Customer Reviews

Classic CM-800 Portable Mini-Disc Player with 120-Second Anti-Shock Protection

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I have the same problem as Joe. I bought this from Circuit City. The same night I bought it, the LCD starts messing up. First it gives me upside down invert text, other times, it gives me Big test where I can not read it right. I exchanged that one. This one dose not have the same problem with the LCD. This problem causes the LCD to not show up at all. It plays great but I want to be able to change to different songs. I can not change to different songs if I can not see the options.

This is a GREAT little MP3 player. Those tiny little CDs hold about 4 hours of MP3 music! The sound quality is great. For better volume, use your own headphones though - the ones that come with them are a bit low on volume.
Compared to other full-size CD MP3 players, this tiny little guy is sure nice!
Batteries last about 8 hrs. There is even a LCD window where you see the songs, can scroll through them, play 'em all or program your favorites.
The 3 CDs that come with it give you about 12 hrs playing time (they're blank - you need a CD Writer to put the music on 'em.
For the money, I can't find a better deal anywhere. Compared to many a bit more expensive - THIS is the one I'd recommend.
120 seconds anti-shock is pretty cool too. I hope you enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine!

i really think that 3" mp3 cd players are an almost ideal mp3 player as they can be quite small and quite inexpensive, but i've had three of this model so far and all have had the LCD either be defective right out of the box or within two days of use. plus it would be nice if this player was a little smaller. but unlike a full-size portable cd player, this fits in your pocket quite well. and 3" cd's are quite a bit cheaper than virtually any other form of memory expansion, and cd-rw discs work great. the skip protection seems ok, but it would be nice to have a hold option so that you don't accidentally bump the player and affect the play. the pouch with belt clip is nice, but i would rather have a clip as part of the player as i don't generally wear an actual belt. i can't wait to find the right 3" mp3 cd player, but without a working LCD, this one is not quite it.

If you don't mind burning your own mp3 cd's, this is the player for you. Its small size make it very easy to carry around and the 120 sec skip protection works very well. The day after I got it, I attached the included case to my belt and worked out in the garden for several hours without a single skip. The mini-cds hold about three albums worth of music ripped at 128Kbps. They cost less than fifty cents a piece and I like their size. They have the CM800 at Circuit City for 59.00 and I don't see how you can go wrong.

When you burn your CD's just make sure you use Mode 1, although you can have the long file names. Don't do multi-session, or the disk can't be read. Burn it disk-at-once at no more than 8x. These settings work for me.

i got caught to with the cm800 it plays fine and all but i cant make any directories if lcd doesnt work i did happen to notice if you let it get cold ( leave in car) overnight in winter
the lcd works for a minute i dont know if this tidbit will help in getting support for repair but it plays still should be a factory recall or voucher

I bought this cd player before reading reviews from other places saying that the sreen quit working after a while. I thought it was all good because it never happened until i got back onto the bus one day. Its gone, i took it apart and theres nothing you can do. ...

I bought this a few weeks ago and thought I got what I paid for. The belt pouch that it comes with has no holes to access the buttons, but it fits easily into my back pocket and a little more conspicuously into my front. It doesn't come with a burning program, but I'd been meaning to buy one anyway. There's a slight buzz in the background when I use my earphones, (Labtec curve 465), but it's not too noticeable if you listen to fast paced music, (AC/DC, Metallica, Ozzy, etc.)and you get used to it to the point of tuning it out after a while. Once in a while the buttons get bumped, which would make some kind of hold function a plus, were it equipped with one. I listen to music hours on end while I'm going through my daily routine and noticed that the battery life is a little lacking. The search function is impressive, but somewhat unnecessary unless you burn your CDs at an excessively low bit rate. All of this was expected however, and I'm not upset in the least upset about it. I am upset that the LCD screen just quit on me without cause. Apparently this is a fairly common occurrence and I'm hoping that it can be repaired.

This little device was a lot better than I thought it'd be. Tried out a few others before I got this - even imported a few players from oversees - and none of them can touch this little beauty. For the price, it just can't be beat. I just feel a little stupid for not coming across this great product sooner than I did. Comes with AC adaptor, headphones (though you might wanna use your own for better sound), carrying pouch, nice little simple manual and 3 blank mini CD-Rs. Sounds great, DBBS works well, NO skips, bleeps, or glitches whatsoever (even while snowboarding), boots and loads up whole mp3 mini CDs quickly and efficiently (including various bitrates), and only about 1-2 seconds of pause between each song. Reads and navigates directories easily, displays (scrolling!) ID3 v1 and v2 tags and long filenames flawlessly, even displays bitrates and compression rates too. Batteries last well over 8 hours too (rechargeable NimH ones anyway), probably because the disc is almost NEVER spinning. It just loads up chunks of your song into its 120 second anti-skip cache then plays from there 'till it has to retrieve more chunks from the disc. It's also solidly built and small, you can just feel that it's gonna last a while. It even displays "Hello" when you turn it on and "Good bye" when you turn it off! Not backlit, but who cares - it'd just drain your batteries faster. Can't say enough good things about this player, what a difference it was from the last player I had. Get it while you can!

I just purchased this little MP3-CD player at Circuit City and am very impressed with it! I'm not sure why the other reviewer had problems with his, maybe it was defective. The 120 second skip protection works great - this player will not skip even if you turn it off.

For the price, it blows away the competition.

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Saw this at circuit city for ... bucks .. I thought .. well at 50 bucks it is worth a try.

Review .. This is awesome !... I'm burning 192+ kbps music, for ... bucks, you get a nice mp3 player (lcd could be better, the only drawback though) and yea it is small, I can put it in my jeans pocket, adapter, 3 cd'rs, a case, and a decent set of headphones, though I wanna get one of those noise cancelling headphones eventually. The sound quality is very very decent.

I haven't had any hanging/skipping problems and I've used this unit for about 1 week now (heavily).

For 50$, I'd say .. YES YES .. and .. OH YESSS !! This is a no brainer :).