The first one took me three days to get working at all, played two songs, and then locked up.  Three weeks later I still haven't heard back from Archos tech support.  No matter, as Amazon did a stellar job (as usual) handling my return and I got a new one.
This one worked great for two weeks (once I figured out that the only way to make a truly useful playlist was to use a text editor, and not to follow their instructions at all; this is especially important because there's almost no way to play more than three or four songs without a playlist, unless you keep all your songs in one huge directory, and you don't have all that many songs in that directory).
Today, out of the blue again, it locked up.  No way to reset it, nothing to do about it, can't even reformat it and start over.  (And emails to Archos tech support now *bounce*.)  And to think, I had hopes of moving my MP3 collection there and leaving it there, to free up a few gigs of my hard drive!
I'm not going to go through this again; I'm going to move up to a more reliable unit this time.  Save me, Creative Labs!
The first one took me three days to get working at all, played two songs, and then locked up. Three weeks later I still haven't heard back from Archos tech support. No matter, as Amazon did a stellar job (as usual) handling my return and I got a new one. This one worked great for two weeks (once I figured out that the only way to make a truly useful playlist was to use a text editor, and not to follow their instructions at all; this is especially important because there's almost no way to play more than three or four songs without a playlist, unless you keep all your songs in one huge directory, and you don't have all that many songs in that directory). Today, out of the blue again, it locked up. No way to reset it, nothing to do about it, can't even reformat it and start over. (And emails to Archos tech support now *bounce*. )  And to think, I had hopes of moving my MP3 collection there and leaving it there, to free up a few gigs of my hard drive! I'm not going to go through this again; I'm going to move up to a more reliable unit this time. Save me, Creative Labs!