Buslink 256 MB MP3 Player/Flash Drive (MPE-BD256)

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Summary: Great Player works with Linux
Review: I looked around for a while till i found this device at the time I bought this, it was the cheapest one I could find with this many features. The voice recording is usable but not great. Anyhting at a distance Does not record well, very quite and with pops hisses but would work great for personal notes. I still use it to record lectures you can record hours of voice estimate upto 6 hours. It looks nice, the display is nice and easy to use It connects well on both Win XP and SuSE linux.

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Summary: Nice little mp3 player
Review: I recently bought one of these mp3 players and have enjoyed it. The 256mb size holds enough music to fill all the boring spots in school, with enough space left over to transfer a few files. The sound quality out of this thing is great. While it doesn't have a random button, it does play songs in order of insertion so grouping by sound works.
The voice recorder works great, but only records at 64k quality, compared to the mp3s at minimum 128k quality. Also, while it is enough mic range to record little notes to yourself, it can not record lectures done by teachers.
My only real gripe with this product is the trouble I have had in making it transfer files in Mac OS 9.1. Every time I try, the whole computer hangs on the copying message. Other than that, it is a handy little thing to have.

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Summary: I would pay a little extra to get an MP3 player that lasts
Review: It holds lots of songs and has good sound quality...if it stays working. It's very cheaply made an mine broke within several months after buying it. I would pay a little extra money and go for a higher quality MP3 player. Also the BUSlink company is not very helpful.

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Summary: Pretty, nice features, and it sounds great
Review: The picture above is wrong, for some reason. It's very nice-looking (red and silver/grey) in reality, and has a backlit screen and convenient controls. It also sounds great-- I am very pleasantly surprised. It sounds much better than my Roxio cd/mp3 player, and I think maybe even my computer. It's a nice size, and feels well-made. I like the menu system, controls, and the USB interface (includes short extension cable).

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Summary: Good, but not durable
Review: The sound quality is very good, but they player itself is really cheap and isn't very durable. I only had mine two months before it broke. It's also very hard to get help or service from the BUSlink company. In my opinion I would pay an extra $10 or $20 for a quality name brand 256MB MP3 player.

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Summary: GREAT MP3 PLAYER
Review: This is a great mp3 player for its price. You can download about 70 songs to it. The music software is easy to use. You can also record songs with the voice recorder or use the voice recorder for lecture in school.Plus the LCD screen displays the title of the song, and the artist. GREAT PRODUCT!!!

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Summary: poor quality design and manufacture
Review: While in the package this player looks fairly cool and small in size, there are definitive drawbacks to it.

The construction is not very robust. The control 'stick' is wimpy and hard to control.

Design drawbacks include, among others: if you're recording something with the built-in microphone, and you pause the recording, this doesn't count for the auto-off circuitry, so the entire unit shuts off if you don't un-pause it with 5 minutes. Wouldn't be so bad, except --- the entire recording you've made up to that point is erased back to 0 bytes. How stupid is that?!

Customer service stinks -- when described to them, they were "we don't control the units, we just sell them". Well, guess what? I don't use the player any longer, because I returned it.

Buy something else.