RCA Lyra 20 GB Jukebox MP3 Player

by RCA

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• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JINE
• Item model number: rd2820
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,048 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description Take your 20 GB hard drive with you wherever you go. The lightweight and compact design of RCA's Lyra Personal Jukebox makes it easy to enjoy your favorite MP3 files all over town. With 20 GB of storage, you'll run out of tunes before you run out of space. Not only is it all you need to listen to your favorite digital tunes, it will also store your all-important word processing files, presentations, spreadsheets, and other computer files.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It actually works!, November 19, 2002

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T. M. House (Palmdale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA Lyra 20 GB Jukebox MP3 Player (Electronics)

I previously had bad experiences with other hard drive jukeboxes, but this one worked right out of the box with no problems whatsoever. I already use Musicmatch for my MP3's so that was a plus, but you don't even need the program to copy your music to the Lyra. It appears on your computer as an external hard drive so you can simply drag and drop folders of music onto it, then it organizes them for you into album, artist, genre, etc. The four "soft buttons" as RCA calls them allows you to organize the music in many different ways; its a little complicated, but if you like listening to entire albums the way they were meant to be listened to, then you don't need to do much. Just push a couple of buttons and you're ready to go. All in all, a great product.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great product, November 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: RCA Lyra 20 GB Jukebox MP3 Player (Electronics)

What can I say, the thing just works. I pulled it out of the box and I was syncing my entire music collection -- which is substantial -- in minutes. The product supports FireWire, but I still use USB and am glad that RCA chose to let you do it that way too.

You get a nice set of accessories with this so you can play it in your car -- a big bonus. And it supports WMA. I also appreciate the fact that it is compatible with Musicmatch. The price is all right too.

This thing rocks!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good sound, bad sorting, January 29, 2003

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"lawmarmot" (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA Lyra 20 GB Jukebox MP3 Player (Electronics)

Sounds good, transfer speed is okay - it's not instantaneous, but it doesn't take too terribly long.
Couple of gripes - the sorting is terrible: can't play songs by genre, can't even play all of the songs by one artist. If you select artist, then press play, it will only play tracks from one of their albums. Guess you could get around this by not putting album names in your tags, but then you couldn't play by album when you wanted to. You ultimately end up having to make tons of playlists, which is fairly easy but still a hassle.
Also, you can't adjust the tags on the player, even when it's hooked up to your computer - if you want to change a tag, you have to remove the file from the lyra, change the tag on your computer, then re-download it.
These are kind of nit-picky problems, but they irritate me. I'm pleased with the player on the whole, and it fulfills its basic functions well - it holds a ton of songs, and playback is fine. I would recommend it, but just with the caveats listed above.