As much as I love the ihp-120, it’s not without fault. On the hardware front, I’ve certainly got no complaints, but the firmware certainly needs work. The following is a list of fixable features that I’d petition iRiver to add to their product.
1) On-the-fly playlists. I’ll get alot of “amens” on this one. iPod does them. Creative’s players do them. Even Samsung’s Yepp flash players do them. So why is the ihp, which is the most advanced player on the market, the only one that doesn’t? The player already has a “track reserve” feature, so this shouldn’t be such a big deal. Even the ability to cue up and save a single “Now Playing” list would be welcome.
2) Better navigation. I currently have 323 albums on my player, totaling some 2800 songs. It’s a pain to have to navigate through all that using an alphabetical drill-down method. The DB should have some sort of “jump-to-letter” function at the very least. Continued...