Product Review
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I bought this unit to replace an old Panasonic 128MB unit. All I wanted was a an MP3 player. No jpg support. No video support. No voice recording. Just straight up MP3. That was harder to find than I thought. I settled on this unit because it has the flip-out USB connecter. That's one less cable to get in my way or lose.
The unit itself is light, even with the AAA battery in it. This is good because the only time I use it is at the gym. I use rechargable Ni-Mh batteries and get about 4-5 hours play out of them.
Sound quality is passable. Not much bass to it, even when messing with the built-in equalizer or preset audio filters. But it is clear and strong and doesn't distort until you get near the max volume level. I don't really care about the ID3 tags so I haven't paid attention to the song readout on the screen and don't know if what other commenters have said about broken tags is true. Over the three months that I've had this, I haven't experienced any song corruption.
When plugged into my Linux-based computers, it is seen as a USB memory stick. Adding music is as simple as drag and drop.
About the only gripe I have is with startup and shutdown; it takes longer than my 7 year old Panasonic unit. Sure, it's not 486DX slow but RCA could've done a better job for the price they get for these.
In the end, I am satisfied with the unit. It does what I want: keeps me my mind occupied at the gym.
The unit itself is light, even with the AAA battery in it. This is good because the only time I use it is at the gym. I use rechargable Ni-Mh batteries and get about 4-5 hours play out of them.
Sound quality is passable. Not much bass to it, even when messing with the built-in equalizer or preset audio filters. But it is clear and strong and doesn't distort until you get near the max volume level. I don't really care about the ID3 tags so I haven't paid attention to the song readout on the screen and don't know if what other commenters have said about broken tags is true. Over the three months that I've had this, I haven't experienced any song corruption.
When plugged into my Linux-based computers, it is seen as a USB memory stick. Adding music is as simple as drag and drop.
About the only gripe I have is with startup and shutdown; it takes longer than my 7 year old Panasonic unit. Sure, it's not 486DX slow but RCA could've done a better job for the price they get for these.
In the end, I am satisfied with the unit. It does what I want: keeps me my mind occupied at the gym.
