Goodmans CDMP350 MP3 Player

Although you can get more expensive units (£200+)that can store 6 gigabytes of music with no moving parts, mp3/cd players like this Goodmans are aimed more at the budget listener who's sufficiently technologically savvy that they know they can get up to a dozen or more MP3 albums onto a single CD and wants to be able to listen to them on the go. Like a lot of people, I've been slowly transforming my collection of several hundred vinyl albums into digital format, and in many ways this player is the ideal choice for such a situation. On the hoof, cd's with MP3's recorded onto them play almost perfectly, with only the occasional skip or jump experienced ...

I bought this player because it plays both normal but also recordable and mp3s on CD, so it is more versatile than your average personal CD player. The build quality on this player very good, it is well contained and the buttons are sunk in, which limits the buttons getting pressed accidentally. In addition it is narrower than most players which is ideal because it means it fits in your pocket more easily. The player has 45 seconds anti-shock when playing an audio CD and 120 seconds when playing an MP3 data CD. MP3 CDs must be written using a single session burn program such as Adaptec Easy CD or Nero. Using a drag burn program like CD Creator ...

MP3 Players are pretty damn expensive, with any player worth even considering coming in at over £200, coupled with the extra expense of flash memory cards, themselves priced around £50 for 32Mb bumping this price up even further. This works out at being around £1.50/minute of music so wouldn’t it be great if you could listen to your MP3s on an ordinary 50p CD-R disc holding up to 650Mb of digital music data? Well now you can, with hoards of MP3 CD players flooding the market - the Goodmans CDMP350 being just one of them. At £90, you can hardly argue with the price - being as it is the same price as an ordinary top-end portable CD player, but what about the ...