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 Piece of junk January 2, 2009
S. Lauber (CA)
This product is a piece of junk. The thing freezes almost every time I turn it on. The only thing I can do when that happens is take the battery out and put it back in. Even then, the thing just keeps on freezing when I try to play a song. Also, there are way too many unnecessary features, which makes this very confusing to use when you just want to play music. It is not at all user-friendly and the control stick hurts my fingers and is too difficult to use.
If you just want a basic, intuitive MP3 player that WORKS, look elsewhere (like iPod, Sandisk, or Creative). The other reviewers are spot on. This thing belongs in a garbage can.
gahhh September 13, 2008
raven
I just bought this thing and I really wish I had waited and read these reviews first. I bought it, brought it home put on a few songs and the thing shut off and refused to turn back on before I even listened to a single song. Yeah, the thing lasted less than an hour. Wonderful. It's going back to the store tomorrow. Stupid piece of junk.
WARNING!! Memorex Customer Serivce is awfull! August 2, 2008
Speedy Electron (Silicon Valley, USA)
This posting is to keep a promise to the Memorex Customer Service Represenative I delt with that I would post my awful experience every place I could on the Web.
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I bought an Memorex MMP8565 and had it just up an die and not power up for no obvious reason.
It would come back to life a few hours later, maybe but then die..some kind of intermittent or firmware glitch.
Still under Warranty, but had the worst experience I have had in sometime with Memorex Customer Service. Had no suggestions and said what was taking place couldn't and then said send unit and more money for Shipping and Handling.
I said I would consider if they would replace the unit. Couldn't guarantee that even though I told them it was an intermittent problem.
So spend more money and maybe get the same flaky piece of junk back if it chose that period to work for their tech.
So WARNING, if you think you could have a problem, Memorex Customer Service will not help you.
mp3 May 25, 2008
Stephen E. Coleman
Terrible!!! This product(the first versions) were excellent but the software sucked. Now they have the software issues resolved but the hardware sucks. It cut out as I ran, and just plain quit working. DO NOT BUY, if you want to have an mp3 player play songs that you can exercise too, this aint it!
Failure After Failure February 19, 2008
Joe Enfadado (Tennessee)
My first mp3 player, a little 1GB FM-tuner off-brand, lasted eighteen months of daily usage before I broke the headphone jack. Seeking a similarly-priced substitute, I bought this one. I regret it.
The concept of this device is attractive - a 2GB player with a space for another 1GB card, plus an FM tuner and some strange My DJ feature that a podcaster like me never used, but the actual player failed in three key ways.
The first failure came right out of the box: The FM reception is extremely poor. In my area, there are six 100,000W stations, and only three come in, some with heavy static when a roof is overhead. The auto-search feature will sometimes find one or all six, but also includes stations without an actual signal, necessitating the time to delete and replace most of the presets.
That is the second failure: Random preset deletion. Every few weeks, I'll turn on the player to find the volume all the way up and all my presets gone, not to mention the full reversal of my audio file listings (e.g. the first song in the folder is #16 on the album, the last is #1). There is no pattern to this that I can tell, though sometimes it will occur if I leave a dead battery in the player for a few days.
The third, and catastrophic, failure is a fault in the software preventing me from loading, well, anything at all. One morning, I connected the USB to load the day's podcasts and it came back with an obscure disconnection error. After some testing, I found I could load a single (4MB) file at a time, then manually disconnect, reconnect, and do another. Larger files or multiple files trigger a disconnection, preventing any practical mp3 functionality.
The device failed completely when I threw it against the wall.
If you want a good MP3 player with a radio tuner, this is not it. An IPod Mini, even with its flaws, is by far preferrable.
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