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Summary: Amazing highly flexible and expandable MP3 player
Review: I received this MP3 player with 32MB of memory from my sister as a gift around a year ago and for the first six months never used it since I had a MiniDisc player, a portable CD player, and a high speed CD burner. The initial reluctancy to use it was the low amount of memory. However, with the significant drop in compactflash card prices, I bought a 128MB card for under $100USD and another 64MB card for around $40USD recently. With this expanded memory, the Lyra is awesome. It's sound is almost CD quality, and I now use Microsoft MediaPlayer software to play and to download songs. Very fast and high compatible. I agree with some of the other reviews as to this player eats up batteries. Using Duracell Ultra's seems the best, I find that I can use the device longer with them. With a 128MB card, I can fit over 20 songs in the highest quality format. Also, what I found out that if you were willing to sacrific sound quality, you can opt for lower data quality files (96K) to have more songs on the same size memory card. However, I do not recommend this. Now that there are 512MB+ cards available on the market, this MP3 is the best. It has great sound quality, the volume is very loud, uses upgradable reasonably price compactflash memory, has quick download speeds unlike MD's, uses regard AA batteries, is relatively small compared to a CD player, does not skip like CD's, and runs upgradable software right from the compactflash card. The only drawbacks are that it could a a bit smaller, the light shuts off two quick, and it could us less power. Nonetheless, all in all an amazing MP3 player even after a year. HT
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Summary: Great Product
Review: i recently purchased the Lyra MP3 player. The sound is beautiful an it takes only about 30 seconds to get the song from a program into the actual player. The only problem is that it eats up batteries quickly and it is hard to set up the program but once you got it going, theres no stopping you! you may think that buying another memory disc is stupid because you can change it but if you have enough money, another memory disc is a great thing to have. the 32mb memory discs only hold about 9 songs and on a long car trip, you will begin to hate those songs! i encourage you to buy this product but remember its only to play music!
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Summary: Unbelieveable!
Review: i think this product is great. even though mini disks are less exspensive, the players are smaller, lighter, unshockable, and fit in ur pocket. the earphones that come with it are good for free earphones. they are durable and can be taken anywhere. i love my MP3 player.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I use my player quite a bit. It was pretty expensive and you can't put too much music on it but it's great for hard to find music or one hit wonders that you don't want to buy. Rumor has it that a better memory card will come out that is cheaper but it's just a rumor. The sound is okay and you can hear static when no music is playing but it may just be the earphones that come with it.
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Summary: This Thing Rocks
Review: I was on larsulrichster, a new Napster-like service. I was downlowding and downloading. I did it so much I started calling it DL-ing(Dee el ing) for short just to save time, downloading takes longer to say than the actual process. I was waiting for the entire Farm Aid 4 clip to download, and I was watching. VH1 Behind The Music. Did you know MC Hammer blew through $30 million! Can you believe that! Now, a man who has given sooo much is poor. This made me rethink the whole MP3 thing through. If more people bought his album as opposed to DL-ing he might not be poor. Other than that the Lyra seemed a little cheaply made,but lightweight, 32MB seems a bit light, and you should really think about what future music formats might do to an aging rappers career, and if your Lyra will be able to play them. Great sound quality!
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Summary: Dont buy an mp3 player!
Review: If you are rich as hell, go ahead and buy it. But for the price your paying for this, you could get a great Mini Disk player, and even plenty of discs for over 4,500 minutes of recording time. Dont believe me? Goto the Mini Disc section and do the math! Even better, you can record mp3's onto the MiniDisk players, you can also record your voice, your playstation/N64/Dreamcast, VCR, TV, Radio, Tape, everything! I almost bought an mp3 player, and im glad i didn't. MP3's are too expensive compared to Mini-Disks, and if you look at the Mini Disk trend right now, its exactly like the CD trend 10 years ago. They are already making Mini Disk drives fro computers to store info. Just check out the Mini Disks before you buy this, trust me, you'll thank me. If you have any questions, email me, Ill answer them asap!
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Summary: The Worst MP3 Player, The Lyra 2
Review: One hates to be hoodwinked and I certainly was on this one. I purchased my Lyra based upon it playing MP3 files. It does not, it playes an encrypted file called an MPX file. The secret conversion brings back memories of the Beta Recorder days. Many problems have arisen because of this and I am still trying without success to transfer some MP3s to it. I feel like I have been robbed.
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Summary: Forever upgradeable.
Review: Since the Lyra runs from software on the CompactFlash card, you can upgrade it to play new formats. So far, it plays WMA's and MP3's. Also, contrary to the ...review, you can use RealJukebox, MusicMatch Jukebox or Windows Media Player. There are some restrictions, though. MP3's can only be 128 bit or lower and no VBR. Windows Media Player will not convert sound files before it transfers them to the device, so you'll have to convert them and then copy them over. As far as I know, the other programs will convert files automatically, so you can just use them if you have to. Sounds great, works well ... Great!
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Summary: Forever upgradeable
Review: The Lyra reads the software from which it operates from the CompactFlash card, so you'll always be able to upgrade it. It sounds good and is reliable. Great!
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Summary: Forever upgradeable
Review: The Lyra reads the software from which it operates from the CompactFlash card, so you'll always be able to upgrade it. It sounds good and is reliable. Great!
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