iriver CXW-2G Clix 2 GB Digital Music and Video Player, White

This is the best mp3 player / personal media player I have ever owned. It has a large, well lit screen and great sound quality. It comes with some fun games and you can download more at the iriver website. I havent done much with the videos yet but the ones preloaded on the clix are good looking. It also displays pictures quite nicely which you can set as the wallpaper. The interface is very intuitive and works well with the "tilt" screen. You can also make "quicklists" on the go which is very usefull. It also has cool features such as FM radio (which can be recorded), a voice recorder, the ability to view text files, an alarm clock (which you really need the dock for), and it works seamlessly with URGE. The only thing bad about the clix is that it is only 2gb. Otherwise it is a small, reliable mp3 player, well worth the money.

Like some others that have left reviews here, I tried to love this thing. I really did. It got great reviews in most places. Its small, has great sound, and has a nice crisp screen (and is really nifty looking). BUT. That's where it ends. Feature-wise, iRiver really didn't go all out.Strike one: if you're an avid ogg fan, you get the short end of the stick: the clix does not support ogg tags. This makes it difficult, if not impossible, to make playlists while the DAP is not hooked up to a computer. You can't just select 'Add to Quick List' (which is handy if you're away from a computer and want to make a temporary playlist, and if, of course, you're using anything that's readable through tags). The tags are what organize this DAP, not the filenames that you transfer over. That ogg tags are not supported makes using this DAP difficult if most of your library is made up of ogg.Strike two: the fact that they don't emphasize that you absolutely, positively NEED Windows Media Player 10 or higher to get onto this DAP borders on false advertising. I mean, this thing is USELESS if you don't have Windows. It might as well be used as a paperweight. This, coupled the clix's dependence on Windows'/WMP's use of Media Transfer Protocol, is like finding an anti-usability ceiling above one's head: you have to finangle it JUST RIGHT and depend on faulty software to make it work. There is NO OTHER OPTION.Strike three: that OTHER PEOPLE (*cough*iriverter*cough*) had to write software to convert videos to the proper format instead of the iRiver support/software team just shows me how they seem to be lacking customer support. I leave others to draw their own conclusions, but for this guy, it seems not a whole lot to ask for something so important to the success of the product.I guess I bought this little DAP before really hearing out the negatives that people had to say. It just seemed so... nifty. With this review, I'm trying to warn people looking for functionality about what this DAP truly lacks. If you have mostly id3 tagged mp3s this thing might be for you. I can't say anything about wma, because I've stayed as far away from them as I possibly can. Just be forewarned, the fact that it supports the ogg format doesn't mean that it supports everything that comes with oggs; the fact that it is backed by Microsoft doesn't mean that its user-friendly; and be wary of the customer support. *rant over*

Got the 2GB Clix ($135) in Dec 2006 for my 14-year-old teen.The screen is very small and it is very easy to use.It is a nice MP3 and Video (avi) player and very cool with lots of features like Flash games, nice FM radio, Alarm clock etc.A few days after the 1-year warranty passed, it suddenly stopped showing up as a Flash drive when connected to a PC.The support person said he works for a third party service and that this problem is common...If this had happened a few days ago, I would have been able to send it for repair. Unfortunately, while trying to troubleshoot the problem, I formatted the device so all we can do with it now is listen to radio...

The video function for this unit works beautifully as long as you are willing to download a freeware companion program, ireverter.The user interface is superb, however, Clix has no good interface to podcasts. This wouldn't matter if Clix had a good interface to directory tree heirarchies. But it doesn't. Instead, Clix relies on id3 tags -- MP3 files have little descriptive fields in them called "id3 tags". They provide information like music genre, title, track number, artist, album, etc. If these are not present, as is the case for most of the podcasts I listen to, then Clix has no way of organizing these. I've had to resort to programming id3 tags in order to listen my podcasts. If I could have organized my music by directory, I could have avoided this. Instead, I'm forced to cycle through all the songs and podcasts linearly in order to get the one I'm after. Very annoying and time consuming. Once I find what I'm after Clix will remember where I left off. Sometimes. If you plug the thing in it will lose its place. If you're listening to music, switch to video, and then switch back to music, its forgotten where you left off in the music.Also, there is no way to delete things except from a Windows interface.There is no non-windows interfaces.