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 enlarge | Brand: Panasonic
Category: CE
Buy New: $48.95
New (3) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $19.95
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 12250
Color: Blue
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
MPN: SV-MP020
Model: SV-MP020
UPC: 037988254408
EAN: 0037988254408
ASIN: B000F3NIYM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 If you're looking for a MP3 player that is verbose, compact, generous on storage and easy on the wallet look no father! May 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased this device (the white and silver one) from a local Wal-Mart (for about $84.00). I researched various MP3 players under $200. The IPOD cannot even compare to this dream player.
* Size - It is small (About as long as a tube of lipstick) It's perfect to take along while walking running or working out [That was mine's intended use :-)].
* Resources - Runs off of 1 AA battery for up to 80 hrs (this is of course under the default factory settings. However, I have had mine since march and have not had to change the battery and I and still getting excellent playback!)
* Options - This pocket player is packed with power.
Boasting 2 Gigs worth of flash memory it can store aprox 500 MP3's depending on file size. It will also store other file types in a different folder.
It interfaces seamlessly with Windows XP. There is not a bundle of software to complicate things (Like I tunes or it's counterparts). Just plug it in to your pc's USB port (with the included adapter) and it will auto recognize and show up under 'My Computer' as another removable storage device. From there you can just copy and paste your MP3's from your pc to your device, or create folders on your device directly from windows to keep music organized. Though a little hard to access from the device it's self you are able to use the folders as play lists.
You also have the ability to remix, repeat or randomize a specific play list or all music on the player.
So if you're looking for a MP3 player that is verbose, compact, generous on storage and easy on the wallet look no father.
To learn more please read the review for the Panasonic SV-MP010 MP3 Player on C-Net.com. This review is on the 1 Gig model but other than capacity there are no differences. C-Net is a wonderful resource for technical reviews and tips.
A fix for book 'readers' April 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I use my MP020 only for 'reading' books. Another reviewer mentioned the slow scan issue. There is a solution for this. If you check online you can find free, audiobook slicers. These can slice up the file into smaller pieces, say 5-10 mins of sound. Then if you accidentally go back to the beginning, all you have to do is jump to the proper slice and you aren't spending 30 mins seaching into a 3 hour boo boo. (speaking from bitter experience)
incredibly great! January 21, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Panasonic SV-MP020 review:
This mp3/wma player is absolutely amazing! The sound is incredibly great! It even has a few eq settings as well as "surround" mode, which gives your music a noticeably wider range... also has something called "remastered" which is another way it tweaks your audio files to play them beyond the fullest extent of their high fidelity.
Something very important to me is a resume function, so when you are playing your music, stop your device, and later turn it back on, it remembers where it was. The Panasonic SV-MP020 does this to the note! I've been fooling around with disc mp3 players for the last couple years and you'd be very hard pressed to find one that does this, even on the ones that claim they do. Not only is this never a problem for the Panasonic, it reloads amazingly quick when you turn it back on, doesn't go reading... reading... reading... etc. due to being a flash player no doubt.
2GB I find more than adequate for my needs. I bought this for my new/used car which has a very nice stereo, but only cassette. I now simply plug the MP020 into a cassette adaptor and I can enjoy my mp2/wma music in my car with the high quality stereo it came with. (my car being blue, I just had to get the blue one, too!) So, I basically bought it for my car, BUT, I now also bring it to my office at work and it also comes in handy in many situations. For us old fashioned long play albums people, you get around 30 wma albums on it.
Loading this thing is very simple. You just plug it into your usb port with the SUPPLIED cable, and it shows up as a drive under My Computer. Then you simply drag and drop your music on the media folder on the drive. Although I don't use it, you can also easily sync it with Windows Media Player. It does arrange your music in the order you copy it to the device, so if you need things in a particular order, you want to keep this in mind. If you're into shuffling your music, the Panasonic also does this, and quite well (playing as a good variety mixture of your 2GB).
The display is very easy to read. The entire layout is very straightforward and logical. It did take me awhile to get used to knowing how to select my album, play it, and have the device keep playing the remainder of the library from that point. It just took a bit of practice, but it's just a matter of knowing how to do this.
If all of that wasn't enough, probably the best unique thing about this player is the power supply. I was never much one to "fool with batteries", but I didn't want to fool with too many wires in my car either. The MP020 runs on a NORMAL AA battery! And, yes, it's removable and replaceable, which I hear many mp3-type players are not, which is a major factor that kept me from buying one for so long. It's advertised on the package to last a whopping 80 HOURS and I haven't timed it, but after 2 weeks of daily use now, the battery icon hasn't indicated any usage so far at all! I think it will make it's 80 hours of playback time, and I've read on line other reviews that confirm this.
So, to summarize, it's blue, it's easy to use, it's a nice size gb wise and physical size (about the size of a cigarette lighter: again, older folks like me that used to smoke back in the day, instead of carrying a lighter, you can carry 30 albums in your pocket!) and it sounds FANTASTIC! I'm extremely impressed with the sound and everything about this product.
I read many reviews on line, including this site, to help me decided what mp3/wma player to get, and I hope this review helps you. If you like the features I do mentioned here, I can't recommend this player highly enough!
 It's fine, but... January 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...I use my player to listen to books, which brings up a strong negative. With other players I have used, when I held down the search (>> OR <<) button, the forward or reverse went faster and faster the longer I held down the button. Not so with this device. It goes about 10x speed, and that's it. Once I accidentally restarted a book of which I'd listened to 3 hours. I had to push the search button down for a half hour to get back to where I was!!
 Doesn't support Windows Playlists September 4, 2006
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
I assumed a $150+ flash player that uses Windows Media Player 10 as its transfer software would also allow playlists. However, mine did not transfer, and further reading in the manual shows what it calls 'playlists' are actually the folders where the music is recorded. This means you cannot build separate lists that include the same song without recording the song each time, gobbling up memory. Since there was no warning of this on the package, I will never again buy an audio player from Panasonic. I've wasted too much money already on a player that won't allow me to transfer customized lists of music! My attempts to contact Panasonic to question this have been unanswered.
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