Lexar Media LDP-200 SD Digital Audio Player with 1 GB SD Card

by Lexar

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 7 x 2 inches ; 6.9 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007M60WS
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,884 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ideal for consumers looking for a compact, easy-to-use digital music player, the Lexar LDP-200 offers a convenient and simple user interface, versatility and portability. Music is stored on SD memory cards (1 GB SD Card included) and accessed using the player's SD card slot--providing users with unlimited storage capacity. Using multiple SD cards, users can create favorite music playlists, and manage entire music libraries stored on removable SD cards. For added flexibility, the LDP-200 also serves as an SD Card reader, making it a handy data transfer device. The LDP-200 is powered by one AAA battery, which provides over 10 hours of battery life.

Features:

• User-selectable play mode (10-second intro, normal)
• USB 2.0 High Speed for fast downloads
• Supported formats: MP3, WMA, WMA DRM, Janus DRM when available

System requirements:

• Windows ME/2000/XP
• Mac OS 9.0 or above
• One available USB port

What's in the Box
Lexar digital music player, 1 SD Card flash memory, earbud headphones a lanyard/necklace, a USB extension cable, a user's manual, and warranty information.

Product Description

Includes: 1GB SD card, earbud headphones, lanyard/necklace, & USB extension cable. Lexar LDP-200 1GB SD Digital Audio Player - Unlike a lot of other digital audio players with "built-in" memory, the LDP-200 supports Secure Digital (SD) memory cards. So your compact player can have an unlimited amount of storage with optional SD cards! Supported Formats - MP3, WMA, & WMA DRM Connects to a PC or Mac via USB 2.0 System Requirements - Windows Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS 9.0 or above, and 1 USB port

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent budget player, July 28, 2005

By 

Navy Nuke Electrician (Lynnwood, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lexar Media LDP-200 SD Digital Audio Player with 1 GB SD Card (Electronics)

(...)I been playing with it for a few hours and I'm ready to share my thoughts. First, the pros and cons:

PROS
-can access sd cards up to 2 gb in size(a 4 gb sd card is available but i'm not willing to spend a fortune for it just to test it out on this player)
-ability to organize music by folders
-ability to access a specific folder full of music
-decent build quality(doesn't look or feel flimsly like the sandisk sensa counterpart which has a very thin and cheap plastic case construction)
-nice and stylish burgandy, deep red color with silver trim
-small and lightweight, fits well in the palm of your hand
-uses a single, replaceable AAA battery, so battery life is not an issue because you could always pop in new battery in just a few seconds
-relatively inexpensive if you buy the one without the sd card
-ability to browse and select a different song while another is playing
-auto shut off feature if player is paused and not used for less than a minute
-blue back light stays on for a few seconds when ever you access any button and then turns off
-not necessary to use the player's mini-usb connection to load music, you could load up the sd card on a seperate card reader/writer if you want to(this is probably the best method because not all card readers/writers operate at the same speed-i use a sandisk "USB 2.0 CERTIFIED with ESP technology" 12 in 1 memory card reader/writer, also not all memory cards have the same transfer speeds-takes roughly 6-9 minutes to load up a 2 gb sandisk Ultra II sd card)
-shock resistant, i tested it by dropping the player about two feet above my wooden desk and it still works-i can't imagine what kind of damage that would do to microdrive player such as an apple ipod, creative zen, rio pearl, or sony network walkman
-sd card slot makes this player extremely expandable(i have two sd cards that are 2 gb in size and several 512 mb cards)
-decent display which scrolls through song names and folder names

