's a pretty fatal flaw for a music player. Sound quality is *dire*, listening to music is almost painful it's that bad.

The battery life is very poor too, I don't use mine very often (because it's so crap) yet I'm forever having to put a fresh battery in it.

Another major irritation is that you cannot predict what order it will play back tracks that have been uploaded on to it. It doesn't matter how the files are named, the player doesn't seem to order them based on any kind of alpha numeric sorting, it's completely random and I think might have to do with where each track happened to land in the memory space when music is uploaded.

This totally random playback isn't a huge problem when it's music you want to listen to, but it makes listening to audio books, lectures, language learning mp3's etc almost impossible. You get chapter 8 folowed by chapter 22, or lecture part B followed by part F.... grrr.

Maybe someone else would be happy with one of these but I think they are fit only for the bin, and just wanted to warn everyone that they may not be the bargain they are made out to be.