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Summary: These Bad Reviews Made Me VERY SCARED - Don't Be
Review: For all you people that gave this a 3 star rating or lower, ... I Honestly don't know what thier problem is, It is just fine in size, when you get used to the buttons it acctualy isn't that bad, and Let me Tell you IT DOES NOT SKIP (deffently when using mp3). This is the honest to God truth, As soon as I took it from the package, hooked it up to my stereo and wanted to see how well the skip protection was (by moving it too and froe), well ... while playing I accedntly dropped it! bounced off my coffee table, slamed onto the floor. The song the whole time played flawlessly. It has done everything its sappose to do for me. The only thing I can think of is its VERY sensitive to how and what programs you record mp3 cds with. Im guessing thats why some people are haveing so much problems Im using NERO and Prime Peripherals CDRs, (im guessing its just nero honestly) even though I Can burn at 16x Im burning at 1x or 2x, And let me tell you not "1" problem with anything so far. I also burned it on mode 2 (iso 9660) with joilet unmarked (im not sure if you have to do this, I haven't tried any other way so im not sure, this worked so i stuck with it) Id suggest if you know alot about burning and CPUs GO BUY THIS PRODUCT, if you not realy sure what all that stuff up there meens, then you shouldn't even consider it. Its a great buy, I meen it.
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Summary: spend the extra money!
Review: Unlike typical portable cd players, we have now entered the age of MP3 Cd players. Accommodating standard CDs as well as CD-Rs or CD-RWs brimming with MP3 or .WAV audio files, the Memorex MPD8505CP MP3-CD player packs high technology into a low-lying music player, giving you beck-and-call access to literally hours of music from a single MP3-encoded CD. But there are other varieties in this new genre of portable cd player technology. I own the RIO VOLT, and i find it much more useful, and of better quality. This product is very bulky, awkward, and the buttons are in a bad design. As well, the headphone jack does make a hissing noise if listened to closely, like the editorial review says. I say, spend the extra money! Yes, this player does offer a 45 second anti skip and this new feature of playing mp3s, but so does a whole range of other cd players. SKIP IT!
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Summary: mmm, okay.
Review: well the skip protection is rock solid in CD-R and CD, never skipped once, on CD-RW not so hot, I have a low-rider and the bumpiness and vibration make it impossible to hear CD-RW's straight. I'm using Memorex CD-R's, HPwriter@4x, Easy cd 5.0 plat, controls are strange but usuable, great price, decent construction, near useless manual & customer service is not so helpful although they did say that the unit will not read more than 200 files, but no word on folder/subfolder limitations. Emails not answered, asked to call in, they were never there. I would like to keep this unit, but I need know how to use it, one file in every folder(except for the one folder with two files) doesn't work stalls machine, then if not attended to by hitting skip, it stops all together, all bit rates seem to fly fine, all but one none-working file worked in most computers. The first cd's I made were data cd's and the player played fine just in some random order until I realized it was organizing them by MS-DOS name (8 character), I checked it by getting the properties of individual files, but when I used the MP3 disc creator the order was preserved (but songs that were number ie "1000 oceans" were last not first). My biggest beef is that the files that stalled the machine stalled it on both kinds of disc burning, but worked on the PC and other computers, this stalling requires user intervention, my next step to create the same CD leaving off the files that stalled in each folder to see if it plays straight or not. But having to create 2 CD's before you get one to work and what if you wanted that song, then what. The unit can read that the file is there, but not play it is weird to me. As with other comments I have gotten all of my Mp3's (18.2 gigs) ..and have no idea how to control the bit rate that came from the song, and this is why I got the unit in the first place, will be testing the Phillips and Jensen models at the store soon if I get no answers for Memorex, it too bad though. I've seen that Rio one for as low.., but I though mine was [inexpensive], I'm not touching those [other]ones.
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Summary: Good Sound, Good Skip Protection, Bad Construction
Review: I bought this player because I thought I was getting a good deal. I was surprised at how good it sounded in my car. It was much better than the CD Changer/Stereo combo my Lexus comes with. It just sounded a lot better and louder. I was real happy with the skip protection too. It hardly ever skipped. If I remember correctly, It only skipped twice after 10+ listening hours in my car. Which I could probably attribute to a dirty CD. I burned my CD's following the instructions given on this thread for recording with Nero. It made a big difference. My old MP3 cds skipped a lot because I had not recorded them this way. Anyway, After enjoying my player for 3 days or so, the stupid thing stopped working. It wasn't very well constructed. It felt very fragile. It might have been the summer heat. Still, the player is good but not very well made in my opinion. Michael.
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Summary: if you buy this product keep the receipt
Review: mine puttered out only hours after recieving it. The design is very lacking and their are many better products that do the same thing or even more. Truely a low end dissapointment.
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Summary: In regards to GPG's submission
Review: I ordered this product, but have not received it yet. I had one question about GPG's tips to get it to work correctly. I understand the ISO-9660, and to not use the XA one, but there is something I don't understand about the 30 characters. Does this mean that I have to rename the files to 30 characters? Do they need to be capped, and is there any special format rule to the appearance of the file name? Help would be much appreciated!
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Summary: The Good, They Do Die Young!
Review: As soon as I received this unit, I plugged in the AC adapter, hooked it up to my stereo system using "Line Out" and successfully played an MP3 CD that I had recorded. Finally, I had a means of randomly playing 150 of my favorite songs without having to use my computer. Life was good! Two weeks later, I played the SAME CD and the unit would not work. It would pause every 10 or 15 seconds, and hang up from 2-3 seconds. I thought perhaps the CD was bad, so I burned another one. Same results. It would play regular music CD's just fine, but not MP3's. I already owned 3 portable music playing units. I wanted to play MP3's! Since the "original packaging", required ..., was a blister pack and is immediately destroyed when opened, I couldn't return it for a refund. My only choice was to send this two-week old unit to Memorex for a replacement. If the replacement does the same thing, I guess my only choice will be to throw it in..and chock it up to "Never buy from the Internet again" lessons learned.
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Summary: Nice product
Review: Hi all! I recently got this player, just after my SONY CD-Player began to randomly stop 3-4 times a disc. First of all - the sound quality of this player is great - no less, then the sound of SONY products. Second - the buttons, which seem inconvinient from the first glance, appear very good, because they are hard to press and thus you avoid randomly pressing them, while keeping the device in your bag. Third - MP3 playback. The quality is great, the playback is stable. The only flaw in this section - is that 192 and higher KBPS MP3s are played with interrupts. However all up to 160Kbps sounds quite fine. Yes, 160kbps MP3s are played WITHOUT ANY interrupts. So 128k limit is a myth really. Overall - go get it, it's nice!
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Summary: First gen technology, poorly constructed
Review: The Memorex player had so many flaws (apart from the skipping) that I ended up returning the player. While many other reviewers figured out and posted a bunch of "rules" to get the player to work right, I didn't really care too much. The rules were much too much for me to deal with. On top of that, the LCD screen is poorly lit and unhelpful, with its undecipherable little codes. The controls on the player were also a real bother to work with. It just simply took pressing too many buttons to get what you wanted out of the player. Contrast to this player is the RioBlue player which has a well lit LCD screen, and easy to use controls. It also doesn't skip.
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Summary: don/t be afraid...
Review: hey when i read all the reviws i was scared but it was late i allready order it and it was allready shiping so when it came i was happy i made this choise so get it it's worth it it does not skip anything if you record your cd's right so don't be afraid ...
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