RCA RP2457 Personal CD Player
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- CD-R/CD-RW Playback: CD-R/CD-RW
- Bass Boost: With Bass Boost
- Anti Skip Buffer: 45 sec.
- Supported Formats: WMA MP3
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Don't waste your money!!!
Pros
It occasionally plays music
Cons
Just about everything!
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Save yourself money and hassle (and gray hairs) - don't buy it.
When my friend offered to give me a little extra money to add to my own to be able to buy this product, I was ecstatic. He had this really awesome CD player with an MP3 decoder (Memorex MPD8845 - get it, it's much better!), and so when I saw the prospect of also getting an MP3 CD player and being able to play hours and hours of music, I jumped at the chance.
However, I have had nothing but grief from it from the beginning. Oh, sure, when it didn't work right, I took it back to Wal-Mart and exchanged it. But the "new" one did all of the exact same things, so it's just the way this product works.
To begin with, its one good point is that when you put a store-bought music CD in it, it will usually cooperate. But even then, it has audible breaks in-between tracks, sometimes even cutting off the first split-second of a track. Also, it sometimes arbitrarily spits out a loud burst of white noise for no reason. It doesn't seem to always be at loud points during music.
But just try putting in any other kind of CD, and here's what happened to me. I tried playing a CD-R that I had burned. Every other CD player I have ever put these burned CDs into have played them 100% without problem (cars, boom boxes, DVD players, etc...). But this CD player sometimes took over 5 minutes to actually decide to play a track, and during almost every track, it would just stop in mid-track, make whirring noises for 5-10 minutes, and sometimes it would resume, sometimes the whole player would just shut down and turn off.
And then, to make things worse, the whole reason I bought this player was to play MP3 CDs, but it won't play them! I made an MP3 CD that worked perfectly on my friend's MP3 player, but the RCA MP3 player spent almost 15 minutes reading the CD, and then would randomly decide one or two tracks it would play. 99% of the others just would never start (even after waiting impatiently for about 30 minutes), and the other 1% would decide to play at odd speeds. Some songs drug by sluggishly while others skipped forward like The Chipmunks. And even then, I had the same trouble with the player randomly stopping in mid-song to think, sometimes shutting down completely.
Looking at the details, they claim the battery life for the 2 poor AA batteries you feed to this device is 24 hours. That is a laugh. I could get maybe 4 hours' total running time before the batteries would be dead (thank God for rechargeable batteries!).
Furthermore, the anti-skip system is also a joke. The slightest little tap and kiss your song goodbye.
I am quite disgusted by this device, and I urge you to avoid it at all costs.
However, I have had nothing but grief from it from the beginning. Oh, sure, when it didn't work right, I took it back to Wal-Mart and exchanged it. But the "new" one did all of the exact same things, so it's just the way this product works.
To begin with, its one good point is that when you put a store-bought music CD in it, it will usually cooperate. But even then, it has audible breaks in-between tracks, sometimes even cutting off the first split-second of a track. Also, it sometimes arbitrarily spits out a loud burst of white noise for no reason. It doesn't seem to always be at loud points during music.
But just try putting in any other kind of CD, and here's what happened to me. I tried playing a CD-R that I had burned. Every other CD player I have ever put these burned CDs into have played them 100% without problem (cars, boom boxes, DVD players, etc...). But this CD player sometimes took over 5 minutes to actually decide to play a track, and during almost every track, it would just stop in mid-track, make whirring noises for 5-10 minutes, and sometimes it would resume, sometimes the whole player would just shut down and turn off.
And then, to make things worse, the whole reason I bought this player was to play MP3 CDs, but it won't play them! I made an MP3 CD that worked perfectly on my friend's MP3 player, but the RCA MP3 player spent almost 15 minutes reading the CD, and then would randomly decide one or two tracks it would play. 99% of the others just would never start (even after waiting impatiently for about 30 minutes), and the other 1% would decide to play at odd speeds. Some songs drug by sluggishly while others skipped forward like The Chipmunks. And even then, I had the same trouble with the player randomly stopping in mid-song to think, sometimes shutting down completely.
Looking at the details, they claim the battery life for the 2 poor AA batteries you feed to this device is 24 hours. That is a laugh. I could get maybe 4 hours' total running time before the batteries would be dead (thank God for rechargeable batteries!).
Furthermore, the anti-skip system is also a joke. The slightest little tap and kiss your song goodbye.
I am quite disgusted by this device, and I urge you to avoid it at all costs.
