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Summary: Solid MP3 player
Review: I recently purchased it and so far enjoy it. The only minor complaint is some of my CD's are old and scratched. The CD works fine on the computer, but the player has problems. That problem is easy to solve, since I still have the original CD and have copies on my computer. Better error correction would be a nice feature and bring it to 5 star rating.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This has a lot of features, mostly already enumerated. It sucks down batteries like crazy though. and if you take off the anti-skip it'll skip just sitting on the desk. But if you keep lots of batteries around, or plug it in and keep the anti-skip on it's a good little unit.
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Summary: Great unit but...
Review: I think this is a great unit but... there is a couple of things missing for a 5 star: A belt clip to carry it around and a remote control on the headphones cable. It is really annoying to have to open each time your carrying case to fast forward a song
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Summary: An Ugly Tank!
Review: Sturdy as a tank and just as ugly. ..:-) Great little durable player that should last you many years. I didn't like the fact it wouldn't play Direct CD burnt disk (I have a few and have to convert them to play)but with the great bass and mids and highs, it should be well the time to burn one to single session. Plenty of volume and it will not skip on you!!!I love the headphones and it's menu... I also own the Riovolt, it is rather flemsy, but can do more in a stantinary position. In other words, if you are on the move, get this player!!! hide it if you can, it's sooo ugly...:-)As for those complaners who say it eats battries, simply buy recharble Nickel Metal Hydride. each charge will last about 4-5 hours or more per charge.
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Summary: Works Fine
Review: This is my first mp3 player and it has worked as advertised with no signifigant problems.I have really only become an enthusiastic music collector in the last year and a half, since I started using the mp3.com website. On mp3.com I sift through a lot of mediocre music until I find something I really like, then I download as much of it as I can get (mp3.com is legal and it isn't affected by Napster's troubles). I never got in the habit of buying 40 minute standard CDs; I am used to having large amounts of music. I first started looking into mp3 players about 6 months ago. I wanted to be able to listen to mp3s in my car and house (I don't use it with headphones). I also wanted to archive my music so I'd have it 30 years from now. The large volumes of music meant that standard CDs and mp3 players with memory, memory cards or zip drives wouldn't work. That left jukeboxes with hard drives and CD mp3s. My computer doesn't support USB, so jukeboxes were eliminated (also some jukeboxes won't let you upload the files, so I'd still need a CD burner archive the my files). I read about all the CD mp3 players and chose TDK for navigation, sound quality, skip resistance and battery life. Making the discs is a little time consuming but the navigation on the player works perfectly; I can pick individual songs, artists, or folders and play them in sequence or at random. I organize the mp3s with Windows Explorer, rename them with Navitrack, then burn a CD. Each CD holds about 10 hours. Battery life seems to be about 10 hours, but I usually use external power (batteries have to be removed). I have never heard it skip. The start up time and the time between songs seems O.K. Occasionally it will fail to start and I will have to restart it. I use it in the car with a Sony cassette adapter/ power supply. I also use it on my home stereo with it's own power supply and an adapter cable from Radio Shack. It sounds good either way. I was concerned that it wasn't firmware upgradeable, but it doesn't seem to have any bugs. I had also hoped to download recorded books, burn them on CD then listen in the car. I haven't done that for two reasons: The TDK can't fastforward or rewind within a track. While it can pause and play, it will lose it's place when the power is off. This means that I might have to listen to several minutes of text over again to get back where I was (I got my TDK in May, so they may have improved since). CD mp3 would be the perfect technology for unabridged books, but it's not quite ready. The recorded book vendors are only starting to support this format.
