RCA RP2415 Personal CD MP3 Player with Car Kit

by RCA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.1 x 5.5 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005NWQG
• Item model number: rp2415
• Batteries: 2 AA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

RCA's RP2415 portable CD player features MP3 playback and a car kit for maximum versatility. Download from that cool, new local band you discover online today, and listen to it on the way to work tomorrow. For active use, 100-second antishock circuitry virtually eliminates skipping, even with MP3-CDs.

Customize your music with CD-R or CD-RW; this unit will play both. It offers shuffle/repeat and four DSP modes: normal, DBBS (Dynamic Bass Boost Sound), surround, and DBBS with surround effect. You can access track and artist information using the eight-level folder/subfolder file management system, readable on the multiline dot-matrix LCD screen.

The car kit contains a car DC-power adapter and cassette audio-output adapter. This portable MP3-CD package also includes AC adapter, home audio output adapter, X-phone Stereo headphones, and a music management software CD-ROM.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing works better on the road!, September 19, 2001

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Rodrigo (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA RP2415 Personal CD MP3 Player with Car Kit (Electronics)

This is a great deal! You buy a complete package with 100-second skip protection mp-3 playback which is great to use in the car with cassette adapter (never skipped in my car). Wires are made with a resistant material and the display allows you to make variable selections of 200 songs. Music quality output is wonderful, DBBS with surround effect works great! Really worth the price!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst CD Player Imaginable, April 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: RCA RP2415 Personal CD MP3 Player with Car Kit (Electronics)

Okay, when playing MP3s I want to strangle it. It makes weird noises and skips constantly.

Playing normal CDs, it doesn't make the weird noises, but skips constantly and cuts off the end of songs. (It has a "feature" that cuts off what it considers silence at the end of tracks -- well, it makes CDs that you've listened to normally that have fade outs and such, sound horrible)

It doesn't even work anymore; it thinks the player is open and won't play. I tried to fix this so the really tiny button inside would always be pushed down to make it think it's closed, but, I got annoyed with it and gave up.

It requires 4 batteries and is huge..needless to say, it eats the batteries up really fast. Actually, it won't even play unless you have really good batteries - it said my batteries were dead and I put them in a battery detector and it said they were all "Good" ... of course, the batteries worked with other devices.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Too many problems from the get-go, December 28, 2001

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"tiggr421" (Hampton Roads, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA RP2415 Personal CD MP3 Player with Car Kit (Electronics)

Nice design; nice layout of the buttons; seemed easy enough to figure out, even without the instructions; and the included adaptors and car kit are a bonus. That's about all the good things I have to say! The bad: it cuts off songs randomly; it squeaks, squeals, hisses and pops at random and LOUDLY. Also, I had to hold the cassette part of the adapter into my car's player for a few seconds because it kept kicking out. I had the unit a total of 2 days before I returned it, and only because the store was closed on Christmas day. Other customers reviews I read about this product (on Yahoo's shopping guide) mentioned similar problems too.