Archos Jukebox 6000 6 GB

Archos – never heard of them. That was my first reaction and of course before parting with my hard earned spondoos I checked out their web site. Turns out they make things small, lots of things, dvds, hard drives, cds – all meant to be connected to laptops. So, I said to myself perhaps there is some truth in the rumors they make a 6Gb hard disk based mp3 player. Next step – shop around on the web for the best deal !! The price of this little beast varies from £250 to £300 depending where you shop (I bought mine at www.buy.com). Having parted with my credit card details 24 hours later they little blue and silver fella turned up and what a pretty little ...  Read the complete review

I have owned the Jukebox for about 10 months now, and can say that it is a pretty damn good unit. I ordered mine from www.archos.com £215 all in to my door, it took about 4 days to come. Now costs from www.archos.com direct £150, £250ish for the 20Gb recording version. It came with (this may be different now, check the site) headphones (pants), USB cable, tape player (for playing in a car cassette player), car adapter, neoprene carry case, mains adapter, inline remote control (I haven't really used this), drivers for Windows/Mac. It is quite a pleasing size, fits relatively nicely in your hand and has a good solid feel to it. However it ...  Read the complete review

After spending much time looking at the MP3 player market I summarised the following three options:- 1) Memory stick 'type' player - Looks nice, small, but 64mb (or whatever) - What's the point..... 2) CD/MP3 player - Only limited by the amount of CD's you want to carry, but a bit big and a lot of messing about burning CD's 3) Hard Disk player - Basically 6gb of music on a portable hard drive. I pondered between 2 and 3, and eventually decided to splash out an extra 100 quid and go for a hard disk type. This basically gave me a choice between the DAP and the Archos 6000. I was instantly drawn to the 6000 (and henced ...  Read the complete review

If you are a real music buff like me then you must by now be considering buying an mp3 player. With so many machines on the market it can be an absalute nightmare picking one to suit your needs. Worry no more because the Archos Jukebox 6000 is every music fans dream. This device uses a whopping 6Gb hard disk with room for an incredible 1,500 tracks or approximately 150 cds. Many people could fit their entire music collection on this single device. Installing the Jukebox is really easy. You just plug in the USB cable into your computer which when rebooted windows will simply treat as a second hard disk. Archos provide you with a full version ...  Read the complete review

After owning 3 of these machines (I had to keep taking them back!) I have decided to give up on hard drive based MP3 players and go back to good reliable old solid state ones. I have loads of MP3?s and like to take em with me when I travel, so I wanted something with lots of storage and preferably a long battery life. The batteries on the Archos last a lot longer than the Creative Labs (of which I also had 2 that broke, but that?s another review), but still only about 4 or 5 hours. The main problem I had with the Archos was that it kept crashing. I installed the firmware upgrades from the website as suggested by the retailer, but unfortunately this didn?t help. ...  Read the complete review