Memorex MP3124 CD/MP3/Cassette Boombox

• Portable boombox with CD player and MP3 decoder
• Cassette deck and digital AM/FM tuner
• 4-way dynamic stereo speakers
• Integrated carrying handle
• Includes detachable AC cord for continuous play

I have a library of 35 MP3 discs. 20 worked fine right off the bat. Got 8 more to work after burning over 60 CDs trying to figure out what was wrong.

Memorex support is NON-EXISTENT. Sent detailed email to their support group and never heard back.

Still can't get 7 mp3 CDs to work....ready to give up guessing.

These 7 work fine on portable mp3 player and DVD/mp3 and computer.

The ones that work come up in about 12 seconds ready to play.

Works with 128, 160, 256 kbs

Problems:

Will not read CD...spins forever until you stop it

60 to 120 seconds before ready to play

Lists wrong number of folders

List total files greater than actual files, repeats earlier songs 1 or more times later in playback list.

Some fixes were:

only 23 or less files per folder (fixes total file read problem)

possible limit on number of folders

Can't handle long file names (unsure of actual limit)

Any suggestions please email me at: cranekenup@attbi.com

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I purchased this unit mainly for its ability to play MP3 CD's. I was not expecting great sound from it but, among other things, but this unit was lacking an acceptable sound quality. The unit claims to have a bass feature to improve the "deeper" sound, however, you can hardly notice the difference when this feature is engaged. In addition, the MP3 CD's were not always recognized or the unit refused to play MP3's alltogether. Only after totally turning it off would it "reset" itself and play.

Another problem with this boombox is that it takes a few seconds to recognize that CD or MP3 CD is inserted. This is more annoying than a bad function, however.

I would not recommend this unit to anyone who is looking for a good quality sound. For its price, however, the unit could be a good value for an entry level system for somebody willing to sacrifice sound for the ability to play MP3's.

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Bought and returned this after about a week. While the sound on this is decent, there's a number of serious issues:

(1) There's no headphone, line-in or line-out plugs, meaning you can't hook this into your home stereo at all.

(2) It's a battery hog -9 D cells and 4 AA's for the boombox, and another 2 AAs for the remote. And the box only runs about 4 hours or so on batteries.

(3) It only recognizes version 1 ID tags, when most computers use v2.3

(4) The interface to display tags is cumbersome; you have to push a button 4 to 5 times in a row to see the tags, instead of them automatically displaying (when they do exist).

(5) Don't even think about plugging this into the wall -the electronics under the CD player get very hot, very quickly, which starts the player skipping and stuttering (when it's playing from CD-R discs). What's the point of a 10-hour music disc if you can't actually let it run for 10 hours straight?

Overall, this is a disappointment -I'd expect this kind of performance from a generic brand, but not from Memorex.

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Warning! I have now taken one of these things back to Target THREE times! I would have gladly gotten money back the first time, but "conveniently" target only allows for an exchange with this item (they blamed it on Memorex, but who knows.) Every time you hit FF or RW, the entire thing freezes until you turn it on and off. The display only works half the time and not always correctly. MP3 feature? Forget it. I've tried multiple MP3 cd's and none worked (that was fun, trying different cd's and having to turn the thing on and off every two minutes). The remote barely works too. These were just a few of the things that all three boxes I got had wrong with them. A few had additional flaws.

I still have the third oneit's sitting in a box because I was unable to return it this last time because they didn't have them in stock. I was given a choice between choosing one of their 40 dollar items as an equal trade or their only item that was more expensive than this one, a 160 dollar item in which I would have had to pay the $60 difference. I decided against that because I didn't want to be stuck with a 160 dollar piece of worthlessness knowing Target's pointless returns/exchange policy. I think from now on, I'll avoid Target and Memorex.

I bought this particular item for it's capability to play MP3 discs, it being the first box I have found in a store with that capability. Boy, what a disappointment.

The first box I bought home would play about 10 songs on a home recorded MP3 CD-R (ironically enough, a memorex cd-r) then it would stop tracking altogether. When the box was shut off and examined, I found that the CD was actually hot enough to be painful to touch from being played. This is not right.

I returned the item, and exchanged it for a new one. This one would not even recognize that a CD had been placed in the player, and would constantly demand that the door be shut. Enough is enough, I'm buying another brand in the future, and recommend that others do so as well.