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Summary: Join the revolution! its well worth the money!!!
Review: My friends.. I just got my mine yesterday and I couldn't be more pleased! I will admit, there are a few things that could have been better (seek time, battery life, disk load time) but hey, this is the first reliable MP3/CD player to be produced!! Give them a break! Think about it like this... Buy a player for $175.84 (after shipping and handling), go to Best Buy and get yourself a stack of 50 700MB CDR Disks for $20 and be sure to pick yourself up a 48 Disk wallet while your there for $14. Then go get yourself a new pair of Labtec MP350 headphones at buy.com for $13.95 (for supreme digital quality listening). You just spent about $223.79 and what have you got? Lets say you have tracks that are an average of 5MB each on your 700MB disk. That's 140 tracks on each of those 48 cds for a grand total of 6,720 tracks you can take with you!!! Try to do this with a CDs.. Ha ha.. you would have to carry around 373 CDs with you!! (think about buying 373 CDs at a music store.. one disk is $15, 373 disks would be $5,595) And what does all that mean? You could spend $223.79 for a music collection worth $5,595!!!!!!! *if you don't know where to get 6,720 tracks try www.napster.com *make sure you use adaptec easy cd creater pro to make your disks
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Summary: Plays mp3 CDs very well!
Review: We decided to purchase this after reading some of the reviews of the Memorex MP3 cd player. I got exactly what I expected--a portable CD player that plays my mp3 tunes! The ESP is fairly good. Considering that an mp3 song takes up only 1/10 the space compared to a regular CD, if the lens moves in the slightest bit, the song is over! I haven't tested the player with it sitting on my dash yet, though. It doesn't recognize ID3 tags, but it does have a pretty neat organization of the tunes. Each folder on the CD is an "album" and then the songs in the folder are tracks on that album. It plays the albums alphabetically by the 8+3 short DOS name, and likewise for each track. So, here's a tip if you want to order them how you like. As DOS naming is curious, add the track number to the BEGINNING of each mp3 filename, then the Expanium will definitely play the tunes in the necessary order. I learned this after my first CD mix! Since the display simply shows only the album number and track, I recommend using a utility like mp3lister to generate a list of all the tracks. I sort the list in Excel by folder then by filename. It's a very simple design and it plays all my mp3 songs, so I have been very pleased. I can't stop making CDs now!
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Summary: Philips Expanium ROCKS!
Review: This player is one of the first of its kind that I could find. Forget buying a memory only MP3 player for $300 and only get the capability to play 12 songs! I now have the capability to play around 200 songs! The car adapter was the deciding factor for me as I travel frequently. Like many previous reviews have mentioned, the only drawback is the lack of ID3 technology. But come on, if you cannot figure out what songs you have on your own CD then maybe you should not be operating electronic devices. The sound quality is great and the shuffle logic is good too. I would recommend not creating any sub directories though, just put a straight list of MP3's on the CD. Thumbs UP in my opinion!
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Summary: Great first gen product
Review: I'd have to agree with most of the reviews here. I just got my Expanium today, and I haven't stopped using it. If you make the CDs correctly, and buy your own headphones (the included buds suck), then the advertised 10 hrs on 1 CD is a reality. The sound quality is great, although it doesn't get as loud as my discman, it still gets really loud. Slight problems: Poor included headphones (c'mon, ear buds?) No ID3 tag support (have to memorize what number is what album, but I write that on the CD anyway, so it's not a big deal) Poor LCD (it was not designed to be looked head on, but if you look at it from an angle, it gets a lot better) Cannot shuffle independent albums (no big deal as long as you make CDs that are all one genre...) Takes a while to initaially read a CD (not too bad though) Slow to switch tracks (even on an audio cd) Expensive (but it's the best one out there, so I hear) If you can live with those faults (which I can), then this is one great MP3-CD player...
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Summary: Wonderful for a first generation product
Review: I couldn't be happier with this unit...especially considering it is more or less a first-of-its kind. Sure, there were a few others out there, but none from anyone I ever heard of. None of those others seemed to handle variable bit rates, etc. And sure, I can't see the artist and song title on the screen, but the thing is in my inside jacket pocket on my walk to work anyway! I really couldn't see paying for an mp3 player and then hundreds of dollars for memory when blank CD-Rs are 50 cents a piece! Sounds good, stands up to a beating. Great unit.
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Summary: HOT
Review: Not sure if Philips corrected the problems mentioned by others (the dim lcd and the absence of cue and review), but my EXP103 arrived yesterday, and let me assure you: lcd is FINE, and cue and review can both be accomplished by pressing and holding down the >> or << button for long enough to invoke this feature (it's possible that these folks just didn't bother to read the instructions carefully). Let me also assure you: THIS PACKAGE ROCKS! I've tried it stand-alone with both mp3 and music cd's. Plenty of volume and good sound. The earphones included aren't my type (I don't like the kind you stick in your ears), but so what, you can get a good headset reasonably priced right here at amazon. I've tried both mp3 and music cd's with the car kit -- very good sound and plenty of volume, and I have a generic cassette player. The anti-skip feature works great. I haven't even tried some of the other features, but I've tried all the essentials I want, and I've come to this conclusion: THIS DEVICE IS KILLER! Philips included basically EVERYTHING you need. Even though I know prices will be dropping, I can already tell on day one of use that it was worth the price. Go for it!
