in the blue mp3/cd player

Advantages: Good basic player
Disadvantages: reliability lets it down

...I was given this player to keep me occupied on my many long bus and train journeys. THE PLAYER This is a Japanese mp3 and CD player, which comes in a silver and blue top with a grey base. It is 13cmx13cmx2½cm which is about average size, so its more bag sized than pocket sized. It comes with an adapter and ear bud type headphones. It only has a small display area, so only displays limited information on it, such as which track and album or how long the song has been playing for. There are also little icons to display what modes you have it on, which are discussed later. The buttons are fairly small, so not fab it you are fumbling about in the dark or going under a tunnel, or if you have any arthritic type problems that makes it difficult to press small buttons. The overall appearance is nice and suitable for male or female...

l1nda 02.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Panasonic CD / MP3 player

The Most Cost Efficient Way For MP3 on the Move

Advantages: Music on the Move , And Very Cheap after initial set up
Disadvantages: Cost of initial set up (if you dont already have the kit)

..., and smaller units mean that this is the most convenient option for a lot of people. The next step is by far the best option for anyone with a PC. Do this and you really are set up for life. First of all invest in a (preferably Burn proof) CD Rewriter (I have a Mirai CD1300BP around 160 GBP). Then buy one of these beauties…. The Rio Volt portable costs 149.99 GBP from Amazon UK and the following blurb is taken from their sales guff: “The Rio Volt portable MP3-CD enables you to listen to standard audio CDs as well as the MP3 and WMA (Windows Media Audio) files that you've recorded to CD-Rs and CD-RWs, letting you enjoy more than 20 hours of digital audio from one CD (or around 250 songs). Plus, Rio Volt's large backlit LCD supports ID3 tags and CD Text, simplifying song identification from any compatible disc, while 120-second...

mikeydred 09.07.2001 (16.07.2001) · Read review
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Review of Rio CD / MP3 player

mp3 cd player

Advantages: good battery life
Disadvantages: ?????

...a very short time and these days you would be hard pushed to find a piece of audio software that isn?t capable of converting your cd collection into mp3 files, much of it for free. Even better, you are no longer limited to listening to your MP3 collection on your PC. Some hi-fi and mini systems are able to play mp3s but when it comes to personal audio players it seems that every passing day brings a few more tempting gadgets on to the market. The trouble is that most of these mp3 players are still fairly new and usually quite pricey. I?ve been looking to spend about £60 and for that sort of price you can choose from quite a large selection of what are called solid state players. Unlike walkmans they have no internally moving parts, so rather than physically place your music inside (as you would with a cd or tape) you simply attach...

Cid-zx 03.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sony CD / MP3 player

CD/MP3 player of kings

Advantages: MP3 playback and long battery life
Disadvantages: The random function doesn't work properly

...Whenever I?ve had to choose a CD player like this, for me or for a present, the first thing I look at is the battery time. This is what first led me to this player, it advertises 30+ hours of CD playback and 48 hours of mp3 playback (these are for non-stop playback, with no skipping. Using the skip a lot will reduce battery time and giving it resting time between playbacks increases battery time.) Those numbers seemed pretty amazing to me from just 2AA batteries. So I bought it.... The round shape looks great and I can?t see how a CD player could get much smaller. It feels very well built, and it takes very big bumps (unusually big) to get it to skip. The remote control is useful for whenever you are carrying it around in your pocket or a bag and don?t want to have to reach into your pocket and fumble around for the buttons...

gwlith_y_wawr 27.04.2004 · Read review
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Technika MP-308 4GB MP3 player with FM tuner

Advantages: Wide range of features
Disadvantages: Difficult to navagate menus

...The MP-308 is Tesco?s current top of the range mini MP3 player with FM radio, and at 3p shy of £30 places it firmly in the budget end of the market. Having very recently ?goosed? my previous player doing a firmware upgrade, I got mine as an impulse purchase. It?s small ? about the same size as a lighter, and has a rechargeable battery, so running costs are minimal. You get everything you need; the player, a USB lead, a pair of cheap headphones, and a set of paper instructions and a mini-CD. In fact if you?ve previously owned an MP3 player, you can probably dispense with the last two items, the player supports traditional ?drag?n?drop? from your ?my music? folder. The instructions suggest that it?s far better to use the application which comes with the machine, that way you can make playlists, catalogue your albums and so...

dobieg 23.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Technika MP3 player

Sony CD Player

Advantages: Good quality sound, looks good, includenots mp3
Disadvantages: slightly expensive, battery life decreased with any less than the most expensive batterys

