RCA Lyra (tm) Portable MP3 Player (RD1070)

by RCA

Product Details

Product Manual [277kb PDF]

• Item Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JINT
• Batteries: 2 AAA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,730 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Listen to the best digital tunes whenever and wherever you want. The k@zoo! player is a portable digital audio player that features skipless audio playback from its 128 MB internal flash memory, along with MP3 and WMA compatibility. To keep your tunes organized, the player comes with the music-management software program MusicMatch Jukebox. The package also includes a multifunctional LCD display, a USB connection cable for fast downloads, and cool wraparound X-Phone stereo headphones.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Sound, bad software, December 4, 2002

By 

Vladas Mazelis "reviewer07" (Port Richey, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA Lyra (tm) Portable MP3 Player (RD1070) (Electronics)

I own a little newer version of this player, a 128MB RCA Lyra player. It looks the same as this KaZoo player, also has the same model number, but, unlike KaZoo, needs no updated software to work with Windows XP. It is available at Circuit City and hopefully will be soon available at Amazon.com. The sound is absolutely wonderful! Sometimes it may lock up and stop responding to pressing its controls, so you need to reformat its memory chip, as if you would format your Hard Drive (right click on Kazoo or Lyra icon in My Computer, click Format, etc.). A very simple and fast procedure.

On a negative note: don't call RCA Customer Service: they are totally incompetent and completely useless. Also, the Musicmatch Jukebox software comes as a shareware version with this player. You get those nag screens with persistent attempts to get your 20 bucks out of your pocket and into their pocket. That's a drawback, I think. A customer should expect a simple, functional and full version (not a shareware) software with this, as well as any other hardware, which would enable the unit, without offering you all kinds of unneeded extras, which you could download from the Internet anyway. Overall this is a great player with excellent sound and lots of memory for the money.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent player., January 11, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: RCA Lyra (tm) Portable MP3 Player (RD1070) (Electronics)

I have been using my new RCA RD1070 MP3 Player (128MB) for a few weeks and it is exactly what I was looking for. It is light and relatively small. Great sound quality and no skips. I've dropped it accidentally a few times and I've had no problems. It comes with MusicMatch Jukebox software which you HAVE to use to put your songs on the player. Almost all the reviews on here have been complaining about MusicMatch. I already had MusicMatch Plus on my computer (which is running XP). I've been using this program on my computer for almost two years so maybe it was easier for me knowing how to use the program, but I've never had a problem with it. The only things which could be improved are the headphones (the weird ones that wrap around the back of your head) and the display which does not tell you the track title or artist name and the fact that it is not backlit. But these are very minor and do not detract from the overall experience. I recommend it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Results, May 12, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: RCA Lyra (tm) Portable MP3 Player (RD1070) (Electronics)

I've been less than thrilled with the RCA device. I had hardware problems, software problems, and support problems. Not a good user experience to say the least.

The software is less than intuitive. If MusicMatch is winning awards from PC magazine, it must be a weak field indeed. I loaded some songs from CDs I owned and found on playback that they would skip and terminate mid-song.

I emailed to MusicMatch from the form that comes with the software and got an email back saying that support was not included with this version, I had to upgrade to the paid version of the software to get support. This is BS, if MusicMatch doesn't offer support, don't include a form as a ploy to get people to upgrade!

A couple of days later the device stopped working completely. I returned it.

I found the constant barrage of messages to upsell me to the subscription version of the software to be really annoying. Having purchased a player from a legitimate brand name like RCA, I didn't expect to have it bundled with de-featured free software with continual pitches to get even more money from me.

I would recommend against purchasing this MP3 Player.