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Summary: As good as it gets for now...
Review: This thing is actually not as bad as people make it out to be -- at least based on what you'd read here about it. There are only two things that I really don't like about it: 1.) The display. You've gotta lean it back a bit before you can truly see the numbers on it. But hey, people should be spending more time listening to the music itself rather than worrying about how far along they are in the song. There are quite a lot of people on here complaining about its lack of ID3 tag support -- but are they really necessary? If you burn a CD with MP3s that _you_ choose on it, you should be able to remember _which_ songs you put on it. 2.) Power-on. When you first turn it on, it'll take about :30 - :45 secs. searching for all of the MP3s on the CD (if it's a CD with only mp3s and nothing else on it -- don't try putting in a CD with MP3s and other stuff on it, it takes an ungodly amount of time to search through them =P). For most people, :30 - :45 secs. isn't too big of a deal, but judging from the reviews of people on this site, :30 ~ :45 secs. is too long a wait for their important and time-dependent lives. Buy a friggin' memory-based player if you don't wanna wait (and then pay horrendous amounts of money for memory for the dang things). All in all, I'd have to say this unit is about as good as it gets for right now. Maybe in 5 years or so, there'll be a cd-mp3 player that will please the rushed crowd and the people who can't remember the names of their songs, but for me, I'm quite happy with this unit -- even if it is a bit on the pricey side.
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Summary: Great player!
Review: I have owned for a short while each of the following players: MPTrip D-link Classic Each of those players skipped. I feel Expanium is the only dependable MP3-CD player in the market. The 105sec ESP really works! I tapped the lid of the player continuously but couldn't get the player to skip. The classic which also has 105sec ESP could not withstand the continuous tapping for long. Another feature that the Expanium has that none of the other players have is the resume feature. The resume feature on the other players works only when the player is powered on. Expanium seems to remember the album(directory)and the track number even if the batteries are removed from the player. This is an invaluable feature to have, especially if you are dealing with over 150 tracks. In summary, I feel that though the Expanium doesn't have some of the advanced features like, ID3 tag display and text search, it is bug free and reliable. None of the other players that I have come across is entirely free of glitches.
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Summary: does the job!
Review: I listen to Howard Stern on the way to work. on the commute home I plug my mp3 player in to my cassette player. I put the baby on random and I'm good to go... jeez, what more could you want? This thing rocks.
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Summary: Lo mejor
Review: Tuve la oportunida de probar este aparato y es la neta, 1.- tiene capacidad de leer CDs de 700 megas cosa que las demas unidades parecida a esta no tienen. ademas lee CDRWs a la perfeccion, no mas targetas de memoria. 2.- Suena chingon, igual a la computadora tiene suficiente volumen inclusive me puede tronar los oidos. Si tienes problema con algun mp3 es cosa del archivo no de la unidad. 3.- Aguanta todos los bitrates habidos y por haber, cosa que las demas unidades no hacen ni siquiera la pine. Aguanta inclusive 320kb/s 4.- No aguanta id3 tags? a quie chingados importa que acaso alguien tiene un discman que le diga los nombres de las canciones? 5.- Tal vez sea dificil buscar entre 150+- canciones, pero para eso hay directorios, creas 10 directorios con todas las rolas de 10 discos, y tienes una caja de cd de 10 discos. 6.- Talvez no le quepan 6gb, pero dime cuantos cds puedes quemar? 7.- El equipo que trae vale 30dlls o mas, el conector para coche es de excelente calidad. 8.- Tengo 170 o mas rolas que me facinan, pero no caben en un cd, no caben en 1 cassete, y quiero oirlas en desorden, excelente pon un cd con random y se feliz durante las siguientes 11 horas, lo tienes que dejar de usar pero no quieres oir las canciones que ya oiste, excelente deja el modo de resume activado y seguiras con la misma lista y en la misma cancion, ni WinAmp puede hacer eso. 9.- Es mas caro que muchos de la competencia, pero que jodidos, es mucho mejor, si acaso la unidad pine le puede hacer competencia, lee id3 tags pero caray seguro le vas a poner random y lo vas a dejar tocando. La unidad de aiwa no se vende en america ni europa auqneu presuma ser mejor. 10.- Es excelente para el coche, podria decirles que no van a volver a oir el radio. Unico problema, si tu coche no tiene casetera, nimodo usa los audifonos, o puedes comprar un interceptor de banda blanca fm. Cualquier duda pregunta aclaracion o lo que quieran decirma envienme un email a cafre2001@hotmail.com
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