RioVolt SP50C Coke Volt Portable CD/MP3 Player with Car Kit

The Coke brand SP50C player is a sleek, eye-catching portable disc player that plays both standard music CDs and discs loaded with MP3 files. Assembling collections on a CD burner gives you the option of storing up to 10 hours of MP3 music on a single CD-R or CD-RW. You also get text display for ID3 title information, showing track and artist information while music plays.

Electronic shock protection (up to 120 seconds) keeps the music flowing smoothly, and you'll get around 10 hours of playback time using only two AA batteries. Bass boost, folder navigation, programmable sequencing, repeat play, and shuffle play modes broaden listening options. The package includes CD player, car power and cassette adapter, earphones, 2 AA batteries, and a starter guide.

1 Satisfactory CD Player
This CD player is pretty good, but not the best. First with the negatives, is guzzles up batteries SO fast that I bought a recharging kit for them. Its also not that easy to navigate around a 200 song MP3 CD. With multiple headphones, I started only getting sound out of only my left ear. The sound quality is satisfactory. The car kit is nice as well. It is pretty durable, I dropped it around 15 times from pretty high while working out until I started encountering problems. It stopped playing MP3 cds, and then one day it randomly stopped playing all CDs. It had a lifespan of around 10 months for regular CDs, and 8 for MP3 CDs. But it still might be working if I didn't drop it a lot. It was a good CD player but I will be buying another one this time, that is a little more expensive. Overall, it is a satisfactory CD player.

2 You Get What You Pay For
Not only is my LCD screen upside down, it's broken. What it's telling me upside down is gibberish. Even wih normal CDs. And I've tried using both versions of ID3 tags, it won't recognize either.

The sound quality is crap at it's very best (320kb/s Mp3s and $40 headphones), and it takes a good 10 seconds to switch tracks with the skip button. When you have 150 songs on a CD, and can't navigate by folder due to the LCD screen being broken, that's a big problem. It's also annoying to have a song end and wait 10 seconds before the next one starts.

The lid just unlocks and locks, you have to pull it up and push it down. When pushing it up, you have to push until it finds it's little groove, when it feels like it's going to break. It just feels cheap like it's going to break, makes you scared to operate it.

Also, the headpone jack is trash (for my headphones and the crappy ones that came with it). It doesn't fit the entire little prong in, it sticks out about 1/5th an inch if you push it in as much as you can, and if you do that, you'll only have left-channel audio. So you have to pull it out to the point where only about half the headphone prong is in the player, but really, the sound this player gives you isn't worth the trouble of just that.

It came with a card that says "Don't return this product to the store. Contact the helpful and friendly staff at SONICblue Custom Care". I suppose I'll be doing that, but I can't imagine them fixing the sound and lid problem, even if they can fix the LCD screen. I've bought many things online in the past years, and I've never been so dissatisfied with a product as I am with this player, even at this low price. Maybe the non-Coke SP50 is a better product, but I doubt it, they appear identical aside from lid design.

3 Very good product
I have a RioVolt CD/MP3 player, but it's not this one exactly. I just think the design is different. I have had my player for over a year and so far it has been perfect. I have not had it skip on me even while driving. So on that note, I am very satisfied with this product.

4 MP3 HEAVEN
This is by far the best Discman known to MAN and I kid you not. Never has my darling failed me. There's nothing left desirable. Period.