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best player Ive used
P>This Sony is really great... I got it earlier today and its played all the MP3s Ive thrown at it perfectly. The size, sound and build quality are great, and it does NOT skip! It lacks some features which were cool on the Rio - m3u/winamp playlist support, memories for the last 10 discs used, upgradable firmware, more advanced navigation functions. But these are just luxuries compared with the essentials of great sound and quality. Incidentally, another reviewer mentioned that playback couldnt be started using the remote control - it actually can (when the unit is stopped, track skip doubles as play).A couple of flaws are not being able to search thru an mp3, (again this is usually non-essential), and the rather lame way of setting some options (taking out batteries and inserting them with various buttons pressed). These are extremely minor things - this Sony is easily the best mp3/cd player out there, and Im relieved I went for it instead of the newer HD-based players, which have poor battery life and too many stupid limitations considering the prices.
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Perfect for playing MP3s on the move
Attractive little unit, barely larger than the CD it plays, it is the first MP3/CD player that i have seen whose battery life is acceptable.
You can get 32 hours playback from standard Audio CDs or 24 hours from MP3s on CD using Alkaline batteries.
It comes complete with an AC Adapter/Recharger and 2 AA Ni-Cad batteries.
Shame they didnt include Ni-MH batteries as Ni-Cads only give 8 hours playback of MP3s as opposed to 18 hours with Ni-MH rechargables.
According to the instructions Ni-cads are charged in just 3 hours and Ni-MH batteries in around 5 hours which is excellent.
The supplied earphones have a remote control with a display screen on the lead which is a nice touch.
Sound quality is very good, whether using MP3s or standard CDs.
You can get about 10 albums onto one CD as good quality MP3s if you have a CD writer, if you dont have a CD writer its a bit pointless buying a MP3/CD player!
Overall it is an excellent unit, if a little expensive.
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Should almost be a budget player!
There are a few important failings of this player relating to its mp3 playback:
- I couldnt believe it when I discovered you cant search (fast forward/rewind) within an mp3 track
- The player wont read packet written CDRWs (eg. Adaptecs DirectCD). This means you have to write an entire CD image whenever you want to change the music on a CDRW; you cant add or remove tracks once youve written the CD.
- The mp3 decoding may be a bit dodgy - on one of my tracks the audio keeps cutting out. The same mp3 plays fine on my PC.Another annoying thing is that you cant seem to get the display to show how much track time is remaining of an mp3. The player does have some good features however:
- Small size (possibly the smallest of any player available)
- Long battery life (24 hrs) and easily replacable batteries (2 rechargable AAs)
- It looks very nice For features, Ive read that iRiver make some very nice players that do everything the Sony doesnt, eg. the iMP-250.
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Rio Volt SP250 MP3 CD Player
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The Rio Volt SP250 is a neat, portable digital-audio CD player which handles MP3 and WMA tracks as well as standard audio CDs. It includes an FM tuner, too. Portable MP3 players have been around for a while and CD-based Walkman-style devices much longer than that, but a player which combines the two is more of a novelty. Rio Volts SP250 is the top model in a range of digital audio players which aims to play just about anything you drop into it. This is a versatile device. For a start, it can ..
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Logix EVzone Clik Mp3 Player
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The Logix Clik certainly isnt the smallest or lightest MP3 player you can find, but then it does much more than most digital music players. As well as playing MP3 and Windows Media files (WMA), this chunky silver player lets you record on the move, carry an address book (download it as CSV), check the date and time and copy files to and from the 40 MB of storage you get. And when thats full, you can either delete files using the eVzone Manager software, or pop in another Iomega Clik! disk and us..
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Saehan MP-F35 MP3 Player
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Its small, its light, its shiny and the brushed aluminium case of the Saehan MP-F35 MP3 Player contains more than just a music player. The play controls are arranged in a neat circle on the front of the player, with an LCD that shows what tune youre playing and what quality it was encoded at, as well as the volume, battery life and which function youre using. There are more controls on the side for using the radio, the voice recorder and the memo tools and a helpful reminder of what you can do o..
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Waitec Funky MP3 CD Player
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Very funky as its name suggests. A very resonably priced item for what you get at the end of the day. With its MP3 Tag recogintion it makes a mcuh better peurchase that the Jammin MP3 CD player offered by waitec, the extra features are well worth paying the extra for. Easy to use and navigate with a..
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Apple iPod 5GB for Mac – 1st Generation [M8513B/A]
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Im a mac user who has owned an iPod for six months now and Ive had no problems with it. Theres a couple of specific points Id like to state for the record:(1) The software now on iPods has ironed out the bugs mentioned elsewhere in these reviews and now includes an equaliser. (2) The fact that ..
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