Rating: 
Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm impressed with this - I tried the Rio Volt and Expanium - the skip protection on both the Expanium and the Rio Volt was poor; I use the device primarily when working out, and when I'm on the treadmill, the Rio Volt and Expanium skipped after burning out their relatively short anti-skip memory. The TDK MOJO skip protection is much better. No skipping, even when running full blast on the treadmill! It must be the eight minute memory this thing has when playing MP3's. I'm not sure how the anti-skip is with regular CD's, because I haven't tried it. I do believe that the sound quality is better as well than the Rio Volt and certainly better than the Expanium. There seems to be more clear detail in the music than with either the Volt or Expanium, and it just sounds more full. The headphones are much better, as well. They seemed strange at first, but after figuring out how to use them, they have a little hooking mechanism that holds onto your ear, and they don't slip off - again, great when you're working out and sweating like a pig. I can't say much about the navigation; again, I just basically use it to work out and wanted to have 6 hours of music that I could listen to straight without having to keep changing CD's. So, if you're looking for a) strong anti-skip (i.e., you walk or run while using the device) b) great sound quality and c) very useful headphones that actually stay on your head rather than slipping off, then the TDK MOJO is for you. Again, the navigation I understand is great, but wasn't that important to me, at least now.
Rating: 
Summary: One of the Best
Review: TDK's Mojo is one of the best MP3/CD players out there, with 8-minute anti-skip protection for MP3 and 45-second for CD's. It also comes with impressive software on 1 disc for your computer.The contents of the disc are as follows: TDK Navitrack Software will allow you to rename MP3 files by copying Artist, Title, and Genre information into the filename; and MusicMatch Jukebox is a music management program for ripping and encoding MP3's. The requirements for use of this software are fairly minimal, including WIN 95 or higher, pentium 150 or higher, 32 MB of RAM or higher, and a soundcard. The TDK Mojo will also display ID3 tags (Title, Artist, Genre) and FIF (Field in Filename). Because of this FIF feature on the Mojo, it is fairly easy to create playlists. With some MP3/CD players, I've heard that it is nearly impossible to find the songs you want, or very hard to navigate to them. TDK has solved this problem. If you have a directory structure set up on a CD-RW or CD-R, you can access the songs almost any way you want (e.g. Mojo can display all artists, or all songs by a particular artist, etc.). The sound is also impressive, as well as the price, for so many features. There are many settings to make the sound better, like EQ settings, bass settings, etc. There are many other features (small and thin size, light weight; big, easy-to-read backlit LCD; hold button, etc.) and good reasons to buy the Mojo instead of another MP3/CD player, but I can't discuss them all. The manual explains everything and guides you through the use of the features in an easy and orderly fashion. The only thing that bothered me with this product, although a minute bother, was the fact that when playing certain discs, the Mojo would make a quiet droning noise. Don't misunderstand me, though, there is no problem with the unit, it just does that because it is reading the disc so fast in order to read extra data into the memory buffer to eliminate skipping. Overall, I would chose the Mojo first, and second, the Rio Volt because they are the best two out there.
Rating: 
Summary: EATS BATTERIES
Review: ...If you look at the specs, Sony gives 40 hours of play on a pair of AA. TDK claims 10 hours with "high quality batteries" or some such thing. In reality, I usually got about 2 cds out of a pair of batteries, 3 if they were good. Thats so unnaccpetable as to be ridiculous...I don't intend to ever buy anything else from them except blank cds and cassettes.
Rating:
Summary: This Cd/mp3-Player Is Sketchy
Review: I purchased two of these mp3 players. One for myself and one for my son. After one year of use neither player works anymore. I hardly ever used mine, it was kept in excellent condition and kept in a case when not in use. It was never dropped and probably had less that 25 hours of use on it. I had purchased it for road trips. I was very disappointed in this product and will think again before purchasing a TDK product. It stopped working after 1 year. My son's mp3 player did get alot of use but stopped working after 6 months. On both mp3 players it was the same problem. It has difficulty reading CD's. After 1-2 minutes of playing, it simply skips to the next song.. annoying and renders the player useless.
Rating: 
Summary: Can't recommend it. Great when it works. But...
Review: Want to save time? Forget the CD players and get a flash memory unit. Stay away from moving parts! Anyway, here are the gory details... OK, I liked it at first. It did everything I wanted it to do... -- play MP3s in the car. I fact, I loved it. But after a couple of months, I found the problems to be so annoying that I have retired it for good. I just don't think it's a quality machine. I would not recommend it because I have to believe that, with this unit, "if it's not one thing, it's another." The particular problem I had may not occur with all of them, but it's an indication that it's not built well. #1 problem: My unit constantly stopped playing for no apparent reason. After weeks of frustration, I found that if I squeezed it or smacked it, it would play. I finally figured out that it thinks it has opened up and, therefore, stops playing. I dismantled the unit (what did I have to lose?) and figured out that the tiny switch -- the one that gets depressed by the protruding thing on the "lid" -- is either not working as a switch or does not get correctly depressed by the lid's switch-pokerizer. I have tried to improve the poking by gluing stuff to the poker to widen and extend it, but it hasn't worked. I think it's the switch that doesn't work... The point is, it is unfortunate that one stupid part ruins the device. I don't have confidence that this is a well tested, well designed, well built player. Moving parts with low quality equals problems. You definitely get what you pay for. As I said, if it played without stopping all the time, it would be just fine despite the little annoyances in its design. Other problems... #2 annoying problem: Audio CDs play, but none of the functions work with audio CDs. E.G., no 'stop', 'forward', 'back'. Nothing. You have to play the CD all the way through. Period. #3 ridiculous software: What a pain naming the files. Once you spend many hours doing it, I guess it's handy. #4 eats batteries. Get the car kit or forget it.
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