My swimp3 player was acting buggy and after a call to Finis’s tech support I got the resolution. Why companies don’t put this stuff on their websites is beyond me.
The symptom I was having was that if I had say 30 songs copied to the player, when i would swim it would only play maybe 5 songs. It wouldn’t see the rest of them. When I bought the swimp3, it came with MusicMatch and recomended using MusicMatch to transfer somngs from CD’s to your hard drive. There is an incompatibilty with swimp3 and MusicMatch, and the solution was to download a similiar program called MediaMonkey. I had to recopy all of my songs via MediaMonkey but since doing that the device has worked great. I just swam to “Appetite for Destruction” and “Exile in Guyville” and had one of my better swims.
how well does it work? what’s the battery life? how much do those cost?
thanks.
and for those that will respond to this thread saying that you don’t need one of those for training and swimming isn’t that boring…I swam plenty of 70, 80, 90, and even 100km weeks in my life. done 60k weeks all by myself and after so many years I used up all the swim-on-your-own miles. One 7500 practice by myself in the pool and I don’t want to see water for at least a week. maybe that will help.
Doesn’t throw off my rythym at all. If anything it helps me concentrate by not getting bored swimming laps and not noticing anything else in the pool. With the earplugs it recomends you use and the music pads that rest on your temples, outside noise is totally eliminated. And on the not getting bored part, I have found that I am swimming less drills and just swimming. I am not counting laps, just watching the clock. I usually don’t look at the clock at all for 30 or 40 minutes of just straight out swimming.
This may not be the best way of improving split times, but my focus right now is just getting a lot of base work in and improving fitness.
Not to sound like a groupie, but I was in the front row at one of her gigs and she was wearing a very thin top that was just barely see thru against the spotlights. It was a very good show.
It’s not comming off. No way. It is double strapped on and it is curved to fit against the back of your head. It would come off if you were water skiing with it but I can’t imagine enough force from a flip turn to push it off. It has never budged with me. I imagine it could be smaller, but you really don’t notice it. If you have a big head it probably will make your goggles fit slightly tighter around your face. It comes with Lane4 goggles but I put it on my Tyr mask. The straps were just big enough. I still have about an inch worth of strap left over.
The sound quality is hard to describe. If you listen to one in dry air it sucks. But it wasn’t intended for that. Once you submerge it it sounds very good. I like that it doesn’t use earphones. I had low expectations, and I was suprised with how good it sounds. You have to keep in mind what it is though, it is not going to compete with home stereos. But I think it sounds great. I don’t like the buttons on it much, and it is hard to raise or lower volume.