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Summary: Good quality and FM tuner too
Review: I bought this product to take with me to the gym and eliminate the need for cassette tapes. The FM tuner was a must so that I could alternate back and forth between music and tv with a single device, using the tuner to pick up the audio off the gym tvs. Very few players on the market right in this price range feature the FM tuner, so unfortunately my choices were pretty limited. However, I have not been disappointed by this product. The player is small and durable, has a EQ with 4 presets and a custom option, random play, and good quality headphones. It also has Auto Resume, playing where you last left off, which is a step up from the features of my standard size MP3 player. The battery seems to last forever, I do not have to recharge it often. Although it is not as compact as some of the other players out there, nor as stylish, I have been pleased with it overall. One downside of the product was the memory - the ads can be a little misleading - although it is featured as having 128mb, that is TOTAL memory, that is . . . 2 cards of 64, not a full 128mb.
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Summary: Good quality and FM tuner too
Review: I bought this product to take with me to the gym and eliminate the need for cassette tapes. The FM tuner was a must so that I could alternate back and forth between music and tv with a single device, using the tuner to pick up the audio off the gym tvs. Very few players on the market right in this price range feature the FM tuner, so unfortunately my choices were pretty limited. However, I have not been disappointed by this product. The player is small and durable, has a EQ with 4 presets and a custom option, random play, and good quality headphones. It also has Auto Resume, playing where you last left off, which is a step up from the features of my standard size MP3 player. The battery seems to last forever, I do not have to recharge it often. Although it is not as compact as some of the other players out there, nor as stylish, I have been pleased with it overall. One downside of the product was the memory - the ads can be a little misleading - although it is featured as having 128mb, that is TOTAL memory, that is . . . 2 cards of 64, not a full 128mb.
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Summary: ?!?I DONT KNOW?!?
Review: I like the lyra2 but i cant buy it because future shop says "Its not made any more" although RCA is selling them.i would like to know were to buy them in toronto?Thanx
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Summary: What makes a GREAT player?
Review: I originally wrote a very wordy review, but deleted that in favor of stating just what you need to know. The RD2211 is small enough to be easily portable. It's easy to find and play the tracks you want to hear. The sound quality, even at its dismal 75 db signal to noise ratio, is sufficiently good for everyday use. The solid state construction means it won't skip while jogging or simply walking to the train platform. Let's skip past all that, and get down to the real issues.First and last, this player is usable only with WMA files. The advertised MP3 compatibility is accomplished via the included software: it converts MP3 to RCA's proprietary MPX format. You need not read farther if your music library is predominantly MP3. The advertised 128 MB total memory is supplied as two 64 MB CF cards. This is unacceptable. I have not decided if it's enough of a deal breaker to take advantage of Circuit City's 30 day return policy. My intention at the time of purchase was to swap the overly generous 256 MB CF card in my camera for the 128 MB card. This is no longer feasible, and my options are to return the device, or purchase a 128 MB card. The CF card is removed from the player and inserted into the supplied USB CF card reader to upload music. I perceive real longevity issues related with doing this on a regular basis. The player "boots" its playback programs for WMA and MP3 from the CF card. In theory, this should make software upgrades easy. In practice, it's one more worry on two fronts. The player sometimes has difficulty reading the CF card; the card needs to be removed and re-inserted to "boot" the player. This gives rise to the robustness issues I note above. The second concern is that the required files are not supplied (that I can find) in the software installation. I made several copies of the player software in several locations on my harddisk, and even archived a copy on CD-R. (I find this last to be the most ironic; I recently retired a CD-R MP3 player because of the incessant skips.) The CF card reader connects to the PC via USB, and appears as a removeable drive on the file system. The supplied driver is not specific to the RD2211; I used the card reader to download pictures from my camera (although it makes no sense to, since the camera connects via USB also, obviating the wear and tear on the card and connector). This works fine for me, since I still run Windows 2000 on my primary PC; the driver didn't work on my XP notebook. Uploading music files is a simple drag and drop operation in Windows' explorer. (WMA files only; see above about MP3.) This, at least, was as advertised.
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Summary: Will it use all flash cards.
Review: I want to get an 128MB and maybe 256 MB for this device. Does anyone see a problem with this.
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Summary: Will it use all flash cards.
Review: I want to get an 128MB and maybe 256 MB for this device. Does anyone see a problem with this.
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Summary: Very easy to use!
Review: I''ve gone through many different mp3 players. this is the only one that has lasted me more than a mere week. i've had this for almost a year and so far it has been the best! A real good thing is definitely the radio. even though many people say that it doesn't work, it really does and works well. It is very easy to use and it comes with a remote so it makes it even easier! But, unfortunately perfection does not come in most mp3 players. this product does have some drawbacks. this player is a little big. also, the cf (compact flash) cards that come with the playerare 2 64 mb not 1 128. Other than that though, this mp3 player is great! u should definitely buy it!
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Summary: Lyra2 gets the job done
Review: PROS:
-perfect for a run or the gym as it has an FM tuner and does not skip (pretty much all mp3 players do not skip). I can't believe all mp3 players don't have a radio, too! (that is why I chose this one)
-good controls, easy to figure out how to navigate songs CONS:
-not as small as other mp3 players
-speakers are over the ear type. sound is good, but can get annoying on the ears after an extended amt of time.
-The software does not work on Windows XP, so be sure and upgrade the musicmatch software as soon as you install or your system will crash. I found the realjukebox software takes too long to get your mp3s onto the smartcard that goes into lyra.
-Downloading music to the player takes a bit of time to learn. You cannot drag/drop onto the smartcard through windows explorer, rather you have to go through the musicmatch software.
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Summary: Lyra2 gets the job done
Review: PROS:
-perfect for a run or the gym as it has an FM tuner and does not skip (pretty much all mp3 players do not skip). I can't believe all mp3 players don't have a radio, too! (that is why I chose this one)
-good controls, easy to figure out how to navigate songs CONS:
-not as small as other mp3 players
-speakers are over the ear type. sound is good, but can get annoying on the ears after an extended amt of time.
-The software does not work on Windows XP, so be sure and upgrade the musicmatch software as soon as you install or your system will crash. I found the realjukebox software takes too long to get your mp3s onto the smartcard that goes into lyra.
-Downloading music to the player takes a bit of time to learn. You cannot drag/drop onto the smartcard through windows explorer, rather you have to go through the musicmatch software.
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