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Summary: A Mistake to buy this player.......
Review: All I can say is that how did this product get into the market! This is the worst electronic product I ever bought -- what a mistake I made!First, this player would take forever -- I really mean FOREVER, to read a CD-R disc with MP3 files most of the time, especially when not starting from beginning. I don't know how Creative made this player, it just keeps spinning endlessly without any error message. Second, if being lucky enough, it would play but only plays for a while(a couple of minutes), then it would get locked up, making a loud sqeak sound. Then I must turn it off and start the painful, never-end reading process. It doesn't skip many songs, but it also doesn't work well. If I skip or backwind some songs, it either gets locked up or takes LONG time to play it again. Third, anti-shocking buffering is kind of non-existing. Also, it doesn't support well on CD-RW discs. For larger MP3 files, it could not handle. Most of the time, it jsut hang up. This player is really bad I strongly against this player(and Creative Lab products now) since it's my worst investment(a total waste) and it didn't bring me the joy a MP3 player supposes to bring, but only pain and dispointmentness.
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Summary: Worst Item I have ever bought, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.
Review: First off this product is terrible, and that might be giving it a compliment! It can play regular CD's sure! But it skips sometimes for no reason even if its just sitting there. The CD player at times thinks its open and won't read the CD. Other times when it tries to read the CD it will just freeze and you'll have to take the batteries out to power it off. I couldn't believe I bought this item, I thought Creative products were top quality, I guess next time I'll stick with Sony. To top this off I tried directly contacting Creative support through they're website and they didn't help me at all. They just kept leading me in circles and giving me advice on problems I DIDN'T HAVE! This will be the first and last product I buy from Creative, its true when they say first impressions last a lifetime. Well as for Creative, they wouldn't be able to sell me air if I were drowning now. I don't believe this product deserves a rating, I don't believe this product deserves to be on Amazon.com . This product is a shame and a waste of your time and money. Don't buy it, if they sell it for a dollar, don't buy it. If they give it away just use it to prop your uneven table up with, its design is at least good for that.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: flimsy construction and skips between tracks that are blended together - on CD! not worth the money.
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Summary: Works fine
Review: I also have a RioVolt SP90, and stacks and stacks of MP3 CDs. This Creative unit works fine. It's played every disc I've tried, and it behaves pretty much exactly the same as the SP90. It even works with the SP90's AC power supply. My only criticism of this player -- and this has been true of every MP3-CD player I've tried -- is that on audio CDs where the tracks are crossfaded it inserts a pause where there shouldn't be one. I'm particularly impressed by how mechanically quiet the M100 is, and its audio performance is also quite fine. There's no audible residual noise even at maximum volume. The rest of the unit's features are typical: the wired remote is handy; there's plenty of output to drive my Sennheiser headphones; it navigates MP3 and WMA folders quite easily; the display is backlit; the earbuds sound terrible (they're identical to the Rio's). I bought this from another vendor that was offering a substantial mail-in rebate and free shipping, so its net cost was lower than any other comparable player. I really fail to understand the source of the problems other owners have been having. I use various brands of cheap 80-minute blank CD-R's, and rip using Easy CD-DA Extractor at fairly high bitrates. Some of my files are VBR and some are CBR; the M100 doesn't seem to care about that or about the bitrate or about anything else.
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Summary: Pure Crap
Review: I am only a teenage, and am to young to work. I spent the hundred for this player, and some extra for rush delivery. I have never made a worse purchase.
Ever since i bought it it has had trouble playing certain cds. even ones i bought at music stores. Then my friend droped it about a foot onto a plastic chair, and since i have only been able to play one cd.
DO NOT BUY THIS PLAYER. If you want a good player buy a sony or an iRiver, but do not buy this one.
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Summary: works great
Review: I bought the M100 brand new. It was wellpackaged and sealed. When I first tried to play my MP3 CDs it would not read most of them. The only ones it read were those with all files in the root directory. It obviously was not reading directories. It also reads and plays normal CDs perfectly. I have a RioVolt MP3 CD Player and a Philips Expanium MP3 CD Player - both read and play ALL the CDs perfectly. Creative support as usual either do not respond to queries, or make excuses as to why they should not exchange the player. A poor product, poor service - beware of any Creative products.
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Summary: Disappointing compared to other MP3 CD Players
Review: I bought the M100 brand new. It was wellpackaged and sealed. When I first tried to play my MP3 CDs it would not read most of them. The only ones it read were those with all files in the root directory. It obviously was not reading directories. It also reads and plays normal CDs perfectly. I have a RioVolt MP3 CD Player and a Philips Expanium MP3 CD Player - both read and play ALL the CDs perfectly. Creative support as usual either do not respond to queries, or make excuses as to why they should not exchange the player. A poor product, poor service - beware of any Creative products.
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Summary: BIG PROBLEM
Review: I bought this player 2 years ago. It was working fine until suddenly one day the screen displayed UPGRADE FILE REQUIRED....the disc starts spinning really fast and then everytime it would display the same thing. Creative support also sucks too...
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Summary: Fulfills its job
Review: I bought this player and took it to a 2 weeks vacation abroad. It proved worthy. It easily played my mp3 CDs. It did it both if the songs were in directories or if they were in the root directory, though most of the time they were in directories. Only once in a while it locked up, not allowing me to do anything. It wasn't necessarily when starting the player, but also when changing a song. Anyway, the disc was not rotating and I just had to remove a battery or the adaptor jack. It was a little pain, but very rare. All in all it was a good purchase, it plays my 12 hours mp3 CDs without problems, displays the song name, nice remote, and huge anti shock - I could just not skip it. It reads the whole song (or the first 8 minutes) in a second and plays it with ease no matter how much you shake it. The sound quality is good, at least to my ear, and it could easily defeat the noises of busy places, and even plane engines with a little more increase to the volume.
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Summary: Buyer beware! More problems than it's worth
Review: I bought this player on sale, and be warned, I know now, why it was priced so low. I burned two CD with MP3s on them, and it has all kinds of problems reading and playing these CD-ROMs, as well as regular Music CDs. I put these CDs in another computer to read, and there wasn't a problem with any of them. It can only store 8 minutes of MP3 in memory, and takes a couple minutes to load the next 8 minutes of songs. It locks up several times, with it in the middle of songs, with a very loud buzz. I bought it for work, so I can listen to music, at my desk, but I've spent more time trying to get the CD to start spinning or pulling the batteries out, to reset the processor. This all happened in less than a week, and that is why I am here, warning all of you, and for me to find a replacement.
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