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Summary: sent it back!
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Summary: Battery dies; Skips all the time
Review: I bought this with lot of enthusiasm and found that this fellow cleans the battery dry in about 1 hrs play time. Also resets and retries on my MP3 CDs very frequently with slightest of shakes. Overall does not deliver on what it is supposed. DO NOT BUY.
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the Silver option.
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Summary: Great product for the money spent
Review: I didn't purchase this product from Amazon. I found it at "$..." Electronics for "$..." less, not on sale. I had three to choose from of their type (nothing like Nomad or something like that). I also looked at J-Lin and DLink and felt that the look of this was was better than DLink but not as technical as the J-Lin one. However, I read the specs and was sold on the find feature then put off by the fact that you can only search by the first letter and not by the id3 tags as it actually stated. However that is not a reason for me to return the player because personally I am a student and it'll be in a bag most of the time. So in my personal opinion for the money spent it is a good buy. The DLink was "$..." less but it only advertised the Shock Memory feature, it didn't actually say how long it would be. I'm quite pleased with this product and I will not be returning it unless it explodes in my face sometime soon!
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Summary: Not a good player if you're on the move
Review: I liked how this player worked sitting on a desktop or in my car. But when I took it with me on a walk or bike ride, it skipped constantly. I had it in a nice padded carrying case on my bike ride and it still skipped terribly. Sent it back and my next try will the Aiwa XP-mp3c
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Summary: first generation mp3 cd player
Review: i own one of this first generation mp3 cd players back more than a year ago and it just can't complete with mp3 cd player these days...
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Summary: a near miss IMHO
Review: I really want to like this product, and think there's a lot to like, especially at this price. But...I have a hard-riding car and have had the player cut out on me repeatedly. And I mean soft reboot, not skip. Which is annoying, but even worse because random play is not truly random! I.E. random play is the same pseudorandom sequence every time! This is miserable for mp3-cdrs.
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the Silver option.
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Summary: Technology not perfected... sent it back!
Review: I think companies are jumping the gun on the release unperfected technologies. This device does not have an alphanumeric display and it's claim to reading ID3 song tags is a far cry from what you might expect. You can only search via a single letter... therefore playing all song titles beginning with the selected letter. The display is no more informative than my Sony Discman of 3 years. It displays the number of directories and total number of tracks for all directories. For example: I created a CD with 10 directories, 132 tracks total. It displays 132 - d10. So you basically end up with a conventional CD containing tracks 1-132. To advance to track 67, you must hold the advance key down forever. The number advancement does not speed up the longer it is held... that's the oldest trick in the book... what were they thinking??? Instead of selecting a track number, you can select a directory number which jumps to the track number that begins that directory. Let's say you select directory 5, it may jump to track 54. Without a printed song list in front of you that is resorted based upon this device sort criteria, you have no way of finding song. Let's talk about creating this list... I did a music library export from MusicMatch and imported into Access. Here is the sort criteria: First it sorts by the directory name and then by song title. Once sorted, I numbered all of the tracks straight thru 1 to 132... Designed a report and formatted to print as a CD insert. Is this getting ridiculous??? Yes!!! Why not just spend a couple of bucks and include an LCD that can display the song titles. The line out and headphone's output levels were weak and some noise could be heard. I'm sure within the next year every CD player out there, portable or home, will have the capability of reading MP3s. It's just to soon to purchase one! I sent this unit back and will wait it out. Don't try to find this product on the casio site because it's not the same company. It's some weird casiocommunications site out of California using Casio's good name to fool people. On a final note... It does not support VBR, CD-RW, or bit rates other than 128. Skip protection was no better than my Sony Discman with 3 sec. Are you disappointed or what? I don't know who planted the first review of this product which raves about it??? Unfortunately, this was the only review I had to read.
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Summary: Only plays 128 bit rate
Review: I was disappointed to realize that the player can only play bit rates of 128. Many of the mp3 files that I have are audio books that I like to listen to while I travel, and they are compressed to lower bit rates. The sound quality was good, but its usefulness is very limited. Also, the display is difficult to see. I returned mine the next day and ordered a player capable of handling multiple bit rates.
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Summary: Looks Great ..... Plays Good..... Dies Quick
Review: I was excited to see that there were now CD/MP3 players in the market and for purchase. The Casio looked like the one for me... so I bought it.... but I shouldn't have. Listening to this player showed me how great a technology we had out now, but it also showed me how far away we are to perfecting it. Playing CD's: It plays CD's with a breeze. Absolutely no skipping with the shock on and I must say I was very impressed, but.. then I found out some problems. When I played an mp3 with a bitrate lower than 128 it played the song at a very fast pace as if you were listening to the chipmunks.... that I didn't like ... also loading the songs took about 5 seconds each and that killed the battery. Features: It has some decent features. There isn't much more added to the player due to its mp3 capabilities except for a search button which is helpful... but could have been better. You can search for song's by the letter they start with or by what folder you burned the mp3's in. Even though it searches by letter, it does not show the name of the song, simply the number. Switching tracks is a pain too. Even with the search button I found myself switching from song 1 to song 78 by manually pressing the skip button. If you want blisters, get this one. I think all players should come with a 9 button remote so you can type in the number instead of searching or simply skipping to the track. Power: OUCH!!! This really hurt me. This player has to have the lowest battery power. If you read the manual it says the player has 6 hours of battery life with the shock protection OFF! Well I had the shock protection ON and after a short hour and a half the batteries were dead. That's not what I wanted. I then decided to turn shock off, but to my surprise I found out that the button didn't work and shock was going to stay on. I simply gave up on the player when that happend. I thought maybe I used bad batteries, but I didn't, I took them out of their package and then the button wasn't working. Overall, this product isn't the worse, but it sure isn't the best .... with poor battery life this player is not worth my time. If its going to die in less than two hours I'd be sitting with the AC adaptar connected to it, and that would defeat the purpose of a PORTABLE CD Player. I'm returning this item and I decided to buy the RIO VOLT. Please let this be my savior.
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Summary: Good but It's not perfect.
Review: It works well, but when the music level is low you can hear a little bit of noise (and when you push the buttons too). Another fail is that you can't see the songs names and directories names, you can search songs or directories just by an index. All the other features work well.
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