Archos Gmini XS 202s Review

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Archos Gmini XS 202s
4.2 stars
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PeteHolt's Review of Archos Gmini XS 202s MP3 Player

17th Apr 2007

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    4 stars
  • Features
    4.5 stars
  • Time MP3 Player Owned
    6 - 12 Months
  • Battery Life
    3 stars
  • Memory
    20Gb
Good Points

Huge memory.
Easy to use


Bad Points

Occasionally freezes up.


General Comments

I think the Archos Gmini XS 202sr is excellent with one irritating bad point.

It has a huge memory. It can be plugged directly into the computer's USB port and files can be transferred to it directly from Windows Explorer. I generally rip songs directly from CDs onto the Gmini without the need to store them on the computer.
I like the way you can search for files in several ways including browsing the folders just as you might in Windows. I haven't, so far, made much use of playlists but this seems easy to do as well by highlightng the files you want and clicking on them.
One word of warning: Archos recommend using Windows Media Player to synchronise tracks and copy them to the player. However this only works if you have enough space on your computer's hard drive and want to keep an exact duplicate of those tracks on the player. In any event I found it a lot simpler just to copy tracks directly (I use Easy CD Creator but there are plenty of other programs). OK this does mean you don't have a backup but the files are still on the CDs.

The bad point is that it will freeze up at times. This doesn't happen during normal playback but is liable to happen at any other time. It is easy to 'unfreeze' it by holding down the left button for 15 seconds but it is annoying.

Overall I would recommend it.

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Members' Comments onPeteHolt's Review

  • sticazzi Rank: Corporal on 22nd Apr 2007

    Mine has never frozen in the approx. year since i've had it - make sure you get updates from archos.com as there have been many in the last year!