This is a great small flash memory based player with outstanding sound quality. It plays all the usual sound file formats (MP3, WMA, AAC5, WAV) as well as MJPEG, WMV, MPEG-4 (including DivX and XviD)video formats.
You also have the ability to to view photographs and the X-Fi even has a SD slot for extra storage or backup of photos to the main player. The only downside is that when a SD card is inserted it is seen as a additional storage so any music or files on it are not seen / integrated in to the main interface - You need to access it from a separate menu option. Hopefully this will be rectified in the future with a firmware update but is only a slight drawback (until I run out of storage space that is!).
The player also features wireless LAN functionality to connect either to Creative's content servers on the Internet or to your your own computer which can act as a media server using Creative's supplied software.
Battery life is excellent (over 25 hours in my non scientific tests!) and all in a package weighing in at just 69g. If you are in the market for a new MP3 player and are looking for something for its good functionality and excellent sound quality (as Creative players always are) rather than jumping on the iPod bandwagon then this is well worth a try.
Oh...and you can also customise the menu backgrounds etc to feature your own images. The pencil image below is one of my pictures featured in a previous blog post
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Wow, great looking player! Hows the sound quality and video playback? Can you shed more light on that?
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Sound quality is excellent. Strangely enough it appears better when you are not using the X-Fi sound enhancement!
Video playback is good quality with a crisp image. Playback supports MJPEG, WMV, MPEG-4 video (including DivX and XviD). Formats can be converted using the supplied Creative software.
downside of this is that conversion can take a while for large .avi files
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