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Summary: Good for the price
Review: This player is great for the price. It is one of the cheapest CD/MP3 players available, but like the cheapest of anything, it has some flaws. First the positivesPROS
+ Decent sound quality
+ Connectable to external stereo with decent sound quality
+ Clear ID3 Screen
+ Plays most files CONS
- 2 Setting EQ is either too little, or too much bass
- ID3 screen not backlit
- Gets only about 10 hours on 2 AA batteries
- Some songs sound bad when played off MP3 CD-RW
- Weak amplifier causes distortion (Not headphones)
- Included earbud headphones just plain [stink]
- Menu system takes some getting used to. It works fine for what I generally use it for. My main complaint is the poor quality whe using CD-RW MP3s. When I play them on other sources, they sound fine, but on this player, or at least mine, I get many electronic bleeps. In the next model, I hope they add a better EQ, maybe with a Low, Med, High Bass setting, and not just too little, or too much. The styling isn't the best, but it doesn't feel or look real cheap. All in all, for the price, it's good. But if you use it a lot and have extra money to spend, it may be worth moving up to a RioVolt SP 90, or something similar to that. By the way, I hate ear buds, so I immediately bought Sony wrap-arounds as a replacement, and they work well with this player.
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Summary: This mp3 player is great!
Review: I've had mine for about a year now. I like the line out feature so I can hook it up to external speakers. This little cd player looks cheap so if you are into fashion, you need to come up "some more money" for a mp3 player that does has the same functions but looks high society. about the scrolling of the songs, yes it is a chore to have to scroll through 130 songs if you dont put songs into folders. So if you aren't too bright and are really lazy, do not buy this item. Otherwise, the only draw back is that it has no AM/FM tuner. I think another Rio model does. Oh, and the SP50 plays ANYTHING I feed it. It just gets hungrier by the minute
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Summary: WMA Doesn't Seem to Work?
Review: Can't play WMA even though customer support says it can. I have tried many bit rates secured and non secured WMA files.
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Summary: Such a bad low-end mp3 player
Review: I hope I could return it to the store. This item is flimsy. Buttons are small. The search function is useless. The worst thing is its compatibility with variable bitrate streams. I compressed most of my CD's into variable bitrate mp3 files since this is the most efficient and high-Q way of compression. However, this player continuously makes hissing sound when dealing with variable bitrates. If you stick to constant bitrates like 128kbps, 196kbps, this player is ok, considering its low price. I don't recommend saving $50 and tolerating the lousy playback of this player for years. Go get a sony or panasonic.
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Summary: ok player but horrible customer service
Review: I have purchased a few rio products over the past few years and have found them to be decent but not great quality. the anti-skip technology on their cd players has been completely atrocious, playing cd's or mp3-cd's i can barely walk around without skipping.
but i would never recommend buying anything from this company because their customer service is the worst that i've ever seen. e-mailing them i get a form letter back saying to respond to it if my questions weren't answered, and every time i responded i got the exact same form letter back.
800 numbers are non-existant and i was never able to reach any customer service or get any help with my problems with the product.
overall ok product with the worst customer support ever.
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Summary: Great!
Review: I bought this MP3/CD player last year, and it's been working fine for me ever since. Mine doesn't have those problems many other people have. All the CDs, MP3, CDR, or store bought, have work flawlessly. MP3s sound great, and it is really easy to navigate between songs. The gap betwwen songs isn't much, its just a small glitch and I don't know why so many people are complainig about it. The battery consumption is bad however, but I bought several packs of rechargable batteries for cheap, so its not a real problem for me. This thing does skip though especially for regular CDs, but its not that bad. I carry this player in my jacket pocket and walk to school everyday and there are no playback problems. It feels fragile, but it is durable (I have dropped it several times with no damage). I usually fit 200 songs on a CD, if I compressed them, I could fit more, For those who said that their MP3s sound bad, stop being so dependent on Kazaa. The earphones suppied are not bad, but I recommend buying new ones. The volume, playback, navigation and value are great for this player and I recommend it, unless you like to listen to your music when you are doing physical activity.
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Summary: Good Value for the money
Review: I have had this unit for 4 months now. It has never balked at any mp3 cd's I've used. CD playback, again works fine. ESP works fine. I can recommend it whole-heartedly. Many of these reviews have been rather harsh; your expectations may be too high. You won't get audiophile quality out of something that's this inexpensive. I have used its line out jack with my home theater system and the sound quality was acceptable.
Get a good set of headphones, do a good job of burning your mp3 cds and I think you'll enjoy this player.
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Summary: ...
Review: You get what you pay for with this player. It's the cheapest one I could find and it showed. I returned it immediately. The build quality is horrible and it skipped while sitting on the coffee table. I was so disappointed that rather than tacking on [more money] to see what that gets me, ... I got the Sony 901 and it is excellent.
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Summary: It does its job, but that's it
Review: I bought it like two months ago, and I just feel like giving it back again. I mean It works fine, but for a little bit more of money you could get a way better mp3-cd player i believe
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Summary: As long as you don't want to play MP3s
Review: We bought one of these that had been refurbished. It looked to be in perfect condition, and it's just fine at playing ordinary CDs. I have yet, however, to be able to make an MP3 that it recognizes. It just says "NOCDMP3." The software I am using is the Macintosh iTunes3; it works perfectly with Riovolt's SP90 player. I'm glad this one was VERY cheap. If it had read MP3s, though, I'd be perfectly happy.
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