Koss CDP-3100 Personal CD/MP3 Player with Lid Top Digital Controls

by Koss

Product Details

Product Manual [124kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005KJWH
• Item model number: CDP3000
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The compact, affordable CDP-3100 not only plays MP3 files burned to CD, but also mixed-mode CDs containing a combination of MP3 files and standard (PCM) CD tracks. You'll enjoy forty-five seconds of anti-skip coverage for music tracks and up to 120 seconds of coverage for MP3 files. Playback options include MP3 and CD track programming, as well as random and repeat (single track, all tracks). An auxiliary output lets you hook the player up to your home system through a stereo Y interconnect (not supplied).

The six-line text and numeric LCD simplifies file maintenance and offers scrolling text so you can read the full artist name and song title. The player supports MP3 bit rates of 32, 64, 96, 128, 192, and 256 Kbps, as well as variable bit-rate recordings (MP3 format ISO 9660). A hold switch prevents unintended interruptions in playback and saves batteries by negating playback when the player is stopped. Dynamic bass boost system (DBBS) heightens the impact of low frequencies. The player runs on two AA batteries (not supplied) and includes an AC power adapter.

What's in the Box
Koss CDP-3100 personal CD/MP3 player, AC adaptor, remote control, user's manual and a ninety day warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cheap MP3/CD player - if you can't afford a TDK Mojo..., July 23, 2001

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Robert Thornburg (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Koss CDP-3100 Personal CD/MP3 Player with Lid Top Digital Controls (Electronics)

The Koss CDP3000 is worth what you pay for it. If you can't shell out the hundred-fifty dollars for an MP3/CD player with ID3 tag or filename support, then consider this one. It has the usual drawbacks, such as that it takes some time to spin up the CD and read the structure (somewhere between 10 and 40 seconds, depending on the CD, and sometimes it gets stuck during this process, but turning it off and them back on fixes this). The manual says it supports bitrates from 32K to 256K, including VBR. I tested a fair variety of different MP3s on it, and everything I tried except those with the new MP3Pro format worked. The anti-skip function is pretty good, but not perfect. The headphones are passable, but most people will want to spend twenty bucks on a pair of Sony's. (If you can afford fifty dollar or more headphones, then you should be able to afford a better MP3/CD player). I've gone through two sets of batteries so far, one lasted quite a while, and the other went very quickly, so I suspect the second set were just bad batteries. The navigation system is pretty good, it sorts by directories on the CD (calling them 'albums'). The random play feature only has one function, which plays all the tracks in one album in a random order, then switches to the next album. This product includes *no* software, and crappy documentation. It does have a line-out, and it includes an A/C adapter. For those who saw my earlier review, the problems I had were due to the way I burned the CDs -- don't use DirectCD to create MP3 CDs, it doesn't create CDs that follow the appropriate standards.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good little unit, December 6, 2002

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Damon Hyde "nomad" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Koss CDP-3100 Personal CD/MP3 Player with Lid Top Digital Controls (Electronics)

I gave it 4 stars but it could be 5 stars for the price. I've used a few players jwill, casio, memorex at the time they all cost a lot more than this and it beat them all. The rio at the time was much more. It was much better but it cost alot more. The lowdown on this unit:

Good:
No skips walking, biking, offroad biking, driving
plays dozens of different mp3 types, bitrates, media, burners
plays VBR up to 320kb or so
much better than all the others mentioned above except rio.

good navigation through directories

The bad
eats batterys. Usually seems to be 2 hrs. max was 5 hrs straight with kodak gold batteries.
no wma
no id3 tags.
no packet written disks
dont drop it. (i'm on my second one)
will not play r3mix mp3s reliably. I think its just to much compression processiong for its little cpu.

Bottom line
You can now get rio's for around less than they were with full id3 support
and the low end sp50 rio for about less as well. I haven't used the specific model but I hear its very good and based on much of their earlier model. I would go for the rio unless you get this koss really really cheap.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars awesome bargain, November 10, 2001

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Louis (Hagerstown, Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Koss CDP-3100 Personal CD/MP3 Player with Lid Top Digital Controls (Electronics)

I purchased this product on sale at my local Target last month. So far I've had three problems, 1) I dropped it three times from a distance of about three feet and while it continued to play (awesome bufferring and anti skip) for several seconds the disc did suffer some damage as it came free within the device and became severely gouged as it continued to spin. 2) another issue is that it wont recognize more than 93 mp3 files per disc, the manual says that it supports 99 tracks per album, but i haven't had success yet in burning a cd-r with the multiple albums that the player can recognize. 3) I only use this device with the power adapter that came with the device (a big plus), but I did use Energizer Titanium batteries just to test it and it ate them up with in 6 hours of use. I thought that was rather too quick for my taste. The great features include 1)the right price, 2)compact design, 3)ease of operation, 4)nice packaging(comes with fair quality headphones, i do recommend upgrading though, and a AC power adapter), other features include a hold switch(temporarily disables buttons), a DBBS switch (extra bass), a line out port, and the usual programming options. I recommend this product at the right price.