RCA RP2480 Portable CD/MP3 Player

.Pros: Has all the features I could expect from a MP3/WMA player, i.e.: you can do a mix and match of MP3s & WMAs of even different bit rates within a same folder and it will play it!"Functionnalywise" I give it 9/10Cons: The unit does not play loud enough (tried with several types of headphones)NO BACKLIT! -> forget about the benefits of the ID tag feature in the dark...VERY ANNOYING ELECTRICAL NOISE IN HEADPHONES AT LOW VOLUME.I often used the player in bed at low volume. In that particular case, you can easily hear an electrical noise generated by the circuitry of the player. For that only reason, I have returned the unit to the store because music quality is more important than the features. I can't think of a product affected by such a problem was released on the market....sorry RCA, you have to work harder on the noise reduction design before convincing me...With these cons fixed, this product would beat all competition at that price!

I don't understand about these other reviwers. My CD player works great. Reads my burnt CDs quickly and my MP3 discs are loaded in a snap. Great sound the headphones it comes with are great. If you turn the volume up full volume you can hear it across the room. Great anti-skip. EQ settings. I have a RCA Sterero with the same EQs on it and it great on my sterero and my portable cd player. My only bad thought about it is the Music Match software. You can burn MP3s really fast. The thing is when you want to take songs of of the disc or add some it says that you have to be a monthly subscriber to it. So does Real Player. Haven't figured out how to burn MP3s on Media Player though. All and all great CD/MP3 Player. I would buy another CD/MP3 player from RCA. They make some great stuff.

I bought this CD player, and wasn't expecting it to be perfect, being from RCA. I love the MP3 on this CD player because it is easy to read, and you can scroll through the list and pick which songs that you like. There is one major problem with this CD player though - whenever playing an MP3 cd or a standard audio CD, a loud buzzing noise occurs. Even when you turn the volume high, anytime the music you are listening to gets quiet, you can hear the noise. I have very high quality headphones, and I can still hear the buzzing. It is extremely annoying, especially when trying to listen to classical music. I took the same audio CD and put it into my old sony CD player, and it worked perfectly, without any buzzing. Also, it is great that you can choose from modes of DSP like Jazz, Pop Classical, etc, but the bass boost mode provides hardly any bass. I play the Cello, and when I went to put on Mozart, I was stunned when I found I could not hear them because the bass was not adequate. I woud not buy this aga

If I could have given this item 0 stars that's what I would have done. I purchased this item to replace my old RCA cd player that was skipping like crazy when I went out on my morning walks. So I liked the fact that this had MP3 so I could put more songs on one disk and then it also had Electronic Skip protection so I could actually hear the entire song. Well the first day I was thrilled, everything worked great. The next day it started skipping because the batteries were dying. Mind you I only walk half an hour a day and this was only the second day. Then all of a sudden the entire unit just shut off. It did this to me numerous times within the next few days. I was just walking along and the whole thing just shut off for no reason at all. I thought maybe I pressed something as I was walking, so I took it out of the case and held it in my hand, I pressed nothing and it just shut off again. I had enough and returned it to the store, then I went to a completely different store and bought it again. I thought okay maybe it was just that one that was messed up. Wrong!! The same exact problems, it would just shut off in the middle of the song with fresh new batteries. I was so upset I took it back and now I am on here trying to find another cd player to replace it. I was completely dissapointed. There is definitely something wrong with this model. I bought if for the skip protection, sure it doesn't skip but at least my other cd player actually let me hear the song! I also agree with the other posts about hearing the electric noise in the background. I will never by another RCA cd player again.

it came with ear buds and mine came with batteries I don't think that all come with batteries. I didn't see a stop button that's my main thing. Have too take disc out for it too shut off. but plays well.

I bought this cd player because it had the 2 features I needed: mp3 playback and car kit. The car kit works, but I had to go through extra steps with knowledgeable friends because the poor manual has almost no instructions. Worse is mp3 playback - 1 out of 5 songs CANNOT be read. When that happens, the player simply freezes, and you have to unplug the AC adapter and replug it in. I use this mainly for my car, and I have had to unplug the adapter from the cig lighter, plug it back in, turn on the power, select the music and hit play, too many times, WHILE DRIVING. And that will only last maybe 20 minutes, and I have to go through the same steps again.My conclusions is the cd player is extremely unreliable in the mp3 playback department. I have had enough, and this player is going back to the store.AVOID.

When I saw this cd player in the images I found, I thought...that's pretty ugly, but it was cheap and it had exactly what I wanted. When the product got to my house I just was impressed, it wasn't pretty much as I imagined, it looks quite cool. Also, it works pretty well and with every MP3 cd I found :D. I would recommend you buy it...