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Apple has made many improvements to the software running on the iPhone and iPod Touch since their debut in 2007. Unfortunately for iPod Touch owners, each incremental upgrade to the software comes...

Using a PC to manage and maintain content on your MP3 player can be quickly accomplished using Windows Media Player. A Windows Media Player--supported MP3 device offers the ability to synchronize...

The SanDisk Sansa Clip is a small, affordable MP3 player. It is a basic player that does not include advanced features such as WiFi or video playback. It does, however, support the majority of...

IPod hardware is everywhere you look. And installing them onto your PC can be complicated if you aren't familiar with how they work. In order to add music, video files, pictures, applications or...

The Zune is a portable multimedia player. It comes in a range of colors (black, red, and blue) and storage sizes (ranging from 4 to 120GB). For audio, the Zune supports MP3, AAC, and WMA. For...

Element Electronics produces a variety of low-end MP3 players. Because of their limited features and storage capacity, they are ideal if you are looking for an affordable model and don't mind the...

The Apple iPod is one of the most popular portable audio devices on the market with more than 200 million units sold worldwide as of 2009. For many, Apple's elegant design and simple user...

The Zune is the Microsoft Corporation's flagship portable media player. It is designed to play videos, MP3 music and other media files, and is ideal for users who want to carry their media...

Every portable device can encounter an error and lock up from time to time, and the Microsoft Zune audio player is no exception. In the event that your Zune freezes, however, there are several...

Sending music files between Palm Tungsten E2 devices can be done by using the Bluetooth technology already available on your handheld. The process is relatively short and is quickly done so long...

MP3 players have added a lot of fun to our daily lives. They can make even long car rides great, because you can listen to all of your favorite songs or recorded radio programs on a device that...

The Zune is a portable media player by Microsoft. It comes in a variety of colors including black, brown, pink and white. All Zunes feature Wi-Fi support that allows the user to wirelessly...

Secondhand electronics sometimes still have marks of the previous owners' use on them. IPods, for example, can have custom drive names that appear when attached to a computer. To change this to...

If you have purchased a Microsoft Zune audio player, the Zune software will be your way of interfacing with the device. During the initial setup of the Zune, the software will ask you what types...

A "Palm" is a type of electronic device manufactured by the Palm corporation. Palm currently makes cell phones and personal data assistants (PDAs). Both Palm phones and PDAs are capable of playing...

One of the best-loved features of the Microsoft Zune audio player is the ability to customize the experience of using it, and a simple aspect that can be customized is the name of the device....

One of the best things about an iPod is that its contents can change as your taste in music and videos does. Your iPod can update in two ways--automatically or manually. When you have your iPod...

Wanting to protect your electronics? Have a pouch for loose change? Perhaps key your car keys quiet? This pouch can be made simply with items laying around the house.

The Sansa E200 Rhapsody is a portable device, similar to the Apple iPod. It's capable of storing music files, photos and videos. Unfortunately, like the iPod, the E200 doesn't have an internal...

The Sansa series of MP3 players (manufactured by SanDisk) offers a compact, inexpensive digital music solution for consumers. If you are experiencing problems with your Sansa (specifically...

A VHF radio can be used to both listen to broadcast material or to communicate with other individuals. As long as another person carrying a VHF radio is within range and on the correct frequency,...

Occasionally, users may begin to experience problems with their Coby brand of MP3 player. These problems can include the screen displaying error messages like "System Error" or failing to load at...

Occasionally, your Sansa MP3 player might begin to experience problems. It is natural if your MP3 player has been on for an extended period of time to lock or freeze up. Fixing your Sansa MP3...

Coby MP3 players are not the most popular brand of personal media device, but work well for the non tech-savvy user. Coby MP3 players are generally very simplistic, and require very little user...

MP4 players were created as successors to MP3 players. Although not all can play MPEG-4-type media files, most of them can play high-quality videos, music and even games. Since most people are...

Apple's iPod models are popular for their compact size and many functions, including support for both video and audio files. Unfortunately, iPods occasionally malfunction, break or have other...

The Apple iPod is one of the most popular portable media devices. Most iPods can play digital audio files, as well as videos, audiobooks and video games. Because so many people own iPods, some...

The iPod 4th generation was another in a long line of Apple's popular consumer-level portable music playing devices. It has since been replaced by the iPod Classic which added the ability to play...

At some point or another all electronic devices will give users problems. This is simply one of the standard events in technology. When it comes to the Sandisk Sansa MP3 Player, these problems...

The Philips GoGear is a portable MP3 player with additional functionality such as the ability to record your voice or the radio. Some minor problems may develop in the device that keep if from...

The Zune is a portable media device that is Microsoft's answer to Apple's popular iPod. It enables you to take all of your favorite songs and videos with you to listen and watch wherever and...

An iPod displaying a sad face icon when you turn it on generally suffers from a hardware failure, and replacing the device or sending it off for repair can be costly if it's no longer under...

The iPod is a bestselling media device designed by Apple, and includes the iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle. All the iPod models sync with Apple's iTunes software to...

Samsung MP3 players are some of the most advanced and feature-rich digital players available. They offer high sound quality and ample memory for your music library. Not only that, they connect...

The iLo mp3 player is a compact portable media device that is sold exclusively through Wal-Mart. They come in a variety of colors, including red, green and blue. Features of the mp3 player include...

Not all iPods are simply for listening to music. Several models give you the option of viewing video files on the device. You can acquire video files for your video-enabled iPod directly from...

MP3 video players are portable audio/video devices capable of playing various audio formats (mp3, wav, mp4, for example) and video files (mpeg, avi, wmv). MP3 video players usually have larger...

The Microsoft Zune is a popular digital media player and rival to the Apple iPod line. Before use of the Zune, the Zune software must be installed on your PC and the Zune must be properly set up....

As with any piece of electronics equipment, occasionally users may start to experience problems with their iPod. Many of these problems will be software based, like when a song won't play or the...

The Palm TX has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. You can use the device as an organizer, play music using Pocket Tunes, check e-mail, browse the web and sync your documents. The device has a...

The Sansa E260 is a portable MP3 player released by SanDisk in 2004. Several problems may cause the E260 to not function as intended from time to time. Common problems that occur are the device...

Sometimes it's hard to believe the first MP3 player was introduced only in 1998. The device was called the "MPman". Modern MP3 players have come a long way since then, as digital audio has become...

The Apple iPod is one of the most used and popular MP3 players in the country. With the device you can take your music on the road with you, as well as movies and other content as well. However,...

When you sync a new iPod with iTunes for the first time, you have the option of naming the device. This name will then appear in iTunes each time you sync your device with that software program....

New iPods, video cameras, and cell phones hit the market with increasing regularity. The newest models make our old ones obsolete, or at least that's we tell ourselves to justify buying new ones!...

The Apple iPod and iPhone have revolutionized the way we get and listen to music. Instead of a CD that can skip or a tape that can break, you can have thousands of songs at your disposal with the...

The "Recovery Mode" on a Sansa MP3 player can be used to completely format and erase all data on the device. If the player is experiencing problems and the software has to be uninstalled and...

A Radio Remote is a device that connects to an iPod and allows the user to listen to local and nationally syndicated radio stations. When the iPod Touch was first announced, there were no Radio...

The Zen V Plus is a pocket-sized portable media player designed and manufactured by Creative. The Zen V Plus is one of the company's flagship products and can play most types of music and movie...

Excluding the iPhone, the Apple iPod touch is the most advanced iPod in the entire family of mobile MP3 players. Like all other electronics, however, the iPod touch may run into slight problems,...