Rating: 
Summary: Not bad
Review: I bought mine 8/21/01, and I must say I am very happy with it thus far. I have had no problems creating and playing mp3 discs. Also it played CD-RW nicely. I play it thru my car tape deck with an adapter, and it still sounds good. I get the occasional noise, but I'm not sure if these are not related to the quality of the mp3's. Also, it doesn't list dir labels, but for the price, this thing is great.
Rating: 
Summary: This is a complete piece of garbage
Review: I bought mine a few months ago, and for some reason, the engineers decided to put a metal plate on the underside of the lid. This lid is attached to the plastic via 2 screws, and these stick out just enough to scratch the CD if you hit the cover. Believe me, if you buy this you'll be hitting the thing when it refuses to play regular CDs, let alone MP3 discs. I can't trust it to play anything, because it scratched one CD-R, and my new Garbage CD. This thing has cost me $15 more than the original sale price, due to the unrepairable damage it's caused. I'd like to email the company about this product, but they don't advertise anything but their headphones. Save another 30 bucks and get something that doesn't constantly flash "ASP" because it doesn't have any. That's what mine does. Skipping is one thing, but to have the thing stop the current track, hang for several seconds, or spontaneously shut off is another. All of these things have happened to me. Do not buy this.
Rating:
Summary: It will scratch your CDs
Review: I bought mine on sale at target but I have to return it after one week because it scratched my CD-R. The metal plate and screws on the underside of the cover was the culprit. Previous reviews mentioned something about this problem, but since I am buying CDP 3100 a later model, I thought that maybe the manufacturer has corrected the problem but I was wrong. Anyway, for the one week that I had it, it played CD-Rs, CD-RWs and regular CDs just fine. For the money, it would have been a good buy. But I just can't keep this player knowing there's always that possibility it will ruin my CDs, or my kids' CDs or my friends'CDs particularly if it's regular CDs. And I can't imagine myself wasting time burning CD-R and RWs over and over again to replace the damaged ones. I decided to buy Memorex model 8507. This one I'm keeping.
Rating: 
Summary: You get what you pay for
Review: I bought the Koss CD/MP3 player on sale at Target (...) and it plays CDs and CD-Rs just fine the 45 second skip is great but with an MP3 disk it is very tempermental. It says it has been tested with 99 MP3 tracks on a CD and I have only gotten it to work with 50 MP3s and when I use the 50 MP3 disk it starts up and works maybe one out of ten attempts. I am returning it and I recommend spending a few extra bucks to get one that works. If you are not using it to listen to MP3s it is not bad.
Rating:
Summary: Nice Price, wish it would work correctly.
Review: I bought the player and it plays MP3's but it LOVES to randomly skip ahead a couple seconds in the middle of a song and it also insists on making some kind of "digital chirp" in songs I know sound just fine. I'm using the "LAME" encoder and changing the settings does not seem to work. Oh well, you get what you pay for.
Rating:
Summary: Do not even consider wasting your money. Believe ME!
Review: I bought this CD player 2 weeks ago. The second I got it out of the package, it skipped like crazy. I was in denial, so I put in a regular CD. It sounded distorted and skipped like crazy. So I burned a new MP3 cd and tried it out. It still skipped. ... And here are some reasons why this CD player is now worth buying. 1. It uses batteries like there's no tomorrow.
2. It skips like crazy on both MP3 and regular cd's.
3. The display shows no names, titles, just numbers.
4. Huge bulky design. Does not fit in any pockets, no belt clip and heavy
5. Headphones have the shortest cable known to man.
6. LOUD!!! it makes a lot of noise.
7. It has ASP (anti-skip protection) that takes 2 minutes to load for every song, and hardly ever loads. The thing says 45second ASP but when it works it's less than 10 seconds...
Rating:
Summary: less than expected
Review: i bought this cd player at target on sale... after i opened it i made a couple mp3 cd's with easy cd creator and nothing worked. than i used nero and made an iso data disc and that worked but it would skip so often. it got really annoying and i dont know if its defective or im using wrong software or what. i dont recommond this product unless your just planning to listen to normal cd's with it. if anyone else has this cd player and knows good software to burn mp3 cd's that dont skip, please email me ...
Rating:
Summary: Definitely not worth the time or effort
Review: I bought this player last weekend. I am returning it today. I, like several others, spent an entire day trying to get all the mp3 files on one cd to play correctly. Now, as for telling me I don't know what I am doing when burning CDs, I have been burning mp3 cds for years. I tried everything from CD Creator 3 to CD Creator 5 and several others. The only thing I could finally get to work... contrary to several other reviews, was Direct CD and then I had to burn each folder by itself, close it, try it, reopen it, then add another. That is not what I call efficient.
The other problem, it will only recognize 8x3 (the old DOS format) filenames, so anything more than that is truncated and any files with the same first 8 characters are skipped. Since it won't recognize ID3 tags, that is a major problem. I used only the number of the "album's" song to write to the cd. One other thing, DON'T put anything on the CD but mp3 extentions, if you do, the player won't recognize the CD as an mp3 CD and will respond with "NO CD". Did I get it to work? Yep. Twelve wasted CD-R's and CD-RW's later.
The sound quality? Not bad. The mp3's, however, would pop and crackle from time to time along with other glitches here and there. And by the way, the sound problems were not in the mp3's. These are top rate mp3 recordings not just some I picked up on the internet.
Finally, IMHO, don't waste the time or the money. You can do much better with some other product and I am sure you will be much happier.
Rating: 
Summary: Bought it yesterday and KEEPING IT!
Review: I don't know if these other guys know how to create and burn a proper MP3 disc but I must say that I have had nothing but great experiences with this CD player. Made 2 discs so far (1 CDR, 1 CDWR) and the playback was flawless. Sure I get the occasional glitch or pop but it is not bad at all and this seems to be experienced with most MP3 players anyway. Absolutely no skipping and the sound quality is very good for an MP3 player. For this price you can't go wrong (shhh, bought it on sale this week at Target for $...). Buy and be happy.
Rating: 
Summary: Very good little unit
Review: I gave it 4 stars but it could be 5 stars for the price. I've used a few players jwill, casio, memorex at the time they all cost a lot more than this and it beat them all. The rio at the time was much more. It was much better but it cost alot more. The lowdown on this unit: Good:
No skips walking, biking, offroad biking, driving
plays dozens of different mp3 types, bitrates, media, burners
plays VBR up to 320kb or so
much better than all the others mentioned above except rio. good navigation through directories The bad
eats batterys. Usually seems to be 2 hrs. max was 5 hrs straight with kodak gold batteries.
no wma
no id3 tags.
no packet written disks
dont drop it. (i'm on my second one)
will not play r3mix mp3s reliably. I think its just to much compression processiong for its little cpu. Bottom line
You can now get rio's for around less than they were with full id3 support
and the low end sp50 rio for about less as well. I haven't used the specific model but I hear its very good and based on much of their earlier model. I would go for the rio unless you get this koss really really cheap.
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