I have an Aiwa with 45 seconds that you can run with and stuff. It doesn't skip and plays every cd-r I throw at it. It's a bad ass cd-player for the 100 bucks I spent. Now it's only like 60-70 bucks. =(. If you want to pick one up get either a Panasonic or a Aiwa. They both are semi-cheap and are bad ass. Sony's break fast. But that's just my BIASED opinion.
-MzTyKaL