Entempo Rubato 20 GB MP3 Player

Entempo Rubato 20 GB MP3 Player

Product Description
Product Description:
Carry your entire music collection wherever you go! Whether you download music, rip from CDs, or use other mediums, this Entempo Rubato Universal Music Player is the easiest way to make your music truly mobile. With features such as FM tuner, Voice recording, Hard Drive Protection System, and easy to use controls, this Entempo Rubato is a device for the beginner or advanced user. The Rubato has a 20 GB hard drive which can be used as a removable drive, and its built-in microphone is great for voice recording! Take your music on the Go with this Entempo Rubato Hard Drive Jukebox!

Entempo Rubato 20 GB MP3 Player
Average customer rating:

ah.. to wait..

Ugly and Bad

Not the best- you get what you pay for...

A good, cheap solution for portable music.

Basic Economy Player w/ a few extras

Entempo Rubato 20 GB MP3 Player

Manufacturer: Entempo
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

MP3 Players | Portable Audio & Video | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
20 GB | Hard Drive-Based | MP3 Players | Audio & Video | Categories | Electronics
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Product Features:

Features FM tuner and Voice recording

ShoX Hard Drive Protection System

Accessories include: Earbud speakers with a built-in microphone, a power adaptor, USB cable, and carrying case

Mixman software allows you to create your own music; MusicMagic from Predixis allows you to build customized playlists based on sound attributes

Compatible with Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP

ASIN: B0007Q3BF8

Product Description

Rubato is a new class of hard drive music jukebox. With the higher capacities available today, users can carry their entire music collection wherever they go. Whether you download music, rip from CDs, or use other mediums, Rubato is the easiest way to make your music truly mobile. With features such as FM tuner, Voice recording, ShoX Hard Drive Protection System, and easy to use controls, Rubato is a device for the beginner or advanced user.Rubato comes with special ear bud speakers with a built-in microphone, a power adapter, USB cable, and carrying case. The included software from Mixman allows you to create your own music. MusicMagic from Predixis allows you to build customized play lists based on sound attributes, a new and unique way to search for different types of music from your entire collection. Windows Media Player is also included.

Customer Reviews:

ah.. to wait.........2007-02-23

Now, to be fair, i purchased this player less than a month ago on e-bay for $50 so i know i got my moneys worth compared to every other review here, because you cant buy a 20 gig laptop hard drive for $50 and therefore the fact that this brick plays mp3s and radio is well.. irrelivant in cost to me hehe. i am unsure of the firmware with this one, and the primary issue that anyone should have is the fact that the company is now long out of buisness and there is no access to any of the firmware updates (if anyone has the firmware .zip write me or something please!) otherwise, this machine is worth the price, it looks uncannily like an 80's walkman, and honestly feals like a walkman: cheep plastic over some heavy metal. this player packs a punch once you get used to its quirks, but heres the bottom line: no DRM issues thus far. it IS compatable 100% with windows media player, but installs live like a portable hard drive, it does "compile" the files once they are copyed over and this can take an incredably long time, but remember the primary advertised feature? that special little bit about being able to use a beat and rythem algorithm to generate playlists of similar songs? what, you think the machine was psychic?

despite the freezing issue (on bad mp3's which no one else mentions was their songs not their player...) there is the cutest little paperclip reset button on the bottom, and this machine has already sustained a heavy beatin on more than one occation (i am an overnight stocker, this thing has met alot of pallets) and keeps going. its ugly and clunky but i think the best possable word to describe the entempo rubato:

Industrial.

Ugly and Bad.......2006-01-18

The Good:

Loads of space for a comparably great price. Thorough menu.

The Bad:

IT IS SO UGLY. For some of you, this wont matter. But if you care AT ALL about aesthetic appeal, do not go the Entempo Rubato route. Every time someone sees me with it, they laugh and think I'm using a cassette player! I swear, this thing was a BRICK in a past life.

Also? The font on the screen is garbly-looking and difficult to read. The fact that the font is also extremely small doesn't help.

