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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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

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RCA Lyra RD1080 128 MB MP3 Player Review

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(More customer reviews)Having had this mp3 player for a week now, I can honestly say that I am quite impressed.This unit is lightweight, very simple to use, and I didn't find the buttons awkward to mess with as I did the other mp3 players that I have tried.The RCA Lyra RD1080 also boasts an FM tuner -a feature that seems to be lacking on other mp3 players out there on the market.And the audio from this bad boy?Well, The sound from this little toy is simply awesome!
I wasn't able to find any specific instructions (could be I didn't look hard enough) on how to download my mp3's to this device, but after loading the software, I was able to play with the software and download into this mp3 player within 15 minutes.
This player comes with Musicmatch software where all of your files are managed.Keep in mind that you cannot download raw mp3's into this unit, as the Musicmatch software converts your mp3 files into mpy files.Therefore you wouldn't be able to just go to your friends house and download mp3's off his/her PC without the Musicmatch software.
To download into this mp3 player, I simply hooked it up to the provided USB cable, opened up the Musicmatch software, went to "file", then "send to device", and then I simply clicked and dragged my mp3 files from a folder on my hard drive to the Musicmatch software then hit the download button.It took about 6 seconds to convert one mp3 file to an mpy file and download into the player.It's that simple...
All in all, I am very happy with this mp3 player and would gladly recommend it to those looking for a combination mp3 player and FM tuner for a reasonable price!

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Compatible With Mp3, Mp3 Pro & Windows Media Files.Backlit, Alpha-numeric, 3-line Dot Matrix Display.128 Mb Internal Flash Memory.External Multimedia Card Slot.Digital Fm Tuner With 10 Presets.Usb Connection For Faster Downloads.Upgradeable For Future Audio Compression Formats.No Moving Parts For Skip-free Audio Playback.Includes Musicmatch Jukebox Personal Music Management Software (for Pc & Mac).Online Instruction Manual & Support Information.Includes X-phone™ Stereo Headphones, Neck Strap, Removable Hanging Hook For Waistband & 2 Aaa Batteries.

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