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...
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.
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 $96.25 . I am now in the process of returning it. I really wanted to like...
Pros: Very CHEAP, Volume actually plays LOUD Cons: Cheaply Made, Horrible Software that Runs It
After reading a number of the reviews for this player it seems like most users have collections of single songs rather than whole albums that they are interested in listening to. For those of you like me that would like to listen to albums in directories...
Pros: Cost (100$), 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...
Pros: Very Cheap, Plays MP3 off of CDs! Cons: Very Bad Manual, Complicated controls
I admit it. I bought this CD mp3 player because of how incredibly inexpensive it is! It's about the same price ($89) as a regular CD player except you get over 160 songs on one CD as opposed to just 17! So how come this mp3 player is selling for so...
Pros: Reads CD-Rs with MP3s. Only $87 Cons: Eats Alkalines like they're chocolate, doesn't do CD-RWs
Buyer beware: This player does not read CD-RW discs.
I'm writing this to get the word out about the MPTrip device -- What it does, what it doesn't do, and where the website (easybuy2000.com) is misleading.
Pros: 650MB per disk, low price Cons: medium reliability, no extra features
The MPTrip MP3 player is a first generation device. It is, literally, the first portable device to allow playing of mp3s directly from a CD. All first generation devices have flaws. Being one step away from a prototype, they are generally unreliable...
Pros: Decent Sound on CD's Cons: Bulky, no anti-skip on Cd's, would not play MP3's, misleading with DSP modes, poor quality.
Let me first say, that I am majorly p!ssed at Computer Geeks, the outfit that sold me the unit. They list that the unit can play Audio CD's, WAV file CD-R's and MP3 encoded discs.
Then they list that the player has a 50 second anti shock for...
Pros: Cheap, Excellent Fidelity, Stores Phenomenal Volumes of Music Cons: Steep Learning Curve
I had 275 CD's that I absolutely had to bring with me to Oxford.
Now, if you've ever tried shipping anything that weighs more than a bag of marshmallows across the Atlantic, you'll know that I had three options to keep myself from going...
I was looking for a CD player that could play MP3’s for such a long time. When the Rio came out I though, wouldn’t it be great if they had a CD form of this, I would buy it. Finally they did make it.
Pros: It plays mp3's, and holds more than most players Cons: It's junk.
I bought this unit for the same reason anyone with MP3's would. You can carry around 650 MBs of them at once. Once I played with it and realized how lame it was, I sold it, since the company I bought it from had such horrible customer service, I...
Pros: Cheap And a whole lotta songs Cons: Short battery life
I bought this back in like May, and it's probably the best $120 I've ever spent. Put 150 or more songs on a single cd, and you'll never need to carry around a cd wallet again.
When I bought this I didn't even have a cd writer so I had my...
Pros: Listen to hundreds of songs on 1 CD Cons: Battery life - and you're gonna need a CD-R
Like most people who can't stand to be without music wherever they go, I was looking for a portable device that I could take with me to Europe for a couple of weeks, when I came across a review for this device on Mp3.com.
Pros: plays mp3s/cds and is cheap $87 Cons: made out of cheap materials, might brake
Why did i buy this product? Why you ask, cause it can play mp3s and cds of course! one cdr can hold lets just say a lot of mp3s. way more than a cd can. HoUrs of music on one cdr it just tingles when i say it. Look at the price 87 dollars other mp3/cd...
Pros: About the cheapest portable MP3 player you can get. Cons: You get what you pay for.
I bought one of these after seeing it reviewed on ZDTV. The review was very positive, so I figured I'd give it a try. The concept is great, as it is very cost effective to use regular CD-Rs to hold the MP3s rather than expensive memory-stick or...
Pros: Cheap, Plays MP3s, Plays Audio CDs Cons: Flimsy, Somewhat hard to understand interface
When i first saw the ads for the MPTrip online it was priced at $115 and i thought, "Well it's about time for a CD-R MP3 player, but $115 is a bit much." When the price recently dropped to $96 and then to $87 i couldn't resist.
Pros: Sound quality and Price Cons: Construction, Battery Life, included Headphones
After months of acquiring many MP3's from Napster, and converting most of my own CD collection to MP3, I decided it was time to get an MP3 player. There was no way in Heites I was gonna spend $250 for a 32MB flash MP3 player. I noticed the MP Trip and...
Pros: Plays MP3!, 12 hours of music in a CD! no tricks in that! Cons: Bad interface, BS manual, Bad earphones, Bad finishing, Too much battery consuming
My first impression was a deception because the poor quality of the finished product; you can even squeeze it! There's some critical parts that you should have care when you touch them, like the volume knob, the battery cover and also the CD cover. They...
Pros: fantastic price for mp3 functionality Cons: manufacturing chip defect
At first, I was turned off on buying the MPTrip because it wasn't produced by a major brand name. However, my brother purchased the item against my advice and I discovered that the player is really incredible for the price. The player plays both CD-Rs...
