Memorex MMP8500 (128 MB) MP3 Player

Pros: Small, Light, Comfortable To Wear
Cons: Not Durable, Small Amount Of Memory, Poorly Made Headphones

I am a bit of a health nut. I go to the gym 5 days a week, most days twice a day, (no I'm not addicted I just do my cardio work out in the morning and then weight training in the afternoon). So I wanted an MP3 player that was small, portable, light, and ...

Pros: Light weight. FM tuner. Expandable memory.
Cons: Operation is not intuitive. Short battery life.

It was time to replace the cassette walkman that had served me well for lo these many years. I thought I'd make the leap into mp3 land. One thing though....I needed a player with an FM tuner. I'm the Operations Manager at our radio station, and I need ...

Pros: Inexpensive Basic player if you don't need a 20 GB player. Good performance.
Cons: Playback is either in sequential order, or random shuttle mode, or repeated 1 or all.

I bought this Memorex MMP8500 128 MB MP3/WMA player on sale at Target. It was the most inexpensive player they sold. I bought it since it accepts an external SD memory card, up to 512 MB, which I already had. The Memorex 256 MB player was higher ...

Pros: Sleek, portable, nice controls and external design
Cons: Software does not recognize the player, making it unusable.

I'll try to be as positive as possible about this little number, but eventually you'll get the idea that I don't recommend it. The BM was inexpensive at $89 on sale, certainly cheaper than most of the other MP3 players on the rack. Having had good ...

Pros: Small, sleek looking, requires 1 battery
Cons: cheappy quality, not the best player

I decided that carrying around a bulky CD player that skipped when I moved it was getting old. So I decided to look into buying a new mp3 player. Not only did I look at price, but I looked at features. I wanted a small, highly portable, mp3 player ...

Pros: It is easy to turn on.
Cons: Everything else: Earbuds hurt, FM tuner is useless, Mp3 mode is basic at best.

This player does what it says it does: it plays mp3s. It also includes basic functions such as shuffle and repeat. However, it lacks other useful functions like resume. The player always turns on in mp3 mode. So if you turn it off while listening to the ...

Pros: Low cost, met all my needs
Cons: Eat Buds hurt, doesn’t remember location when turned off.

This is what I told the sales person at Circuit City. I have never downloaded MP3’s off the Internet so I don’t need a 20 GIG hard drive . I download files from iTunes® so I would love something that was iTunes® compatible but that isn’t ...

Pros: FM tuner, 128MB of memory built in (upgradeable), light weight.
Cons: FM tuner will lose a station if you breath too hard.

I found this player (sealed) in the clearance bin at Bigg's here in Cincinnati. It was clearanced priced at $25... how could I pass it up? For all of the features it has - arm band, single AAA battery, FM tuner, upgradeable memory, how can you really complain for the price. As far as the software not recognizing it, with XP and Media Player, you don't need the software - XP recognized it as external storage as soon as it was plugged in. I have found it in the $40 range at Buy.com and every once in a while at Overstock... just waiting for the 60GB iPods to get into my price range.

Pros: Expandable SD memory.
Cons: Poor FM radio (changes slowly). Cuts off constantly.

This was my first MP3 player. I got it on E-bay for about $45. It is just OK. Most of the songs I downloaded to it will not allow me to turn the player higher than halfway. It constantly turns off. You can barely tap it & it cuts off. Not recommended.

Pros: Back light was nice.
Cons: Audible hum when turning on, no customer help, no reset button.

I've used mine for about 2 months. It's OK, but not great at all. Hard to organize songs in any order, software is bland and not very useful. Tried to upgrade the Firmware and it died, can't get it to come on, tried every trick in the book. NO response from Memorex service, no reset button yuck.

Received a Sony NW E505 for a present, it's AMAZING!! Super long batteries life, great sound, software at least lets you organize your tunes and albums, it easy to find what you want etc. Stay away from this Memorex.

For cheap I hear the RCA LYRA RD1072 is very good. No back light but pretty solid with decent sound. And using a SD card you can up-grade the memory.

Pros: when it worked, it was fine
Cons: the ear buds hurt breaks for no reason

I bought one at Target and had a really hard time getting my computer to recognize the mp3 player. I work 9:00-5:00 and so do the Memorex people (how convenient), so I couldn't get any help from them. Anyway, I finally got it to start downloading music after 2 long nights of working on it. However, once the music was downloaded, the player wouldn't work. I tried flipping the battery over (don't ask me why, I was just starting to lose it at this point), the battery exploded and the mp3 player broke. I brought it back to Target and I foolishly got another Memorex but I got an upgrade, so I thought it would be fine. I was wrong. It's been working great for the past 30 days and then yesterday it just stopped working. I changed the battery (didn't flip this one over ;) but that didn't work, so I am returning it and getting a different brand.

Pros: Ease of use. Built in memory.
Cons: Volume level.

I purchased this MP3 player a couple of months ago. The original 128 storage was sufficient originally. I've since upgraded to 512 and loving the available memory. However, the built in volume isn't nearly enough. I've purchased headphones and that makes nearly enough. The provided ear buds just didn't provide enough isolation from outside noise.

I love the player but the sound is my only complaint. For indoor listening, you could be happy with this. For commuting or with city sounds this will be disappointing and unfortunately there's no downloads available to improve this.

Pros: none
Cons: See review

This is the worst purchase I've made in the last year.

1. The player is fragile.

2. It eats batteries like nobody's business. If you're not using it take the batter out your it will be dead when you try it next time.

3. Sometimes it recognizes the memory chip, sometimes it doesn't.

4. The earpiece cord is fragile.

5. It is complicated to use and the manual included is terrible.

6. The software used to upload music is pathetic.

7. Support is non-existent.

This is a terrible product and I will never, as long as I live, buy another Memorex item. Do yourself a favor and pass this one up.

Pros: Great simple starter mp3 player!
Cons: Simple mp3 player if you want any more!

Let's start off by saying this player is NOT WORTHY of experienced, high-tech, absurd-amounts-of-music-hungry people. However, this is a good starter mp3 player for anyone wanting something pretty easy. Great for fitness uses (a morning power walk and such). The ear buds seem fine to me...and I like how they are fabric coated (or something!). Comes with a protective case and armband too! Very easy to load the music. Love that it has a SD/MMC expansion slot so you can have more music if you wish! Cool blue screen. I like that you can listen to the radio too, just in case you get sick of the songs you haven't replaced yet! Auto programming radio presets feature is pretty sweet. Shuffle will cycle through all music, including what is on your expansion card.

Pros: comes with armband holder, rugged
Cons: loses button now and again

Got this for my wife last year for christmas.
Loses a button now and then (we find them), but other than that it has been the best investment I made that Christmas!
My wife hits the gym 5 days a week, early morning.
She uses this to keep her concentration.
She is on her 3rd set of headphones and swears by this little thing.
Tough and holds enough music to be good for a week or two at a shot.