Rating: 
Summary: Very good little unit
Review: I gave it 4 stars but it could be 5 stars for the price. I've used a few players jwill, casio, memorex at the time they all cost a lot more than this and it beat them all. The rio at the time was much more. It was much better but it cost alot more. The lowdown on this unit:Good:
No skips walking, biking, offroad biking, driving
plays dozens of different mp3 types, bitrates, media, burners
plays VBR up to 320kb or so
much better than all the others mentioned above except rio. good navigation through directories The bad
eats batterys. Usually seems to be 2 hrs. max was 5 hrs straight with kodak gold batteries.
no wma
no id3 tags.
no packet written disks
dont drop it. (i'm on my second one)
will not play r3mix mp3s reliably. I think its just to much compression processiong for its little cpu. Bottom line
You can now get rio's for around less than they were with full id3 support
and the low end sp50 rio for about less as well. I haven't used the specific model but I hear its very good and based on much of their earlier model. I would go for the rio unless you get this koss really really cheap.
Rating:
Summary: Great MP3 CD player, but it has it's kinks....
Review: I got it for christmas (not even expecting it) with the Koss MP3 CD boombox (which works great). The thing is great! Skip protection works great, music is smooth and lush. The headphones were so great! About a 15 dollar pair i'd say! but... People have been complaining about skipping with MP3 cds. I found the problem. You cannot go past 160 quality. I burned a cd last night at my grandparents house (cause I'm cheap and dont have a burner). I tried 320 quality with MusicMatch jukebox. The songs stream VERY nicely on a computer, but don't on the cd player, nor on the boombox. I think that it's just too much on the discman. Still, its a good discman, and I love it!
Rating:
Summary: Good MP3 Player for the price
Review: I got mine on Ebay so I got it for a little less than retail. I opened it and put a CD in I had burned using Nero. It was some OTR (Old Time Radio) shows. It just skipped all over the CD unable to play it. BUT....... I got a blank CD out took the CD and converted all the shows to 128Kbps instead of the 32kbps they were coded at.
I turned Juliet off and made sure I Closed the CD. It runs great! Never skips. I wish it would show the title of the item playing but for the price it is worth it. I totally recommend it to anyone wanting an affordable MP3, CD player.
I see that plate people have been talking about scratching their CDs and I can only think maybe they have a screw loose. No I mean it. Maybe it is not the plate but a screw loose on the plate it the problem. The plate is very sturdy so I can see it bending by push the buttons unless you are using a hammer. I give it 4 stars simply because I think it would be nice to have titles.
Greate Item.
Rating: 
Summary: A new problem every time you push "start"
Review: I got this item hoping I'd found a functional alternative to the more expensive MP3 CD players on the market. I was prepared to deal with "low frills/no frills" type drawbacks, however, the difficulties I encountered with this model weren't due to a lack of amenities. The unit simply isn't reliable, even at the most basic level. 1. Skipping: Oh so very annoying. MP3s skip for no apparent reason, even if the player is resting unmolested on a soft fluffy pillow. Really, I tried it - on a soft fluffy pillow, the songs skipped like crazy. 2. Batteries: It eats batteries like they're Doritos and it has the munchies, particularly in MP3 mode. 3. Unreliable: Today, my 4th day of ownership, the unit suddenly decided it couldn't read the CD it happily skipped through yesterday. 4. Web Customer Service? Sorry, no. Koss DOES have a presence on the Web, but its page is devoted only to its headphones - no mention of the CD player. Much better players are available for a few dollars more. I'm glad I gave this unit a try, if only because I'm now confident anything extra I pay for the next-better model is money well spent.
Rating: 
Summary: It does work...
Review: I got this little MP3 CD player when it went on a great sale because my old CD player was five or more years old and didn't really work. I never listen to my CDs anymore, but I was going on a long plane ride/bus trip so I needed something to listen to. There are skips, some songs that it will refuse to play, and doesn't work too well upside down. Mine had a tendancy to just turn off for no apparent reason, even if it had fresh batteries and the buttons locked. Oh, and the locker is cheap. It kept un-locking and then the player would turn on and run the batteries dry. Not a huge problem and served me well on my trip. It's now gathering dust and will probably get chucked next time I trip over it. Great for trips/children who break things/people who want a cheap MP3 CD player. NOT great for music conesueirs or people who move a lot. Whether it is for you, I don't know.
Rating:
Summary: It does work...
Review: I got this little MP3 CD player when it went on a great sale because my old CD player was five or more years old and didn't really work. I never listen to my CDs anymore, but I was going on a long plane ride/bus trip so I needed something to listen to. There are skips, some songs that it will refuse to play, and doesn't work too well upside down. Mine had a tendancy to just turn off for no apparent reason, even if it had fresh batteries and the buttons locked. Oh, and the locker is cheap. It kept un-locking and then the player would turn on and run the batteries dry. Not a huge problem and served me well on my trip. It's now gathering dust and will probably get chucked next time I trip over it. Great for trips/children who break things/people who want a cheap MP3 CD player. NOT great for music conesueirs or people who move a lot. Whether it is for you, I don't know.
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Summary: Caveat Emptor (to a degree)
Review: I have the CDP-3002 which is the latest version of this model it has 120 second anti-skip for mp3s and 45 second for cds. It works well except that when you first put a cd in it takes up to 46 seconds for the anti skip buffer to fill itself. Also it is useless for running since it is continuously being bounced (for that you may want to buy a solid state MP3 player). I haven't tried it slung over a treadmill but I suspect it will be ok for that. In a car it is fine and I am satisfied with that. But you may also want to go get rechargable batteries as it will get a maximum of 10 hours out of it (and that is without using ESP or the dynamic bass)
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Summary: Your best buy for the money
Review: I just bought my koss cdp3100 cd/mp3 player today. Unlike a few others on this review board I didn't have any problem with burned cd's. What I've found to work best is is a file transfer through the hewlett packard cd creation software which came with my burner. I just placed my music tracks into folders labled for each band(one folder for each) then transfered these folders to a cd. This mp3 player can read into a folder and allow you to advance from one folder to the next and also allows you to advance from one track to the next within that folder. For the low cost of this player I was very impressed with the quality.
Rating:
Summary: Overall.........Very good
Review: I live in Brazil, I used it in my car and at work. It worked very well, played all MP3 cd?s I?ve tried.
Rating:
Summary: Not Bad considering the cost of competitive brands
Review: I only read the reviews AFTER ordering Koss cdp3100 from an Internet auction site. I must say that after reading a lot of the reviews that I was more than a bit sorry that I had ordered it, but I could not cancel my order. The player arrived the other day, and I took note of the review written by "An Electronics Fan" dated Jan 8, 2002. I downloaded MusicMatch Jukebox and selected 96 kps as suggested by the reviewer. Guess what? It works perfectly, great sound at a great price. No skipping, scratching or other phenomena as experienced by so many of the other reviewers. May I suggest that they try out the recorder as suggested? Anyway I am happy with the sound quality, and will purchase rechargeable batteries in order to keep running costs down. Thanks for you reviews they were really helpful and I also learnt what not to do! Maybe the other unsatisfied reviewers should try to as well. I do agree that the Koss internet site is completely unhelpful, but maybe we should all send a letter/fax/email to the company chairman and complain about the lack of backup and service for their products?
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