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Summary: Worked great, but only for a while
Review: I originally wrote a very nice review for this product (listed below) that I am now changing based on the fact that it stopped working well a few months after I bought it. 8 minute skip protection? Not a chance, it's more like 5... and hard jars make it stop completely. It's big and clunky, which originally didn't bother me, but it's just hell to carry around. And then it just started working very sporadically. It would turn off for no reason occasionally. It would stop and skip for no reason. It just pretty much fell apart (functionally). So, I called TDK. It had a 90 day warranty so they pretty much laughed at me since it was after 90 days. What kind of horrible warranty is that anyway? After arguing with their legal department for a while (and using some threats I learned in my business law class), they finally agreed to replace it (though I had to pay for shipping). I would suggest not to buy this product, as there are now a million better ones than when I originally wrote this review. HERE IS MY OLD NO LONGER VALID REVIEW: I bought the Mojo mainly to play MP3s, but I still wanted the option of playing my CDs too. Obviously it does both well. The skip protection is great in MP3 mode (and good in CD). It's skipped twice since I got it. Once was when I sprinted across the street and the other was after I'd been walking for 10 minutes with it bouncing in my pocket).
The sound quality is great and not noticeable from a regular CD. I hooked it up to my speakers and it powered those well on high volumes (the equivalent of using Winamp). It even has several equalizer settings, such as Rock, to adjust for the type of music you're playing.
As for navigation, that's the best part. I haven't used their FIF format, which allows you to view the songs by the directory structure on the CD. However, the normal ID3 tags work great anyway. You can view them in ABC order by artist, song title, or genre. Then, you can choose to play just those by a certain artist(s) or simply select all of them. It has random, repeat, etc. options. To play a specific song on a CD with 200 songs, I press mode, songs, title, then scroll down to what I want (or do it through the listing of artists). The entire process takes at most 10 seconds, usually less. It's easy to tell what songs are on the playlist because all songs have a music note next to them; if it's black, it's queued, if it's white, it's not. Same goes for artists. The regular play controls like skip song, back song, stop, pause, etc. are all their own physical buttons as you'd expect. Oh yeah, and it remembers the last 5 CDs you've played, so it'll start up your playlist where you left off.
I can't really think of anything bad. There are a few little things, but they're not a big deal. The physical design is not nearly as cool as other portable CD players, it's a little bit bigger than other such products, there is a 2 second pause if you manually skip to the next track (but not if it just goes naturally).
I'd definitely recommend it as I see nothing else on the market anywhere close to this. It holds a full CD's worth of songs (650MB), which is far superior to any MP3 player out there. With all the features it has, it is amazing that this thing is so cheep. If you're tired of waiting for a decent MP3/CD player, this is the one. Just like with computers, if you keep waiting, surely something better will come out, but at some point you just want to buy one already.
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Summary: Great MP3 player, BUT!
Review: Everything about it is great, the looks, the gadgets, the sound, the screen, etc
HOWEVER
-uses up batteries like crazy
-totally skips when in continuous motion (as in jogging and running, but not, surprisingly, while walking)
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Summary: Mojo good, RioVolt bad
Review: The TDK Mojo is a very solid device with very good skip protection. The display shows ID3 tag data, or the proprietary FIF Navitrack info if you desire. And it's backlit. The control panel is easy to use, menus easy to navigate thru. No compatability issues using MP3 files on CD-RW with Joliet formatting.
The RioVolt has a very fragile feel to the case, and even causes skips when pressing the Volume control buttons. When walking around, the audio glitched tremendously, even if it wasn't real skipping. The control surface was stylish but a pain to use, especially for navigating thru menus. And the little dancing people on the display was a waste of non-nacklit LCD real estate.
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Summary: Great player but how do you carry it????
Review: i just bought this player and agree with all of the above but how the heck are you supposed to walk around with it? It comes with no belt clips or carry case which is VERY big oversight in my books.
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Summary: The Greatest MP3 CD Player Ever Exist on Market!!!!!
Review: It is the best that you can get allover the world!!!!. Do not try to save 10, 20 or 30 dollars for something that will last for 3 months !, that product (TDK Mojo) last until you broke it or lose it, I mean, it will last FOR A LONG TIME, and you will be very happy with this. It is un-skipable, is very easy to navigate into the tracks, the sound is perfect and comes with an AC power adapter to use it in Home. I also use this with an external Car Kit (not included) on my car. You can use this wherever you are! Jogging, Traveling (airplane, Train, etc), driving (in the Car Stereo), in Home, etc. I bet you can't find anything better ! Good luck and enjoy it !!!!!!!
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