MP3 Players Review

Toshiba Gigabeat MEG-F40S 40 GB Digital Audio Player Silver

Customer Reviews

Ol' Reliable... my best friend

This is absolutely the best Digital Audio Player that I've ever used, period. The intuitive plus touch is easy to use and understand and works well for scrolling the menus. The sound quality (with the 3.0 firmware) is second to none, no matter how loud you turn it up, or what speakers you use, this thing doesn't distort at all... The screen is awesome and viewing high-resolution, colorful photos on its screen is a treat to the eye. It would have been nice of Toshiba to have added video support but, the product was released three years ago and so yeah... customizable wallpaper and a comprehensive picture viewer are welcome The biggest thing about the Gigabeat F is it's relatively steep learning curve. I warn you: it will take you some time to become efficient at operating the player. However, once you learn all of the shortcuts, (and yes there are some that are not mentioned in the manual), this player is a breeze to navigate, a pleasure even. The player works well with Napster to Go. I have 334 albums (most of them from Napster) and they all work well. The player also seamlessly intergrates with windows media player 9, 10, and 11. I'll admit that the packaged Gigabeat Room, software isn't the easiest or the most user-friendly piece of software ever developed but it is by no means unusable. It functions, and does what it's supposed to do. I should mention that this software is the only way that you may put pictures on the player for actual viewing. The player supports, wav, wma, and mp3 formats and plays them all beutifully. Ignore those ignorant reviews that didn't give the player a decent chance and learn to use it the way it was intended. It is an awesome DAP and I've listened to over 23000 songs on it since I got it back in 05. (It tell you in the "System" menu) and it shows no sings of giving out. I take it everywhere and have no desire for any of those newfangled Zunes or Ipod touches and I gaurantee that, granted you learn how to use it the way it was supposed to be used, you will love it too! Get one! If you can find one, they are out of production and have been for some time now!

Very Nice

I have an Ipod Nano.......this thing blows that out of the water. Now some were not happy with the software, I sort of bypassed that altogether because there is some very nice alternatives out there (Rockbox) and it is a thing of beauty.

Great Product

I have had my Toshiba Gigabeat F40 for at least a year. It works great and I have had no issues. I have 222 artists and 518 albums on it so far. I use Windows Media Player and I don't have any problems downloading music.

Daughter loves it!

I bought this for my 30 year old daughter and she loves it. I didn't want to spend twice the money for an I-pod and bought this figuring that if she got some enjoyment out of it, it would be worth the $180 bucks. She loves it so much her mother-in-law is buying one for our 9 year old grandson.

Colossal Waste Of Time

Did someone say file management? Race through and install ALL of your image files and convert them into a form that you can do nothing with. Take your totally useable .mp3 files and turn them into unusable and unmangageable .sat files. Next, make trying to move these files off and on to the gigabeat to avoid duplicates impossible. Trying to prepare this unit for sale on Amazon, I found no reference to returning to original factory settings at hand. Using Windows XP sp2 to format the drive was a mistake. I hadn't found this out until I sold the unit and was looking for any missing documentation. It was no use anyway, The unit would bring back things that you've deleted. The Gigabeat room software would tell you that something is there when unplugged it isn't. There isn't any Toshiba factory support. The 1.1 USB is hell-of-slow especially with 2 Gigabytes worth of 700K files. This unit is generally hostile towards non-commercial music such as my 78s collection on .mp3, my recorded gigs of David Kafinetti (from spinal tap) with bird sounds, train sounds and people I find the need to record. This thing does not do well with those. Why do you people always want to see a "Genre". Sansa was like that also. What on earth is up with you people? I will not have my musical tastes pigeonholed. Thank you not. Towards the end, it stopped working altogether with the 2.0 USB, Always switched my 1024x768 SVGA to low-res VGA, and slowed all other processes to a crawl while losing track of itself. A complete and utter failure at filling MY need to put my favorite old 78 records into a form that I can listen to often. Don't waste your time on this one as it most assuredly will.

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