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I bought this as a cheap MP3 player for my daughter's birthday. I figured she'd lose it anyway. She was excited when she opened it, but two hours later, I'd seen enough. Turns on, then off repeatedly when connected to the computer through the USB connection, so computer can never fully sync with the device. Our other MP3 players work fine.
COBY "customer support" is horrendous. First, "Damien" tells me that I must charge the unit for 4 hours. I argue with him that this thing takes a AAA battery, what's to charge! He gets back to me, agrees that it is defective. Then tells me they want a $6 MONEY ORDER to process a return. Returning to Amazon.

This MP3 worked great the first time and I was way excited about using it. However, the second time I used it, it froze up and started flashing all sorts of colors. It hasn't worked since. I am going to contact company to see what they can do. If they solve the problem, I'll update this review. However, as of now, I CANNOT recommend this product.

You get what you pay for. Battery life is very low (about one hour max. of continuous play). With more than about 75 MP3's loaded, the player seems to get "confused" and cannot find all files. I think it has something to do with the way the memory organizes the files into subfolders (artist and album). If you navigate through the folders, you can find all of the loaded MP3's but if you're just wanting to turn on the player and go, you might find a big portion of your music unavailable. For example, the first time I loaded up with MP3 music files, I added 120 files. However when I turned on the player, it only showed that I had 70-some files. I deleted a few files from the player and then it showed I had 80-some files???? Very strange. I decided to test it by loading up the MP3 files into the root folder on the player using Windows Explorer. This helped but didn't totally fix the problem. (Loaded up 120 files and now it's showing 107...) My wife purchased a Sansa M240 for about the same price and it is MUCH better.

Although this item is priced right, I found it to be cheap. It didn't work with my computer so be careful when buying this item. I purchased a Sansadisk MP3 player after returning this one and it is wonderful.

I wanted this Mp3 because I liked that it would run on batteries and I wanted the radio feature. But, after I loaded it up with music and thinking that this was the best product ever, TWO DAYS LATER it stop working. it would turn on and then 2 seconds later "say" goodbye and turn off. Troubleshooting??? yeah their trouble shooting is "change the batteries". I even called the 800 number and the rep said "this is a cheap product". then said that i could return it and it would take 6-8 weeks for a refund or replacement. give me a break!! thankfully I brought it through amazon and able to return it to them (they even paid the postage!). Don't make the mistake I did and ignore the reviews....this is a horrible product and they should be ashamed to have this on the market!!!!