Pros: cheap, uses mp3 format, holds almost 200 songs per cd Cons: low quality, hard to learn to use, funny button arrangement
This cost me $83. It was worth every penny. Well, it was a gift but still. I got home and after reading the manual which I believe was translated directly from German, I knew the same about how to use it as before. After 20 blank cds of experimentation,...
Pros: works well, light, cheap Cons: lack of warranty, below average manual, low battery life
Due to the popularity of mp3's, it's inevitable that someone would invent a CD player that can play mp3's burnt onto a CDR or CDRW. After all, portable mp3 players have only a limited amount of storage, while CDRoms seems endless in comparison. ...
Pros: great sound, cheap, plays data CDs Cons: cheap construction but seems sturdy enough
This player gives you extraordinary value for the money. I was previously using and RCA 64MB lyra player, which was great, but costs twice as much money and only gives an hour of playback on the 64MB card. Now with this CD MP3 player, you can put upwards...
Pros: extremely cheap, high quality portable music Cons: battery life is a little short, has skipped a few times
i paid $99 for my genica (another name for mptrip) at computergeeks.com.
it does eat AA batteries fairly quickly - nimh will burn out in just five hours or so, and alkalines in maybe seven or eight. otherwise, this
thing is a dream. ...
Pros: Cheep, Affordable, CD Function rather than loading files. Cons: Could Use Improvements On Design as far as functions.
I would recommend this as an alternative to swapping out your head unit in your car if it is in working condition, however mine is skipping horribly and after using my friends mp3 discman I am stuck with the decision, to buy a cheep stereo, and get a mp3...
Pros: Reads mp3s or regular cds Cons: Skips constantly, bad manual, open button breaks.
I bought this a little too early I think, a couple of new ones have come out since which get better ratings. The open button popped off about 2 months after I got it, and the battery use is really bad. I got a kit to use it in my car, which is the main...
Pros: plays cd's and cd-roms fine, good customer support form easybuy2000.com Cons: fragile product, cryptic interface, barely comprehensible users manual, short battery life (about 3.5 hours)
When I heard about this product, I jumped out of my seat, and here's why:
conventional (and I use the term loosely) portable mp3 players cost around 200 dollars and only store 64 minutes of music, at most. I never understood why anyone would buy...
Pros: Plays MP3s. Inexpensive. Cons: Moderate sound quality. very cheap construction.
The MPTrip was the only cd player/mp3 player available for Christmas 2000, which is why my brother got one for me. I tip my hat to them for being the first to market with this innovative product. However, today there are many better players.
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I bought this product through
www.compugeeks.com
say 3 to 4 months back when it just came in market
and to tell you i am quite satisfied with it as it is cheap compared to Nomad .
Nomad is another kind of mp3 player in which u...
Pros: economic, reliable, compact, i have one u don't Cons: battery life, id3tag
I think this product is the gateway to the future ( mp3 ) a future accessible to all, for under 100$ ( price 98$ ). It has all of the options that other players have, even if it misses one or two, it compensates with the price. Durable and easy to carry...
Pros: There are now competing products available Cons: It's still on the market
...'cause whoever designed and documented the thing was on drugs! Where to begin? The thing *won't* use CDRW's, only CD-R's -- and those have to be in "ISO 9660" format with all MP3's named in DOS 8.3 format. Oh yeah, and not too many files at the root...
Pros: Plays a lot of songs. Cons: I have had some trouble with some options.
This is a great CD Player and everything. But, there is soooooooo many flaws to it. I hate how it waits three seconds between songs. Also, I can't get my headphones very loud on it at all. There is a lot of flaws in this piece of equipment that can...
Pros: nice sound, cheap Cons: flimsy, no ID3 tag support
This product would have to be the most useful buy ever. Now I can listen to hours and hours of music on one CD instead of having to lug around a massive CD case. It can also play regular CDs incase you have the urge to go back to your old ways. If you...
Well wanting so bad to get a mp3 player I bought this one because I saw it on ezbuy2000 for $87.00. And can you really beat that. Well it took forever for me to get it. When it did get here I was a little dissappointed about how hte sound quality was....
Pros: good cheap cd player able to play mp3s Cons: anti-shock system could be better
The good:
This is one of the first cd players able to play mp3s. This means 650 megabytes of room on a cd. So instead of 11-12 songs on a cd you can put around 70 to 100 songs. Thats a huge difference.
It can be connected to a stereo...
I was lured in by the price. Don't let it happen to you! Very cheaply made! It did not work out of the box. It had all kinds of problems. Don't even think about trying to read the directions unless you can translate "Broken English". The...
I bought this item back in April. It had a great sound to it and didn't skip a beat. I went and bought over 15 CD's to play in it. I played it for about 1 week. After that week was up the laser lence fell out! I thought I was getting a deal when I...
Pros: It is a really cheap player, but you get what you pay for. Cons: No ID3 tags so you cannot view the song name.
This player is a great value, however the prices of mp3 cd players should be dropping soon since they are becoming more popular and other companies will be producing competitive products. These will cause the price in all products of this type to...
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