MPTrip MP3-CD Player

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...

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: 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...

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.

Enter the MPTrip. This little device, while...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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...