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Summary: Addendum to Previous Review
Review: I bought one of these a while ago, before their were many alternatives. I am sure there are probably much better products out there for similar prices. Some of the previous review I would disagree with. First, my chief complants are: 1. Very cheaply made 2. Atrocious button layout 3. Inability to include longer file names 4. Inability to burn CDs with over a 192k bitrate. I am not quite sure of the exact configuration that the previous reviewer was using, but I know for a fact that you can burn CDs at least up to 4x (or at least I have and have never run into a problem).Bottom line: It works well and has good sound quality (compared to my portable mp3 player). I would think there is better on the market by now.....but if the complaints we voiced don't bother you, it's a good product. Oh, by the way, you can record stuff with a mic and using CD-RW media (although this feature is completely useless to me).
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Summary: Piece "o" ...
Review: I bought this ... and it never played a song without skipping. after about 3 days it simply stopped working. I would recommend the Philips player.
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Summary: very good MP3/CD
Review: I bought this for my girlfriend, it's a rather nice gift, the sound is very good, and the battery can last a much longer time than other MP3/cd player I have tried. But the only problem is that I find it skips a little when I walk fast.
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Summary: An excellent start
Review: I bought this for my husband when this was still the only item of its kind on the market. I imagine there are better products out now, but he's still quite happy with it despite a few minor elements of poor design, like the arrangement of the controls. As soon as he got it, he tried playing a CD he got as a freebie from mp3.com, and that didn't work, but as soon as he burned a CD of his own with mp3 files, it worked just great. I also bought a car kit to go with it, and we only got it to work two out of about 10 times, but I don't think that was the Genica player's fault.
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Summary: First MP3 CD player could have been MUCH better
Review: I commend this player for being the first, but everything else about it isn't very good. It skips a lot, if you want to find a song at the end of the CD (alphabetical?), you have to skip through all the tracks one... at... a... time. Can't skip folders ect. Mine still works amazingly, but only because I just use it at home and never move it or even use it much. I've left non-rechargable batteries in the box while it's plugged in... BIG mistake! the stupid thing tried to recharge them and leaked battery acid (i think) all over the place. Get a different player, there's much better ones now.
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Summary: I'm gonna sell it!
Review: I got this player about 7 months ago from England. I was so happy about having a mp3 cd player at this cheap price. But I was confused to burn cds and I didn't understand the process very much, so I wasted 4 cdRs. Even after I learnt how to burn, it still had probrems. It didn't play some of files and skipped them. It was really really frustrating! And those buttons are so small, so nobody else couldn't understand how to usethem, I always had to stop the car when I feel like listening to the other stuffs while I was driving. In 2 months, the cover paint was peeled and it came to be like a real old machine as if I've been using it since I was born(1981...). And now, it doesn't work at all. It doesn't even play an ordinary AIFF cds. I leave this complains because I came here to find the new mp3 cd player! Don't waste your money!
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Summary: I always wanted (an expensive) paper weight...
Review: I had been looking for a machine like this. It seemed inevitable to me that this technology was right around the corner, but nobody seemed very anxious to get one on the market. I don't know the exact story behind this machine, but there are lots of machines out there that look exactly the same and come with the exact same accessories, but have different names on them. I think perhaps they were bought up from a manufacturer who went bankrupt??? Who knows why this phantom manufacturer disappeared? I do! This machine, called the Tavarua by Genica, is, as they would say in the military, a cluster foxtrot. I got it, put batteries in it and it played an audio cd fine. Great, but I didn't shell out samolians to play audio cd's. So I burned a CDR with mp3's on it. I put the CDR in the machine and pressed play. Now, it was sitting perfectly still on the table but you would have thought that I was using it to play ping pong while jumping up and down on a pogo stick during an earthquake. It wasn't so much the skipping that bothered me, but the annoying bursts of music that came in between the skips... So it skipped too much...the first thing I thought was, 'what am I doing wrong?' I thought perhaps I didn't burn the disc properly. So I read the manual that came with the machine... Calling it a manual is much like calling a fortune cookie a novel. The sparse manual assured me that I had encoded all the mp3's in line with the machines spec's... So I thought maybe the no name batteries I was using were the cause. So I used several different battery types listed in the manual. None seemed to work any better than any other. So I tried plugging it in with the adapter it came with and it played fine...for about 15 minutes until it shut down on its own for no apparent reason...upon checking it I noticed it felt much like I had just pulled out of the oven. So I unplugged it and let it cool off. That was the last time this machine ever worked. Needless to say, I sent it back. I would suggest nobody buy this machine...but oddly enough not for any of the reasons listed above. The biggest insult is...at this point Genica has not responded to any of my two dozen emails to tech support. I sent one asking if there is a way to minimize skipping...no reply. I sent one asking how to get the machine out of record mode as it was stuck even though the switch was on play mode...no reply No reply to the next 22 emails either... My only guess is that Genica did not reply becuase they knew that this was a poor quality machine and that nothing could be done about it... Can I prove that? No. But I can say that I will never ever purchase anything from Genica ever again because of their lack of response to my tech support questions.
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Summary: Piece "o" ...
Review: I join the ranks of those unhappy with thi splayer. Got it for xmas, so the price wasn't bad. But there is no portability here. I'm amazed the other reviewer was gettin 3 hours on a battery. My player is lucky to get 1 hours on batteries; and the random funciton on batteries is a show stopper. Skip protection is also none existant. No display either - you only get to see the track numbers - no names or text at all. Folder navagation is also close to impossible. This looks like a bargain -But stay away from this one far away.
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Summary: best to go elsewhere
Review: I join the ranks of those unhappy with thi splayer. Got it for xmas, so the price wasn't bad. But there is no portability here. I'm amazed the other reviewer was gettin 3 hours on a battery. My player is lucky to get 1 hours on batteries; and the random funciton on batteries is a show stopper. Skip protection is also none existant. No display either - you only get to see the track numbers - no names or text at all. Folder navagation is also close to impossible. This looks like a bargain -But stay away from this one far away.
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Summary: First of it's kind, but suffers from quite a few glitches
Review: I ordered one the day I knew about it. I was encouraged by an impressive review on ZDTV. But the product suffers from serious glitches. If you are lucky, it'll play for hours without a single skip. But then you are not so lucky all the time. I used it for almost a month because I was impressed by the idea of a MP3 cd player, and this was the only one in the market at that time. I'll give this product 4 stars for being the first of it's kind. But if you are considering buying one of these, I'd recommend that you go with a name brand like Philips, D-link or Memorex.
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