Comments on: iRiver H10 vs. Apple iPod

By: Picture Of Child Hair Style

Picture Of Child Hair Style — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:13:38 +0000

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By: steve

steve — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:24:24 +0000

yeah..yeah..same thing..spent good money on an iriver(my girlfriend and i bought one each)..and now they are both useless..one freezes & doesnt play tracks and the other has major problems with the scrolling and is fucked..plus no support from the iriver customer services despite numerous emails..in short.. fuck you iriver you took my money and i wanna punch you in the face..you suck and everyone i know, knows it too!My shitty ass cd walkman gave me much more love!!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:10:26 +0000

One of the main reasons I had selected the H10 it was because of the ability to drag and drop through explorer and not have to go through any proprietary software. While you can, it is not like a slave drive and you cannot do much but copy a file to the Music folder.

In trying to load my library of songs, I found it was taking forever. So I came across the “UMS Trick”. I could now use it as a slave drive and copy over files at amazing speed. I spent several hours doing this…well come to find out all it would do is lockup when I tried to access any of the songs.

I also have had several instances of lock-up’s. Yes, I downloaded the latest Iriver firmware. I just don’t want to be stuck with this thing if what everyone else is saying is what I have to look forward to.

I found the link to the Rockbox firmware and am tempted to load it. Especially with all the features that it seems to have, like Crossfade (which it seems like nobody has this capability). I just don’t know if it will be too geeky. It seems like the interface is very DOS-ish, like my old 5 pound MP3 Player, the Archos Jukebox Recorder 15. Also, I don’t know if the lockup’s are a firmware or a hardware issue and if loading Rockbox would make this apparent lockup issue or usability any better.

So my question is: Should I try the Rockbox firmware on this thing, or just send it back while I can?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:41:51 +0000

Personally I think the h10 is great, the sound quality is as you said brilliant. I’ve had a few problems with the h10 but once I had updated my firmware everything works well. The uploading times are a bit annoying but you cant have everything.
Also, I would like to point out that ipods are definately not perfect. out of about 200 people I know that have them about 150 have had to replace them when their old ones broke for no reason. Not cracks etc. they just stopped working.
The battery on the iriver is a definate bonus. It’s easy to take out so if the h10 freeze’s you can just take out the battery. If the ipod freezes you have to wait for hours for it to run out of battery unless you want to start taking it apart. (both of these have happened to me before, the ipod freezing and the h10 freezing)
Overall I think that this review is way too harsh as have never had any major problems with my iriver.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:46:15 +0000

I got an Iriver h10, because I had heard that it was good.
First, I had prbolems installing it. Finally I had to install it with the windows control panel with the “add hardware” option, and the icon at the bottom right corner was different and i could not safely remove it by clicking. An E-mail i sent went unanswered.
Then I noticed it was sometimes very slow and sometimes froze.
I also had strange caracters and symbols appearing on the screen playlists disappearing…
Lately, I had the sound was distorted crackling noises that were loud even when the volume was not loud.
Now the system files are missing.
ns in

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:09:16 +0000

You and I share the same sentiments. I have hated iPod for some reason… when I found iRiver I thought that I had found something different and better and I wasn’t just jumping off of a cliff like all of the other lemmings in the MP3 market. I was so pleased to get my iRiver in the mail and I immediately began burning my 3000 cd collection to hard drive to begin loading my favorites to my new player. I experienced all of the same problems with it that you did… WMP10 lagging, unsorting albums, picture display is crappy, the record feature is good, but rarely used as often as I thought I’d need it… and then after about 5 months of use, it starts hanging all of the time. I had to let the battery die all of the way… until I found the reset button… then I’m resetting the thing every day. Now, it won’t even finish it’s startup from the reboot. Some albums wouldn’t play back at all… and they were all .wav files compatible with WMP10… I don’t know what the hell iRiver is trying to do, but if you try to call their “customer service” be prepared to get into the longest hold line of your life… and you will neeeeeeeeeeeeever speak to anyone… but they sure will hurang you with advertising for their other bs products! I sent them an email and am still awaiting resolution. I am on my way to buy an iPod right now. And I hate it. I’m hoping that I’ll find the satisfaction that I deserve in an iPod. I’m really jaded about having to jump off of this cliff with no other alternatives in sight.

By: chuliu

chuliu — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:40:11 +0000

I had h340. It was a brick. Nice functions but too huge. Sold it.
And now I have h10, as mentioned, file transfer is way too slow in MTP. Yes, you can swithc to UMS, but it is very troublesome. The instruction on how to reset to UMS is not very clear. WMP 10 support sucks big time. Also, h10 touchpad is very very hard to use compared to iPod click wheel. I almost hate to use my h10 because of the touchpad.

I also have a iPod video. It is a masterpiece. Itunes is a good software. And third party software support is all over the palce. The drawback is lack of FM and recording function. But overall, a very neat device.

By: Grishnakh

Grishnakh — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:50:37 +0000

iriver sucks.
They used to make some great products, namely the H320/H340. But guess what? They don’t make those anymore. They were too good, so they cancelled them, and replaced them with the suck-ass H10. All their other newer players are crap too.

iriver may have made some nice products in the past, but the past is the past. Now, iriver just sucks.