iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection

by Compaq

Product Details

Product Manual [1.33mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 13.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005UM9T
• Item model number: 254611-001
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,744 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Load up an eight-centimeter mini-CD with all your favorite digital music files and plug it into the Compaq iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player for hours and hours of your favorite tunes. The perfect companion for people who travel, exercise, or commute, this ultra-compact player might be small on size, but it is big on music. Each tiny disc holds up to six hours of music, and the player offers an excellent anti-shock protection system for uninterrupted playback. When playing CD-DA material, you can count on a whopping 160 seconds of protection, and when playing MP3 files, the PM-1 delivers a staggering 480 seconds of protection. Run, jump, ski, cycle, this player will keep your favorite songs piped right into your ears no matter how strenuous the activity.

The PM-1 comes with rechargeable batteries. With the line-out jack, it is easy to connect the player to a home stereo system. The in-line remote control is fully-functional, complete with an LCD screen, and will keep you connected to your player even when you are across the room. With the power-saving function, saving precious battery power is breeze -- the auto-off button will power-off the player after thirty seconds in the stop or open mode.

Five equalizer settings give you the control of your sound quality, and with ID3 tag support, finding critical information about track, title, artist and album is at your fingertips. Multiple search possibilities are included in the player, assisting you in finding that one song or album you absolutely need to listen to. This kind of organization is a much-appreciated extra-special feature when trying to sort through six hours of music. The program mode will store thirty-two tracks to help you create an individualized play list. The player comes with MusicMatch Jukebox software to assist in using the player to its fullest extent.

What's in the Box
iPAQ PM-1 mini-CD player, inline remote control, headphones, AC adaptor, two rechargeable AAA batteries, three eight-centimeter discs, installation CD, and a user's manual.

Product Description

Check out CompaqM-^Rs compact CD/MP3 player. Each mini-CD can store up to 180MB memory, or 6 hours of music in MP3 audio format--all on a disc that's 50% smaller than standard CDs. You can connect the player to your home stereo and, with its small size and up to 8-minute skip protection, you can take it with you anywhere.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Little Player, January 7, 2002

By 

Alex (LO oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection (Electronics)

This player is very good. I had already bought a mp3/cd player, and so i just leave that at home, and when i go, i take this one with me. The dimensions are 4*4*1.25, but it feels a lot smaller than that. If you are thinking of buying a minidisc, mp3, or jukebox player, i would have to say get this one instead. At 128kbs, you can have 180 minutes of musice, and at 64kbs(for people with no taste) you can have 360 minutes, or 6 hours. You can usualy fit 3 cd's, sometimes four on 1 Cd. I just put all my cd's from 1 band on one cd. It is better than minidisc because it plays in all computers with a cd drive, and it is better than a jukebox because it weighs less and a bit smaller, and better than an mp3 player because it holds more. The remote is great, and the folder/file system works well too. it has 6 preset eq's and it will read the CD then stop spinning. It has a hold on the remote and the player so you can just hold the player, stick it in your pocket, and still control it with the remote. Headphones are good, and opposed to what some say, the remotes stays in the jack. And it has a line out. Also, the 3v dc works with the rechargeble batteries, so when you plug it in, the batteries recharge...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PM-1 Owner Update, March 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection (Electronics)

I've had this thing about a month now and I thought I'd update my original review "A versatile player at a very reasonable price."

It works fine with any mp3 file formats I've thrown at it including high bit rate CBR and VBR files. Reads ID3v1 tags flawlessly and deals with long filenames well. Too bad subdirectories/folders are just referred to by number as opposed to their names.

Shock protection is excellent, used it snowboarding without a single skip and batteries lasted just over 4 hours. I was initially worried that the long cord to the remote combined with the long cord from the remote to the headphone would be a royal pain but it acutally came in handy. I was able to put the PM-1 in the inside breast pocket of my Burton jacket, route the remote down my left sleeve and clip it to the inside of my wrist and route the headphone wire back up the sleeve and out the collar to my head. This left the remote well protected and warm (good thing b/c the cold temp will make the LCD display very sluggish and appear faded, wonder what the freezing temp of the LCD is?) yet still workable through my sleeve's fabric w/o taking off my gloves. Need to modify my jacket to have a transparent window and clip on pocket inside it for the remote for full functionality!

The "hiss" you hear when this thing is on is still a bit annoying but isn't noticable at all if you are in anything but a completely silent environment or active at all once the music gets going. Not exactly "Hi-Fi" but what the heck, we are talking about playing MP3's after all, not DVD-Audio or SACD's.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Miniature, February 27, 2002

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Dogville (Sunny Island) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iPAQ PM-1 Mini-CD Player with 8 minutes of MP3 Anti-Shock Protection (Electronics)

Don't be fooled by this mini-CD player's small build and lack of aesthetics. It actually packs a whole deal of punch. It recognizes MP3 CDRs and CDRWs quickly and plays well with the antishock working to its fullest. In most cases, the player loads the song into memory and stops spinning after a while minimising the possibility of skips. Sound reproduction is good especially when a good pair of earphones or buds are used. It's very light even with the 2 AAA batteries. The preset equalizers dun do much cos the Normal mode is all you ever wanted. Its fully functional remote comes with a 2-line LCD which though small packs a lot of info, from artist name, song title, and yes even album title to track/directory numbers and time elapsed. Also includes the various random, programmable modes etc. There's also a useful file or directory skip that makes searching easier.

Now some of the downsides. There's no screen on the player itself, the remote LCD isn't backlit, which means u can't see anything in the dark.The plastic casing's a little flimsy and a metal body could take care of that as well as reduce the thickness a little. The rechareable batteries are a good concept but they just arent powerful and you dunno when they are ready from charging cos there's no indication. Oh ya, there's no resume function to continue from where you last hit stop. And lastly, mebbe a more attractive exterior using Compaq'a colored-cover concept from Presario would be cool!

But for a low price, the player's a star. And mini CdR/RWs are so [inexpensive], you can pack about 35-40 songs on one. There's nothing to complain for this price.