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Summary: Very Unhappy with product
Review: I have been sitting here reading all of the different reviews and a person who is considering buying this thing would certainly leave confused. Well I am writing this review to clear the confusion, this is not a good unit. As other people have said it takes a long time for the unit to read all the tracks on the CD in MP3 format approx 30-45 seconds. This unit is plagued with engineering problems because it does not do anything consistently. When playing a song sometimes it pauses for about 1-2 seconds during a song. I also do not like the fact that everytime you power the unit down it starts over from the VERY beginning and you have to hit the skip button to get back to where you were. Also I wonder if anyone has experienced this problem...sometimes on random mode when the laser is searching for the next track it powers off completely. But you turn it back on and its fine. I have the Manufactured in October 2000 Suffix A, but its still plagued with problems which I consider to be unacceptable. Sound quality is not crisp and smooth like when you play a file from your computer to your stereo. Its difficult to describe but like digital artifacts when there is a quiet part in the music. I would pass on this one.
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Summary: Very Nice.....
Review: Ok, I got the dreaded "Suffix A" model, and it's working great! VERY VERY VERY GOOD Sound Quality... Non-Distortionate Bass Boost, Very good Anti-shock (I shook it for 2 minutes without it skipping). Every once in a while there is a "misread" on the CD, probaby due to the new supersensitive laser catching dust or something, it just puts a glitch or a speaker pike in the song, that doesn't happen often though, depends upon the song. With CD-RWs, it's a little more picky, sometimes it will play a song flawlessly, sometimes it wont... still havn't figured that one out yet... may have to do "full format" on those discs. The manual says filenames with odd characters might not be recognized, so far it's recognizing them fine for me. Next thing is battery life.. I'm clocking 3-hour battery life on 10 year old rechargables, the manual says 6 hours, but I'm happy with 3, between the AC house power adapter, and the DC car adapter, even these batteries are going to last a long time. I was a little disappointed by the LCD, it does do everything they say, but they cram it into 2 lines, and the songname scroll is S...L...O...W. Oh yeah, the other thing that bugs me, is that when you turn it off, it loses all the settings, ie: Playmode (Repeat/Random), Resume (forgets what song you played last..), ESP setting (can't turn it off for MP3 cds, just Audio CDs). The manual is a bit skimpy, it doesn't tell you the details, it says it'll do 96-192kbps, I've clocked it at 32-320 with no skips (same song to test all the bitrates) It says nothing about having to be in ISO9660, it reads long filenames just fine, (well, the first 8 characters, anyway :) This unit (so far as I can tell) can read every mp3 cd I've tested it on, it'll ignore other data (non-.mp3, which is a problem with some other mp3 players.) The only difficulty I've come across is that it will only recognize the first 200 songs, then stop.
Antishock=Good,
Sound Quality=Good,
Manual=OK,
Text Search=you gotta fiddle with it for a bit to get the hang of it, it's OK,
LCD=OK-not backlit,
Directory Tree=Good,
resume=skips to start of song, and is forgotten if turned off, which makes it kind of obsolete, but it's ok,
play modes=Good,
accessories=Good,
bass boost=Good,
battery life=Good,
userfriendly=Fiddle with it until you figure it out.
If you can put up with a glitch every once in a while, then this is the player for you, cheap, rich sound quality, not bad looking...
This was more than I had expected for what I paid for, I'm a very happy customer...
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Summary: skipping or pausing
Review: it dosnt skip it pauses i shook it bounced it and droped it from about an inch high that didnt effect it,but just let it sit there playing and it just stops for a few seconds then continues and it wont play a whole cd of mp3 without shuting off or requireing me to push next, another guy said his had no problem he was using somthing called vbr format what is that? i use ez cd creator softwear
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Summary: Not Worth it!
Review: Definataly not worth the money! It skips, eats batteries, hard to configure, waste of time. Don' Buy it!
