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We find this product often has trouble reading CDs (both purchased and burned CD-Rs). It'll stop playing for minutes at a time and you'll hear it spinning up and down as it tries to read.Pretty disappointing.
But after wondering what a Coby product would be like I found it to be as nice as anything Aiwa or Sony would put out. I was pleasantly surprised when this little boom box arrived for one of my mother's friends. There appears to not be much of a CD player market any more and most of the first tier vendors have gotten out of the business. It has a nice finish, good sound, and the controls are not the cheap pieces I thought they would be. I am happy with this purchase.
so this is frustrating. The only problem is it takes the player a few minutes to read the MP3 disc and then play. The main reason I bought the MP3 model( $10 more) instead of just the CD model, is so it could play MP3s I created for my father, instead of creating ten discs I could just make one. I bought this for my 72 year old father, who mainly wanted a radio without static. It does not always read the disc especially if it has been playing something else and the unit has warmed up the plastic around the laser. Discs that it had played before may not play again. The FM Radio has a Quartz lock on the frequency which keeps the FM station locked in so there is no static. The CD player works great and my father listens to his CD in his office.
As long as you burn the disk correctly (or according to the directions provided along with item), this portable cd player works perfectly. I used it to play 40 tracks that I downloaded to play during my son's birth.
I listen to audiobooks and Coby is the only one (that I know of) that will play MP-3 CD's. The service to receive this was absolutely great.
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