MP3 Reviews

I just got this one at K-Mart, I had a panasonic s47 which was freezing after a couple of DVD's, so when I saw this one for $49.99 i just can 't wait.
I have Yahama home theatre receiver, I hooked it up up and its playing well, but one small problem, I have to use dtv/cbl input of the receiver for the optical input from the player, somehow the dvd input just didn't work.
I use S-Video out put for video, and it is great, colors are just perfect.
Overall it seems to be a good player for the price, I have my doubt, that you get any player with a optical output for this cost.
Go for it it guys !!

I just bought the Philips Expanium 211. Philips is a specialist of CD technology, since this firm contrived the CD with Sony. But it is not bad for MP3 too.
The sound quality of the expanium 211 is good (as good as it can be for a product of that value, with small headphones ). It plays the music rapidly, just a few seconds after you introduce a CD in the box, whether it is MP3 or classic CD. You can navigate easily in the MP3 files even though there is no indication about the titles (just numbers).
The most surprising is that you can put in the Expanium CD with MP3 and other files format (such as .avi), the Philips expanium is capable of playing the MP3 files anyway.
Good value for money !

Was a great size for a micro jukebox. Everything was great except it looks weird with the headphone jack on the side. Great over all player!

I've always had Piooner stereos on my car, I think this is the fifth that I have. The sound is always perfect. From this model I specially like the subwoofer features, this gives great options for the sound. The display options are really cool, your passenger definitively will have something to say about this player, there are various displays 'movies'.

The PREMIER model comes MX (satellite radio) ready.

The output power is really good (200Watts), even without an amplifier you get a really decent sound with a pair of good speakers.

The detachable front is very nice, from this model I like the new feature of the pop-up volume knob, its cool and comfortable.

About the MP3 features, for me, this my first MP3-capable radio. I've ripped all my CD's at 192Kbps and the sound is excellent and fits more than 10 full albums on a single CD. I think that ripping at 128Kbps that is also good quality could give you more than 15. This is almost ten hours of music and about 200 songs!

I'd give this product 4.5 out of five: The only thing I dislike about it is that it is a little slow for reading MP3, starting an MP3 CD lasts about 6,7 seconds, I think this is too much time. And moving from one track to another or one folder to another takes another 5 seconds. Also, the manual says that CD-RW discs are slower than CD-R., but I didn't see the difference.

I can't compare with other MP3 radios, this is my first one. But I'm really happy with this player musically and visually is the best that I've had. I'll keep it for a long time!

I like that everything gets converted to MP3 format. I also like having 30 GB to record mega hours of voice or music recordings. My first unit had troubles stopping when I was in the record mode. And I also had troubles with that unit hanging at the end of a recording and then having to hard reset and lose what was recorded. I got a replacement and have learned to use both thumbs on the stop button to stop a recording. One caveat: Do not use a computer mic on the unit, it can fry the line in jack.

I've only had this mp3 cd player for a couple weeks, but so far it's worked out great. I don't have to keep changing cd's a work like with a regular cd player. It's hasn't had a problem with any of my mp3 cd's and the sound quality is great. The volume could be a little higher, but it's sufficient for work. The digital tuner is great, but it doesn't get as good of reception as my old cd player did, but now I don't care since I use the mp3 player the most.

My only annoyance is the shuffle feature. It works fine, but everytime I turn it on, I have to go and turn the shuffle on. I wish it would remember that I always want shuffle. I know it's really minor, but that's the only thing wrong with it so far.

i thought it was a really good cd player.the skip protection is good. but finding the mp3 files are hard to find by folder is hard but just search through the songs are easy enough. the music match software is hard to work with(the thing i hated was that if your walking with it, you can't put the hold button on while playing like you can in sony

I really wondered about this. Samsung itcam-7 and panasonic sv-av100 which codec these camcorders use? so many codecs are realised day by day. Xvid,divx,mpeg2... so many. Can ý upgrade firmware of these machines?

Up side:
- As small, light, and stylish as they come
- Sounds and plays great

Down side:
- As with other Sony players, each song has to be convereted into the proprietary Sony file format before loading it--you CANNOT directly load a native mp3 file. But not such a big a deal if you're mostly taking trax from CDs.

- Small controls, would have been better if they were different shapes or colors rather than all small and silver

- Lowish battery life (max. 5 hours on one AA alkaline)

- Fixed, internal memory (64mb), not expandable. This is about 80 minutes of music at the medium-high quality bitrate. This means you'll have to manually off- and on-load songs everytime you want to hear a new set. (If I'd thought about this more I might have opted for a player with removable media.)

So, if low size and weight are most important to you, it's definitely worth a look. But if you want something flexible and full-featured, you'll probably want to look elsewhere.

I do not own and have never tried this idem. It looks pretty good though. I would buy it if there were customer reveiws to tell me about it but oh well.