Pine SM-200C+

Pine sm-200c+ - Advantages: lots of cool features - Disadvantages: extremly short battery life

This mp3/cd player was worth every penny I paid for it (£123 from www.a2zcomputers.com). It comes with a carry case, a lead to connect it to your hi fi, very good headphones & a battery charger. The player uses built in rechargeable batteries, like a mobile phone, you just plug in the charger to recharge it. I also got 1 CD of mp3s & some software to make mp3s using my computer. The antishock for mp3s is 50 sec, which is good. When I shake it hard, it still plays smoothly. Audio is 10 sec so when I shake it, it does jitter. Audio quality is just as good as mp3 quality sound wise. When you switch it on, it scans through all the directories on your mp3 cd, tells you how ...

As you can see from the photo, the SM-200C is CD based.It is a combined CD/MP3 player. This thing is superb. Not only will it play regular CDs, it will also cope happily with CDs with up to 200 mp3s on it. It can handle sample bitrates from 32 to 320 kbps (Variable - you can even mix bitrates on the one cd), and also copes admirably with directories. So if you want to burn a cd with each artist in their own directory, the SM-200C will happily access all of them. Amongst it's other talents : 50 second anti-shock ID3 tag support (It displays the name of the track, artist and album when it plays them) resume (When you switch ...