Classic Portable CD Player with MP3 Capability (CM341)

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Summary: Works well with few problems
Review: I got this product about a year ago at the day after Thanksgiving day special. I have used it well and I belive it to be worthwhile. The main cons to the deivice I found was that after 9 months the random button (for all albums) for MP3 [quit].The player works well for MP3s on CD-Rs but not CD-RWs. That and the random button with occasional glitches on the forward button have me looking for a new player. The player works great for students who ride busses and are board easy. It was cost effective for a poor student and it work for me. I haven't used with anything but rechargable batteries and they work well. I haven't had the batteries [quit] on me while using them yet.

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Summary: Great unit
Review: I used this thing for several months and I loved it, now I've got a until with backscreen light.
This thing plays everything, even CD-RW; an advice tho', when using a CD-RW don't burn the songs directy, use a software like Nero or Real Player. Also, try to reburn all your mp3's in the CD-RW from time to time or even format the CD. Otherwise the unit may not recognize all the new tracks; that also happens with more expensive units. I find it a very reliable CD/MP3 player; however, the sound is not perfect. There is a constant buzz that is even more annoying when a song is paused. But for [money amount], I do recommend it. I got it for almost two years now, and it still works.

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Summary: Works well for the price
Review: Note first that this is the only mp3 player I've ever owned (though I have used hard-drive-based players from Archos and Creative for recording sociological research interviews, and have played mp3 songs on them). Anyway, I was given this Classic player a year and a half ago by a homeless guy I knew when I lived in Cleveland. He found it somewhere, and it was missing the battery cover. But I've used it since then, and it has continued to work despite having no battery cover and being dropped a number of times on granite while on backpacking trips. I'm comfortable navigating with it. No LCD display, so you've got to remember the order of albums (in folders) on the mp3 disc, but that's not too much of an issue. The sound isn't perhaps the best, but it's your basic 1-bit digital to analog, with a little noise shaping. I'm enough of an audiophile to be buying a new player now, but I've been pleased with this one. And it's still going... I'm giving it to my brother.

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Summary: the crpaiest player
Review: when I got it it was broken and they wouldn't replace it.