RCA Lyra RD1071 (128 MB) MP3 Player

Pros: Storage amount, abilitly to upgrade it
Cons: Battery life, headphones

This product is a great product, but I found some of its flaws, but to find them I had to use a fine toothed comb. I got this on christmas eve 2004, It was a great product choice for a gift, judging that I had wanted one for the past year. It had a ...

Pros: Price, upgradeable, size, easy to use, mp3pro
Cons: Poor design, battery life, shuts off some times when bumped, not backlit

This is a great beginner's mp3 player. It has upgradeable memory, decent volume, and is completely portable. Yet, there are a few flaws. First off, this player can take a beating and still go, that is if you can stand it shutting itself off if you ...

Pros: Size, Head Phones
Cons: Buttons jam up, Low quality screen, no back light

this product was like the MP3 Player from Hell. It worked for about 3 months. the buttons were jamming up, and then the screen cracked after I pushed the PLAY button. I thought that the warranty would cover the cracked screen, but that didn't work. so I ...

Pros: Weight, battary life, sound, arm band, included earphones. Can be used as a storage device.
Cons: Software/firmware upgrade difficult. No radio. No remote.

I purchased a YEPP MP3 player in December was disappointed with the low sound quality and flimsy construction. I returned the player and did my homework. With all the features you can get such as FM radio and equalizers, the Lyra RD1071 was the best all ...

Pros: easy to use, small
Cons: Battery life a joke, music plays in random order, no backlight

When my CD broke I came across MP3 players. I decided to buy this mp3 player and I was excited at first. The Pros of this mp3 player is that it is small and compact. I can put it in my pocket without making my pocket look bulky. It is also easy to use. ...

Pros: Small, expandable memory, good sound
Cons: None!

This is a wonderful mp3 player. It comes with 128 mb of memory and expandable through Multimedia/S ...

Pros: Great Sound. SD/MMC expandable. OS recognizes it as a letter drive.
Cons: No backlit display.

I recently (1 month ago) purchased the Lyra RD1071 after returning a more expensive and fancy player ...

Pros: Size, weight, button features, good sound quality, Music Match Jukebox software
Cons: Armband has no easy access to buttons, delay on display after pressing FF/R buttons.

After buying my 11 year old daughter this player for Christmas, I decided to get one for myself. I find the Music Match jukebox software to be a very good program. I am just learning this whole MP3 thing, and the Music Match makes it easy. The player ...

Pros: Sound battery-life armband ease-of-use lockable weight price expansion-slot name-brand size
Cons: no display backlight, headphones, software(not a problem for xp users), no belt clip

I used the Epinions reviews in order to make my decision on a player and based on them i knew what to expect. The 1071 has great sound. If you are going to work out with it, I suggest you lose the headphones that come with it and get a set of ear buds, ...

Pros: easy to put music on player supports wma and mp3 runs on AAA batteries
Cons: no backlight no voice recorder no fm radio comes with armband

I bought this mp3 player at wallmart for 99.88$ this is the 3rd mp3 player that i have owned after m ...

Pros: Good sound quality, expandable, light
Cons: All the durability of a Kleenex in a hurricane, no navigation

I got this player on a Sunday, and returned it the following Wednesday. After a 6 inch drop to concrete, the volume up button failed to function.

When it worked, it was OK. It got the job done, but there was no navigation except for forward/back.

Pros: Small, light, Drag & Drop file access Excellent sound.
Cons: Short battery life, Very Limited ways to sort music

So light you don't know it's there. An armband that is fully adjustable. Headphones that don't kill your ears. Ability to use 128mb memory sticks in addition to the onboard 128mb. With the 128mb add-in, that's about 6 cd's worth of music if you use mp3pro. That's 6 cd's out of the way on your arm. Compare that to the bulk of Sony's portable mini-cd's. The very best aspect is that this usb device is DRAG & DROP! Just drag your mp3 from whatever drive it's on to the lyra which will show as 1 (or 2 if additional mem is used) removable drives. Need more music? Just get a second or even a 3rd chip, it will easily fit in the armband with the unit. As it is drag & drop you can use it as a removable hard drive to transport any type of file to any computer! Sound is crisp and I cannot imagine ever turning it up past 3/4, it gets loud!

Pros: durability!!!, portability, and expandability
Cons: only 128mb, musicmatch, lack of wma support, eats batteries like pez

I got the Lyra a few years ago for my birthday. It was not as simple as plugging it into a computer and transferring, you had to install musicmatch and the plug-in. The software was relatively simple to install, though. I would rather have used Windows Media Player or Winamp to transfer the music, but I made due with musicmatch. Transferring music was a simple and moderately quick process. The lack of wma support bugged me, because I ripped all my cd's into wma. I also hated having to buy batteries on a weekly basis.

The lyra is a tank. Get it if you are clumsy like me. It has survived a few swimming sessions, being taken apart, and more bad drops than I can count. The only thing wrong with it now is a slight connection problem in the headphone jack that screws up the sound when it's in some positions. The music sounded great and it support variable bitrates. It also has great expandability.

Pros: SIZE, PRICE, JUMP DRIVE ABILITY
Cons: FOR THE MONEY -- NONE 128mb flash may be small for some

This is a little gem of a flash player. Sound quality is fantastic. Junk original Headphones though. Sounds devine through a good set cans SENNHEISERs are my choice. Battery life is very good and it takes 1 AAA batery found everywhere, no need to run out of tunes. Forget the software. Just use as a drive and dump mp3s into it. You can also send other files to it as a "jump drive" usb style. People have problems with "legal" purchased music? Please, does your regular cd play encoded files?? Think people, you'll figure it out. Price point is great and easily expandable via sd card{s}. Had mine a year and ZERO problems.

Pros: I have no pros to this product.
Cons: SUPPORT STINKS!

This player is a problem with Windows ME and 98. After I got it home I was very excited to get it up and working. The USB drivers are installed, but the Music Management program displays "0 devices installed". Try to get an answer from RCA? NO HELP! I now read that others have had the same problem. I can't find an answer. It's been a week and still no music. I don't understand these software companies. They want you to buy their product and then don't lend any intelligent support. All I get is, "It must be your OS."