How is the Dlink MP3 player?

[OS]

Thinking about getting one, how is it?

 

[Ornery]

The DMP-100 is worth $20, but not much more. How much were you planning on paying for it? You're looking at about 10 song storage and it takes about 5 minutes to upload them. They are easy to rename, add and delete via the parallel cable.

 

[OS]

yeah was thinking about paying around 30 bucks for it after rebate Tho that means I'll be out quite a bit while I wait for rebate. Any particular reason you don't think it's worth a whole lot?

 

[Ornery]

Considering they want $150+ dollars for it, and it only holds 32MB for that price, I'd say it's only worth a fraction of it's retail price.

I see more and more portable CD and automobile CD players that are MP3 capable. I'd sit tight till these are mainstream. Then you'll have 650MB MP3 capability for about $100. Now that's worth it, because the players will still play normal audio CDs and some will read CDRW disks as well.

 

[OS]

I see, any words on sound and construction quality?

 

[Ornery]

I've only had mine for a few weeks. The dang thing works, software and hardware. Most MP3s I'm using are 128bit and the sound is CD quality. No noise at all from the player. Plenty of output power for the earbud type "head phones". Full size headphones are left wanting, though.

The rocker switch plate is pretty cheap, but works fine. Not very intuitive on the hardware menu stuff, but you get used to it. Software has much better layout. And that's about it. I'm not gonna squawk about it for $20.00...

Edit: Just remembered the tiny buttons on the edge for volume are cheap and hard to find. Also forgot about the voice recording. It's hardly mentioned at all, but it can record good clear voice for quite a few minutes. Playback of that is very clear as well.

 

[Ug45]

Picked one up for $20. Sound is pretty good, most MP3s play plenty loud and clear. The construction is light to say the least, I wouldn't toss it around alot. The equalizer is nice, but you will leave it on the same setting primarily, but that setting will make the sound much better. Battery life has been quite nice. The voice-recording feature is just a toy. Don't spend too much, but for cheap you can have something to jog with. ALSO, there is NOT a pass-through on the parellel cable so have fun switching back and forth. Basically grab the cheap Dlink for now and then get a real, 6GB player when they drop another hundred buck or so...

 

[Warrenton]

Does the D-Link use compact flash cards? If so I have a USB enable CF card and a jumpshot cable. So it transfers at about 600KB/s (Or 4X cd speed)

 

[OS]

It seems like alot of you got the player for 20 bucks, mind if I ask how? Also, does it support NT 4.0? Thanks guys.

 

[RossMAN]

OuterSquare - I believe most of them took advantage of a now expired Best Buy/OfficeMax offer. It was so good, you got the D-Link MP3 player for $20 after rebate and a free 5-inch black and white portable TV as well. Oh well, you snooze you lose.

I'd recommend checking the Hot Deals forum on a regular basis.