ilo 1GB MP3 Player
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.
I have had one of these since they came out. It is great. My friend got one, so I saved up money & gift cards and I love it. I didn’t know about the expansion slot (I was young when I got it) until recently. I don’t need it, becuase I still (as of my last sync) have 381 MB left. I love the many features. I love NASCAR and there was a day I had to miss a race on TV, but you can find a local station (in most places) and listen to it, and the tuner is fantastic. I have about 179 songs, ranging from classical to country. It has many different pre-made lists that it sorts itself. You can choose to listen to Pop or Country, etc. Most of the time I will listen to a whole cd or whatever. I just got a speaker to plug into it from Dollar Tree, which I didn’t expect to work. To my surprise it did and the only trouble is that I can’t have it very loud becuase the minimum volume (on the ilo) that the speakers will play is like 13, so it won’t go really loud, but I don’t need it to. I bought it when it was $120 dollars, and watching the price drop to $60, I don’t regret buying it when I did one bit. It was my first and only mp3 player, and I love it! My friend isn’t the best with electronics and has had three different mp3 player in the same span of time (but it was her fault each time). I highly recommend this!
Да, таких интересных блогов я невидел! Этот блог даст фору многим сайтам ( по содержанию и не только)! Шесть баллов!
Вот про это я почитал с огромным интересом. И прочитал бы еще больше! Планируете и дальше писать на эту же тему? Спасибо
Занимательная и интересная статья у вас. В отличие от большинства других похожих минимум воды!
Премного благодарен. Это именно то, что мне нужно было
i got one of there players a couple of years ago and once i started using vista/ put 2 gb card in it it is been a horror. either it restarts when u go to next song or it freezes or it restarts unendlessly. never geting one again. im geting a sansa clip or a sansa connect
my friend Kasey bought an cherry red ilo for me because she know i can’t afford one.anyways, it worked for a little bit then stopped and it would just show the name of it and do nothing.then i tried som stupid update for it and now it won’t work at all and my computer won’t recongnize it.so yeah the ilo sucks. oh and the company that creates it doesn’t exist no more because it got bought out.no wonder they got bought out.their mp3 players suck!
Читал про это в Википедии. Вообще конечно прикольная тема.
Познавательная информация, приму к сведению. Спасибо!
Все отлично, но дизайн ползет в браузере (Google Chrome). Вы бы поправили.
Все отлично, но дизайн ползет в браузере (мазила). Вы бы поправили.
My story is the same as Daniels ^ post…I got it from Walmart when they were 100 bucks plus tax, it works for about the 90 day warrenty…lol than after that the piece of shit starts fucking up. First it dont turn off, than it wont turn on…than for me it fried 2 New AAA batteries LOL, and than when you would press the power button it would show the “ilo” logo, than say “Low Battery Shut Down…” with a new freaking battery in it?? What a retarded ass peice of shit mp3 player,fuck you ilo!
Mine plays music fine, but it’s the fucking recording I’m having a problem with. If i want to hear a recording, i’ll press play but the piece of shit won’t even do anything. If i want to record, it won’t do anything either. Can anyone at least tell me what the fuck to do? Does anyone agree that the ilo mp3 is the biggest piece of fucking shit ever??
Привет. Образовалась проблема - прикупил я электродрель на магазин ру
А она сломалась у меня в тот же день - гарантии практически никакой не дали. Просто почта пришла с коробкой, а там все на китайском. Прописал в торговый центр данный, дали ответ, что обращайтесь в сервис центр, хотя у меня ни документов на руках нет, ничего. Как можно приструнить этот онлайн магазин? Есть ли некие компетентные органы, что писать. Куда писать, кому писать. Сделал ошибку, да, нужно было в магазине нормальном купить, хотя необходимой мне модели просто не было, да и дешевле в интернет-магазине. А вот и уже сижу у разбитого корыта. Подскажите, что делать.
Nonsense …I bought mine in oct 2007
and it does outstanding work…nothing better….However..caution if selecting Symphonic Concerts……the all will go into alphabetical order…all Addagios will come first etc…a pain but still a good unit….
I cant turn mine on will someone please help me i forgot how
Compact,lightweight, and sporty with rubberized wall to protect it if dropped. Sound is AWESOME!! Comes with USB cable, ear buds, arm band, and belt clip. Also, included is coupon for 10 free song downloads from Walmart.com. Very easy to use