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Versatile Device, March 16, 2007
By Dennis Bowcut “dbowcut” (Lincoln, California United States)
I got the 80GB version and it’s working out great. Don’t buy it if all you want is an MP3 player! The reviewers who did that all whine about the size and I don’t think that’s what this machine is about, although I loaded tons of music directly, not the proprietary tunes, but MP3’s directly from the PC--just drag and drop, no strain, and they sound great with the Sony ‘phones I use. Where this thing shines, for my use, is the ability to download and save images directly from memory cards--works with both SD and CF cards so far and is as fast downloading the HS cards as my PC is. Awesome in the field and simple to B/U cards with a couple clicks, and even easier to xfr the files to a computer, as the Wolverine is recognized simply as an HD in XP. I fully intend to use the mike, too. Sound quality is better than my Sansa, would be fine for lectures, and I’m looking forward to getting night sounds from the jungle to accompany my slide shows. BTW, the included remote works nicely. The battery seems to have pretty good life, downloads 12GB + many on-screen reviews between charges and is totally user replaceable--a spare with external charger is ~$20 from the mfgr. Haven’t tried max listening time with music. For its size, I’m not sure why they didn’t just toss in an FM tuner as the other non-Apple competition did so nicely, but again that would be redundant for my photo storage focus anyway. The price is right for such a versatile, multipurpose device.
The Perfect Accessory, December 5, 2006
By Shari Mickle (Lafayette, IN United States)
I ordered the 60 GB Wolverine MVP player after several months of shopping. I wanted a portable unit that I could download my CF cards too while shooting, take audio notes on, and play music on. The MVP is perfect! So far, my battery seems to last for about seven hours of music play, and I can show hundreds of photos to people very easily. I’ve played with the audio recording function, and the built-in microphone seems to perform well for my needs. The only thing I haven’t used this for is to watch any kind of video yet, mostly because I don’t do a lot in that medium.
Can’t be happier !!!!!, September 12, 2006
By Michelle A. Rice (Wisconsin)
If you are thinking about getting an IPOD or other multi-media player, think again. I have had my MVP for almost two months. Other than being somewhat large, I’m more than impressed. I was looking for a player than could hold my entire CD and DVD collection, that could connect to my home stereo and replace my bulky multi-disc player. This unit was the ticket. After looking at the minimal amount of storage that the others offered, as well as the multitude of other accessories for their players, I went with the Wolverine. It sounds amazing and it’s very easy to use. Equally important to the player, is the customer service. In all my years in the banking business, I’m always impressed by amazing customer service. This company takes it to a new level. I had a problem with my player due to a virus traveling to the external drive. I sent them the player, they transferred all my files and sent me a new player immmediately, no questions asked. (2) of my co-workers just purchased IPODs and are kicking themselves, due to versatility of the Wolverine MVP. I have it hooked to my Denon receiver and have given my multi-disc player to my daughters. Go Wolverine MVP, you can’t miss !
E X C E L L E N T ! ! !, August 16, 2006
By Ambar Rasal
This is an awesome product by Wolverine. Very easy to use. Plug and play in real sense! I could just copy DAT file from my VCD and played it on my TV. No conversions required! Sound, video quality is great. And support to 7 types of memory cards is a blessing!! You have to get this one for sure!! Thanks Wolverine!
Almost perfect, August 1, 2006
By Brian K. Bearse “brigamer” (boston, ma)
It’s time… I own the 120 GB version of this and I’ve had it for about 2 months now. I absolutely love it. - I would never buy an ipod now.
pros - replaceable/upgradeable battery (very unlike an ipod)
- almost every accessory you could want included except a car charger
- drag and drop files, that’s right folks you can even take files off of this bad boy
- plug and play, backwards compatible with win98se
- supports so many data cards
- the portable case/speaker that comes with it actually sounds really good despite it being in mono/ and I still haven’t changed my 2 AAA batteries (aprox. 30hrs so far)
cons- it is kinda big
- it’s red
- if you make a playlist of every song… mine is 9000 songs it sucks the life out of the battery to load it and is extremely slow (my biggest problem with it)
- the 1/8 inch audio jack is kinda crackly.. it doesn’t like alot of movement.. then again it’s too big to take on a jog.
- it doesn’t do laundry
Its funny but now that I look at the pros and cons and ipod is exactly the opposite in that respect. But I would never buy an ipod for the reason that as soon as the battery is dead. so is the ipod. Engineering geniuses!!
I would buy this even as just an mp3 player, but it does so much more which makes it soooo valuable.
Satisfied for the most part, so far, July 15, 2006
By IcemanJ (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
When I decided I wanted an mp3 player, I did quite a bit of research because for as much as they all cost, I wanted it to work exactly the way I wanted. I wanted video support and at least 60 gigs of space. I wanted to be able to easily transfer any kind of file from computer to computer. I wanted to use this as a backup/storage device as much as listening to it; so if the hard drive on my PC crashes I can still have my mp3 collection that I can upload back on to a new HD. According to all the reviews I’ve read the Wolverine seemed to be more dependable and have fewer annoyances.
