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Summary: Unremittingly poor design.
Review: I bought one of these at ...for my wife's birthday. I am revulsing in shame at the poor design of the user interface of this unit.Numero uno. The player doesn't save your place when you turn it off. OK. A lot of them don't, but I'm not anywhere close to finished. Numero dos. You can't browse through directories (albums) on an MP3 disk, only songs (all 200 of them, right?). To locate a particular album, you had better already know the names of all the folders on the disk. You have to do an alphabetical search to get to it. One workaround I can think of is to prefix numbers to the folders prior to burning the MP3 disk. This requires more computer skill than should be required for a device that costs sixty bucks. Numero tres. OK, let's assume you know the names of all the albums on your MP3 disk, or that you implemented the workaround I just described. You're playing the disk and you want to switch to a different album. You do the search. You get...NOTHING! Why? Because you have to back all the way out of the directory structure to get to the album information. This involves STOPPING the player altogether, and whatever else you were doing (like driving), THEN do the search. In short, one would expect an MP3 player that includes a car kit to be reasonably user-friendly enough to be used while driving a car. Memory would be nice. A quantity equivalent to an ...alarm clock would suffice. That way, you could leave the thing in your car and NEVER have to touch it again. I would have EASILY traded the four-line scrolling display of the names of the songs, the artists, the running time, and on and on - nice frosting, but not enough cake - for about ten minutes' worth of thought about how these items are used. The MP3 format has soooooooo much potential, and too many of these gadgets fail to come anywhere close to meeting this potential. The engineers (or trained monkeys) who designed this thing need to be sent back to school - on the short bus.
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