RCA Lyra RD1072 256 MB Personal MP3 Player Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought my Lyra when my Ipod broke (which by the way I thought the Ipod broke way to easily.A 3 foot drop onto a carpeted floor and it was toast).So far, I like it a lot better than the Ipod, but I can imagine tastes would differ on that.

The advantage the Lyra has over the Ipod is that the controls are simple and easy to use.If you're working out, it's sometimes hard or annoying to move through a bunch of different screens to get to where you want to go.With the Lyra, you just push a couple buttons and you're on your way.

An Ipod obviously holds a lot more music than the lyra does, and is better at letting you organize it.The Lyra is not your device if you want to put your entire collection on it and have all your music availabe whenever you want.However, if you're like me and don't really want to spend the time recording hundred's of CD's to MP3 format, you aren't going to do this anyway.

The only reason I haven't given the Lyra 5 stars is because I've had a couple issues with it.I've had one episode of it not working for about 12 hours, and then suddenly working again.Twice I've had it freeze in the middle of a track, which is no big deal with music but sucks if you're in the middle of a 90 minute radio program because the scanning through a track feature is pretty slow.

Update Nov 2006: I've now had this MP3 player for two years, and it continues to work well.A woman I carpool with has had 5 different MP3 players which have all broken down in this time.I don't know if this speaks to the Lyra's quality so much as the low standards of MP3 players in general, but it does seem like a reason to look at this model, if in fact it's still available.

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Product Description:
RCA LYRA Personal mp3 Player with 256MB built in flash memory with external memory slot for SD / MultiMedia Card expandability, Upgradable Firmware, High Speed USB 2.0 with full accessory kit included