Home > Consumer Reviews > Memorex MPD8507CP Personal CD/MP3 Player with 120 Seconds of MP3 Anti-Skip Protection

I bought mine about a month and a half ago. Its my first portable mp3 player. I have had no problems with the aformentioned skipping, I live on a desolate country road and there are plenty of opportunities for it to skip. Considering i dont really trust memorex, but i really wanted an MP3 player for my car I think this is a good deal for the price ... Its not the best i could have gotten but its working really well. Included was the car kit and headphones (not that great) which was a plus. The interface is a tad confusing at first, but if you try it a bit, youll get used to it. Just watch how you burn your discs! The only bad thing i can say: The cover wont close -all- the way. Has anyone else had a problem with this?

ALl in all, if you want a reasonably priced player with good playing capabilities and can handle a lil confusion in the beginning, this is worth your money.. But if youare willing to spend some big bux, Look elsewhere ;)

An earlier reviewer was looking for a way to normalize songs. Music Match Jukebox software allows you to perform sound leveling of MP3's which makes it so the volume doesn't go up and down between songs. FYI.

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I jog and it skips crazy while playing a Mp3. If you are active I suggest getting a different player but if you plan to use it while in a vehicle this would be great for you!

I'm not sure what people are saying about it skipping. It never does. I just got it a couple of days ago and it works great. I burn on a CD-RW my MP3 files ( I have 136 on the cd)and I still have half the cd empty. It reads directories meaning you can put your files into different folders according to artists/mood/genre etc and it says the song name. The headphones are also not the usual crappy ones you get with regular cd players but they don't blow me away. It also comes with a car kit. I highly recommend it.

I bought one of these at ...for my wife's birthday. I am revulsing in shame at the poor design of the user interface of this unit.

Numero uno. The player doesn't save your place when you turn it off. OK. A lot of them don't, but I'm not anywhere close to finished.

Numero dos. You can't browse through directories (albums) on an MP3 disk, only songs (all 200 of them, right?). To locate a particular album, you had better already know the names of all the folders on the disk. You have to do an alphabetical search to get to it. One workaround I can think of is to prefix numbers to the folders prior to burning the MP3 disk. This requires more computer skill than should be required for a device that costs sixty bucks.

Numero tres. OK, let's assume you know the names of all the albums on your MP3 disk, or that you implemented the workaround I just described. You're playing the disk and you want to switch to a different album. You do the search. You get...NOTHING! Why? Because you have to back all the way out of the directory structure to get to the album information. This involves STOPPING the player altogether, and whatever else you were doing (like driving), THEN do the search.

In short, one would expect an MP3 player that includes a car kit to be reasonably user-friendly enough to be used while driving a car. Memory would be nice. A quantity equivalent to an ...alarm clock would suffice. That way, you could leave the thing in your car and NEVER have to touch it again. I would have EASILY traded the four-line scrolling display of the names of the songs, the artists, the running time, and on and on - nice frosting, but not enough cake - for about ten minutes' worth of thought about how these items are used. The MP3 format has soooooooo much potential, and too many of these gadgets fail to come anywhere close to meeting this potential. The engineers (or trained monkeys) who designed this thing need to be sent back to school - on the short bus.