iriver iMP50 MP3 / CD Player with Car Adapter | 
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| Brand: iRiver
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 26435
Color: Blue
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Battery: 2 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9 x 3
MPN: iMP 50
Model: iMP 50
UPC: 821566000132
EAN: 0821566000132
ASIN: B0000AERI5
Release Date: July 1, 2003
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| Features:
| • | 4 Line Display | | • | Reads all CD types | | • | 16 Hour Battery Life (2 AA) | | • | Car Cassette Adapter | | • | iRiver Earphones |
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Product Description
The iMP-50 combines renowned iRiver audio quality with the unique engineering of the world's first inverted CD loading system. It plays the CDs you've burned with hundreds of your favorite songs as well as your collection of standard music CDs.
Amazon.com Product Description
The innovative iMP-50 comes stacked to the gills with features like broad format compatibility, pre-buffering anti-skip protection, firmware upgradeability, a graphic LCD with multi-language display, and packet-write format readability so the player can double as a hard-drive extension (using data CD-RWs). The player supports music CDs, home-made CD-R and CD-RW with MP3, WMA (Windows Media Audio), multi-session discs (discs burned at different points over time), and Microsoft's Advanced Systems Format (ASF). New formats such as AAC, MP3 Pro, and so on can be supported in the future through a simple firmware upgrade. The iMP-50 also supports Winamp playlists as long as they use the file extension *.m3u (maximum 20 lists). The player gives you a healthy four minutes anti-skip protection for MP3 and WMA files. By applying iRiver's own special algorithm, the iMP-50 provides better performance against shock than standard anti-skip algorithms. At the same time, iRiver maximizes protection at the beginning of songs through pre-buffering. The iMP-50's graphic LCD that supports multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, other alphabet-oriented fonts, Korean, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji), and others. It supports a total of 36 languages. With MP3 and WMA files, the iMP-50 can play for 16 hours on two AA alkaline batteries (supplied) or seven hours with audio CD playback. Additional formats such as AAC, MP3 Pro, and so on may be supported in the future through a simple firmware upgrade. Eight equalizer presets, a custom EQ mode, and separate electronic bass and treble controls are all at your disposal when it comes to tailoring the sound to your taste or compensating for speakers, headphones, or listening environment. A hold switch prevents unintended interruptions in playback and saves batteries by negating playback when the player is stopped. Other features include repeat and shuffle play, resume, bookmarking, sound fade in, intro scan, and track programming. What's in the Box
CD player, earphones, car cassette adapter, 2 AA batteries, and a user's manual.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Good Player February 5, 2006
I have been using this product purchased from Amazon since early 2004. So far I have a good experience with this, it plays all kinds of audio cds, even the scratched ones!
It drains the batteries very fast though, thank God that I have rechargable batteries! :)
Good investment over-all!
 good buy, but not an all-purpose player April 23, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been using the iMP-50 off-and-on for about a year. Here are some suggestions:
1. Stick with disposable alkalines. This unit seems to need 3 volts. Fully charged NiMh start with a lower voltage, and you won't get much play-time. You will experience low-voltage symptoms almost immediately, and will end up spending ages waiting for your disks to load. The NiMh cells will lose additional charge between use. Remember, this unit is not built to handle frequent cell-swapping.
2. Use external power for playing standard CDs. Battery-life when playing uncompressed audio is pretty bad, and gets worse if you skip tracks and swap disks.
2. Make sure that the battery door is fully engaged. When new, the door can "click" closed, but still not be latched. Check it visually.
3. You may have problems reading some CD-R audio that work fine on other players. Every CD-R I've bought from performers is unreadable, though copies I've burned myself work ok.
4. Anti-shock seems fine. The default 10 seconds for CDs is good enough for driving on rough roads.
Overall, if you stick with MP3, and use disposable alkalines, the iMP-50 is a handy device.
Works for me August 9, 2004
Still using v1.00 firmware that shipped with it. Had it for about 9 months now.
Remembers where you are in 10 cds, which what I need for audiobooks. Seems to handle any bit rate. No problems with mine, except that it occasionally locks up when I fast forward too fast several tracks at a time. But has a +20 track feature that I should use instead. Buttons are little hard to figure at first, but after a few days no problem. Does MP3 ID3 tags, display a little small, but ok. Takes a little while at first track, maybe 12 secs, but ok after that. No AC ps, but has car stuff. Ear buds that come with it are ok, but plan on buying something else to suit your ears/taste.
Also got Sony CD Walkman belt case CD Case3, about 10 bucks. iRock Beamit, $30 bucks Rat Shack, sends to any FM radio. Use 4 2000mAH NiMH batts from WalMart. Swap out 2 at a time. A pair
lasts about 5 days at about an 1 1/2 hour a day.
not great for car usage May 28, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i got this cd player for my half hour commute to work. It's a great price, but the design is inconvienant. to change cd's you have to turn the player over on it's back. the battery cover opens quit frequently and subsequently ends up scratching the hell out of cd's- because the unit continues to spin the cd.however the battery life is much better than my old cd player that was about 13 years old. the buttons are different sizes- so it's easy to feel out what button you want to push... but it's still a little awkward. it's a great price and the sound is good quality. i just took away 2 stars because it's not very utilitarian for road warriors.
A so-so player that works, but... May 26, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this thru Amazon & with rebate, it only came out to around $30. The main useage for this unit is at work , hooked to an ac adapter & a set of Monsoon speakers. It seemed to have a lot of options as far as the display & flexibility to handle both mp3 & wma format (although I never use/have any wma)
Build wise, it feels cheap. The door (which is on the bottom, and ends up being much more of a nuisance that I originally thought it would be)moves around on it's hinges. Major hassle to reload discs. Sound quality is fine, but it seems to have major trouble reading discs that play flawlessly in my other players. You can hear that skriiitching noise is it tries to find it's way.
I only used it a few times on batteries, and as reported by many others, 16 hours per set playing mp3 is a dream (or better yet, a myth) I had updated the firmware from the iRiver website, but did not notice any improvements. So in summing up this player...I guess I got what I paid for. A cheap player.
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