The MuVo Micro isn't without its flaws, though. There's no option to sort songs by artist, album, or genre, and there's no playlist support. Songs are listed in alphabetical--or numerical, if you name your files with track numbers preceding the song title -- order. As such, the most logical way to transfer music, if you want some organization, is to use Windows Explorer and drag and drop album or artist folders (with no subfolders) directly from the My Music window; you can then browse through separate folders on the player.
As we've come to expect from Creative players, the MuVo Micro sounded good in our tests, even through the included earbuds. The signal-to-noise ratio is listed as simply "up to 90dB," which is average, but we noticed no background hiss at normal volume levels, and audio sounded rich and clean. We did note the same issue that several users have complained about: the backlight produces some feedback, though it's mostly perceptible when your music is paused and thus doesn't hamper overall sound quality.Although the Creative MuVo Micro's maximum bit rate for line-in encoding is 160Kbps, recordings sounded quite good, and the track-splitting (Sync Track) function worked accurately. Voice recordings also came out clearly, although you have to hold the player fairly close to the sound source to avoid a muffled quality. The FM tuner worked a treat too, with the autoscanner picking up all local stations.
What we were most pleased with, however, was the battery life we recorded. The MuVo Micro lasted more than 19 hours, beating Creative's own estimate by 4 hours. Its average transfer time of 1.76MB per second was decent for USB 2.0.
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Kyus Agu-Lionel 14 January 2007
Good: Screen (I hate the iPod Shuffle), simple music transfer, sounds good, looks good, simple to use
Bad: I preferred the built-in USB key of the predecessor
Comment: I never had any problems with it, whereas I had to take my current MP3 player, the Samsung YP-Z5 back to the shop twice. It was simple and small and wherever I went, it went too. It is smaller than many 128MB cheap MP3 players on the market. Unfortunately, I liked the built-in USB connection of its predecessor. It's a hassle to carry around the cable just in case I came near a friend's computer in case I wanted to 'borrow' some songs. Other than that, the battery life is good and I never had the problem of it conking out out on me, which is what happened to me frequently with the MP3 player on my phone.
Genki Yo 5 August 2006
Good: Has radio function, it's a small size and light, uses normal AAA batteries
Bad: Flimsy battery lid, wheel to skip songs is naff, bad earphones, and not very good shuffle function
Comment: I would save your money and instead go for something else. It seems pretty cheap, but when you think about it, it's not really. Definitely not worth the score CNET gave it!
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