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Summary: car user
Review: I've tried a bunch of mp3 cd players - they all skip. I see where others have referenced testing mp3 players for skipping by shaking, bouncing etc. From my own testing, that isn't going to cause even a cheap player to skip. You can shake it, bounce it, and beat on it and most any anti-skip player won't skip. However, the minute you put it in your car and head down the road you will know. Maybe it is a combination of the vibrations and the bouncing - that I don't know. So why do I say all this. This RCA model doesn't skip!!! Believe me when I say my truck can make any cd player skip. Sometimes I think it makes my own brain skip. After a week of everyday use I have yet to hear even one skip. The only bad thing I mention on this one is the car cassette adapter sounds extremely tinny - no bass. Luckily I had another one that sounds just fine with this unit. Unit also has easy to read display and super easy navigation. And oh yeah, you can turn off that annoying beep sound when you hit any navigation buttons ( a great option).
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Summary: cool
Review: its working perfectly.its easly reads the audio or mp3 cd.
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Summary: RCA Model RP 2450C
Review: Just purchased the RCA CD/MP3 Model RP 2450C unit primarily for playing my MP3 files burned to a CD-R @ 128kbps. The unit can not play a single song without skipping even when laying flat on a table with ESPX turned on. However, I have been able to determine a slight pattern. Every song skips at about 12 seconds then at 1:09 etc... Seems to be relatively consistent. The CD-R's are clean and play fine on other players. Very disappointed.
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Summary: Worth the money
Review: Like Thomas Lovely, I've been burned by both RioVolt and Sony, and it happened in the span of a month. I first purchased a RioVolt to find that the volume on it kept fading in and out (on regular store-bought CDs, this is.) It was also a nightmare to operate and chewed batteries faster than anything I've seen. I returned it and tried for a ... Sony car kit CD/MP3 player. When I first had it, I thought things were great. It seemed to work okay and had decent sound, but the thing took forever to load CDs. Also, if I pressed the buttons too fast in mp3 mode, the player would just flip out and say "no disc." This eventually became a problem to the point that it would spin any kind of disc for 5 seconds and stop. Well, that one just went back to the store too. So, I decided to try the RCA player. I had read some terrible reviews elsewhere about this player, so I was leary of it. However, I've been pleasantly surprised. The display (while lacking the backlit feature I wish it had for night viewing) is easy to read, and the player actually supports ID3 tags. (The Sony claimed to support them, but then it didn't work when I burned the disc EXACTLY the way the manual told me.) The manual for this one is a little confusing because they leave out some steps to make sure you push the right buttons, but you can figure it out pretty quickly anyway. Also, this player loads disc VERY quickly compared to the RioVolt and Sony. I haven't had any problems with the player skipping either. Though I have not really had a chance to test battery use, from what I can tell, it'll beat the RioVolt no problem. I had a little trouble getting the car adapter to fit the cigarette lighter in my car, but a little adjusting seemed to fix that. I am disappointed that the player did not come with an AC adapter for home use, so that's why I gave the player 4 stars. But still, for what you pay, it's a good deal for a CD/MP3 player... and so far *crosses fingers* this one's actually working for me.
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Summary: For what it's worth - my opinion
Review: My nephew purchased a RCA RP2450 and I was so impressed with the sound that I bought my own. I have had this player for approximently six months now and all in all I am happy with it. It has very good volume with decent bass and three different bass boost levels. I have made 2 CD's with about 200 songs on each at all different bit rates and out of all those songs it has only failed to read six. It has yet to skip even once (hard to believe but true) - even in the car which has really impressed me. Neither my nephew or I have had any trouble with our players and we have both had them for about six months.
The only con is that it doesn't come with an AC adaptor - although usually if I am using this unit I am on the go. I do wish that I would have done a little more research on portable MP3 players before I bought this one. ... It would have been nice to have had FM radio to go along with the CD player capabilities. ...
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Summary: MP3 CD player manufacturers never seem to get it right . . .
Review: NOTE: I bought the rp2452...I'm pretty sure the only difference is that the rp2452 has no car-kit. I purchased this MP3/CD player expecting a lot. I guess that was a mistake.
Main Flaws:
-No support for multisession CDs
-Crash Prone (As if the OS was made by Microsoft)
-The lid is wobbly
-*BIGGEST FLAW*: if you're scrolling through the tracks on an MP3 cd, it takes almost a minute (seemingly decades) to load the song you've chosen. You get used to it, but it's almost like torture when you're waiting.
