ilo 1GB MP3 Player
August 18, 2006 · Print This Article
Cool gadget alert!
If you’re looking to get into the world of MP3 players (I was late to the game, I admit), I can now personally recommend this nifty little ilo MP3 player from Wal-Mart.
So here are the product details with my commentary (because I love to make commentary!) in bold italic - which is quite ugly, I might add, but I think you can at least see what the marketing people wrote vs. what I wrote.
- Slim, compact digital audio MP3 player - it’s cute too!
- 1 GB storage capacity - mmm a yummy gigabyte
- Stores up to 480 songs - I will never have time to add that many
- Perfect companion for working out or sports activities with sport design with rubber grip - working out? yeah, or just listening while vacuuming, ’cause ya can
- Includes case and armband for protection and accessibility - case! armband!
- Solid state memory for skip free playback - no skips here
- Simple and intuitive menus for navigation and customizing your player - yeah the menus rock
- FM tuner with 20 presets and recording capability to record your favorite radio programs - if you’re into FM, ok
- Easy to use Voice Recording feature - i recorded. it worked.
- Up to 16 hours of battery life on one AAA alkaline battery - haven’t timed it, but this does seem about right
- Supports easy drag and drop song transfer from your PC - there is a learning curve if you’re new to players in general, but it’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it
- SD/MMC memory expansion slot (up to 1GB)
- USB 2.0 connection for hi-speed music transfers
- Screen display is black LCD with white lettering and a white backlight - again, cute! woo!
- Comes with 12 pre-loaded tracks - ugh, they SUCK! delete immediately!
The price is decent, and the player comes with 10 free music downloads from walmart.com, which is a nice little bonus.
One word of caution: THIS PLAYER IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ITUNES! I repeat, THIS PLAYER IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ITUNES! Once more, for the record: THIS PLAYER IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH ITUNES!
So don’t go buy one and then yell at me, k?
No iTunes was no biggie for me, as I use Wal-Mart for music downloads anyway.
Did I mention they come in purdy colors?
And you can check out the great selection of tunes available for download right here:
Price: $69.84
Available (in multiple colors) from Wal-Mart.com
I use one of these daily, i didn’t like the ear buds, (i never have like ear buds anyway), but i bought diffrent headphones and i love it. It is not rechargable, but a battery will last me about 18hrs. Thats not bad at all. Get one, there great.
My hubby didn’t like the ear buds either, so he got some headphones, and I took over the ear buds to use with my laptop.
Waitaminute… you ARE my hubby! lol
EL ILO QUE YO COMPRE ES UNA PORQUERIA Y QUIERO VER SI ME HACEN VALIDA LA GARANTIA EN EL WALMART
wow, i’m behind… my mp3 player is a Diamond RIO that i got as a free give-away for being one of the first 50 people to reply to an ad back in 2000 (as in Y2K) and it has a whopping 16mb of storage and some kind of expansion card slot that i’ve never had a card for… it also has to the same 14 songs that i loaded on it back then.
here’s a very rough translation of oswaldo’s post, for the espanol impaired:
“THE ILO THAT I BOUGHT IS A FILTH AND I WANT TO SEE IF THEY MAKE TO ME THE GUARANTEE VALID IN THE WALMART”
i haven’t used the ilo mp3 player in quite a while now, since i quit going to “work out”. now, i’m too busy “working” for any sort of fun. hubby says it still works great. i’m sure it’s obsolete by now, with technology moving at the speed of light. lol
I got my ilo 256Mb mp3 player about 2 years ago. It worked pretty well for a while and then erased itself =(. I lost the software disk that came with it so I couldn’t do much about it. I finally dug it up about a week ago and I really would like to use it again. I was wondering if you knew of anywhere that I could get a new disk? It would be much apprecitated. =)
I got an ILO for Christmas. Today is Jan 19 and I turn it on and it says searching files. It froze on me. I’ve VERY angry cause I loved it. Plus my nephew got one and his only worked the day of C-mas. I need to know what to do!!
I bought 2 of these for my kids for christmas last year. they have both broke THESE ARE JUNK!!!
Be very careful with these. Do not bump the edge switches on things, and treat them like they will break easily, because they will. I just repaired one of the volume switches, part of the rocker pair.
The switches are surface-mount without any structural reinforcement. That means that every time you hit a switch, you’re applying shear force against the four micro-dots of solder.
