iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue - iRiver MP3 Players Reviews and Prices at PriceGrabber

skydivingfre... from UT

Member Since
Sep 2005

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 35 Days of experience with this product

I really have nothing good to say about this produ ...

Strengths:

None

Weaknesses:

This mp3 player is a piece of junk. The user interface is very poorly designed. The player randomly lost its drivers which caused a loss of all information on the player. Customer services was SLOW

Posted Sep 29, 2005 - I really have nothing good to say about this product. The player would randomly loose some operating system files that would require reformatting the entire unit to restore the files. This also meant that you have to reinstall all the files onto the unit. Even though it is a USB 2.0, it still takes considerable time to reload the 1000 songs I had on the player. I then had problems with my computer recognizing the player, and attempted to call iriver for technical support. I first tried to resolve the problem using their self-help web page. After trying everything suggested on the page I decided to call. I waited on the phone for 4 hours, only to be hung up on after talking to a rep for only five minutes resolving nothing. I decided to try sending an email. I sent the email request for support on Aug 31, 2005, and finally got a response on Sept 29, 2005. In their response, all I got was the information from the self-help web page pasted into an email. Fortunately, instead of waiting to resolve this problem I returned the product three weeks ago and got a similar player from another manufacturer.

47% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

pcehealy

Member Since
Nov 2005

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 3 Months of experience with this product

good sound, slow and difficult to use

Strengths:

Good sound, holds a lot of music

Weaknesses:

EXTREMELY slow to access music, pause button in an awkward spot. Poor instruction booklet. Two have frozen up on me.

Posted Nov 22, 2005 - I bought this mp3 player at the recommendation of the salesperson. Never having had one before I had a difficult time figuring out how to transfer music the first time. The pause button is located on the side of the player. Frequently when I was exercising and pulled it out of my pocket I would accidentally hit the pause button. It is slow to start again. 10-15 second lag time to start playing a song. First one froze up 1 month after I had it. The second one froze up within 2 weeks.With both of them I was unable to turn it off, or access anything on it. I am returning it today to get an IPOD. Maybe the sound isn't as good, but hopefully I will get some sound.

44% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

Carl_Johnson from WA

Member Since
Jun 2006

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 3 Days of experience with this product

Excellent player for the money

Strengths:

Good sound, picture capability, excellent value

Weaknesses:

Can't delete directly from the player

Posted Jun 26, 2006 - I've had it for a few weeks and am very happy with it. I've seen one or two reviews that say you have to use WMP 10 to manage files on it. This is not true, if you install the firmware upgrade to 2.51 or whatever it is. After doing that, I found I was able to just drag folders to it from Windows explorer - music and pictures. I couldn't do playlists that way, nor was I able to figure out how to do them using WMP. This led me to scout around, and I found out that you can work the player with Napster, with Rhapsody, and with the Yahoo Music Engine. I now mainly use it with the Yahoo Music Engine, because you can easily select what you're going to put in your Yahoo music library, and can keep your subscription files separate until you're ready to bring them over. If you get the player, upgrade the firmware right away, and I wouldn't even fool with using it with WMP.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

deanhatescof...

Member Since
Mar 2006

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 1 Months of experience with this product

Best on the market

Strengths:

Great battery life, excellent sound quality

Weaknesses:

Firmware upgrading, backlight resets

Posted Apr 27, 2006 - I love this MP3 player. It does everything I want it to and more. The sound quality is superb. With the SRS WOW setting enabled, listening to music with headphones is a whole new experience; it really feels like the music is all around me. Combined with my iriver FM Transmitter, I can take my music anywhere I want to go. The firmware upgrade didn't go quite as smoothly as one would hope; I had to do it twice. Other reviews for this player talk about a lag between songs when on Random - my player is 75% full and I haven't noticed any lag whatsoever, so maybe that issue was fixed on the firmware upgrade. Twice, when I turned my player on, the screen's backlight doesn't work. I can just barely see that the screen is on, but I can't make out anything it says without the backlight. The only way to fix this is by resetting the player which, thankfully, is really easy to do as long as you have a pointy pen. (Don't worry, resetting the H10 doesn't erase your music or other files.) The only other beef I have with the H10 is the scroll speed - I wish it would go faster. Despite the speed, at least scrolling's easy - just slide your thumb down the touch strip and hold it down. Like I said, the sound is superb - even with the earbuds that come with the H10 (which, by the way, are Sennheiser which produce awesome quality sound). The menus are easy to navigate as well. Because of extra features like the FM tuner, built in recorder, SRS WOW, and compatibility with Yahoo! Music Unlimited, the iriver H10 is the best MP3 player on the market in my opinion.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

stephdog75

Member Since
Feb 2006

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 1 Months of experience with this product

Good player if you are willing to do some manipulating...

Strengths:

Small, affordable ($160AR) on Woot, great sound, nice fm tuner, nice color screen.

Weaknesses:

WM Player interface is awful, strange playlist format (can only create playlists through WM Player (see comments for workaround), slow to access playlist directory, cradle required for line-out.

