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 enlarge | Brand: RCA
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 35954
Color: Red
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8 x 2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: RP2520
Model: RP2520
UPC: 044319301953
EAN: 0044319301953
ASIN: B00027X300
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 DO NOT BUY THIS CRAPY PRODUCT November 15, 2005
this is the worst mp3/cd player I have ever owned. everything about this product is a lie because when I bought it i put in a cd-rw with mp3s on it and it played the first 5 seconds of the song and then it went silent for about 20 seconds and then skipped to the next track and it kept repeating this over and over. next i put a cd-r with regular songs on it and it did the exact same thing. then i even put in a regular cd that i bought at the store and it did the exact same thing. so whatever you do DOOO NOTTT BUYYY THISS CRAPYYY PRODUCT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK WHAT SO EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RCA deserves an award for this product. October 31, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
RCA deserves an award for making the only product that has made me legitimately feel I was cheated out of my money. I spent $40 on this piece of rubbish, but if I had known how poorly it worked, I wouldn't have paid $5 for it. It is completely worthless. The reason for my dissatisfaction (an understatement) is simple; the CD player refuses to play CDs. It's hard to explain, so let me give you an example of what happens when I try to play a CD with the RCA RP2520.
I put the CD in, close the cover, and press play. The CD player makes some noise (you can actually hear the parts inside churn about, as if they were going to work or something) and then starts playing the song 15 seconds after hitting the play button. (Not too bad so far.) The song goes on for about a minute before the song "skips" a little, then the song stops playing completely. (My old CD player could at least get through the first song FFS.) There's about a 30 second pause before the CD player gives up on track 1 and goes onto track 2. After another painfully long pause, the RP2520 starts playing track 2. I don't really like track 2, so I skip to track 7. There's a long pause before the CD player skips track 7 and goes to track 8, and then to track 9, and then to track 10. (Wow, the CD player knows that it can't play a track on a CD, so it takes it upon itself to skip through the tracks until it finds one it CAN play! That's impressive, right?) So, the CD player plays track 10, but not without, of course, the periodic 10 or 20 second pause.
Each and every time I've "used" the RP2520, I've spent more time NOT listening to music than listening to music. I kid you not. The ESP feature has to be a joke because I rarely get through a whole track without some "skipping," even when the player is on a flat, non-mobile surface. Think the ESP feature will let you listen to music with the RP2520 while jogging, riding in a car, or moving in general? No, sorry, it's a lost cause.
In conclusion, I HATE this product with a passion. On the plus side, you get some dandy headphones if you buy it. They work quite well, but why does it matter when the $40 CD player doesn't work?
RCA MP3 Personal CD Player August 22, 2005
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
Good afternoon, your people send me at the incorrectly address and for that I don't have my cd Player.
If you send me the Cd player to the following address.
JOSE RAMON MERA CURY
EPS X-18564
7801 N. W. 37th Street
Miami FL. 33166-6559
I can tell you about the cd, Thanks.
Tried 2 units, both could not handle MP3s above 160 reliably April 18, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased this player (RP2520) while on vacation. I had dropped my faithfull and workhorse AVC Soulplayer DMP-01 (basically a Re-branded Rio Volt SP100 or SP90) while exercising. After five years of service, I needed an MP3 player to get me through my 20+ hour drive home. I only had MP3 CDs with me. I went to three (national chain) stores on my last day of vacation and this RCA was the only one that had easy folder navigation (all my MP3 CDs contain albums, each in their own folder) and it came with a car kit at the cheapest price anywhere. It seemed like a good value at the time.
Well, you get what you pay for. The unit plays audio CDs without skipping at all, but MP3 CDs will lock and skip.... and I burn all mine to CD-Rs (not CD-RWs). The problem gets worse as you get near the end of CD. Now, any album I have that is only encoded at 160kbps or less (which is not very many) plays fine. VBR (variable bit rate) and 192/224/320kbps encoded MP3 have trouble after about 1-2 songs. It's as if the buffer gets full, and it's all downhill afterwards. I use high quality name-brand CD-Rs (Sony, Verbatim, TDK, etc). It doesn't matter which brand. MP3s all skip. Audio CDs and Audio CD-Rs all play fine. Strange and sad really.
I tried returning the unit for a second player... it did the exact same thing. So back to the store both units went. I guess I'll try to find a used Soulplayer or Volt SP100/SP90/SP250 somewhere. My Soulplayer never skipped on me once (too bad they don't make 'em anymore). I've heard good things about iRiver players too, maybe I'll have to look into those as well.
 No complaints December 26, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have used this player for over a month now for mp3 discs that I have burned on my laptop or have gotten from a manufacturer (for example, audio books on mp3 CD). I have had no problems. The older RCA mp3 CD player had that proprietary (sp?) Smartrax system that was confusing until you read all about it in the manual--then it was okay for navigating. This model avoids the confusion by adding two buttons for navigating through file folders. So if you favor unabridged audio books on mp3 cd, this player will work great. I just drove 780 miles from central Texas to St. Louis for the holidays, and it played two complete novels fine on just two batteries. When you stop the player and then come back later and turn it on, it even remembers the track you left off on. (I have not yet played a regular CD or a CD-RW disc on the player, so the comments by the other two customers may be correct. But good, reliable mp3 cd players are pretty hard to come by, so the performance of this player satisfies me.)
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