Packard Bell AudioDream 1GB

Biggest pile of rubbish I ever bought. Returned the first one and the replacement was even worse! This product should never have got to market. Shame on you Packard Bell. Feel Utterly robbed still after 10 years!! It basically never worked and they knew it.

Packard Bell AudioDream 1GB is a life changing experience

Awesome sound quality when paired up with good ear-buds - more than makes up for the very annoying bad points!!

I've had reinstall the firmware pretty much every month since I bought it, because the damn thing keeps losing my music. It also has no fast-forward feature (but you can skip tracks)

Packard Bell AudioDream sounds so good I can manage to see the past it's massive flaws. Maybe that says more about me than the mp3 player itself. Sounds great - but you will have to invest in some decent cans.

All in all a good buy. I hate ipods as they are highly overated. this is a great mp3 player. I think the £10 i spent on my one was worth every penny. I would recomend this product to a friend.

With replacement headphones (I used JVC Gummies) this has proved to be an excellent little player. It's been dropped; kicked; sat on and still refuses to break (unlike some other "famous" brands that seem to give up the ghost if you sneeze at them),

Great build quality.

Great sound.

Easy to use.

I bought this in Dixons, and have never been happy with it. It always starts at the start when you turn it on, which seems to take forever. The menu system is unwieldy, and downright illogical. And for gods sake don't lose your USB lead!

Basically don't buy one of these.

I bought the Packard Bell AudioDream 1GB when I was looking for a lightweight MP3 player to listen to whilst out riding my bike and it has been great. Really easy to upload songs, just plug it in and drag and drop. There have been complaints about the navigation of menus, but I found after a couple of times it became instinctive and I use it without even taking it out of my pocket now. The sound quality is excellent, the only reason I gave it an 8 rather than 9 is that there are even better sounding players out there now.

There are downsides though. When I first got it, it would freeze occasionally, but this was fixed very easily with the firmware upgrade that is easily available on the Packard Bell website. This website brings me to the next problem. One day I left it plugged into my computer and accidentally pulled the cable out. This caused it to crash and generally go crazy. I went through the fixes on the support page with no effect so sent Packard Bell an email. There was no response despite my many attempts at contacting them. In the end I fixed it by completely formatting the device and re-installing the firmware update. The other problem occurred when I lost my USB cable. You cannot get replacement cables!!! I found a website that claimed to sell them but they never had them in stock. Packard Bell won't sell you a replacement so if you lose it, you might as well throw the player away as it becomes useless. Luckily mine appeared in a house mates collection of cables! The other problem (if you can call it that) is the limited capacity. This didn't bother me when i bought it, but after a few holidays, i have decided it's time to buy something bigger.

Overall, I'm impressed with this player and if you are looking for a small lightweight good quality device, this should be high on your list. Just make sure you are happy with the capacity and keep that USB cable somewhere safe!!

I bought my Packard Bell AudioDream MP3 player when they first arrived, and I wish I didn't! 18 months down the line, after little use, it's now dead, and this is the killer: Packard Bell don't supply or replace the battery in this unit, so it's now useless. Buy an iPod.

Overall this Packard Bell AudioDream mp3 player is pretty good buy suddenly stopped working. The error read *no files* which completely confused me. If you encounter any problems do the following: plug the thing in, open it on my computer, right click it and click on Format which will erase all files. Then download some songs onto it and it should work. If the computer doesn't let you format the player then try it on another computer. If all this doesn't work re-install the firmware or refer to the Packard Bell website.