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You are better off to purchase a cheap sandisk mp3. It started to skip only after it was 2 mths old. Very displeased with this product. Very hard on batteries. My granddaughter became very frustrated with her fp3.
I would reccommend this player to everyone one feature that I love is that you can assign icons to every song so it is really easy for my son to find what song he is looking for. It has a lot of memory on it, so there is plenty of room for all types of music and stories. My son is rough on things and we have not had the first problem with it. I had purchased the FP3 player for my 3 yr old son and he LOVES it. It is really easy to use and upload all of his favorite cd's onto it. It is also very durable.
I still feel that getting the actual music on the device is harder it should be, however, once the music is on the device, managing the library is not hard. All in all though, we really like it. It's amazing that I LOVE and HATE Fisher Price for always being the only ones to offer an option for the "big kid" toys for the little guys.UPDATE: Several weeks later we have contacted Fisher Price, downloaded a software patch for the 32 bit version of Vista (a patch is not available if you have 64 bit). The biggest positive.
It is actually a really cute device, as you can add thumbnail images to each song so your young child can learn to recognize the songs as they scroll through. My little guy LOVES it. BUT.it is not compatible with Windows Vista out of the box, so we will have to call Fisher Price to get Vista compatible software, which adds more time and drama to the fact that it is very hard to get music on too. He uses it all the time. If you have to buy this, because let's face it, there aren't many other options for a really young music lover, then you'll probably be willing to spend the time it will take. It LOOKS durable and easy to use for the kids.
For something for a child, I am ambivalant about the fact that it massively harder to manage than my iPod. If you can at all justify waiting or buying something a little bit older, then do so. You can also draw pictures if you cannot find a preloaded image that will match the song. The only thing I would change is that I would like to see an icon on the screen telling if the song is playing or paused, because you cannot tell and with the tendency of little fingers to push buttons, we've spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out if it is playing for him or not. It IS cute, but not worth the $94 being asked now since it is discontinued. So, plan ahead to get it set up in advance if you need to have it ready for a birthday or Christmas morning gift.
It holds more than I thought too.
My husband does the downloads and was a little frustrated with the method of downloading, but overall that didn't affect the fact that my son carried this with him for years until he finally matured into a real ipod. The earphones are great and the sound is fixed so it can't go very loud. My son has had his for 3 years. I highly recommend this for those who aren't old enough for an ipod. He has dropped and thrown this and it keeps on working.
But as is it is the most frustrating thing I have ever worked with. First of all because it is a PF3 player not an MP3 player it does not automatically title the songs so you have to go in and rename every song you put on it. I hate this PF3 player more than I hate anything else in my life right now. I have spent upward of 100 hours trying to load songs from CDs onto it. If Fisher Price had only paid for the MP3 files it would be a great product.
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