CONS
-sound quality is average to good(it all depends on the type of headphones you use)
-like the ipod it has preset equalizer settings and no user defined or adjustable equalizer setting
-center joystick tough to operate but you get used to it
-doesn't include a pouch
-takes a while to boot up depending on sd card size(takes about 20 seconds to index a 2 gb sd card, a 512 mb card takes only a few seconds depending on how much music is loaded on it)
-can't shuffle through a specific folder, it can only shuffle every song in the card if you select that play mode
-can't sort or browse by album title, artist, song name, genre, playlist unless you set up your folders by album title name, artist name, genre name or playlist name. if you don't use folders at all then you can browse by song name alphabetically
-will only be able to access a third or half of the music stored on the card if you use subfolders - for instance, if you organize you music by artist as a folder, album title as a subfolder, and actual songs within this subfolder then the player will go schitzoid trying to index your music on boot up and will show sub folders that it could not index as "NO FILE" --- (My best suggestion is to label all your folders with the artist name followed by the album title and don't use subfolders at all - the downside is that with the small screen it takes a while for the album title to scroll by)
-plays songs randomly within a folder, i suggest renaming your mp3 files with the track number first followed by the song name.
-displays current song number and total song number on card without a third digit - for instance a 2 gb sd card with mp3's encoded at 192 kbps can hold about 366 songs - so if you are playing the last song in the last alphabetically organized folder it will show it as 66/66 instead of 366/366. if you use 256 mb or 128 mb cards this shouldn't be a problem because you'll probably have less than a hundred songs, however if you plan to use larger size cards i would advice you ignore that part of the display

Conclusion
-Even with all its problems, I still highly recommend this player. For 40 dollars you get an extremely inexpensive workout/jogging player due to its small size and light weight; you get a extremely expandable mp3 player due to the use of a sd card slot and it's ability to handle the latest high capacity sd cards(keep in mind the price of sd cards are falling like crazy as newer and higher capacity cards become available); you get an extremely durable, shock resistant player which will survive minor falls and drops due to its solid state design; and you will also get an extremely long lasting player because if you always keep spare, rechargeable AAA batteries around then this player can run for as long as you want(i own an ipod mini and don't use it anymore because of battery drain problems even when the unit is in sleep mode-i'd rather recharge my spare NiMH AAA batteries once a week than worry about charging my ipod mini every single day).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best 2GB MP3 player for under $100, April 3, 2006

By 

Matt Cham "Matt Cham" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lexar Media LDP-200 SD Digital Audio Player with 1 GB SD Card (Electronics)

PROS:

Best 2GB MP3 player for under $100 ($20 for LDP-200, $70 for 2GB SD card)

My NiMH 1000mAh AAA battery lasts 9 to 10 hours.

Nice sound quality if you have good headphones.

Tiny and lightweight.

CONS:

As noted by others, there is a maximum limit of 128 files per folder, and maximum limit of 40 folders+subfolders. That's not too bad considering 40 folders x 128 files = 5,120 songs. If each song is 4 MB in size, that's 20 GB which will not fit in your SD card anyway. With a 2GB card, you only have room for 500 four-megabyte songs. Therefore the file system is more than adequate for the purposes of this small inexpensive device.

CONCLUSION:

Basic functionality at rock-bottom price, so don't expect iPod performance.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lexar could make this player better..., March 14, 2006

By 

Marc Dousset (MT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexar Media LDP-200 SD Digital Audio Player with 1 GB SD Card (Electronics)

This player could be great if it was not for the following flow that another reviewer pointed out:

"will only be able to access a third or half of the music stored on the card if you use subfolders - for instance, if you organize you music by artist as a folder, album title as a subfolder, and actual songs within this subfolder then the player will go schitzoid trying to index your music on boot up and will show sub folders that it could not index as NO FILE".

This basically means that you have to spend a lot of time reorganizing songs on this player so that the player will recognize them.

Even if I can browse to a particular nested folder, the player does not want to play songs from that folder in random mode.

This problem has become particularly annoying as my music collection is growing. It is even more frustrating since it would probably only take Lexar to issue a firmware upgrade to resolve this issue. I have tried to contact them to suggest just that but with no success.

If you can live with the limitation above, this can be a great player, otherwise look elsewhere.