How I Acquired The Product:
I have always been on the look out for a good alternative to CD players as I am sick of problems with tracks skipping, CD getting scratched and the overall bulkiness of the players for carrying around with me. I basically had two choices, which were in my price range; an mp3 player or a mini disk player. I had not quite decided which one was going to be best for me, but then for my birthday I was given the 64mb version of the ?Creative NOMAD MuVo? off my parents. I was thrilled with the gift and can now see that a mini disk player has similar problems to a CD player with tracks skipping, disks getting scratched, etc.

What I Like About The Product:
It?s small and lightweight and it fits nicely in my coat pocket, due to it only needing one battery. The sound quality is the same, if not better then that of my CD player and the playback is not interrupted by vigorous exercise (Which I do often... well maybe not but I have done some dancing with the headphones in and I listen to it when I am walking to the bus stop). It can also be used to store normal files or to transfer files between to computers. One last thing I like is the ability to put songs on it from a variety of different albums.

What I Dislike About The Product:
It only holds about 15 songs (Depending on the file size) and I nearly always end up having to listen to songs twice, but I guess it depends on how long you will use it for. The fact that it takes AAA batteries has also been a problem for me as our household doesn?t really buy them often like AA batteries, and I nearly always end up taking batteries out of the TV remote, which is annoying when you come to watch the telly later. The player is
not that robust and I think it would be damaged if it had a bad fall.

Using The Product:
There are only 6 buttons on this thing so it is really easy to get to grips with. As for installing it, although you get an installation disk with it I just plugged it into the USB port in my computer and it was ready to use. It just works like another drive on your computer and you just drag and drop music files into it. The main problem you will have with this product is actually getting music files onto your computer. I would recommend windows media players though as you can copy tracks from CDs into the media library and this puts them onto your hard drive (That?s another good thing about this mp3 players it will also play wma files), however more and more CDs now have protection on them to stop you doing this.

Conclusion:
If your budget can?t stretch any further then this product is good value for money, however if you can afford to splash out more I would recommend you buy something with more memory.