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DON'T MISS A BEAT MAN

Advantages: Loads, price, loads of songs on one CD, portable, one of a kind
Disadvantages: None

Well it has been a while since I last wrote an opinion but it feels good to be back. It looks like there have been a lot of changes here, but one thing that it is clear that has not changed is the friendliness of the members. Anyway, I have recent ...

cortex101 02.12.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Freecom Mini CD / MP3 player

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v2 looks much better.

Advantages: Sound quality, massive storage on 8cm CD-R or CD-Rw
Disadvantages: Size, battery life, does not support ID3 tags (Song name, artist, album...)

I got this player in August of 2001. It would be an excellent player, but lacks in features when compared to other players of the day. I do like the mini CD idea and as I like to hoard my music collection, it gave me the ability to haul round more than 3 ...

jaguar65 20.07.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Freecom Mini CD / MP3 player

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Average. Not bad, not too good either.

Advantages: Sound quality, fairly light, relatively cheap.
Disadvantages: Tempramental.

The Freecom Beatman is a fairly decent little Mp3 player. It takes 8cm CDs, which hold 185 Meg of data. This means it holds about 22 minutes of CD Audio, or at 128 Kb/s MP3 about 2 hours 45 minutes of music. It includes a key-lock switch, analogue volu ...

Simon_J 03.08.2003 · Read full review
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A Beatman can fly but not jog.

Advantages: This allows you to carry along up to 4 hours worth of MP3 music.
Disadvantages: The buffering is not perfect.

...achievement in that it allows you to transport up to 4 hours of music on 1 CD. To do this all I needed to do was write my MP3s onto a 210 MB Mini CD-R (these are 8 cm CDs which Freecom also manufacture). With my first attempt I fit ...

dekom 07.08.2002 · Read full review
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No need for a crap title

Advantages: It can read mp3's digitally recorded.
Disadvantages: it sucks up battery power like a bitch

The beatman is designed to play mini cd's which are just a smaller version of a cd, they have a 185MB of capacityand roughly i think it works out to be about 210 minutes worth of music. Because they are just smaller versions of cd's they are cheaper than ...

benjitheconquerer 21.05.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Freecom Mini CD / MP3 player

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