Cheap GoVideo ARC5.0 Rave-MP 5GB MP3 Player (Silver) (Electronics) Price
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A USB 2.0 Hi-Speed connection ensures lickity-split downloads and supports both MP3 and WMA audio formats from most online services (including WMA's Digital Rights Management). Also included is an FM tuner with 20 presets and the ability to record from FM radio or voice and other sounds via a built-in microphone.
Organizing and transferring music is a cinch since the player is designed to use the near-ubiquitous Windows Media Player 9 as its default jukebox. Accessing and playing music from the ARC5.0 is simple, too, thanks to the player's carefully engineered user interface and its sharp, multi-line, backlit, white-on-black LCD. A 5-band equalizer lets you tailor the sound to your taste or listening environment.
What's in the Box
MP3 player, headphones, storage case, armband, a quick-start guide, an installation disc, an AC power adapter, and warranty information.
| CATEGORY: | Electronics |
| MANUFACTURER: | GoVideo |
| FEATURES: | Compatible with PlaysForSure, Polished industrial design, Large 128 x 64 Mono Backlit LCD (white lettering), Voice Recording, Internal Lithium-Ion Battery - up to 15 hours of life |
| MEDIA: | Electronics |
| MPN: | ARC5.0 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 098226012365 |
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Customer Reviews of GoVideo ARC5.0 Rave-MP 5GB MP3 Player (Silver)
It is absolutely awful (no good). Buying it is a waste of money In short, their is noting MP about this mp3 player. It is absolutely awful (no good). Buying it is a waste of money. It freezes like every 2 minute. In short, don't buy it; it might be cheap, buy you will not like the performance. And to make the story worse, Rave does not have any customer support. I got no response when i called them. Email too, they offered no help either <
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>The only thing good about the player is that it comes with a free hear phone
Worst player and company on the market!
I bought the 2.5 ARC player in March 2005. The second day it froze on me as I was listening to the FM tuner. The sound was not very good, and I had to pull the headphone jack out just a bit from the player so that the sound would not be muffled. The player worked fine until January. As I was jogging, it just stopped playing and turned off. A little spider looking graphic came on the screen and a face with three x's and a sad face came on, too. I contacted RaveMP about it, and they gave me an SA# to use to return the player. They told me it would take about 2 weeks after they received it to repair it. In MARCH I still had not received any word on the status of my player. I e-mailed Rave and I received a response from a customer service rep that their company was going through some changes and that repairs were taking about 4-5 weeks in order to improve customer service. (How does taking longer to fix somehing improve customer service?!?!?!) Finally, last week, after getting terrible automated responses, I looked up GoVideo in Scottsdale, AZ, and I called their number directly. I had to leave a voice-mail (a vioce mail!) and they called me back 2 days later. The guy said that basically GoVideo is going out of business and that they are not going to take any responsibility for fixing my player. He e-mailed me a company letter basically stating that GoVideo is dafaulting on all equipment repairs and is asking customers to contact the merchant from whom they bought the player. I contacted my merchant who of course said they had no responsibility anymore and that it was the responsibilty of the manufacturer to fix it. I was very upset! I mean I paid $150 for a piece of junk!!!! GoVideo is a fraud of a company. Do NOT ever buy anything from this company!!!!!!!
If this were free it would still be a waste of time...
The Rave Arc mp3 player is cheap but still not worth it. In fact, I can't think of any price point where it would be worth it. Maybe whatever an ugly paperweight costs...
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>The functionality is lacking, for example, you can't organize songs into lists unless you rename the album in the mp3 metadata to specify a list (I'd recommend ID3-renamer for this, by the way). Most users won't be able to figure this out.
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>The biggest problem is the battery. Mine worked fine for 95 days (until 5 days after the warranty expired), but the battery life suddenly dropped to approx 1 hour. I called Go Video and their parts department was closed for nearly a month, but they assured me that I just needed to buy a new battery. They said 1 in 100 batteries had a "fabric" problem.
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>After about a month, their new parts department opened (panurgyOem.com) which is an outsourced operation which I suspect is some guy in his living room. I left messages and emailed for a month (long distance, of course, since there's no toll free number), but they never called or emailed back. Go Video kept saying that it wasn't their problem now that they've outsourced their parts department. I finally got through to the parts department and they told me that the battery is not replaceable. When I started to question them, they hung up on me.
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>I called Go Video again and they said there was nothing they could do since the parts are outsourced. They suggested that I bring the old battery to Radio Shack to see if they have one that will work.
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>All in all, this is probably the worst product I ever bought manufactured by the worst company that I've ever dealt with.
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>If you can get one for $5 it may be worth it since I'll give you $10 for the battery... Otherwise it's not worth it.
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