Philips Gogear SA4VBE04KN/12 Vibe 4GB MP4/MP3 Video Player

This is an excellent MP3 player. I was very pleased indeed. Just one thing though, it's not much use with pictures and video, an excellent MP3 though.

Same problem as Amethyst 77. Unfortunately. if you use Folder View the albums or folders are listed in the order in which they have been added. If you want them listed alphabetically you have to prepare all the folders in advance and then add them one by one (beginning with Albéniz and ending with Zemlinsky, for example). I may have missed something, in which case I would be grateful if somebody would enlighten me.Otherwise the player is very good.

This is a present for our grandson who is seriously mentally disabled. He loves music and apparently understandsthe rhythm and the musical style.It was very easy to load with music which I had previously loaded into Windows Media Player form CD's.Once loaded, easy to select from various categories on the Gogear player.

The Philips software is terrible and pointless, but you can just use the thing as an external drive and copy tracks across. Then you are faced with the menus, which are not well designed, and you can list the tracks either alphabetically or in folders - but when you play one, that is that. You can skip at random, but you can't automatically play all the tracks in a folder, or run down the list, which even my £5.99 mobile phone can do.The sound quality from the supplied in-ear speakers is OK: much better than a mobile, no-where near as good as decent hi-fi. That's what you'd expect. Good enough for listening to tracks on the train or bus, too limiting to actually enjoy Classical music.The player itself is proportioned inconveniently. You will want the clip that Philips sell at far too high a price in order to clip it to a shirt pocket or something, because the player is slippery and too large to balance or absently hold in your hand while you do other things.There is not much else to say. Volume could go a bit higher (but doesn't), battery lasts fairly well, charges reasonably quickly - but through a mini-USB socket; the lead supplied is USB-mini-USB and so you charge it from your laptop or universal charger. If you don't have a charger you'll need to buy one.Good Value? Not really. But given that a lot of these players just stop after a few weeks, and this one hasn't, it may be a reasonable choice. I bought it as a present and I use it myself; it is OK. That's all - OK, a bit overpriced and with poor menus and software. Typical Philips, then.

Was bought for my son. He loves it. The battery lasts a lot longer than any of the other MP3 players he’s had before.

Excellent mp3 player. Good sound options as well.What really interests me is how it got here in only 5 days?...

far to difficult to use

This MP3 player will not play album tracks in the correct order; instead it insists on playing them alphabetically. As a result it is close to useless. An online search turns up some extremely fiddly ways of solving the problem, usually involving downloading commercial file-organising software. This is ridiculous. If I wanted to spend a lot of time in front of a computer, I wouldn't buy an MP3 player--I'd just buy a pair of headphones. Buy some other brand instead.