JVC XA-MP101W MP3 Player

With the MP3 market increasing sooner than you possibly can say boo to a ghost, an increasing number of producers are attempting to get in on the motion. Does JVC, the newest contender, have what it takes to beat the competitors? Pocket-lint grabbed some headphones to search out out.

JVC has launched two gamers with the identical pretty small casing. The JVC XA-MP101W and the JVC XA-MP51. The XA-MP51 is silver and comes with a 512MB Flash Reminiscence that shops as much as roughly 120 MP3 or 250 WMA recordsdata, whereas the XA-MP101 has a 1GB capability can comprise about 250 MP3 or 500 WMA recordsdata and is accessible in white.

Throughout the house of half a bank card that’s 1cm thick, JVC has nonetheless managed to cram in a four-line dot matrix show, the reminiscence and house for an AAA battery which JVC states you may get 17 hours of playback on.

A hard and fast-level audio line out permits you to share the love with out getting headphone suggestions and you’ll switch MP3, WMA and WMA-DRM recordsdata to and from the participant through USB2.0. There’s even an FM radio on board.

That’s the place the thrill stops although. The shortage of automated organisation on the system is one thing we thought we would solely see these days on low-cost knock-off Taiwanese gamers and if you’re anticipating to discover a music shortly then you possibly can assume once more. Suppose MP3 participant within the early years or onerous drive with display. Whereas this implies which you can switch songs by merely dragging them on to the system through a PC, all of them get put into the one folder except you will be bothered to manually type them.

In a saving grace, the participant does embrace an FM recording choice permitting you to report from the radio. It could be a fantastic characteristic if the standard of the tip recording wasn’t so poor. Moreover reasonably than saving the music clip within the music folder, the participant appears to solely need to save your radio recording alongside your voice recordings – which by the best way – you may make through the built-in mic.

Our fast take

At £130 that is woefully costly in comparison with the competitors. It might need a radio, and four-line show, but when you will battle to search out the appropriate observe as a result of there is no such thing as a automated menu system then there does not see a lot level in having one.

A few years in the past you might need put up with this, however simply assume, for an additional tenner you can have a iPod nano or a iriver 5Gb H10 each with photograph help. I do know which one I might go for.