RCA Lyra RD2217 1 GB Sport Digital Audio Player with FM Tuner | 
 enlarge | Brand: RCA
Category: CE
List Price: $219.00
Buy New: $54.99
You Save: $164.01 (75%)
Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 18181
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 3.5 x 7.5 x 9
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: RD2217
Model: RD2217
UPC: 044319402186
EAN: 0044319402186
ASIN: B00092M1RO
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1GB built in memory, stores up to 32 hours of WMA music or 640 songs encoded @ 64 kbps. | | • | Sports Model includes; Splash proof easy to wear design for workouts, Stop watch, Pulse rate monitor and Calorie counter. | | • | Digital FM Tuner with FM Record. | | • | 3 Line Dot Matrix backlit display for navigating through this product's different features and for navigating through your music selections. | | • | 50 hour battery life with 1 "AA' |
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Product Description
The RCA RD2217 Lyra 1 GB MP3 Player is designed to be an easy-to-wear, splash proof device you can wear during a workout. The 1 GB of flash memory stores up to 32 hours of WMA or MP3 music. If that's not enough, the FM tuner gves you access to all the available FM radio stations in your area. The stopwatch, pulse monitor and calorie-counter functions complement its use for sports or training. The multi-line dot-matrix display lists the artist, song, elapsed time, volume level and battery level. Package Includes: MP3 player, Music management software, USB cable, sports armband, belt clip, clip earphone, 1 "AA" alkaline battery.
Built-in stopwatch, calorie counter & pulse rate monitor Up to 50 hours battery life from 1 AA alkaline battery Splash-proof design Can be used as a USB (2.0) mass storage drive Dimensions(WxHxD) - 1.97 x 2.8 x 1.02 Weight - 1.4 ounces Is PlaysForSure compatible for flexible music downloads
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Love it June 11, 2008
Brought mp3 player mainly for the gym; had it for over a year now. For my purposes, it's great. Holds plenty of songs, great gym features (pulse, stop watch, radio). I haven't had any problems with sound or use. Purchased a different set of headphones though and use rechargable battery.
did have top replace the plastic belt clip once, kind of fragile.
Great product, but firmware needs a minor fix March 10, 2008
I won one of these units in an online radio contest back in 2006. After installing the latest firmware from the manufacturer, I was able to use Windows Media Player to load it up with songs that I ripped from CD's and bought from Napster. However, there was no mention in the owner's instruction manual that after loading ("syncing") the songs into the unit, the unit had to be "profiled" in order for the songs to show up in the music library. Also, for some reason, when loading a lot of songs into the unit at once, if any are ripped from "various artist" compilation CD's and there are also any songs by the same artist from a CD from that artist, some songs will get "lost" - they will store in the memory but they won't show up in the music library when you try to play them. This appears to happen mostly with WMA files, it doesn't seem to happen with MP3 files. To remedy that, I would have to only load about 40 songs at a time, then profile the unit, load more songs, etc.
Other than that, I really like this unit. I use it at work a lot (I work primarily in the service and construction industry) and I can load it up with enough songs and put it on "shuffle" so it plays the songs in random order, and most of the time, I don't hear the same song more than once in the same day. The stopwatch and pulse monitor are also a plus at the gym.
 Just OK January 16, 2008
Got this as a gift for XMas to replace a lost Rio Cali Sport. I need something light, durable and water-resistant for exercise. This is all that, but I found the controls, and the menus, much less easy to use than the Rio. Also it's easy to jostle the control stick and shut it down in the middle of a run. One other big negative is no slot for an MMR card, which was a big plus of the Cali. (If only I could find another of those!)
 Good buy! January 7, 2008
Bought this for my 15 year old. He really likes it and it was reasonably priced. Haven't had any problems with the unit.
decent and cheap - workout? February 2, 2007
stopping and restarting so that you pick up where you leave off press stop and hold the button until it shuts down. Play will allow you to start back up. I prefered the previous firmware- ie the stuff that's loaded- I ended up installing a new firmware. The previous allowed my player to be recognized only as a flash drive. I liked that because it allowed me to create folders and check the amount of room left easily. The new firmware is better in terms of file order- I believe it loads in the order the files are copied- but I miss the freedom of simply creating a directory and knowing exactly how much room was left. Of course this lead to me accidentily erasing the firmware. But the performance of this player is still decent. The belt clip is long gone, I think I sucessfully used it for three months, and then it broke. It still fits in my pocket and I'm not using it in an athletic situation. It occurs to me that it would be reasobably easy to construct a similar belt clip- perhaps even using some belt clip from another device. I haven't worked out how, but a thin gauge wire might be a good place to start. This player takes a lot of fooling around to figure out and it's not the most intuitive piece but it plays mp3 and wma and that means I happily use it for podcasts and audio books from my local library. It's not perfect but it's not expensive it has a visual display. I've seen something that suggests you can change the background color. I have not achieved that yet.
Keep the firmware (perhaps copying it to your computer as backup).
Don't use it to work out- it's belt clip will fail and that's the only way to use the armband.
Unintuitive button use.
Still good playback. Multiple file support. windows media playlists? rugged construction. easy use with conventional or rechargable batteries.
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