MPTrip MP3-CD Player

Pros: Cheap mp3 player, 600 minutes of songs on one CD!
Cons: Low quality design, worthless manual

Introduction
I've become more and more into music since the advent of the mp3 format. When mp3 players came out, I though they were the greatest inventions ever made (well, ok, they rank up there). Unfortunately, when one thinks of mp3...

Pros: MP3 Capability
Cons: No resume, Horribly annoying low-power warning, Still an immature technology

It's rather surprising just how much gushing praise I've heard of the MPTrip MP3 Player, with little or no mention of its glaring faults and just plain bone-headed design decisions. Some of its problems are due to the fact that it is an emerging...

Pros: Value, availability, "cool" factor
Cons: Cheap production, poor manual, bad recharging circuit?

Before the purchase

A few months ago, I was about to pay $200 for an off-brand DVD player that also played mp3 files burned onto a CD-R. DVD would have been nice--my VCR was about four years old--but I really wanted the unit for its...

Pros: Absolutely Great if it works for you
Cons: Extremely frustrating if it doesn't

Well I anticipate this review being the most comprehensive review I've written, mainly since this portable CD player can be absolutely great, but it can also be extremely frustrating. I was one of the unlucky ones that found it originally...

Pros: Low-Cost, Plays mp3s in Subdirectories, Can Use Rechargable Batteries, AC, Random and Program Features, 5 Builtin EQs
Cons: Feels cheap, Batteries die rather quickly

I bought this product back in June, however, it looks exactly the same as the picture shown, except mine says "mp3" instead of "MpTrip."

I bought this player because of the fact that I can cram a few albums on one CD and I...

Pros: excellent anti-skip; holds approx 150 songs per cd
Cons: poor user interface design; cheap feeling buttons; doesn't display song titles

Being one of the very first CD based MP3 players, the MPTrip was an excellent solution to your portable mp3 playing needs. Instead of packing ~15 songs on an expensive memory card, users can have ~150 songs on a $0.50 CD-R. The player can also play...

Pros: Low cost, cheap media
Cons: Cheap construction, terrible manual, no ID3 tag support, absolutely impossible and useless programming feature.

On one hand you have one of my "Love it" products; the Diamond Rio 500.
On the other hand, you have a new addition to my collection o' toys the Genica MPtrip.

The RIO cost me $200 and includes 64 megs of onboard RAM and can be...

Pros: Records, Recharges, 150 Songs.
Cons: Bulky, Short Battery Life.

When I heard that there were CD Players that can player CD of MP3s and regular CDs, I knew I had to have one. Unfortunately, it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Still nice and all, but even with the awesome features it DOES have it does lack some...

Pros: Listen to music continuously for 10 hrs in MP3 format!
Cons: Minor problems, like songs skipping sometimes. But great overall!

INTRODUCTION

I've been listening to music the MP3 way for about 2 years now. I bought my MPTrip player about 2 months ago. I didn't want to go out and spend a few hundred bucks on silly products like the Rio MP3 player (and the like) because...

Pros: inexpensive, small footprint, Plays CD's
Cons: flat sound quality, EATS batteries, Supplies Ear-bud's are horrid.

After following another brand of MP3 CD player for about a year, watching delay after delay being published by them, I had almost given up all hope of finding a CD Player that would handle MP3 CD's.

Enter the MPTrip. This little device, while...

Pros: Cheap. Acceptable performance for MP3's
Cons: Poor performance for normal CD's & CDR's

I picked up this unit after my brother gave me a positive testimony on its performance. I ordered it late November from easybuy2000.com for $87 + $9.25 shipping for a total of $96.25 . I am now in the process of returning it. I really wanted to like...

Pros: Great value, reads CDs and MP3's on CD/R
Cons: Poor construction, first generation product

Ok, the title is a bit of a broad statement in that it assumes you already have two things.

1) A CD Burner
2) A whole lot of MP3's

That being said, this is by far the best deal going. The nifty CD/MP3 player will read a...

Pros: Very CHEAP, Volume actually plays LOUD
Cons: Cheaply Made, Horrible Software that Runs It

After reading a number of the reviews for this player it seems like most users have collections of single songs rather than whole albums that they are interested in listening to. For those of you like me that would like to listen to albums in directories...

Pros: Cost (100$), ability to listen to MP3-CDR's, Ni-Cad recharger
Cons: Medium quality, no ID3, Instructions, bulky

This may be one of the most overused phrases, but it holds true with this excellent product. You see, right now, the big thing is the Rio, Nomad, and Lyra, all great MP3 players, but all limited in one way: the amount of music they can hold. 64MB...

Pros: IT PLAYS MP3 CDs!!!!!!!!!!
Cons: Feels like you are going to break it (but dosnt), REALLY bad manual.

I bought this product because I have been looking for the alternative to putting a PC or laptop in my car to listen to MP3s. I waited for well over a year for this idea to surface, and then the MamboX came into play. I waited over 8months for it to...