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Summary: Good product, great price
Review: I don't usually write reviews, but I thought this product deserved it, seeing as all the posts people were making talking about things it couldn't do (that it actually does.)I purchased this unit 2 days ago - It was an impulse buy, I did not research/read no reviews. As I was burning a cd, I decided to read some reviews on it. I started to get a little worried. The cd finished burning, and I decided to go on a walk. I put it in a pocket against my knee, and it did skip. I took it out and just held it in my hand as I walked and it played perfectly. I can deal with that. The next day I had to do the family thing, so I used it in my car for over 2 hours - not a single skip. The cd's I've used on it so far had a mix of personally ripped mp3s, and downloaded mp3s - ranging from 96kbps to 256kbps (including 128, 160 and 192) - everything played perfectly. I am using Primer Peripherals (AKA the cheapest) cd's and burning with nero at 8x - no multisession and close the disc upon completion. Overall, the sound quality is great, the car kit it came with is quite handy. It is a bit clunky - think regular portable cd players from four years ago - and the controls take some getting used to, but I don't think there is a better deal for the price (and I don't see the point of spending more for a similar product.)
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Summary: Good unit, goofy Interface
Review: Overall, I like the unit. It is great burning between 150 to 200 songs on one CD. I travel by air a lot, and used to take eight to ten CDs with me on the flight. However, now all I need is one (or two) CDs which I burn myself, and that easily lasts the 20 plus hour trip each way. I ride with the unit in my car, and am overall satisfied, even tho on rare occasion it does skip. The sound quality is good, and the quality of the unit is reasonable. I use NERO, and burn a 700 MB R and RW, and have never had difficulty. However, all songs must be burned in one session. There are problems with the device: The INTERFACE is the biggest problem. It is really the goofiest thing I've ever seen - it's downright horrible... the interface is so complex...Also, it's lacking in the basics. What is needed are simple buttons to move from one album to another and randomization within an individual album. These are not possible. Minor problems include that the instruction manual is awful. On rare occasion, it does freeze on me. Also, and this is difficult to explain, there's a bug in the code where it sometimes plays the songs in the wrong order than it should. None of these are big problems. Overall, I love the unit; it's a real novelty, if you can deal its shortcomings...works and sounds great. It would really work nice sitting on your desk, just randomly playing songs. Get one...I'm giving this unit a four of five stars.
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Summary: Unbeatable
Review: I received my player yesterday. I burned a CDR 700 Mb last night and it played flawlessly today. Few skips, same ones I heard in my computer. The interface is not as complicated as my TV remote control is. Sound quality very good with 128 bitrate. AC adaptor, car kit and headphones included. You can't get a better deal
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Summary: Great Player
Review: After read all of the reviews of this player, I decided to try my luck. To my surprise, this player is just excellent. The player is great for its price. I am truly surprised at its sound qualities. It is slightly bulky, but what can you ask for at this great price?! With 1600 mAh NiMH batteries, I can get about 5 hours of music. I had no problem running my MP3 CDs. I have a Plextor burner, and usually burn my CDs using NERO at 4x even though my writer supports much higher speeds. The lower speeds will gurantee a complete burn with accuracy. I have no problems with skipping or turn off like some of the reviewers said. You have to remember this player doesn't have all the correction mechanism algorithms and expensive laser as your normal CDROM for your computer. The filenames doesn't matter because the player has ID3 tag support. The title window is 30 characters. Most of my files have more than 8 characters (I burn using ISO level 1), and the player has no problem reading them. The subdirectory is a niffty thing to have but slows down the started up time. I would also like to comment on the design. As an engineer, I like the design because it is very intuitive for someone who play with electronics everyday. Obviously, this player is designed by an engineer with no concept of interaction design. It's a perfect example of Alan Cooper's book The Inmates are Running the Asylum. I haven't read the manual, but have no problems selecting tracks and do the usual things that I do with my expensive CD player.
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Summary: Some good features ... yet some concerns ...
Review: When I purchased the Memorex player, it arrived defective. Although it would play regular CD's, it would not play CDR's or CDRW's containing MP3 encoded files. When inserted, it would always say 'Disk Error'. I returned it to Amazon, and can't find the words to express how satisfied I am with Amazon's return policies and procedures -- they're great! I received a replacement unit right away, but found problems with the second unit. Although it would read my MP3 cd's, it plays them at an excellerated speed. The faster spped results in voices and music at a higher pitch. Voices that were clearly identifiable when played on a computer, stereo, or regular CD player, were unidentifiable on the Memorex player. I am also concerned with the unit only having a 90 day warranty. I noticed other units have a 1 year warranty. Other than the audio quality issue, I found the user interface fairly easy to use (a bit easier than another review had stated), and enjoyed using the machine.
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Summary: The Best MP3-CD player
Review: I just got mine this week... I try to play an old MP3 CD I burned when I got my CD writer in December... The result: it palyed, even in the so called Joliet format... Then I burned another MP3 CD, I used the ISO format with long file names (up to 30), again it played just fine. Some traks skip, but also skip when I play those in my PC so I think it's because the file itself, note that those files are downloaded, the ones that plays without skips are those that I ripped myself... By the way I've been using Easy CD Creator 4.02, I will try Nero and see what happen, some reviews reports the skips will go... Other thing that I liked is the car kit, works jus fine... If you ask me, I would tell you BUY IT!!
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Summary: It's Cheap but Disappointing
Review: The Memorex MP3/CD Player seemed to be a bargain at less than $100, but I'm afraid it didn't measure up to my expectations. It refused to play my mp3 files satisfactorily. In some cases it did not recognize some folders and songs at all. Almost all of the songs had skips and loud errors. Some songs would stop in the middle and refuse to continue until the fast forward button was pressed to skip over the defective section. And finally, the quality of the sound was not up to par. The same songs played on my Rio PMPs 300 were fabulous by comparison. All the songs that refused to play well on the Memorex played perfectly on my computer. Overall the unit was a big disappointment.
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Summary: GOOD BUY
Review: I just bought the Memorex unit and to tell you the truth I dida lot of research on the product and all the reviews posted on thissite nad others. My conclusion, it is a pretty good unit for [theprice], very good anti skip protection, read 50 out of my 51 tracks sofar, and comes with a car kit and all those goodies. In one word"BUY" try it out the only other machine above this one wouldbe the RIO which costs 70% more than this one... so forget all theconfusion this thing is awesome and a must buy...
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Summary: Cheap Price = Cheap Product
Review: I could not beleive how poor this product performs. It doesn't support CDs larger than 640Mb, no VBR, no >128Kbps, it also doesn't play other files for no apparrent reason, cropped filenames (also the ID3 tags scroll by way too slowly and there is no way to speed it up), no backlight, the resume doesn't work, the ESP doesn't do anything, no support for firmware upgrades, one of the worst interfaces i've ever seen, and very cheap construction. I STRONGLY urge you not to buy this MP3/CD player, but if you want to pay use the car kit thats included then go ahead. I've emailed memorex about these problems but after 3 weeks i have yet to get a response back.
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Summary: Terrific value
Review: This is a great value for the money! Able to listen to MP3's and Audio CD's. I can carry it with me, and even listen to it in the car. I can rip my audio's to MP3's and put double the info on a CD. I can't say enough about this product - I love it!!!!
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