D-Link DSM 120 Wireless Music Player

design

usability, size, price, reliability

29% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Works as advertised! No problem upgrading the firmware (like every other wireless device I've upgraded, I used the WIRED interface).

It's a little bigger then the picture might suggest.

Looks nice. Setup wasn't too bad

Requires its own player. Incompatibilities. I couldn't make playlist work correctly. The playlist format is not the format used by any of the newer software players

Any windows media player 11 pc can share media with this device. No software installation needed ; the firmware installed itself as soon as i plugged into the network. there were no problems with the install

only WEP encryption. i had to switch from using WPA-2 ; the remote control seems a bit sluggish

Nice to be able to play my entire music collection on my hifi stereo.

The display is so-so.

Haven't been able to boot it up to try it out yet.

I plugged it in and it said firmware update is available and then locked up just like the last review described.

Nice display, can add hard disk for storing songs locally

DO NOT BUY until DLink Fixes Major Bug ; I selected this unit over the Roku, because I liked the ability to add a hard disk ; The features in this unit are excellent, BUT it will automatically try to upgrade its firmware over the network, and this WILL...

Has good connectivity options and option to put in hard drive

After firmware upgrade, UPNP doesn't work. Support is horrible

It plays music on your home stereo from mp3 files on your computers' hard drive. Good quality sound. I use the optical connection to my receiver. The automatic firmware upgrade worked fine for me--it was automatic

It will occasionally corrupt the mp3 files on your computer's hard drive and you will need to run scandisk on your hard drive to fix it. Correctly formatting a 2.5" hard drive to go inside the unit is difficult; you need to use Win95 or Win ME. The...