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Summary: Almost Sent It Back
Review: I was experiencing the skipping problems a number of the reviews here noted. I went so far as to burn a CD with just 128kbps files in Adapted Direct CD 3.5 and it still skipped. I read a reviewer's notes about Nero. I downloaded a demo and voila it works flawlessly. Now I burn CD's up to 192kbps and it plays great.
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Summary: Player Performs if Pampered!
Review: I have had my player for a week, and it is performing very well, but then I bought it with the understanding I would be having to burn new CD's just for its use. If you want a player that is going to use all of your previously burned collection this probably won't fill the bill, and I think you have difficulty ever finding a standalone that does - best to just get a computer to use as your MP3 server (I have a connection from my computer to the home sound system which works great).As a Mac user, I have a few hints: Get the shareware version of SoundJam (or Apple's free iTunes) and the shareware MP3 Rage. With these two programs you can set up great disks. Do burn them as ISO 9660 standard. The player *can* recognize Mac volumes, but will see two files for each song - you will probably hit the player's 200 selection limit and some songs won't play. (oh and for similar reasons if you are using Toast make sure you uncheck the 'use Apple extensions' option in the 9660 settings so it doesn't save the resource forks.) Do add the .mp3 extension to your files, and I would suggest naming them Title first since only the first 8 characters show on the player display. and if you want albums to play in order prefex the title with the track number. All of these are easily done with the MP3 Rage Renamer feature. I found that occasionally the player would not read the tags when created by SoundJam. A simple way to fix this as a group is drop their folder on the Multiple file adjustment part of MP3 Rage. Then just check the two tag version updater options near the bottom. Running them through this will fix any tag problems without obviously changing anything. Do put your MP3's in organizational folders, the undocumented 'Display' feature makes this very useful (name them with 8 character names!) [Stop the player and hit Display; you can then skip through the folders - hit Display again and you can skip through the MP3's in the current folder] Oh and get a set of NiHM batteries with charger - your pocket book will be glad you did in the long run. I'm very happy with my purchase: the solid state players that only have a hour or so of music for hundreds of dollars just were too much for me. Now I can have 11+ hours of music playing and not have to fiddle with a CD once all for less than $100. The only con I have is the occasional drop out in sound that lasts a second or so. Seems to happen almost randomly, never in the same place or frequency. But I can cope for having a portable MP3 player for a price I can afford.
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Summary: A good mp3 player
Review: For you guys out there who said that this thing just keep on skipping, I've been using it in Haiti (where the roads are in really bad condition) and it hasn't skip. The ESP works fine. The only thing that matters is that your songs are encoded at 128-192 KB/s; over that, it just stops playing. Also, the VBR format is not well supported. After that, it works fine. The random mode is also a nice feature in MP3 mode.. I should say that a Resume feature would be very appreciable, and that the searches should be easier than that. WMA support is also something that lacks. All my songs were in VBR format, so before making the MP3-CDs, I put them in constant bitrate (128bit) and then it reads all my songs perfectly. Overall, it's a good choice.
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Summary: Volt-envy
Review: You'd be out of your head to buy this half-rate pretender. I had it, returned and just got the Sonic Blue Riovolt. A far superior product. I'd venture to say it 4x as good as this thing and only thirty bucks more. I give Memorex credit for getting it out to market quick but now it must bow in. Amazon should have volt soon go to cnet to see who has it now.
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Summary: Best Buy i have made
Review: This Memorex cd player was the best hundred bucks i have ever spent in y life. I had a d-link mp3 player that, in my opinion, was a piece of crap. It would skip and not work right, so i returned it. I then bought a memorex mp3-cd player, and it works great. The only thing i thought was kind of bad, was the fact that it would not work with packet-cd writing. But overall I thought that it was well worth the hundred bucks, it works almost perfectly, with almost no distortion with the highest volume.
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Summary: Pretty Good, Exactly what I expected.
Review: The cd/mp3 player is exactly what i had expected. The only bad thing is that it looks like its a cd player used by flinstones in the cave. its not that fat, but lets just say it's not skinny whats so ever. Plays good with no skips, kills batteries fast, but thats bout all
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