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Excellent product
by Craig on Mar 12th, 2008 at 11:38 AM:
I drive for a living and am a parent of a teenage boy who is always on the go. This product is a lifesaver. Not only can I listen to my favorite XM channels on the road but I can carry it with me to games and do my daily walk. And what I really like is that I can switch to MP3 when I want to listen to my personal music. The only problem that I found was that the on/off button is easily moved so the battery drains.
Major disappointment
by Carlo on Dec 26th, 2007 at 10:32 PM:
The inno was a huge disappointment! I couldn't get a signal long enough to listen to an entire song. Its suppose to be portable, but does poorly. FM modulator is not internal on this unit. Get ready to pay XM 70.00 for the accessory. I cancelled the service and returned the unit to the store. Heck, my old roadie did much better than this product.
Very nice toy
by Bill on Nov 2nd, 2007 at 10:27 AM:
This little device is perfect for my lifestyle; easy portability for outdoor work or exercising, lots of music/talk/sports selection of course (as part of XM), and most importantly, the ability to record without getting the computer involved. The only negatives are battery life and the hard drive partition feature which I didn't learn until I had about 400 good songs recorded (I'd like to reconfigure the hard drive to 100% XM but don't want to sacrifice my songs in the process!). Bottom line - I use it every day and love it.
XM Radio is ruining this product
by Teresa on Oct 26th, 2007 at 10:13 AM:
I love XM radio. It the perfect service for someone who appreciates more than just one or two styles of music and is tired of listening to the same songs over and over on the iPod.
I was a subscriber long before XM introduced the MyFi; its first generation portable and recordable radio. Like most first generation technology it was obviously rushed to the market before anyone attempted to solve any of the common sense problems. No FFW or RWD, could not create or organize play lists by artist genre etc., could not record individual songs.
At last the Pioneer Inno comes along as the solution to the aforementioned problems. This product is truly a gem and makes me wish my commute were longer so that I could discover and record more songs. My beef is with XM purposely dirtying the tracks.
Somewhere between RIAA and XM Radio they have decided to have ridiculous pre-recorded DJ voice over's on a seemingly 70% of the tracks (I have heard the same voice over on several occasions). This is quite irritating on the playback. Oh, and the remaining 30% of the tracks don't have a clearly discernable start point or end point. Sometimes the next song will start with the song data of the previously recorded track still on the screen so you hear few seconds of a song you don't want at the end of a song during playback. Or the beginning of a song gets chopped for the same reason. And of course the content is encoded in a special XM Radio format that makes it impossible to load into a WAV editor without doing an analog recording.
These issues have made me bitter about the product that I love so much.
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Poor Battery
by Daniel on Mar 31st, 2008 at 2:27 PM:
Very disappointing and a rip-off!!!