RCA RP2485 Portable CD/MP3 Player with Car Kit (Red and Black)

by RCA

Product Details

Product Manual [376kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000093UQF
• Item model number: RP2485
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The metallic crimson RCA RP2485 portable CD player combines eye-catching slim styling and advanced features like support for MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats and SmartTrax navigation. It even includes MusicMatch MP3 recording software to get you started burning your own MP3 CDs with up to 10 hours of music. Up to 200 seconds of esp-Xtreme skip protection with MP3/WMA files (45 seconds for audio CDs) makes this CD player virtually skip-free in most conditions and a great choice for joggers and runners.

The CD player's SmartTrax navigation technology helps you quickly access specific songs or playlists among the hundreds of tracks on an MP3/WMA-encoded CD-R/CD-RW. Using a library of computer-generated identification tags to identify digital audio files by title, artist, album, year, genre, and track number, the SmartTrax file-management system can "read" song data from your recordable CDs, letting you view song data and create playlists at the touch of a button. SmartTrax can read the song data even before the song is played. A three-line dot-matrix display shows SmartTrax data and allows 30-track/folder programmability.

Other playback features include Digital Bass Boost Surround for extra low-end slam and added musical depth, three preset equalization settings, and a hold switch to prevent unintended interruptions in playback (and to save batteries by negating playback when the player is stopped). The unit operates for approximately 18 hours on two AA batteries, either alkalines or rechargeables (no batteries included), and a handy car kit with DC power adapter lets you travel in style with no batteries required.

What's in the Box
CD player, car cassette adapter, 4.5V car DC power adapter, headphones (e.clipz clip-on headphones), carry strap, and MusicMatch software.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent mp3 player for a great price, June 15, 2003

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Rick Tharp "the_rxrick" (Plattsburg, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA RP2485 Portable CD/MP3 Player with Car Kit (Red and Black) (Electronics)

This is my *THIRD* CD/MP3 combo player, and I finally found one which actually works!

First, the Cons (minor complaints). It feels a little "cheap", the cd cover does not snap securely. And the LCD display is not backlight.

Now, the Pros (many!). Most importantly, this unit had no difficulty whatsoever reading any of my CDRs, CDRWs, or audio CDs. Also, it reads my mp3 CDRs much faster than other units I've used. It has a sweet 4-way rocker for E-Z file naviagation. hold the rocker down and it scrolls through the file listing one "page" at a time. Good sound with bass boost. The supplied e.clipz phones might take some adjustment but they supply a full sound.

The LCD on the unit displays full mp3 tag info (title, artist, album, genre, year), and song time! You can select different shuffle modes: folder, entire disk, and you can select whether to repeat or not. You can select whether you want it to autoplay an mp3, if not, it displays the folders/file names for selection.

This little player even has a programmable play list. I only played around a little with this feature, because I "program" my play lists when I burn a CDR. However, I found it was easy to create a play list.

I am very happy with this inexpensive little player. I burn my mp3's onto CDR and/or CDRW and carry thousands of songs around with me, for a fraction of the price of an iPod.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great sound, but flawed, July 21, 2004

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Byron B (Chitna) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA RP2485 Portable CD/MP3 Player with Car Kit (Red and Black) (Electronics)

This portable cd has the best mp3 wma sound I have heard yet, with excellent detail and high frequency sound. The preset equalization settings offer modest adjustments that are usable. There is no custom equalization. Two other minor quibbles: You cannot access the file menu while it is playing, as far as I can tell. And the resume function only starts at the beginning of the file, and only on mp3 or wma. I have some long mp3 spoken files, and wish I could resume within them. The big problem is that when I use the cigarette lighter adapter, with the sound fed into the car stereo via a patch cord, I get heavy distortion, apparently from electrical noise from the CDs electonics and motor. This makes the adapter unusable. I tried the cassette adapter on a portable cassette player, and barely got any sound. It seems equivalent to the RP2478, but without the fm. Update: This player skips like crazy on some copied music CDs. Ironically, the skipping occurs when the ESP is on. The skipping is much less when the ESP is off and the player is sitting horizontally on a table. And when it skips, it cuts out significant time slices of the recording. I have a music disk that skips every 2 to 4 seconds. But the disk plays fine on my other CD players. The WMA and MP3 seems to be unaffected.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comes with the things people WANT., July 21, 2004

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Shinde Kudasai "Kitsune Youkai" (Des Moines, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RCA RP2485 Portable CD/MP3 Player with Car Kit (Red and Black) (Electronics)

Sure it doesn't have a lighted display, but it is a very BIG and easy to read LCD. It doesn't have 16 minute Steady Play to ensure 100% skip protection but so what. It comes with a car kit and Software CD, my Rio Volt SP150 didn't, and I payed $49.00 for it ($57 after S&H) I bet this RCA model probably has better volume than my SP150 as well. Betcha don't hafta crank it to 40 just to be able to hear your music, do ya?

This thing plays WMA's and MP3's just like the SP150.
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