Posted Mar 23, 2006 - I upgraded from a Dell first generation 15GB Digital Jukebox to this player. I looked around at various large capacity MP3 players and chose this one because it got pretty good reviews and was very affordable. My biggest complaint about this player is that you have to use WM player to create playlists. I have since found that sourceforge developed a shareware program, Easy H10, to get around this. I have .M3U format playlists for all of my MP3s and was very disappointed when I realized that this player only accepted .PLS files. Easy H10 will convert your .M3U playlists to the H10 required format, and will populate the artist, playlist, and album folders on your player. The ONLY way to live with this player is to connect it to your computer like an external hard drive (press reset, hold down circle button and power button until emergency connect shows...should then show up as another drive on your computer). This is also the mode you use to upgrade the firmware. In this mode, you NEVER have to use Windows Media Player and you can drag any file directly to your player. Even if you don't use Easy H10 to populate the folders on your drive, you can access any file you added to your player through the player's browser. This also makes it much easier to delete unwanted files from the player, since you can't delete files from it directly (another small complaint). Overall, it’s not a bad player for the money if you don't mind a few extra steps.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

wxrkny

Member Since
Feb 2006

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 7 Days of experience with this product

iRiver H10 20 GB

Strengths:

looks great, fairly small, great sound

Weaknesses:

terrible delay between switching songs

Posted Mar 7, 2006 - The first thing you should do when you get this player is update the firmware immediately. Most of the issues people have had with this player have been resolved in the newer firmware releases. The player has great sound quality and has good battery life. Definately the best bang for your buck mp3 player on the market. The one issue that I have is that it takes a few seconds to change tracks. Hopefully iriver will put in hard drives with faster access times in the future. All in all I think this is a great player especially for those on a tight budget.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

achavda

Member Since
Feb 2006

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 3 Days of experience with this product

Very Nice, Attractive Design

Strengths:

Plenty of storage for most, FM tuner, can view photos while listening to music, simple, understandable controls

Weaknesses:

Not many accessories yet, currently can't use for mass storage, uses Windows Media Player 10 for transfers, battery not apparently user replaceable.

Posted Mar 3, 2006 - I like this player very much, it has all I want but for the lack of a user replaceable battery and not being able to use for mass storage - I have sent an email to Tech Support asking about future firmware updates and possible added capabilities, but have not heard back yet. Wondering if I should have waited for the Cowon iAudio X5 for more features at the same price.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

robert7ii from VA

Member Since
Oct 2005

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 1 Day of experience with this product

Hot player!

Strengths:

Beautiful; high-capacity.

Weaknesses:

Controls not intuitive.

Posted Feb 21, 2006 - I got an incredible deal on this player, so that may color my opinion, but this is the iPod killer! The FM tuner just truly seals the deal. Go for it.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

abakben from NC

Member Since
Jul 2005

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 1 Month of experience with this product

Very happy with it

Strengths:

Nice Screen, High capacity,

Weaknesses:

None

Posted Mar 14, 2006 - This is my first hard drive based mp3 player, and I did a lot of research into it ahead of time. I needed a high capacity device with FM tuner and voice recording. It definately exceeds my expectations. The battery life has been amazing, the large number features are mind blowing. The controls are intuitive and easy to learn, transfer rate and charge time are both fast. All in all, it's a perfect player. I have had mine for nearly 1 month and am very pleased.

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

biggod51 from NY

Member Since
Sep 2005

View Member's
Profile | Reviews

User has 3 Days of experience with this product

Iriver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue (20 Internal Hard Drive

Strengths:

A Little Cheaper Than The New Ipod Video & fm radio

Weaknesses:

Wish They Have A Bigger Hard Drive

Posted Jan 8, 2006 - I Brought this drive from best buy $249.00 but, using coupons I paid $180.00 plus tax so came to to $202.00 using this drive for about 3 days and I love it and has a fm radio cheaper than the new ipod video but wish they made one with a bigger hard drive

Did you find it helpful , unhelpful, or inappropriate?

Comment about this review

Buy now at Payless Merchandise: $99.99

Sellers			Seller Rating	Discounts	Price	BottomLine Price
See It	Payless Merchandise		61 Reviews	Free Shipping!	$99.99	+ $0.00 tax + $0.00 shipping = $99.99
Compare Prices for All 1 Sellers ($99.99 - $99.99)

iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue

Internal Hard Drive, FM Tuner, 16 Hours - MPN: H10BLUE20GB

I really have nothing good to say about this produ ...

good sound, slow and difficult to use

Excellent player for the money

Best on the market

Good player if you are willing to do some manipulating...

iRiver H10 20 GB

Very Nice, Attractive Design

Hot player!

Very happy with it

Iriver H10 20GB MP3 Player - Remix Blue (20 Internal Hard Drive

Compare Prices

Find it for the lowest price

Product Details

Features, specifications, & other useful info

Expert Reviews

What the experts think of this product