Audiovox MP-1000 MPDJ MP3 Player

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Summary: No Longer upgrades with MMC cards
Review: I purchased 3 Audiovox MP1000 mp3 players as Christmas gifts. I also purchased additional 32MB Sandisk MMC cards. These cards do not work. Audiovox blamed Sandisk for changing their MMC cards, but Sandisk says it is the Audiovox MP3 player. Even Audiovox, no longer has compatible MMC cards since, Sandisk makes the MMC cards for them. Specifically, Sandisk says that "The Audiovox player does not follow the MMC Multiblock read specifications correctly." In the mean time I have contacted Audiovox twice, and have been assured that I will get a return phone call from the customer service supervisor. No return call in over 10 days. I am currently on hold waiting for 1 hour on their 800 customer complaint line, still waiting to speak to the next available representative. I am hoping that Audiovox will stand by their mp3 player and their claim that they can be upgraded with any 32MB MMC card. As it stands now, I have 3 mp3 players that, although they have great sound and are easy to use, they can only hold about 8 songs and can not be upgraded with any currently available MMC card. I am very dissapointed. I'm sure that I am not alone and that many people purchased these players due to the great reviews we read and the information provided on Audiovox's website and on their package. We were mislead, and I hope this review helps others, so that they are aware that they are buying a player that at the moment can only play 32MB of music and is not upgradable.

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Summary: Do NOT get
Review: I purchased a memory card for my MP-1000 only to find out that they don't work, and that many others have had the same problem. The software/hardware fails to recognize the memory card. Not only that, but Audiovox stopped making this model, so the software is only compatible with Win 95/98, not Win2000 or WinXP. And it uses an insanely slow serial connection to trasfer files, it takes forever (no USB support). And one other thing, the carrying case is Pleather not leather. In short, don't waste your money.

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Summary: MultiMedia Cards are NOT supported, despite claims.
Review: I purchased a memory card for my MP-1000 only to find out that they don't work, and that many others have had the same problem. The software/hardware fails to recognize the memory card. Not only that, but Audiovox stopped making this model, so the software is only compatible with Win 95/98, not Win2000 or WinXP. And it uses an insanely slow serial connection to trasfer files, it takes forever (no USB support). And one other thing, the carrying case is Pleather not leather. In short, don't waste your money.

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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS!
Review: I purchased the MP-1000 about a year ago and it worked great. It still does, as long as I keep a computer with Windows 98 or ME. I realized it DOES NOT work with XP after I upgraded. With most new computers coming with XP, the older operating systems will fade away. This MP3 player will go with them. Audiovox discontinued it and has no plans on making it compatible with XP. Now I have to go buy another player. Save yourself the hassle. This thing is now worthless.

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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS!
Review: I purchased the MP-1000 about a year ago and it worked great. It still does, as long as I keep a computer with Windows 98 or ME. I realized it DOES NOT work with XP after I upgraded. With most new computers coming with XP, the older operating systems will fade away. This MP3 player will go with them. Audiovox discontinued it and has no plans on making it compatible with XP. Now I have to go buy another player. Save yourself the hassle. This thing is now worthless.

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Summary: Audiovox MP1000
Review: I purchased this product direct from Audiovox a couple of months ago. I had several initial problems with the product. The most frustrating issue I had concerned Audiovox's lack of customer service. I couldn't get my problems resolved through them so I had to do a lot of research to fix my particular problem by myself. Another issue I had was, I tried in vain to purchase the expansion memory card from Audiovox. They couldn't seem to get interested in me enough to want to take my money! It was unbelievable! After a month and a half of tinkering with the MP-1000, I finally gave it my 16 year old son and am ordering another product.
I liked the sound quality of the MP-1000, but after a month of trying to figure out how to get the thing to work, I really didn't care about the the sound quality any longer. It comes with 32MB of memory which is good for about 5 cuts off of your favorite CD. Good luck trying to get the 64MB expansion card from Audiovox as well. I never did convince them to actually sell me one!

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Summary: OK for Free, but not for $150!
Review: I received this on the internet for free and am very pleased with it. Although, I can say that because I didn't have to spend the amount others did. For $150, it really isn't that wonderful of a deal. I found out 32 MB doesn't go to far for MP3's and to upgrade another 32 MB is almost another $100! But the sound is good, the options are nice, and I don't know why others say it downloads slow, mine downloads pretty quick. So, if you're looking to buy this, I would suggest you look around a little more, I'm sure there is something out there better for the price.

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Summary: warning-memory-warning
Review: I recently purchased the audiovox mp1000 because of the small size and ease of operation. I also bought additional memory with a 32mb sandisk mmc card which didn't work, so I sent it back and recieved another one which also didn't work. Discussing this with audiovox, they have had alot trouble with sandisk mmc... but not with the audiovox memory card.... a suspicious person might wonder why this would be, as they look identical. A memory disk from audiovox is coming but I thought this may be important information for someone interested in the same scenario.

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Summary: Amnesia problems
Review: I recently received this unit as a surprise Christmas gift. Believe you me, If I had known my parents were purchasing one, I would have researched first. Hopefully, I will save someone time and money. First off, the software that it comes with (the juke box thing) only offers a 96 kbps, while the player offers up to 256. Of course, this is only a problem if you try to rip CD songs and convert them to mp3s. It took me all day to decide if I could live with the poorer sound quality of 96 kb/s compared to the 56, 64, 128, or 256. This is mostly because the software takes forever to do the rip, convert, and save process for each song. I think I maxed 2X total conversion speed despite like a 48X cdrom. I went to zdnet and downloaded some free, but cheapo files that do all of the same stuff real jukebox does, only you can select the 128 or 256. The 128 and 256 are just about CD quality, but at the expense of massive memory. 256 averages 8 megs a song and 128 is 3 to 4 megs. With only 32 onboard ram to work with, things get a little packed. I finally went with the 96 kbps from realjukebox, which still only holds about half of a full 74 minute CD, and at slightly annoying quality loss. This is when I decided it might be cool to get more memory. No retail store around me sells the Audiovox version, and I hear these scandisk and viking ones wont work for anything over 32 megs. And here I am with a couple of gigs on my hard drive and two very peppy AAA rechargeable batterries. What a waste. My advise is go purchase something like the Ipod, that is if you have a Mac. Wow, 4 gigs. I dont know if that thing supports PCs, wouldn't that be cool. If only I had the 400 bucks to fork out. I think I'll just return this thing and call it an informative and wasted day. Oh and one more thing. I personally think that now that Napster is dead, mp3s will soon be extinct. Well thats my 2 bits.

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Summary: Poor Expansion MMC Capability
Review: I recieved this MP3 player sometime ago as a suprise Christmas present. It is very adequate, however there are some problems with it. The number one problem is the serial connection to download songs onto it. Not only is it a hassle to have to unplug the printer everytime i want to put new songs on it, it is very slow compared to USB. The other problem comes with buying more memory for it. I purchased the 64Mb expansion card from Viking as an accessory from amazon.com and it didn't work. I was told by audiovox afterwards that nothing over 32 Mb will work in the expansion slot, and that not all brands of MMC work. So, buyer beware!