Comments on: Philips GoGear Aria SA1ARA00K/17 Review

By: gladwin

gladwin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:53:04 +0000

this player has a problem when i try to increase the volume. it just shuts itself off, basically resetting everything. there’s possibly no way for me to increase the volume now. i have to hear it a its default output. this player is horrible. Also u won’t get any tech support for it unless you’re in the Americas or Europe.

By: julius

julius — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:44:17 +0000

I have listened and observed thoroughly both my sister’s Apple Ipod Nano and my Philips GoGear Aria and plugged them on my Creative 2.1 sound system and listen to them carefully. My verdict is Philips has better sound quality using the Fullsound feature than the Ipod. Better bass reflex even using Apple Ipod Nano’s earphone.Afterall, I’m a medical transcriptionist and I also have the psychoacoustic ability listening to sound almost perfectly. Hands down!

By: Nal

Nal — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:11:19 +0000

After more then three years, my Creative Zen gave up so I went looking for an alternative. Being European and all, I decided to try a Philips (NL) once. The expert reviews were positive about the Gogear Aria and the specs told me that it wouldn’t be very different from the Zen.But it was far from the same. The interface and menu look old-fashioned. There is no synchronisation software so you have to drag ‘n drop, or deal with WMP or Songbird (which I use). Creating playlists is almost impossible, and you can’t play the music per genre. So you kinda have to play the songs one album at a time, or shuffle all the songs.More negatives: video quality is less than minimal. Don’t even think about it to watch a vid on this mp3. The same counts for watching images. The mp3 player fell one time out of my hands (on the carpet!) and a piece of plastic broke off.Well to be honest, there are two positive aspects on the mp3 player. There is the folder navigation, and radio quality is excellent. (Which I don’t use)Philips is a good company, but don’t buy this MP3 player. You will be dissapointed.

By: Winifred

Winifred — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:57:24 +0000

I’m looking for a new MP3 player as I’ve had it with my iPod. They’re overpriced, not exactly easy to use and iTunes is about the worst software I’ve ever had the misfortune to use. I was hoping Philips with Songbird was a better experience. Maybe I’ll have to look at other models.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:26:37 +0000

I’ve got one of these players and I’m surprised by the negativity here. I use the Aria and my wife has a sansa clip+. We use Rhapsody and she always has license issues and I haven’t had a problem with mine.

By: Abby

Abby — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

I got a MP3 player for Chrisymas and it really works. My Mp3 was the Aria GoGear model, I highly recommend this model for prospective buyers.

By: Robert Schultz

Robert Schultz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:32:55 +0000

This MP3 player is horrible. A week after I bought it I noticed that it sometimes turned itself off when I increased the volume. I sent an email to the support folks. They sent an email back telling me I should push the reset button and then go to the website and download the latest firmware. I shouldn’t worry about my music because it would only reset the firmware. It deleted EVERYTHING. Fortunately I have it all on my PC and just resynced it all.After doing that it still would shut itself off some times when I increased the volume. I sent another email. They had me call the 800 number.I called the told the tech what I had already done. He said that is what he would have walked me through and that they would send me a replacement player. I waited two weeks. It was Christmas and I thought everything might be slower. I finally called back and they said the tech should have walked me through everything again and so they hadn’t sent me one. That tech then walked me through the reset process again. After that I copied a couple songs over to the player and tested it. It worked fine, but I told the tech it didn’t always do that.After another week it was shutting itself off again. I called again and the lady said she’d send me a new one. Then she called back and said she couldn’t authorize that, I had to talk to someone in a different department. That lady wanted my credit card number. I didn’t feel I should give her my credit card number I already did that with another company and it took three months to get the charges off of my credit card.I sent the player to my brother and told him he could have it and warned him about the problem with the player shutting itself off and the trouble with the company. He said he would see if he could use it and maybe call the company and ask to talk to a supervisor. He called me back and told me they said the warranty was up and they couldn’t do anything about it.Beware – I will never buy anything from this company again.

By: Pranav

Pranav — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:06:01 +0000

god!!i thought sony players had complex name..but philips just beat it hands down!!btw the build quality on these ones is really poor.just had my hands on and feels easy to break!!

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:36:34 +0000

I bought one of these after my Zune 80′s hard drive failed as a cheap, quick fix.Zune is no longer sold in Canada.Just wanted to say that after using the Zune, most MP3 players leave me feeling like I’m missing a lot in my audio experience. This player is cheap and cluttered. Hard to organize music properly. There’s hardly a reason to put album art on your MP3s because it’s so small on the Aria.I learned my lesson, and a Zune HD is in the mail from Ebay.

By: AA

AA — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:31:07 +0000

I think Philips has a nice range of players-all with the similar sound quality (hoped each one would have had a unique sound quality).