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1GB MP3 White Led 4LINE (128X48) Audio Playback 42 Hours
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(5 out of 5) by Squirtle on Jan 3, 2007 (NYC, NY USA)Great MP3 player and radio, I use it for the commute to work. I like the aa battery feature.
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Great MP3 player for a reasonable price
(5 out of 5) by Allen P. Frederick on Jun 8, 2006 (Chilton, WI United States)Back in my college days, I had a JVC tape player that ran on a single AA battery. I was lucky to get two tapes worth of music out of one NiCd battery. The darn thing ate 'em like gummy bears. (Or did I eat gummy bears like it ate batteries?) Well, either way, those days are gone.
After that came portable CD players... Oh yeah, THOSE were a jogger's dream... as in nightmare.
Thank God for the miracle of MP3 players, via one or more talented inventors, of course. (Sorry, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.)
I looked at and evaluated very many MP3 players prior to selecting this one. I had settled on one of the Sansa players by Sandisk but noticed at the last minute that it required Windows XP and it ran on AAAs. Bad for me on both counts, being as I'm a cheapskate, i.e. old computer, plus AAAs are more expensive for less mAH.
I read in another review for a similar player to mine that the reviewer hated the MP3 players that take AAs because of the bulk. Hmmm, what does he do when he's away from home with no charger? I just stop in at my local Kwik-Trip or Wal-mart for a pack of AAs. (Did I mention I'm a cheapskate?)
Well, OK, you can't slip the thing into your shirt pocket and walk around without a "bulge" like you can with an i-Pod. Big whoop. I'd just wind up dropping it all the time while bending over to pick something up like I do with my sunglasses and cell phone. (Why am I imagining an i-Pod swirling round and round in a toilet? That would really be my luck!)
Honestly, if you can deal with an armband or belt doodad, this player is great, and it really isn't all that bulky. (They also provide a neck strap, but that's getting pretty dorky, even for me. Seriously!)
As for power requirements, you get many, many albums of play on one AA battery. I haven't really counted, but it sure beats that old tape player!
Regarding the included earphones, to tell the truth, I've never been keen on the whole ear-bud thing, which is what is provided with this player. I just chucked those and got a nice pair of Sony earphones with the connecting headband. (They go part way into the ears like the earbuds, but they actually stay in place.) The sound is awesome.
The player is fully adjustable for everything, including languages, default volume level (a good thing to have!), display contrast and backlight delay, bit sampling rate for recording, etc. etc. It has a user settable equalizer with 15 slides or so. It also has the really neat WOW SRS feature, although that doesn't give best sound for every album. You can set output for earphones, headphones, stereo output to speakers, or a car audio unit.
The player has a very nice stand-alone voice recording feature, so you can record your kookiest high school teacher or college professor on a rant and get him/her fired, or at least get some national attention anyway...
There's an FM tuner with five presets -- very easy to use. By hitting the "record" button when the radio's playing, you can record a long unheard favorite song on the fly. ("Whoa, black Betty, bam-ba-lam!") Plus you can plug the unit into any stereo jack on a computer, TV, radio, tape player, etc. and record MP3s from whatever's playing.
The menus and settings are very easy to use once you learn the "system." This may require the ability to read a high-school diploma for some of the finer points, but it's definitely do-able.
The manufacturer provides software for navigating, etc. using your computer. I never had to load it! I just connected the USB cable, and the rest was gravy. I guess they provide a CD ripper program on their enclosed CDROM, but I already have BuzzSaw so I haven't tried theirs yet.
If I were to have any gripe at all with this player, it is that I can hear a very faint buzzing between songs, probably related to display operation, as I notice it coincides with the vertical display scrolling. (You can set it for horizontal or vertical; I might set it back just to see if it makes a difference.) Anyway, it is not audible during song playback, so no problem there.
Overall, I am very pleased at the quality of this player for the price. Did I mention? Oh, yeah, I'm a cheapskate...
As my sister, "Sludgy", would say: "If you're like me (and I know I am)..."
Buy it!
After that came portable CD players... Oh yeah, THOSE were a jogger's dream... as in nightmare.
Thank God for the miracle of MP3 players, via one or more talented inventors, of course. (Sorry, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.)
I looked at and evaluated very many MP3 players prior to selecting this one. I had settled on one of the Sansa players by Sandisk but noticed at the last minute that it required Windows XP and it ran on AAAs. Bad for me on both counts, being as I'm a cheapskate, i.e. old computer, plus AAAs are more expensive for less mAH.
I read in another review for a similar player to mine that the reviewer hated the MP3 players that take AAs because of the bulk. Hmmm, what does he do when he's away from home with no charger? I just stop in at my local Kwik-Trip or Wal-mart for a pack of AAs. (Did I mention I'm a cheapskate?)
Well, OK, you can't slip the thing into your shirt pocket and walk around without a "bulge" like you can with an i-Pod. Big whoop. I'd just wind up dropping it all the time while bending over to pick something up like I do with my sunglasses and cell phone. (Why am I imagining an i-Pod swirling round and round in a toilet? That would really be my luck!)
Honestly, if you can deal with an armband or belt doodad, this player is great, and it really isn't all that bulky. (They also provide a neck strap, but that's getting pretty dorky, even for me. Seriously!)
As for power requirements, you get many, many albums of play on one AA battery. I haven't really counted, but it sure beats that old tape player!
Regarding the included earphones, to tell the truth, I've never been keen on the whole ear-bud thing, which is what is provided with this player. I just chucked those and got a nice pair of Sony earphones with the connecting headband. (They go part way into the ears like the earbuds, but they actually stay in place.) The sound is awesome.
The player is fully adjustable for everything, including languages, default volume level (a good thing to have!), display contrast and backlight delay, bit sampling rate for recording, etc. etc. It has a user settable equalizer with 15 slides or so. It also has the really neat WOW SRS feature, although that doesn't give best sound for every album. You can set output for earphones, headphones, stereo output to speakers, or a car audio unit.
The player has a very nice stand-alone voice recording feature, so you can record your kookiest high school teacher or college professor on a rant and get him/her fired, or at least get some national attention anyway...
There's an FM tuner with five presets -- very easy to use. By hitting the "record" button when the radio's playing, you can record a long unheard favorite song on the fly. ("Whoa, black Betty, bam-ba-lam!") Plus you can plug the unit into any stereo jack on a computer, TV, radio, tape player, etc. and record MP3s from whatever's playing.
The menus and settings are very easy to use once you learn the "system." This may require the ability to read a high-school diploma for some of the finer points, but it's definitely do-able.
The manufacturer provides software for navigating, etc. using your computer. I never had to load it! I just connected the USB cable, and the rest was gravy. I guess they provide a CD ripper program on their enclosed CDROM, but I already have BuzzSaw so I haven't tried theirs yet.
If I were to have any gripe at all with this player, it is that I can hear a very faint buzzing between songs, probably related to display operation, as I notice it coincides with the vertical display scrolling. (You can set it for horizontal or vertical; I might set it back just to see if it makes a difference.) Anyway, it is not audible during song playback, so no problem there.
Overall, I am very pleased at the quality of this player for the price. Did I mention? Oh, yeah, I'm a cheapskate...
As my sister, "Sludgy", would say: "If you're like me (and I know I am)..."
Buy it!