Comments on: Frontier Labs NEXBLACK Audio Player http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/ Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:50:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jimsi777 http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/comment-page-1/#comment-23861 jimsi777 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:33:24 +0000 #comment-23861 Mine SUCKS!!!:sad: Mine SUCKS!!!:sad:

]]> By: jimsi777 http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/comment-page-1/#comment-23860 jimsi777 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:30:44 +0000 #comment-23860 I kid you not, all of you who are thinking of getting the newer black mp3 player, DONT BUY IT...I own the earlier one and NOTHING works except the mp3, and it is touch and go with the CF cards, this company is not right on quality or design, something is really wrong with theses units...DONT GET ONE, you have been warned....Jimsi777 I kid you not, all of you who are thinking of getting the newer black mp3 player, DONT BUY IT…I own the earlier one and NOTHING works except the mp3, and it is touch and go with the CF cards, this company is not right on quality or design, something is really wrong with theses units…DONT GET ONE, you have been warned….Jimsi777

]]> By: aplonis http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/comment-page-1/#comment-23859 aplonis Thu, 03 May 2007 20:34:28 +0000 #comment-23859 I like removable, rechargable NiMH batteries in a player because I listen to AUDIO BOOKS not music for 99% of the time I use a player. Nothing is more irritating while out on a walk or whatever than to have the batteries die in the middle of an action scene. I would then have to wait until I got home, then plug it into something and be tied to that piece of hardware for hours of waiting. So I wouldn't buy a player that DID NOT use batteries which I could swap in an instant to continue my listening. My NEXBLACK arrived today. I am a bit disappointed in that the battery door is a poor fit with the case when closed. Also the surface has a zillion micro-scratches as if it has been in somebody else's pocket with loose change. I am wondering if it is truly new or they gave me a refurb. When I went to the format function it asked, "Are you sure?" and I clicked "No", but it formatted anyway. Also it does not seem to recognize any OGG tags. And since I don't have any MP3 at all, only OGG, The tag-related menus appear to be useless. On some Ogg files it seemed to play back poorly, high and squeaky, in the human voice frequency range recorded at Ogg Q 2.5. And three times now it has locked up so that I had to yank the batteries to restart it almost as if it ran on Win32 or some such. One unreservedly positive feature is that uploading to the 8GB CF is very fast. All in all this is, for the present, a poor replacement for my Cowon IAudio5 2GB player which I was completely happy with until it got dropped one too many times after more than two years. Maybe there will be a firmware update before long. I'll hang onto it long enough to give FL a shot at fixing these problems. If they don't, I'll toss it into the trash. If it comes to that the only good thing I'll have to say afterwards is that the 8GB CF memory, being removable, can serve me in other purposes. I like removable, rechargable NiMH batteries in a player because I listen to AUDIO BOOKS not music for 99% of the time I use a player. Nothing is more irritating while out on a walk or whatever than to have the batteries die in the middle of an action scene. I would then have to wait until I got home, then plug it into something and be tied to that piece of hardware for hours of waiting. So I wouldn’t buy a player that DID NOT use batteries which I could swap in an instant to continue my listening.

My NEXBLACK arrived today. I am a bit disappointed in that the battery door is a poor fit with the case when closed. Also the surface has a zillion micro-scratches as if it has been in somebody else’s pocket with loose change. I am wondering if it is truly new or they gave me a refurb.

When I went to the format function it asked, “Are you sure?” and I clicked “No”, but it formatted anyway.

Also it does not seem to recognize any OGG tags. And since I don’t have any MP3 at all, only OGG, The tag-related menus appear to be useless.

On some Ogg files it seemed to play back poorly, high and squeaky, in the human voice frequency range recorded at Ogg Q 2.5.

And three times now it has locked up so that I had to yank the batteries to restart it almost as if it ran on Win32 or some such.

One unreservedly positive feature is that uploading to the 8GB CF is very fast.

All in all this is, for the present, a poor replacement for my Cowon IAudio5 2GB player which I was completely happy with until it got dropped one too many times after more than two years.

Maybe there will be a firmware update before long. I’ll hang onto it long enough to give FL a shot at fixing these problems. If they don’t, I’ll toss it into the trash. If it comes to that the only good thing I’ll have to say afterwards is that the 8GB CF memory, being removable, can serve me in other purposes.

]]> By: helix23 http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/comment-page-1/#comment-23858 helix23 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:55:18 +0000 #comment-23858 It looked promising as a cool mp3 player, until I saw that it takes AA batteries! The next time I want to deal with buying batteries, or worse, take them out of devices and charge them in a separate charger and put them back in is ..... <strong>NEVER !</strong> One would have thought that all mp3 player vendors would have gotten the memo that you recharge your players by plugging them into a usb port or communication cradle. I guess lucking flovely missed it with this device. It looked promising as a cool mp3 player, until I saw that it takes AA batteries!

The next time I want to deal with buying batteries, or worse, take them out of devices and charge them in a separate charger and put them back in is ….. NEVER !

One would have thought that all mp3 player vendors would have gotten the memo that you recharge your players by plugging them into a usb port or communication cradle. I guess lucking flovely missed it with this device.

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/comment-page-1/#comment-23857 Julie Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:09:29 +0000 #comment-23857 ripardi: I would have to agree with you. I think they are trying to be cute, but it is pretty annoying to me. ripardi:

I would have to agree with you. I think they are trying to be cute, but it is pretty annoying to me.

]]> By: ripardi http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/04/05/frontier_labs_nexblack_audio_player/comment-page-1/#comment-23856 ripardi Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:27:21 +0000 #comment-23856 Lucking Fovely? It that supposed to be somekind of funny wordplay? :wacko: In my eyes/ears it doesn't give very professional impression about the FL as a company. Lucking Fovely? It that supposed to be somekind of funny wordplay? :wacko: In my eyes/ears it doesn’t give very professional impression about the FL as a company.

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