Main Strengths:
-*BIGGEST STRENGTH*: Anti-skip. It is amazing. RCA got something right, oh so right. This thing never skips. Ever.
-Sound Quality: Clear, crisp sound. Much better than playing mp3s on your computer at home.
-Remote: Perfect size, has a volume control, start/stop, hold(there is no hold on the actual CD player), skip forwards/backwards, has a nice clip too. I guess I'm nitpicking when I say that the cord's a little bit too long.
-Solid Design
-Bass Boost (DSP): It makes a big difference.
-Playlist maker: I assume it's good, I don't really use it though.
-Comes with a stereo connector for RCA connections, as in part of a home stereo. Overall, it's pretty good, but you could do better with your money. It's limited featureset is far from perfect.
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Summary: RCA RP2450 mp3/CD player -- pleasant surprise.
Review: RCA isn't Sony. For what it's worth, in my book, Sony produces some very excellent quality products. But, when I saw that this RCA mp3 player was $$ cheaper than the Sony one (translating into a 30% cheaper price), I decided to give the RCA a try. I've been pleasantly surprised! I won't go through the specs -- it's a CD/mp3 player that does what one would expect. The build of the RCA player is great -- the headphone jack and DC jack look pretty sturdy and even reinforced. This has been a problem with some of the Aiwa walkmans that I've had in the past -- they would develop connection problems so that I had to twist and torque the headphone plug, otherwise I would only get the left sound channel. Though there is no physical "hold" button, there is a menu option that allows one to set this. The interface is pretty good, in that I don't have to be looking at the player to recognize the buttons. This is useful for when the player is in my bag or I don't want to take my eyes off of the road while in my car. I've had no problems with the mp3 playback, either. The player takes maybe a half minute to initially read through an entire mp3 disc, but it's very quick to switch between tracks after that. The player allows one to browse through the files in the directory structure that one determines when the disc is burned. Furthermore, Musicmatch 6.1 is included. In summary, this player has decent sound, has a good, simple interface, and appears pretty durable. It's a great bargain, too!
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Summary: RCA needs improvement in this class
Review: The RP2450 has all the bells and whistles you could want. ID3, support for WMA and MP3 and many other features you would want with a portable. I bought this unit because I thought it was a great deal with all those features. I bought and returned two units because they wouldn't even play a standard, off the shelf, music CD without skipping. I even put the unit down so that it wouldn't move and still got some distortion or skipping. MP3 played a little better but not good enough for me. How did this get to the store shelves? What RCA engineer approved this? RCA needs to go back to the drawing board. I will not buy another RCA portable until I see better reviews over a long period of time just because of my experience with this unit. I'll stick with the better quality units.
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Summary: Don't trust it for enjoyable MP3 listening.
Review: There are many nice features about this player, including the nice display and the great sound. It was great for listening to audio CDs in my car (the battery life is horrible, so plan on using an adapter). However, it was horrible for MP3s. During about every other song, it would freeze up and emit the most loud and annoying buzzing sound (a very short bit of the MP3 playing repeatedly, I guess), which would not stop without pushing a button. Acted flaky with certain MP3 songs, wouldn't even play some, sometimes it would just give up and shut off. I'm not sure if that was related to long filenames or what. It also seems to add or emphasize garbles in MP3 files. I burnt a CD of high-bitrate (192-320 kbps)songs that I listened to all the time on my computer with Winamp and never noticed the garbles -- I noted them very frequently with the RCA player. I spent more time trying to get it to play a song (counting the looong delay before it plays a song) than actually listening.
I'd say spend your money on something else that you won't be tempted to anihilate with a sledge hammer after nothing but frustration.
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Summary: Don't trust it for enjoyable MP3 listening.
Review: There are many nice features about this player, including the nice display and the great sound. It was great for listening to audio CDs in my car (the battery life is horrible, so plan on using an adapter). However, it was horrible for MP3s. During about every other song, it would freeze up and emit the most loud and annoying buzzing sound (a very short bit of the MP3 playing repeatedly, I guess), which would not stop without pushing a button. Acted flaky with certain MP3 songs, wouldn't even play some, sometimes it would just give up and shut off. I'm not sure if that was related to long filenames or what. It also seems to add or emphasize garbles in MP3 files. I burnt a CD of high-bitrate (192-320 kbps)songs that I listened to all the time on my computer with Winamp and never noticed the garbles -- I noted them very frequently with the RCA player. I spent more time trying to get it to play a song (counting the looong delay before it plays a song) than actually listening.
I'd say spend your money on something else that you won't be tempted to anihilate with a sledge hammer after nothing but frustration.
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