...Another genius creation from Sony, a portable CD player with in built mp3. Multi support: ATRAC/MP3 compatible Burn 30 CD's onto 1 CD-R with ATRAC compression Supplied SonicStage 2.3 software to make burning and managing your music easy using your computer Supports ID3 tag that will show song title, album and artist name Multiple bitrate compression setting which allows you to choose for quality of music and the quantity of the songs New type of headphones for perfect sound quality and comfort 3-line LCD on the unit for easy navigation between groups and tracks AC adaptor supplied It is a light weight portable CD player making it ideal for carrying around whilst listening to music weighing only 191g The CD player itself is in shiny good looking silver with an attractive blue LED screen making it easy to...

Hsaxo 22.03.2008 · Read review
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Brilliant Rio Nitrus 1.5 Gig MP3 Player

Advantages: One of the best MP3 Players on the Market, Brilliantly Cheap
Disadvantages: Fiddaly controls

...I have my Rio Nitrus for 2 days now and am delighted!! It cost me only £55.00 Delivered, and offers me everything I am looking for in an MP3 Player. It has a 1.5 gig hard drive, which in normal language can store over 300 songs, much more then i needed. This MP3 player is much better than my previous 256 Flash MP3 player and has so many more features. The Cool Black Design coating is a great alternative to the 'white' Apple iPod that so many people are used to. The sound quality is perfect and much better than my previous MP3 player, it offers high quality sound, I think it also uses surround sound, to make a truly magical cinematic experience. The LCD screen is not the biggest screen i have ever seen, but as the MP3 player is quite small, I think it's a decent size, and shows all the best attributes, such as artist...

Deep888 29.09.2005 · Read review
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Review of Rio Nitrus 1.5GB MP3 Player

Sonys newest MP3/CD player is up against my test

Advantages: Sleek, slender, small weight and a stylish design
Disadvantages: Quite low battery life

...When the Walkman was first released the whole world dropped thier jaws and let out a amazed oooing sound... it is even said the the advertising copyrighter that made up the slogan "Don't run, walk man" was able to retire on that sentence alone. But in the technological age we live this product won't be able to turn many heads. The sony D-NE511/S comes with power compression software which allows you to put up to 30 CD's onto one CD and play it through your D-NE511/S. The missing word in that sentence is ONLY...these compressed CD's can only be played through sony walkmans with ATRAC recording technology which makes it hard if you want to share your newly created mixes with friends. The same software also lets you make CD's containing loads of mp3 files (not sure on a certain number as i have never had enough mp3 files to push...

Dumont 14.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sony CD / MP3 player

How the hell do I play an MP3 CD ...

Advantages: Range of features, reads CD-RW audio CDs, anti-shock, built-in battery charger
Disadvantages: Tricky to set up an MP3 CD to work with it, no backlight to the display, unresponsive buttons

...to use it while driving is the quality of the buttons. They are very hard to push down, feel cheap and are somewhat unresponsive. Ideally, this unit could have done with an inline remote control. One of the more impressive features is the anti-shock. Okay, all portable CD players come with anti-shock as standard but this one doesn't skimp on it with a 45 seconds ASP for CD mode and 120 seconds for MP3! The volume is pretty reasonable. Most people would find it perfectly loud ... I have poor hearing but it's fine for me at full volume. Now we come to the biggest problem of this unit. It is EXTREMELY fussy when it comes to reading and playing MP3 CDs. Whether this is a continuing problem with Windows XP, I'm not sure. Microsoft have released a patch for XP to fix known issues about getting MP3 CDs to work with units like the 372...

Tickled_Pink 24.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Goodmans CDMP372 MP3 CD Players

Tecknika mp3 player

Advantages: No batteries needed
Disadvantages: None

...When my son asked for an MP3 player so that he could take it to school for art, my first thought was no way because they are to expensive for someone to pinch. We were in Tesco and noticed this product for only £15, so I took a closer look. It is a small mp3 player which is good, because you can hide it well, especially when outside, it comes with 4 different face covers and does not take batteries, so yes I bought it, on the understanding that we will see how he takes care of this one and then we will by him a better if he does take care of it. Well we have no need to buy another one because this little mp3 is brilliant. To start with the batteries, as I have mentioned it doesn't take batteries, well it has an lithium battery inside which once charged lasts up to 8 hours, to charge it you plug the lead into the mp3 and then...

scooby32 03.01.2007 · Read review
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