Performance
To begin with, I had an immense dislike for players that aren’t loud. The volume stops at the measure of 25 units and the sound is very subtle for the racket out on the road. We live in a noisy world (at least I do!) and I would appreciate if players, irrespective of how good or bad they are, start boosting their volume. I would like to decide how loud I want my music to be played.
That apart, the music quality is good. The player picks up bass quite efficiently, and the sound is quite synchronized. Although, using the bass boost option can cause some of the more bassy songs to jar. You can make use of the in-built EQ presets and even manually set the equalizer.
Now what I don’t understand is why do music player manufacturers bundle such bad set of earphones. To begin with, I found the earpiece to be too big for my ear. It kept falling off, which means I can certainly not take it for a jog. I hate shoving the earphones right down my ear, but this one failed to even stay put. Also I tried my Sony earphones with the player and they played better than the creative earphones. Here I have to give it to iPod for making one of the best earpieces to come bundled with the player.
The player UI is quite simple, and navigation has been kept quite straightforward too. Although the player takes about 10-11 seconds to startup, which according to me is slow. Switching between songs, however, happens instantly.
MTP is media transfer protocol which will b there if you use the original XP OS. with MTP your player works like any other removable media into which you can drag and drop and browse through the contents.
