Classic CM342 Personal MP3/CD Player
By: Classic Average Rating: 1.0 Total Reviews: 1
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 On: 2005-03-04
Six months ago, my MP3 player died, and not willing to blow a lot of money on another so close to Christmas, I bought this MP3/CD player. It has two pluses to it. Its cheap and it plays MP3s, but thats about it. It has a lot more downsides on upsides, thats for sure. And, a lot of things that are claimed on the product description section of its Amazon listing I found to be simply not true at all. Here are its many downsides:
1. Has no resume feature--Now, if youre playing a CD-RW with 200 songs on it, this is very important to have. I dont know about you, but I find it very hard to listen to 200 songs in a row in one sitting. Usually Im able to listen to 30 songs at the most, before I have to turn it off. Unfortunately, this thing doesnt remember the last song you played, so when you come back to it the next day, its up to you to figure out where you left off.
2. Has no lock button--This is very important when youre doing housework and you have the player in a carrier around your waist. Youre bound to bump into something and inadvertently change the track or some other setting. Unfortunately, this player doesnt give you this option. Sometimes I find myself listening to the same song 3 times over and wondering why. Thats because I bumped into something and turned on the repeat track function. Also, it doesnt help that the buttons are incredibly sensitive. If you just brush up against something, it will change the settings.
3. There is no way it has 45 second skip protection!--Maybe 5 second, MAYBE. My last CD player had 20 second skip protection and it NEVER skipped. This thing skips all the time, especially when you first start playing the CD.
4. 13 Hour battery life...MY FOOT!--My guess is more like 6 hour battery life. I have never seen any CD player burn through batteries like this has (with the exception of my first cd player, which took 4 AAs and you had to change the batteries about every three hours, but that was back in 1985! I expect much better battery life now.) I find myself changing the batteries every two or three days compared to once a week with my old cd player. If you use rechargeable batteries, like I sometimes do, expect maybe four hours of play at most. And oh yeah, to replace the batteries, you have to take the CD out because the battery case is inside the player instead of outside. I find it to be very irritating and inconvenient.
5. And last but not least, it doesnt work anymore!--About a week ago, it would just stop in a middle of a song. At first I thought it was a short in the headphones, but the headphones didnt act up when I was using the computer, or some other device. Then I noticed that the song wasnt playing. The display on the CD player was frozen. At first it happened only once in a great while, but a few days ago, it started happening constantly. It only would play through the whole song if the player was held horizontally--not very practical for a PORTABLE cd player. Now, I havent been rough with this thing at all. Ive never dropped it, and its always been protected in my carrier. I have no idea why it would just stop working. Yesterday, I gave up on it and threw it in the garbage. Now, here I am, only six months later, looking for a new one.
If youre looking for an MP3/CD player, Id recommend you buy one a little more expensive than this. Its cheap price definitely does not make up for all the aggravation its caused me.
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