I thought it would be easy to use because it's a drag-and-drop type of thing when it comes to adding songs. WRONG. This thing is a PAIN IN THE BUTT to use, especially the first time. It does this awful "indexing" thing after you put songs on it that takes a ridiculous amount of time. Why does it do this? I don't understand. I've used cheaper piece-of-garbage MP3 players that never had to do this. I thought quickly getting the songs on was the WHOLE POINT of a hard drive type of MP3 player?

Also? It really SUCKS if you have good hearing and you use this MP3 player. Why? Because I listen to music on the lowest possible volume...anything higher than that hurts my ears. This is BAD when using the Rubato, however, because there's always this awful electronic sound in the background. It's harder to notice on louder songs, but on quiet or acappella songs it's so frustratingly bad I want to cry. Also, everytime I bump it into something...it makes this little beepy sound. Yeah, great.

Lastly? The buttons and "scroller" are disgusting. I'm only 12, and even *I* think I could design buttons better than that. How about a clickwheel? Or a scrollwheel? No...instead we get this horrible twitchy little slider button that you have to push far too hard than is convenient.

My final statement? Lots of memory for a cheap price. But that's no big deal, when something is this crappy and sinfully ugly. Seriously. It is SO ugly.

Not the best- you get what you pay for..........2005-09-22

Cons: Did not like the very, very small characters on the display. You have to squint to read the display. The radio has terrible reception. The forward button does not forward fast enough for Podcast forwarding. Does not allow you to bookmark a spot on a Podcast. The nylon case does not have a belt clip. The side buttons need to be pressed too hard to use.
Pros: I like the price and the capacity. But had to send back because of mainly the small character display...

A good, cheap solution for portable music........2005-09-21

I bought the Rubato for one reason and one reason alone: it was the cheapest 20GB MP3 player I've come across in my quest for portable music. Others writing reviews on here seem to expect to pay Geo Metro prices and receive Rolls Royce quality, and whether consumer electronics or cars, this is simply not the case.

The good:
* 20GB of capacity, not much bigger than an iPod, and much cheaper
* NO drivers or proprietary software to install (unless you really want to, it does come with MusicMatch and a few other programs)
* USB 2.0 makes for *fast* transfers. (Anybody complaining about transfer speeds when copying 20GB of music needs to go look at th average sustained transfer speed of a modern hard drive... it's about 5MB / sec... the drive is the bottleneck here, not the USB connection.)
* Aside from a bit of background noise (from the screen backlight, hdd spinning up), the sound quality is amazingly good, especially when played through a good-quality set of headphones (I'm using Sennheiser HD-497's).

The bad:
* Looks and feels cheap (what do you expect, you spent < $200 on a 20GB MP3 player?)
* Player takes a while in "index" songs after transferring (this is the price you pay for not having to install software on your PC, the player does all of this instead of your fast computer)
* Background noise, more/less noticable depending on the medium that its being played through. Certain things (tape adapter in the car, cheap headphones) tend to bring this out more. The noise is almost unnoticable on my Sennheisers.

Conclusion:
All in all I feel this is a solid buy in the sub $200 range for those looking for capacity but without a lot of money to spend. I haven't had mine long enough to comment on long-term durability, and from initial impressions I don't think I'd want to drop it from more than about 6", but only time will tell. If cost and capacity are your main criteria and you don't expect your player to see much abuse, this is the player for you.

Basic Economy Player w/ a few extras.......2005-06-22

I purchased the Rubato Entempo about 2 weeks ago. I already
knew from looking at pics online that it was basically a bare-
bones "no frills" player. However, I wanted something simple anyways
. I've already waisted money on a Rio HP-310 and various Creative
mp3 players that eventually crapped out on me, so the Rubato
couldn't be much worse. The good points about the Rubato is
that has decent sound, easy navigation, and musicmagic mixer
- the latter of which gave me the impetus to get it. The drawbacks
are many! The LCD graphics are drab and basic. The play/forward/rewind/pause
touchpads are on the front making them awkward to get to. It's not
very attractive, gaps are too long between tracks, etc.
However, I'm pleased with what I got for the 200.00 bucks I shelled out.
If you're a very decernable consumer who wants everything but the kitchen
sink in your player, you've come to the wrong place. Check out the lastest
model from Cowon that looks like a good buy for the extra high price.

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