I’ve been using the Creative MuVo TX FM for well over a year now. It works very well as a gym MP3 player. It is light weight. It has an optional belt clip, arm band, and a slot to hang on a lanyard. It is flash based so it will be fine getting tossed around during a workout. It supports WMA and MP3 files formats. I think it supports a few other formats, but I don’t recall what they are because all my music is already in these formats anyway. It is USB based so you just plug it into your computer and drag the song files over.

The built in radio works fine. I use it in the gym to listen to games they have on TV. It allows for assigning presets or scanning through stations so it works well in most areas. It has a built in voice recorder that I’ve never used. I’m not sure what exactly someone would use it for, but it is there if you need it for something.

The screen is small, but the menu system works fine. The only time I look at the screen is when I turn it on. Since it is designed for use at the gym or while biking I don’t see that a larger screen would really provide a lot of benefit. It would increase the size of the player, but that does not really benefit small workout style mp3 player like this.

I do have a couple minor complaints. First, the battery life is not very good. The battery looses power even if you don’t have the MP3 player on. Many times I’ll go to use it after having it sit on the desk for a couple weeks only to find it dead. It only takes a single AAA battery so I don’t expect it to last forever, but it should not run down when it is off. Second, the head phones that come with it are not very comfortable. They sound ok, but not as good as a decent pair of headphones would sound. I’m also not a fan of the wiring style where it runs to the left ear and the right ear runs off that.

So that brings us to the Audio quality; probably the most important factor in an MP3 player. I’m not an export on audio quality, but I do recognize if something sounds bad. The MuVo TX FM has decent audio quality. Not the best I’ve ever heard, but just fine for working out.

Over all this is a decent MP3 player for the gym, but if you’re the type of person who listens to their MP3 player all day you’ll want to find something else.