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

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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mp3 cd player

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

...walkman and so once more the people were able to listen to their music when and where they liked. And the people were once again happy? ?until the day someone created the first mp3. OK, so that was my brief and perhaps not so accurate history of consumer personal audio products. Things are always changing and we now have more choice than ever about how we listen to our music when we are on the go. And in these days of digital music the humble mp3 has played a big part in that due to its enormous popularity. Here comes the science bit. An MP3 is a digital audio file. All music contained on a CD is digital but in it?s raw form one single track can take up about 40 or 50 megabytes (mb). But by converting it to mp3 format the data is compressed to make a much smaller file, usually around 3 or 4 mb. The mp3 format became hugely popular in...

Cid-zx 03.11.2004 · 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

...This Goodmans unit comes in a casing that's just a little bigger than my hand. It has several controls spattered around it, with most of them on the top lid, surrounding a text display (not backlit). The unit comes complete with a set of in-the ear headphones with in-line volume control, and a power supply unit. The buttons on the top cover a variety of functions and uses, some dependent on whether you're playing an MP3 or audio CD. The standard features include track skipping, play/pause, stop, play mode (e.g. Random), resume and programming (manually setting up your favourite tracks). For MP3 CDs, the buttons also allow you to type in the name of the track you want to search for, to clear the display and so forth. On the front of the silver, blue and black case is the latch for the lid, which flips up to reveal the CD spindle...

Tickled_Pink 24.09.2002 · Read review
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review of hercules mp3 djay control

Advantages: easy to install and understand, very cheap, good features very small and portable
Disadvantages: No headphone jack, space slightly cramped with buttons, requires seperate sound card for cueing

...supplied with the virtual dj software which basicaly works like your top end mp3 mixing softwares such as final scratch by stanton. on screen you see two turntables where you can load up a song on each, there is a virtual mixer on screen allowing you to fade between tracks like the real thing, the software can be used on its own and when you hook up the unit you get a more realistic hands on dj feel. The company claim that it can be used to perform mixing and scratching like the real thing but i personally found the jog wheels being very small and hard to keep track of what your doing and also the cross fader being very close in proximity means you are likely to knock it as you move the wheels making tight cuts very difficult although i found there to be little or no latency between the movement of the wheel and the representation of that in...

Gerryatrix 25.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Hercules DJ Control MP3

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

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

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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Amazon MP3 is an excellent alternative to 'itunes' and 'napster'

Advantages: DRM free MP3s play on all computers / mp3 players, and copied endlessly, huge variety, good prices
Disadvantages: Download program needed for multiple song downloads, but this is also occurs with main rivals

...can therefore be copied unlimited times and played on all computers (in any media player) as well as ipods, all types of MP3 player and music enabled phone. All tracks can also be burnt onto CDs and played in any CD player, if you have a CD-RW (CD writing) drive in your computer. Ease of Use Most tracks have decent sample of around 30 seconds that you can usefully listen to for free without navigating away from the page. It is also possible to play all the samples from an album automatically. To purchase an MP3, you will need to log in to a normal Amazon account and simply at the track to your Amazon basket. Checkout with 1 song and the download will start immediately. You don't need to install a program onto you computer, if you download only 1 track at a time. I apprecited that downloading one at a time is inconvenient for most...

potoroo99 18.09.2009 · 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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