Customer Reviews

Macvision MA833A-5S 512 MB MP3 Player Silver

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I bought this from Amazon over a year ago, for < $70. I wanted a flash-drive MP3 player mainly to play audio books (.mp3 or .wma only) while commuting to work, and wasn't interested in an iPod; for me, the smaller, the better. This MP3 player serves this purpose, and is inexpensive compared to similar items. I use one of those cassette adapters to listen to it in the car, and this works just fine.

It uses 1 AAA battery, which usually lasts up to 15 hrs for me. It does pick up a book where I left off. However, if I decide to switch to a different book altogether before finishing the first one, it loses the "bookmark," which is annoying. It means I have to start all over again because there's no FF or RW within a file. As for music, I only keep about 20 songs on it, and haven't had any problems with playback.

I keep this in the car unless I'm uploading new files to it. This means it sits through temperature extremes (NJ). When it gets very cold during winter, the display on the unit doesn't want to display. It does reappear when the temp warms up. I have no idea if all LCDs do that. I probably shouldn't leave it outside anyway, car or no. In any case, it's still working the same as the 1st day I used it.

Overall, I'm satisfied with this. It's no-frills, but gets the job done, and didn't cost much. Although I just upgraded to a Sandisk 2GB player, I'm still keeping this for the commute.

for the moment I am very happy of the product. The only thing it use lot of battery AAA

I FOUND OUT AFTER I PURCHASED THIS ITEM, 2 THINGS AS LISTED BELOW:

1. MACVISION SOLD OUT TO ANOTHER COMPANY.

2. ITEM I BOUGHT IS OBSOLETE AND NOT LISTED WITH NEW COMPANY.

3. EVEN THOUGH NEW (NIP)I WOULD NEVER BUY IN THE FUTURE A ITEM THAT IS NO LONGER MANUFACTURED.

4. I AM TOTALLY DISATISFIED WITH MY PURCHASE AND GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY, I WOULD DUMP IT IN A MINUTE, (IT IS FOR A GIFT FOR MY GRAND DAUGHTER FOR EASTER)

BOBBY