CENTON moVex Red 2GB MP3 Player 2GBMP3-003

Pros: Cheap price and 2GB. Sound quality while not superb is above average (you won't know this with the supplied earbuds). Very easy to use Explorer to add and delete folders & songs. Exporting a playlist of songs from MusicMatch to a folder is totally effortless. Uses 1 AAA battery. Okay equalizer and repeat functions. Easy to toggle songs. 1-yr. warranty. "Yes all of our MP3 Players will play Audio Books."

Cons: #1. USB 2.0 FULL-SPEED device -- not Hi-speed! (Check out mfg. product page) The manual states the speed erroneously in 2 places. You'll get 1.5 MB/s max (12mbps) upload to the player. Not bad really - just take a break. #2. Folders - you can easily make them using Explorer, but accessing them in the player is tricky (and ultimately insane). Must be an easier way than mine (see below). #3. Wobbly "Mode" switch on the toggle. #4. The manual is rotten. Not one word about folders!

Overall Review: So far, I LIKE this player a lot, contrary to the impression given in the cons section. To navigate your folders: Press and hold "mode" button (toggle) to access menu. Toggle to "Setting", quick push (QP) to submenu, toggle to "Repeat Mode" and QP. Toggle to "Dir normal", then QP to confirm. Then press "play" button 2X back to main screen. What this does is to allow you to FF or REW to 001/0xx song in the current folder. Press and hold "mode" button (toggle) to access menu again. Toggle to "Folder" and QP. You are now in the song listing for the current folder at the 001 song. Toggle back one click to the "up arrow" line and QP. You are now in the folder directory. Choose a folder & QP to that folder's song listing. Pick a song and QP. Then QP to confirm the song ("play now") as well as the New Folder. Press "play" button 2X to main screen. Pretty Stupid!

Pros: Price, Built-in USB connection, lightweight, price, backlight color features (when you understand how to change them), did I mention the price? As always NEW EGG delivered ahead of schedule, I got this yesterday and was able to get a ton of music on it in time to give it as a christmas gift to my wife.

Cons: According to manual, folders can only go one deep. I haven't tried, but that kinda sucks if you like to have music by artist and sub grouped by album (like Windows defualts to in the My Music folder)... if I test this and it is not the case, it'll still get 4 eggs for misinformation; so STAY TUNED

Overall Review: 1) I had no problems putting 1gig+ music on this device as someone complained. I just had to copy the album folders instead of Artist folders from My Music. 2) You DO NOT have to turn the player off to switch modes, the lever switch for previous and next can also be PRESS IN which takes you to the main menu where you can navigate to music folders, set the backlighting behavior, etc... Just learn that when you want to select something from the menu or a sub menu, press in on that button (not the play/pause button, moves you back out a level in the menu scheme)

Pros: It's cheap

Cons: It says it has a 2 GB capacity but it only holds 500 MB

Overall Review: I ordered four of these things, one for myself and three for gifts. When I opened my and tried it out everything seemed okay until I started coping a lot of songs to it. I got about 500mb copied to it and then it said the disk was full. I tried everything I could think of. I tried it on three different machines (XP and Windows 2000), I reformatted it about five times, I even formatted it to a NTFS and then back to FAT. My computer showed it had a 2gb (1.91) capacity, even the player said it was only a quarter full, but no matter what I tried I couldn't copy any more data to the player. So after giving up on that one, I opened one of the other players. SAME EXACT PROBLEM. The third one also has the same problem. I didn't bother opening the fourth one. They are all on their way back to Newegg, since these are non-refundable items, I'm not sure what's going to happen. I asked Newegg if I could get a store credit, unless they can verify that the problem has been fixed.

Pros: Great little mp3/wave player was happy to find out that you can play music by folder. Very happy with the fact it requires no extra cord and can be used as a flash drive.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Be careful with it, that is a real crystal face plate, found out the hard way and broke mine while storing it in my pocket. I ran into a partition and it shattered, covered it with clear packing tape and it is still functional.

Pros: Good mp3 player, I bought 2 for the kids for Christmas. Sound is good. Controls are easy to use. Transferring music is a snap via USB connection. Has voice recorder with playback. 14 hours continuous playback on 1 AAA battery at max volume. Configurable through menu system.

Cons: Documentation translation not so good but you can figure out what to do. Display color changes every time you push a button, May be a settiing to change this have not looked yet,

Overall Review: The kids loved it. You might want to invest in rechargable batteries.

Pros: great sound quality, has 2 gb memory, usb 2, mp3, easy to use and send music to. great Christmas present for wife. comes with a display.

Cons: needs a better strap ring

Overall Review: display a little hard to read but it does have a display to read!! and for the price awesome.

Pros: Didn't spontaneously combust in my face when I turned it on.

Cons: I just got a sansa clip, and the fact that that player was so great is what compelled me to write a review of this player. Save your money. I spent 15 bones and that was way too much. It's an awful player. The controls are horrible, the rocker is unreliable, the sound is terrible. Worst of all, is the fact that I bought this to use while exersizing, and the SLIGHTEST bump would make the entire thing shut off. Just lightly tapping it would make it crash and I'd have to boot it back up and navigate back to the playlist again. To me, this is inexcusable from a flash-based mp3 player.

Overall Review: I can use it as a usb drive I guess.

Pros: Played MP3's

Cons: Broke when I tried to change the battery. I simply tried to slide the battery cover off and the front GUI window shattered. Piece of garbage.

Overall Review: Do not buy. This is a total piece of garbage. It broke with what should be a simple maintenance effort to replace a battery... shattered. Do not buy.