Creative has just announced a new member of its MuVo Flash player family, and that has had an impact right down the line. The new MuVo TX has 256MB of storage and a USB 2.0 interface for faster transfer with a street price of £120.

The 128MB MuVo NX, which has a small screen, now sells for £85 and this 128MB MuVo (which we first reviewed here) is available for less than £70. You can also get a 64MB MuVo but that's really too small to be of much use.

The hot word is that Creative will be dropping the price of the 128MB MuVo in June to less than £60 to bring it into line with the rest of the range and while that's only slightly lower than the current street price it means that you can expect to buy this player for little more than £50.

The MuVo comes in two parts; there's the actual player, which you plug directly into a USB port to transfer music and then there's the battery pack that accommodates a single AAA cell. The two halves plug together using the USB connection, and the whole package is a reasonable size. It's slightly shorter and fatter than the Philips KEY005, and it weighs the same.

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The battery lasts for well over a week of regular use and although you have to buy replacements it shouldn't be a major expense.

We aren't great fans of the Creative software as it fails to organise your music by ID3 tag, and of course there is no screen to tell you what's going on, but that's not a major problem on a player with a relatively small capacity.

Audio quality is perfectly acceptable, even with the standard ear pieces, and although the MuVo isn't a great player - not by a long chalk - it is perfectly adequate, and at the new, lower price, it's hard to resist.