Reasons why I did NOT go with the following brands: (I did not actually own any of these, just did a lot of reading up)
Ipod:
- Have to use iTunes to manage your collection and transfer songs; have to convert all mp3’s to m4a’s.
- Have to BUY QuickTime Pro just to convert movies to watch on the iPod, or buy the videos off iTunes (which you cant share with others)
- Everyone says the first time you wipe the screen to clean it you see a million tiny scratches.
- Quite a few complaints about the system failing after a few months or a year.
- Bad technical support reported.
- No AC Power adapter included which you need to recharge it.
- Not to mention, this is more expensive than all the other brands already.
- Battery can only be recharged so many times and you cannot replace it yourself, you have to send it into Apple, pay shipping costs and labor costs for them doing the work, instead of simply being able to buy your own battery and put it in yourself.
Cowon iAudio X5:
- Maximum number of files allowed is 10,000. Why make a hard drive that can hold 15,000 songs and limit the number to 10,000? I don’t get it. This was my only complaint about this product and I would have seriously considered buying this if it wasn’t for that limit.
Creative Nomad Zen Xtra:
- Seems to be Discontinued…
- Headphone Jack seems to easily break according to reviews
- Unit seems to easily break
- No Video
Toshiba Gigabeat MEG F60S: (MES60VK wasn’t out yet, but looks pretty decent)
- No Video
- Mp3’s must be converted to “.SAT” format and cannot be put back on the computer or on a different computer. Sorry, next brand…
iRiver:
- biggest one is 40gig. What a shame. My music collection is 45 gigs and I want some extra space for videos.
Reasons why I like the WOLVERINE MVP-9060 over other players
- Plug-and-play & Drag-and-drop. Plug it into a rear USB Port and drag and drop your files just like moving them from one folder to another on the computer. Done. No converting, no software to install, and they transfer pretty quickly. One thing is, the base folders must be organized like \Data, \Media, \Backup, and \System; and \Media is further divided into \Music, \Photos, \Videos, and \Voice. But it’s quite self-explanatory and not really a limitation or annoyance.
- AC power adapter included.
- Replaceable battery.
- Audio and Video Jacks included. I didn’t even know this at the time but you can hook it straight up to your stereo system and play it through the speakers, and also hook up the screen to your TV while choosing songs and such. (also to watch videos and view pictures) If I’m not mistaken, if you wanted to do this with an iPod you have to buy an entire stereo system just for the iPod that is another $300. Along with buying Quicktime, and a AC Power adapter, you’re getting all these features on a Wolverine for $350 and the same features on an iPod would cost you $750, not to mention all your songs, videos and stereo system is all converted to Apple mode and isn’t compatible with anything else. No thanks!
- For people like me who have massive music collections and want their ENTIRE music collection on their player, they have great hard drive capacities. This unit is available in 60, 80, 100, and 120 gig hard drives. Twice as big as any other company offers. If I had too much money that I knew what to do with I probably would have got the 120 gig one.
- The 7-in-1 data card reader is very nice. I dont need to worry about my usb-camera cable or installing the camera software to get my photo’s on a pc.
Cons with the WOLVERINE
- Bulky compared to other Mp3 players, but still is a good size I think. I used to put a portable CD player in my pocket and this is slightly more than half the size. I have big pockets.
- Filenames only display the first 30 characters. This was the main issue for me but I got around it. My files were originally all in one folder named like this: “Artist - Album - Track # - Song Title,” so almost all the titles would be cut off in the middle of the album name, sometimes even on the artist name. However, I organized my collection into separate folders for each artist, and if the album names were long, then separate folders for each album. It’s much easier to find stuff on my computer now, and on the wolverine too because I couldn’t imagine scrolling through 10-15 thousand songs in the same folder, it would take an hour to find what you wanted.
- When you put it on “random” it only plays the current folder. To get around this IcemanJ loads every single song into Winamp, shuffles the playlist, takes only the first 100 or 500 songs and saves the playlist IN THE ROOT \MUSIC FOLDER and then COPIES it to the root music folder of the Wolverine. You CANT save it straight to the wolverine because the m3u file will write full filename paths to the music on your computer and it is _most likely_ not in folders called \Media\Music unless you specifically set it up like that. You can do this many times for a different random playlist every day, and delete the old ones when you get more in your collection. It is very simple.
- Temporary playlists are kind of weird. You don’t want to have everything in the same folder because it will always “pre-load” everything in the folder when you play one song in it and that is unnecessary and probably wasting the battery. You can go to “play in background” and add songs in order when the current one finishes but it still has to finish the folder for the first song you added. So you have to skip to the newest song you added, but only after the first song. Not that big of a deal. I’m just picky.
- (Edit, July 30) Took me a month to figure out how to pause a song (simply press the joystick in while listening)
- The FPS for the video is noticeably slower than a TV or Computer screen’s FPS. And some of my videos don’t take up the whole screen, it looks like they could be proportionally enlarged. Oh well.
- It displays ID3 Tags, but only ID3v2 so if your mp3 has ID3v1 it won’t display.
So far, what I’ve read has been pretty accurate, and I think the pros outweigh the cons on this unit compared to other brands. I’m satisfied.
Happy Hunting,
IcemanJ
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