It’s a poor execution of questionable design, but whaddya expect for $50?
wow. apparently people are NOT happy with these mp3 players. ours is still working great, but i wonder now if that trend will continue. thanks all for the feedback.
how do you record from an fm station? and how do you delete things from ilo? there aren’t any instructions on how to do this,.
thanks for the feedback.
got one of these for christmas 06 has worked great up untill i dropped it…..sucked very badly be careful where you place these they are very drop sensitive and will crack the internal printed circut board. i guess for 40 bucks i can’t complain but i probably would buy one with more storage
Mi hermano compro uno tambien, y no sirvio para nada y lo peor que costo bien caro… y no sabemos que hacer, fue dinero tirado a la basura… deberiamos de mandarlos a la compañia directamente… por aparatos que no sirven para nada…. se estan enriqueciendo a costa de aparatos que no sirven…
EL ILO QUE COMPRE EN WALMART SOLO ME FUNCIONO 1 MES Y SEGUN EN LA TIENDA ES UNA DE LAS MEJORES MARCAS EN E.U. LO UNICO QUE PUEDO USAR SON LOS CABLES USB Y AUDIFONOS Y LA PILA.
I got one of these players for my girlfriend in november of 06… she lives in brazil in the tropics without a/c and it still works great for her. personally I think they have a lot of features for not much money which includes the card slot that can be loaded with the new 4 gig cards giving you a total of 5 gigs of music. The player can creat a multitude of playlists based on singer, album or genre and you get the radio and voice recoder…. seems to me it does a lot more then an ipod for a lot less money, we are very happy with it.
I loaded some music on a friends ilo by copy and paste with my itunes BEFORE I knew that I couln’t do that. NOW the player won’t play and I can’t delete anything from it. What do I do now??????????
Thanks,
Donna
Lost my CD, mp3 says “no files” Can’t find program on computer, Need new CD or download of same. HELP! Thanks.
i got this one too,it’s so cute ,but i’m having sort of a problem with it.i tried to download some songs to it and it said they were on there but idon’t see them anywhere.what should i do?
were can i get the software for the ILO mp3 player. I left the software at my brothers house out of state. Any help would be nice
how do you record from an fm station?
Thax Audrey ♥♥♥
how do you record from an fm station? i’ve had mine Sence 06 And I have before but i put in away B/c I got A new one And That broke So i get This One Back Out And I forgot, And I Love My Cd And book, =[ Help ?
Thax Audrey ♥♥♥
How do I delete songs from the ilo?
Yo tengo un ILO mi computadora ni lo detecta, tengo el windows vista y no puedo usarlo ese ILO no sirve, pague 79 dolares por el y para nada y no se como hacer para q mi pc lo detecte.
o wow…they are down to $60 now?!….when i bought mine 2 years ago it was around $120…but its a good mp3 player…only had a problem with the screen not turning on, and so i threw it at the wall really hard and it worked =D…so whenever it screws up,…and it only duz cuz or the firmware…, i just throw it at a wall and it works perfect =DDDDD …well yea i am extremely bored right now so peace out everyone!!!!
This is the worst thing I have bought for $100.00! I bought it at Walmart a couple of months back. Maybe 14 months ago. Well, for one, I was stupid and bought the player and then bought my computer. WORST MOVE EVER! Well, the next week I was on the Internet, and I went to the Walmart site, and the player was on sale for like 30 bucks! (I had bought the player a week earlier for $100.00 total with tax and I think a pack of batteries to go along with the player) Well I had dropped it a couple times, once really bad. That was the first problem. The buttons were stuck inward, but they popped out, no big deal, really. Well just the last week I was in class listening to the player, and it wouldn’t turn off!!! I had to take the battery out and I put it away. Well the next day I got it out and it wouldn’t turn on! I took/popped the power button out and got out the nasty gunk in it out and it still wouldn’t turn on!!!!! GRRRR…! IT’S BROKEN NOW (WON’T TURN ON) AND THE BATTERY IS FINE! THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE BOUGHT FOR $100.00. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IF ANYONE ELSE HAD ANY PROBLEMS AND WHAT THEY WERE. -AND YES, THE WARRENTY IS UP. THE WARRENTY ONLY LASTED 90 DAY (3 MONTHS). THE PLAYER IS A PECIE OF JUNK AND NO ONE SELLS THEM ANYMORE, AND I CAN HARDLY FIND IT ON THE INTERNET! OVERALL I GIVE IT 1 AND 1/2 STARS. IT’S A STUPID PECIE OF JUNK!!!!!! -PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR INPUT AND ANY PROBLEMS YOU–(R)/FAMILY/FRIEND/etc. HAD WITH THIS THING.