Customer Reviews

Playskool Made For Me MP3 Music Player - Orange

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We bought this for our 3 year old son. He loves it. The software is super easy to use. My Son's attention span isn't as long as the amount of music this can hold. My only complaint is the voice record feature. It is one button on the mp3 player and if your child pushes it it will record automaticly. Any and all sound including interference from other electronic devices. Makes a terrible sound. You then have to plug the MP3 into your computer to erase all the files recorded via the voice record button. Also, these voice record files land under the favorites category. This is the first category that comes on whenever you turn on the unit. A possible way to avoid this is to fill up the MP3 as much as you can so there is no room for recording. However it is hard to find that exact golden number so that you have 000 MBs/KBs left. I have yet to hit that nail on the head. Aside from this one long winded complaint I would reccomend this unit even though it is a bit $$.

We received this item as a gift and were excited to put our baby's favorite (or hopefully favorite to be) music on it. We liked the idea of hanging it in the crib and then as she grew she could tote it around and push the buttons herself. We could also change the music as she grew from Baby Einstein to Laurie Berkner to whatever comes after that. We opened it and played with the pre-recorded music, of which most is pretty good. We then decided to open the software and found that it didn't work on a Mac. We do not own a PC and now have no way to put any new music on the player. We had thrown away the box and didn't get a gift receipt with it anyway and so couldn't return. Just be aware if you purchase this you have to have a PC to run the software. It doesn't say this anywhere in the description of the product.

Our baby has enjoyed this player since she received it as a gift (at about 2 months of age). She loves the music and the lights. There are some drawbacks. First, we did experience some technical difficulties and had to return the original for a replacement. So far the replacement is working nicely. Second, it is important to note that music purchased from i-tunes will not play on this windows-based product because the i-tunes files are "protected." We have successfully played the songs it came with. Among the songs that come with the MP3 unit, we very much enjoy the "playtime" songlist, but don't particularly care for most of the songs on the "soothing" playlist (because the woman's voice is too playful sounding for bedtime). However, we ripped our own CDs and put our own soothing music on the player and it works great... biggest drawback is just the i-tunes situation because we rarely purchase CDs anymore.

First of all, I have to say I love the idea for this toy. My kids love being in charge of their music and this is much nicer than having them run around with my expensive iPod. I can't speak to the durability yet, but hopefully it will stand up to them.

As for the reviews from Mac users who were disappointed that the software is only pc compatible: true. But you don't need the software to make this work. I plugged in the mp3 player with the included cord and my Mac treated it like a flash drive. Open it up, find the folders and copy music from your folders right in. No problem at all- and I'm not that computer savvy. Personally, I'd rather do it this way anyway than deal with their software interface. This was just a simple drag and drop (make sure you aren't dragging whole folders though as nested folders won't play). Music sounds great and I can't wait to see the boys play with this!

Prior to buying I've read some other reviews on this site, some of which filled me with doubts. At the end I decided to give it a go. Now I can tell you this was the coolest thing I could get my daughter for her 2nd birthday. She takes it everywhere with her and plays with it every single day (maybe not so good for parents, but what can we do...). We found the cover described in some other reviews as "strange" simply nice and funny. It is also OK to use the toy without it. My daughter learned all the controls in a day or two (this includes the ones on the back for switching the playlist and playtime), so no problem there. The player can go from very quiet to surprisingly loud and still play very well.

Someone was also mentioning it plays only one song at the time. There are four modes of play - single song (you must press the play button after every song), some 20-odd minutes (don't remember exactly) and the whole playlist. There is also a shuffle mode. And, it comes with probably all the good old classics, such as Twinkle twinkle little star, etc., so you don't need to be getting those on CD...

There is some CD with some software for your PC, which I chose not to use and simply uploaded the songs to the card to the specific directory, which seems to be working as well. Only one negative point, the memory card is relatively small (128MB/2hours), my daughter's music collection is already much bigger :))) Maybe someone could think of a version which takes interchangeable SD card or similar...

This is a cool idea and a cool toy for any child who loves music. What I don't understand is why this is the only such toy on the market???

First let me say my son LOVED this toy. It was so sad that after 1 week, it stopped working.

I contacted Playskool and they informed me they no longer made this toy.
Here is there email:

Thank you for taking the time to contact Hasbro, Inc. regarding Playskool's Made for Me MP3 Player.

We appreciate your taking the time to share your comments with us. Please be assured that your concerns will be shared with the product team.

Regrettably the item in question is no longer in production and replacements are no longer available.

Watch Out!!!!!!!!

Getting Itune music into the player is not an easy task but it is possible. In your Itunes, create a playlist, add all the music you want to put into it and burn the music to a CD. From the Made for me Software, select add music files from my computer and add one by one all the music from the Itunes CD you created from Itunes.

I also got this for my soon to be 3 years old because she loves music and singing. I thought this would be great for her to play the music whenever she wants to. All the music I put in are from Itunes.

Hope this helps!

I purchased two of these MP3 players, one for my infant son, and another for my 3 year old son. Both of them were handled by adults so neither was exposed to "toddler handling". At first they were very nice, one was put in my infants crib so he could go to sleep to Baby Einstein, the other one was kept on a shelf in my toddlers room out of reach unless it was in use.

Neither player lasted more than a month. The one in the crib stopped working after 1 week, and the one for my toddler lasted almost a full month before it too stopped playing.

Unfortunately I purchased both at Toys R Us which has a very un-friendly return policy so they ended up in the trash as $100 wasted.

Definitly avoid purchasing these, I will most likely just buy 2 1GB MP3 players and finding a better solution that I know wont break so quickly.

We bought this last Christmas for our then 1 year old son. He has played with it ever since. He loves to run over and push the button to turn it on anytime he wants to dance. It defaults to the favorites so we loaded his favorite upbeat music to that playlist. The software is super easy to use and it comes loaded with a lot of good music, but allows you to add your own. We bought him personalized CDs for Christmas this year and loaded them on. It's been very durable and has withstood many drops to carpet.

The prerecorded music is all she has listened to so far, but loves it. She also likes that my husband can store his own voice on it. So she can listen to him sing whenever he's not home. It seems pretty durable so far but we've only had it out for a few days.