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I bought one and because it came with really bad instructions, I crashed it the first day. I returned it and downloaded the manual from the archos web site and tried a new one. It is in fact a great little player. Easy, good sound, tiny and cute. Please, if you buy one, download the manual and read it before you try to hook it up to your computer to fill it with music. If you unplug the USB cable improperly you can kill it. Also, this unit does not come with a charger other than the computer USB cable. Not a problem, I bought a USB cable DC charger at Radio Shack.

This player lasted barely 6 months before it died. And throughout its short life, it was very sickly. The sound was fine -- good, in fact -- but the software just did not work. Most of the time, the button pushed did not provide the requested function. Instead, the player would do something completely different -- play instead of mute, turn off instead of on, delete instead of save, etc. The database never quite knew what items were or were not on the player; an item would be there one day and gone the next, perhaps to return a few days later. In the end, nothing could be added or even deleted. All it would do was play whatever it thought was there on that particular day. Not the sort of performance I wanted.

I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE EASY TO MAKE PLAYLIST ON IT, WHEN YOU HOOK IT TO YOUR COMPUTER IT, SHOULD SHOW LEVEL OF BATTERY AT THE SAME TIME NO MATTER
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Wonderful MP3 player. Far better than the "defective by design" iPod series. Very Linux friendly. The Archos connected up to my Mandriva Linux system without a problem.