The Archos player had really poor sound output. USB is really slow. The archos was a pain to navigate.
The only drawback with the Rio Volt, is that you have to burn a custom cd to make a play list. I never listen to my mp3 cd collection the way I burned them. Carrying around a stack of cds and changing them everytime I wanted to listen to a song wasn't very ideal.
I had the Nomad Jukebox. The 6gb drive was great, but it was too big and not very portable. The battery only lasted 2hrs. It didn't have a wired remote. It really defeats the purpose of being portable.
The only problem I've found with this is that I don't always burn my CDs the way I want to listen to them. One day I might want to listen to a variety of music, but with CDs I have to switch out the CDs to get the tracks I want. With the jukebox or HD player I can create a playlist from the library of music already on the player, like you said 100 CDs worth as opposed to 50 or 100 CDs in a case.
I test drove one of these at an expo and I wasn't too impressed. I had a hard time navigating the menus/controls. If I had a chance to read the manuals it may have been easier. The one true draw back was the sound quality, which was poor at best. There was absolutely no bass, and the louder the volume the more distorted it got.
I actually have both of these, the DAV 309 and the 310. They both suck ass. I couldn't do anything without it skipping. I could be walking and the player would skip. It also would not find mp3s if the file extension did not end with ".mp3". The player was not very responsive. Navigating through tracks was very difficult because I didn't know where any mp3s were due to the lack of ID3 tag support. I was able to watch VCDs, which was cool. I now have the Nomad Jukebox and it never skipped, I can goto to whatever track I want easily, make playlists, and I don't have to worry about changing CDs. The only big draw back is that batteries don't last very long.
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The Archos player had really poor sound output. USB is really slow. The archos was a pain to navigate.
The only drawback with the Rio Volt, is that you have to burn a custom cd to make a play list. I never listen to my mp3 cd collection the way I burned them. Carrying around a stack of cds and changing them everytime I wanted to listen to a song wasn't very ideal.
I had the Nomad Jukebox. The 6gb drive was great, but it was too big and not very portable. The battery only lasted 2hrs. It didn't have a wired remote. It really defeats the purpose of being portable.
The only problem I've found with this is that I don't always burn my CDs the way I want to listen to them. One day I might want to listen to a variety of music, but with CDs I have to switch out the CDs to get the tracks I want. With the jukebox or HD player I can create a playlist from the library of music already on the player, like you said 100 CDs worth as opposed to 50 or 100 CDs in a case.
I test drove one of these at an expo and I wasn't too impressed. I had a hard time navigating the menus/controls. If I had a chance to read the manuals it may have been easier. The one true draw back was the sound quality, which was poor at best. There was absolutely no bass, and the louder the volume the more distorted it got.
I actually have both of these, the DAV 309 and the 310. They both suck ass. I couldn't do anything without it skipping. I could be walking and the player would skip. It also would not find mp3s if the file extension did not end with ".mp3". The player was not very responsive. Navigating through tracks was very difficult because I didn't know where any mp3s were due to the lack of ID3 tag support. I was able to watch VCDs, which was cool. I now have the Nomad Jukebox and it never skipped, I can goto to whatever track I want easily, make playlists, and I don't have to worry about changing CDs. The only big draw back is that batteries don't last very long.