In Depth iRiver H10 Review

Jeff, the maintainer of iRiver community forum Mistic River, has written a lengthy in depth review of the new iRiver H10. As a bonus, he's also got video (7MB WMV file) of using the device.

Not surprisingly, Jeff liked the H10 a lot:

The iRiver H10 is a great player. Easy to use, great sound quality, easy to navigate, 5gb of storage, on the fly playlisting, photo viewing, slideshow, color screen, great styling. Both power users and everyday consumers will enjoy using it's many features. It stacks up very well against the competition and if viewed side by side should come out on top.

Justifiably though, Jeff dings iRiver for a pretty significant bug in the H10 firmware. In a folder it plays tracks alphabetically by filename instead of using the track number tag stored in each file. Even if your songs start with their track number ("01 - Song A", "02 - Next Song", "03 - More", etc.) it STILL sorts them alphabetically so that "03 - More" would play first! Ouch iRiver.

Also, there's been some question about using the H10 as a portable harddrive. Apparently our original supposition was correct. The H10 will not be compatible with non-Windows computers (Macs, Linux, etc.). To many this may not be an issue, but it's good to be aware of this and the fact that previous iRiver devices were compatible.

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