AUDIOVOX MP3 PLAYER 4GB COLOR TFT DISPLAY

• RCA 4GB Flash Memory Digital Media Player w/2 LCD Display/FM Radio/Voice Recording M4304

I got this for my son because it was cheap but cool-looking and he's not old enough (and I'm not rich enough) for an ipod. We had no trouble whatsoever loading music and a few photos. Don't bother using the "easyRip" software that comes on the unit...a total waste of time. If you have Windows Media Player it's easy enough. The unit has to be connected to the computer to delete stuff. The screen is a decent size, good picture quality. On most of the downloaded songs it displays the CD cover when the songs starts playing (but not for songs ripped from CDs). The FM radio picks up tons of stations. The main menu organizes your music by title, artist, genre, etc, but unfortunately you don't get to create your own playlists (I would have liked to be able to create a different playlist for "workouts", "errands", etc). It took me half a day to figure out how to load a DVD movie onto this thing. I finally was able to using Wondershare DVD Ripper, but don't expect to really enjoy any movies. How can you on such a small screen? But alas my son likes having a movie or two on there. At this price (I did not buy mine here) you can't complain.

Buy AUDIOVOX MP3 PLAYER 4GB COLOR TFT DISPLAY Now

For the past yr I've been using the RCA Pearl was ready for a video MP3 Player upgrade,so I remained with RCA and bought the Opal. It's very slim and fits in my pocket as I walk..love the fact if you turn it off it resumes to were you left off with a cd song. The 2" screen is great for viewing videos or pictures.

Read Best Reviews of AUDIOVOX MP3 PLAYER 4GB COLOR TFT DISPLAY Here

We had it a week and it didn't work for 2 days of it....was so slow to load, would freeze up and after 4 days the screen was clearly messed up. My daughter was really disappointed as it was a Christmas gift. We took this back and got the Philips Gogear Vibe....MUCH nice and less $$.

Want AUDIOVOX MP3 PLAYER 4GB COLOR TFT DISPLAY Discount?

Features: There is not an option for playlists. I customize my workouts by beats per minute so whenever I want to change a song, I have to go through and delete ALL of the songs up to the point where I add the new song and then re-add the other songs. Also, there is no way to skip a song until the album artwork goes away. Therefore, I have deleted most of the songs that have album artwork because I just don't feel like waiting. Thirdly, I am unsure how they categorize the songs because there are some songs that were arbitrarily relegated to the "Unknown Artist/Unknown Title" category which means that this takes extra time to find them when I want to listen to them instead of just being able to scroll through the "Title" or "Artist" lists. Fourth, unlike the Go Gear I used to have, you cannot listen to your songs while the device is charging.

Battery Life: Pretty good. I can go a few days before absolutely needing to charge.

Portability: Fine.

Sound Quality: There has been more than one occasion on which there was lots of static for no discernible reason at all.

Overall, considering the strides that technology has made, I feel this device is a little prehistoric and am looking forward to getting another device that is NOT made by RCA. I will probably give this one to my 9 year-old cousin. The only reason I gave this 2 stars is because it IS an MP3 player as is marketed.

"Features"

If any of your music has artwork impeded in the ID3 tags enjoy waiting. You are unable to skip to the next song while the opal is loading music artwork. It does this at the speed of displaying an image over a 14.4 kb modem from 1990.

The opal does not recover from crashing...at all. Have you ever had an mp3 player or usb flash drive connected to your computer and forgot to unmount the drive before disconnecting from the computer? I have. The drive 98% of the time will be fine.

Not the opal. If you forget to unmount it from the computer, 100% of the time it will power up, initialize, then go to a screen that says "building database this may take a while" at which point it will sit there forever or shut down. You have just f**ed up your Opal and now must reinstall the firmware. This happens not only from forgetting to unmount it but from shutting your computer down while the device is still connected. (even though that automatically unmounts EVERY OTHER USB harddrive/MP3 Player) And it will also happen if the device freezes/crashes while listening to music. (Which happened to me last night, it froze in the middle of a song, I held the power button to force restart the device and BAM! I am now reloading the firmware and copying back all of my music...again.)

This is the worst MP3 player I have ever owned. DO NOT BUY!