
X-Fi not all it's cracked up to be

If you want a player that's small, lightweight, and has great sound quality, this is a pretty good buy. But it doesn't come without some major drawbacks. Creative lists battery life at 32 hours for audio, but you're going to be lucky to get half that with regular usage. And while video quality is great, the battery life will keep you at one movie tops. Syncing up with the player is a bit of a hassle as well. If you want album art to show up, you'll need to use Creative Centrale, as WMP only synced up half of my art. And if you have multiple albums of the same name (easy to do on a 32 gig player) you're going to get album art from one applied to all. A little odd seeing a Godsmack cover while listening to Secondhand Serenade (album title for both is "Awake"). If you just want something nice to listen to music and show off some photos (pretty much the only thing the SD card slot is good for) then get it; you won't be disappointed. If you want to watch movies and listen for all hours of the day uninterrupted, you might want to look somewhere else. I'd suggest the Zen Vision W.
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