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Summary: No Improvements
Review: This unit does skip quite alot. The navigation is unacceptable, with it being strictly numeric, albums show as a number and track show as a number.Not good with close to 200 songs on a cd. ALso, how about a 10+ skip forward funtion? Would that have been to difficult?
Also, Philips' site says it comes with a belt clip: It doesn't.
Also, no remote.
I will say, the overall sound is as good as I've heard on a portable player. Just not good enough to overecome the deficiencies.
Rating: 
Summary: All that you need IF...
Review: This unit is all that you need if your concern is: 1- Low price, 2- more than average quality 3- MP3 compatibility 4- easy to use. I got this unit thinking in the above thinks and I am 100% satisfied. But if you wish to have a better sound, just get a better unit. I am happy with this one, i can play my music any place ...
Rating:
Summary: All that you need IF...
Review: This unit is all that you need if your concern is: 1- Low price, 2- more than average quality 3- MP3 compatibility 4- easy to use. I got this unit thinking in the above thinks and I am 100% satisfied. But if you wish to have a better sound, just get a better unit. I am happy with this one, i can play my music any place ...
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Summary: Thank goodness for returns!
Review: To its credit, the EXP201 is an inexpensive CD player that also supports CD-R's chock full of MP3 files. It basically means that you can carry 10+ hours of tunes on a single disc and enjoy those tunes on a single set of two AA batteries. I picked up one of these units yesterday and I returned it today for the following reasons:1. Horrible sound quality. All my MP3s exhibited a random pop, click, or some other audio artefact during playback. And no, I wasn't listening to Oval, Microstoria, or any other Mego glitchery, and all these MP3s are 160 kbps CBR (constant bitrate) files that play with no problems in my PocketPC. 2. Stability issues. I used my unit exclusively in a car (a Ford Taurus, in fact, sitting in the front seat armrest) that did nothing but city driving. Admittedly, Houston streets have their share of potholes and bumps, but my wife's VW cd changer (which doesn't have the read-ahead shock protection) is far, far, far more stable than this player, which produced random skips with alarming regularity. 3. Navigation problems. The display on this unit is limited to numbers. Which means that when you create CD-R's of MP3 files, you have to organize them in folders by either artist and/or album in order to be able to skip ahead albums' worth of tracks at a time. Even at that, you'd have to have a pretty darn good memory of what order (let alone which artists) the tracks were burned onto disc. Having to play 'Name That Tune' with your own music collection is only entertaining at parties. 4. Compatibility issues. Despite the reported CD-RW compatibility, none of my DirectCD CD-RW's would register with this unit. Also, any regular CD-R's created using the Joliet standard (which allows long file names) seem to have the file orders scrambled, as the file names seem to get truncated by the player's operating system. In order to maintain track order, I had to manually rename 140+ files in EasyCD Creator (a bit of an oxymoron in this case) to 8.3 standards (trying to compose the disc in ISO9660 truncated the file names without maintaining track order). So, there you have it. A nice try, but poor, poor execution. From what I've read, the EXP301 series are significantly better in sound quality, skip protection, and compatibility, so you may want to spring a few extra dollars and save yourself a potential headache.
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Summary: I got a failed unit
Review: Unfortunately, I have to say, I'm a Philips product owner.
My dad bought me a Philips Expanium 201 mp3-cd ....
For my deception, when I started to use it, strictly following the users manual instructions, I began to experience problems when using the unit.
The sound quality is poor, sometimes the unit doesn't read new CD's in perfect conditions, sometimes when i skip two or more tracks, the unit start locks up and then turns off, and what's worst, often the unit starts to play audio at high speed, like getting crazy.
I'm really disapointed, because i thought that Philips only make good quality products, but this unit doesn't work for nothing.
... i think it was really money for nothing.
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Summary: That's good
Review: What are BAD player, even EXP103 is better than it. Stupid anti-shock, alway skipping while walking, No problem on SP50, Casio PZ5000 and TDK Mojo. ok, skipping, annoying, It skips wonderfully will do mix songs (When I llisten to dance music while walking, it will mix up another track music into my ear. pre-LOAD the wrong track for anti-skip.) Oh my god, Willie Nelson sings a song with Mcdonna (Sometimes Chinese singer sing with Lee Ann), this player done a good job, I have never think they have a song together.
No good with no navigation screen.
what's good, batteries life, sound quality (When you non activitely). Riovolt SP50 SP90, with no good sounding. didn't try SP250 and SP480.
wasted my $.
Rating: 
Summary: Bad! Bad! Bad!
Review: What are BAD player, even EXP103 is better than it. Stupid anti-shock, alway skipping while walking, No problem on SP50, Casio PZ5000 and TDK Mojo. ok, skipping, annoying, It skips wonderfully will do mix songs (When I llisten to dance music while walking, it will mix up another track music into my ear. pre-LOAD the wrong track for anti-skip.) Oh my god, Willie Nelson sings a song with Mcdonna (Sometimes Chinese singer sing with Lee Ann), this player done a good job, I have never think they have a song together.
No good with no navigation screen.
what's good, batteries life, sound quality (When you non activitely). Riovolt SP50 SP90, with no good sounding. didn't try SP250 and SP480.
wasted my $.
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Summary: Considering the price this is a superb product.
Review: What can you buy for [money]? This CD PLayer has a great sound, hours of playback, good quality and don't forget that Philipps were the inventors of CD technology. Yes, it lacks of some features that others have as the SONY MP3 Player but it costs around 375% more. For the price it should be any complain, saving your daily spare change you might be able to buy it in two weeks!! Bottom Line: Good price, great product!!
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