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I've had mine for almost 1 year. Still works fine. I swim 1 hour 3-4 times a week. Change the battery every 1.5-2 months. My computer never would read the little disc, but I had read other reviews and knew to drag and drop; so I didn't bother. The bubble is a little bulky, but I twist the cords through my goggles, run them down my spine, and catch the bubble inside the center back of my suit. I have also found that if I am swimming hard, the wires come up over my arms more than I like and I can bringing it down my back and tuck the bubble into the front hip/leg of my suit. This stretches the cord and keeps it out of the way. This porbably wouldn't work with a very conservative cut suit. Mine is moderate cut hip. I did lose one of the silicon ear covers and they can be replaced for 2.50 plus 11 shipping and handling. I plan to just buy a new one and be more careful this time. That way I'll have an extra. Also, the website warns to keep the bubble loose when storing to prolong o ring life. This is probably why the other person had leaking. Overall I love mine and the price can't be beat. I would not hesitate to recommend this for lap swimmers. P.S. 256MB holds a little over 1 hour of music.

I bought this specifically for water aerobics in my community pool to drown out the screaming children. I love it. It does take a little getting use to and the instructions are written in translation software English when means they make no sense - "glinting" means flashing. Unless you are using WINDOWS 98, throw out the little CD, you don't need it. It's a simple flash drive and all you have to do is drop and drag the music onto the player. Getting the music to play at first was a challenge. But I learned - long push on the "on" button, till the light stays lit, then like one "click" on the same button and the music starts to play. Once you have that down, it's a piece of cake. It does take a little patience in the beginning and I think some people just gave up and concluded it didn't work. Well worth the money in my book to enjoy the water on a beautiful day listening to Antonio Carlos Jobim.

I didn't have any problems downloading music via itunes and the sound is pretty damn good once you hit the water. I did have trouble figuring out a good place to clip the thing ( it is a little unwieldy), but its a small quibble when I think of how nice it is to have a simple method to play music while swimming laps. It's been good to me thus far.

I found this mp3 player over 2 years ago. If I had any problems I telephoned the company and they were prompt in helping me . This player has helped me improve my swimming laps to a mile a day. I just tuck the player into the top of my tank suit and swim away.

Great product!
I've always wanted to listen to music while swimming laps!

Uses AAA batteries and USB stick drag-and-drop.

Doesn't have much space, but I don't think it needs it. You can still fit twenty times more songs on it than a CD, so it's fine with me!

When I first got it, I experienced some problems with drag that would pull the earbuds out of my ears enough for it to fill with water and completely mute the sound...I fixed this problem by looping the headphone cords through my goggles.