Re: changing the batteries on my iriver h320 mp3 player

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:49:37 -0800 

Okay a few cents worth on my part.
The Iriver h320 was an incredible machine for its time, I say machine because that's exactly what it was, more than a player given that it pretty much was a LYNUX computer thus you could get it doing most things. 


Unfortunately like so much else the Iriver H320 was out evolved by iPods 
and other such devices thus the Iriver machines had to change too! To 
further illustrate what I mean, the way things have gone shows us that 
not only do do people want to listen to music and very high quality 
music these days too! they want to be able to stream it, buy it whether 
they're sitting on a lounge, on a park bench or on a mountain top and 
today's mega smart machines allow this.



The problem would seem with the h320 machines also that they had some 
really big reliability issues, battery is a case in point.



Now regarding the discussion on quality audio? Well today's iPhone, and 
Android phone give just as good quality as the h#20 did and - given that 
these modern day wonders don't use hard dirves - one could probably 
argue that performance is certainly better, better battery life, faster 
access time and so it goes on.



I'm surprised just how many people pick on some of the modern day 
devices claiming they don't have things that the Iriver H320 had, for 
example people claim that iPhone doesn't have a line out facility? It 
certainly does! though its not immediately apparent and is accessed in a 
different way than was the H320's line out socket, I bought a "Line out 
dock" connector for my iPod Nano quite some time ago, cost me 5 dollars, 
this device is small and just plugs into the bottom of the iPod or 
iPhone, from there I can connect this to a line in or auxiliary input of 
another device.



Many may say that this whoe line-out thing is nothing but trivial 
nonsense and who can blame them.  Firstly we have so many other ways of 
transferring audio from one device to another these days such as Wi-Fi 
and bluetooth so who gives a damn about connecting leads and second, the 
audio quality of digital amps that many of not all modern-day devices 
contain is just so good that the difference between a line-out and a 
headphone out socket is virtually indistingishable.




On 4/12/2011 10:36 PM, Jim Noseworthy wrote:

andre:


I would imagine that Iriver is still making players but in these days 
of folks settling for mediocrity in just about everything, the apple 
series of players are, as they say, the Jack of all trades but master 
of nothing.


Cheers.



----- Original Message ----- From: "André van Deventer" 
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Subject: RE: changing the batteries on my iriver h320 mp3 player


Jim


Does Iriver still make mp3 players I wonder or was the venerable h300 
series

the last one?

They were remarkable for their time I think.  Bulky yes but they did very
well especially  regarding recording and playback.  They also had

surprisingly good internal microphones while the noise of the internal 
hard

drive was negligible.    But of course it did not have many of the fancy
functions of the Ipod series of players.  It probably depended what you
wanted from such a machine.  I would not be surprised if some folks still
use theres.
Andre



-----Original Message-----

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Sent: 04 December 2011 12:57 AM
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Subject: Re: changing the batteries on my iriver h320 mp3 player

well,  I would like to go on the record as saying that, as far as sound
quality is concerned, apple products don't hold a candle to the iriver
products.

Cheers.


----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 4:22 PM
Subject: RE: changing the batteries on my iriver h320 mp3 player


Smaller most definitely there is no doubt about that!


It's one of the only mp3 players around that has a line output for 
example.
And newer technology does not  necessarily mean better sound quality 
in the

end.  Would be interesting to do a straight comparison between the iriver
and my Nokia e52 which is reputed to have better sound quality than the
Apple range of devices.



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Sent: 03 December 2011 08:48 PM
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Subject: Re: changing the batteries on my iriver h320 mp3 player

I'm not one to confirm or deny your doubt, I've found better quality MP3
players around yep! and don't forget that technology has marched ahead in
leaps and bounds since that player has come onto the market what..
some 8 years ago? If you like the player then stick with it.



On 4/12/2011 5:37 AM, André van Deventer wrote:

I see there are actually youtube videos explaining exactly how to do 
this.


And with rockbox loaded on it you should have a very accessible mp3
player also.

I sincerely doubt whether the newer players although much smaller will
actually give you better sound quality.

I have quite a few electronics friends who would be able to do this for

me.




-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 03 December 2011 07:31 PM
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Subject: Re: changing the batteries on my iriver h320 mp3 player


You can certainly find batteries for them yep and bigger hard drives 
too!

best place to look is at Ebay.

Then you'll have to get someone to put the battery in for you and its
not something that's easily done, your local service shop should have
the tools to do it.

I have one of these machines myself, don't use it that much as there
are better around now but I certainly wouldn't throw it away and I've
gone down the very same road you're travelling right now.



On 3/12/2011 4:03 PM, André van Deventer wrote:

Hi folks!



Yes I know most folks will now tell me that tis is an ancient and
clumsy machine but it seems a shame to throw the machine away simply
because of this.  It is big yes but probably still one of the better
mp3 players that came out.



I think the batteries on my Iriver 320 has gon down.  Does anyone
know if it would still be possible to find  batteries for them?



I also heard somewhere that it is actually possible to upgrade the
small disk drive too?





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