You may think you are getting a good deal, but it is because the item is a piece of worthless junk!! After 2.5 months, my player reads “File system corrupted” and it is totally unusable! Don’t waste your money! I wish I had read these reviews BEFORE I bought it! I actually give this 0 stars, but the review process demands a star.
Stereo USB source help…?
I bought an RCA RS2056 stereo for my home a few days ago that plays MP3’s and can read from the enclosed USB MP3 player. I was wondering if I can run a USB external Rca mp3 Jukebox HDD through the USB port and use this as a digital jukebox.The manual is pretty sparse on information and uses but the “Technical Specification” page of the maula says: “Maximum size of Mass Storage Class Device supported: 20 GB.Does this mean that I can use the USB external HDD as a storage device for MP3’s that I can read directly from the HDD by the stereo?
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Cool Gadget, good sound, love the solar charging. Use it while I’m cooking out or working in the flower garden.
Even in a quiet room, you wouldn’t recognize a song from your own iPod through this speaker. Very poor quality. Solar is cool, but it’s unrealistic to charge on the solar since it takes forever to charge. And it eats so much battery when you play music. The unit won’t charge your iPod when you are using the speaker…so is there anything good about this product?…It can be used as a carrier case for iPod?
This item is excellent as far as mp3 players go for getting your money’s worth. For one, the price is outstanding. How many 5gb players can you find for this cheap? Plus, it even comes with the battery charger, FM transmitter, etc. Any other mp3 player the accessories add another $50 to the price.
As far the the problems with it… all devices have problems. Remember the iPod thing with the battery? It’s a cheap mp3 player, so don’t expect much. It works identical to an iPod but doesn’t feel as good of quality or look as good. But for this price, I could care less. It’s 1/5th of the price, and has the exact same output at the headphones.
My mom purchased one, and I will be buying another one for myself. You can’t go wrong with this, highly recommended!!
This is my second RCA Lyra. I had a refurbished RD-2762A I got on eBay, and after a little over a year, its battery quit holding a charge. In the interim, I used a small 512MB Chinese-made player that worked well, but didn’t really suit all of my needs.
After some research on-line came up with no real answers, I just typed “RCA Lyra” into Google, and it came up with this item at Amazon.com! The first thing I noticed was the price, which at that time was 49.99. I paid twice that for my refurbed 2762A!
I immediately saw that it resembled my 2762A in nearly every way, but was a gorgeous dark metallic blue with a darker scroll wheel. I quickly purchased it, with free S/H, and got less than a week later.
The Lyra suits my needs very well, and its 5 gigabytes of hard drive space stores my entire music collection. It has various EQ settings, and the sound is surprisingly great, on par with my brother’s 30GB Video iPod, and ease of use is, well, easy.
Firstly, forget about any software programs, including MusicMatch or Windows Media Player. Just switch the file transfer protocul (under the menu => Settings) from MTP to MSC. Now, when you connect the Lyra to your computer with the USB cable, it recognizes it as a portable hard drive. Now, you can simply drag and drop files and whole directories onto the player. You can still create playlists, however, including My Selections, which allows you to save your favorite tracks into an on-the-go playlist.
Battery life is pretty good, at least for me, around 8 hours, which beats my old RD-2762A (less than 6). It has the same monochrome screen as previous Lyras with a bright blue backlight. Not as cool as some of the other fancier and expensive DAPs, but perfect for me.
The included earbuds are not that great, and I’m using the far superior JVC Gumy Berry Blue headphones I ordered through Wal-Mart’s Site-to-Store ($9.99). I carry the player in a small Case Logic Pocket case I got from their website ($9.99, $15 with shipping).
There are few accessories for any of the Lyras, but through sheer luck, I found an RCA MP3 Starter Kit at Wal-Mart on clearance for $3! It contained three silicone cases for the Lyra, plus an extra wall charger. My Lyra is currently garbed in the blue case to match the rest of my accessories.
The included free FM transmitter plugs directly into your cigarette lighter adapter (no batteries!) and has a retractable cable that plugs into the Lyra’s (or any portable music or video player) headphone jack. The transmitter actually works well, at least in my car, and has eight stations for reception.
For those that love Lyras, I’d highly recommend the RD-2763FM. And with he price continuing to drop at Amazon.com, I say go for it. It’s a solid DAP with great sound, features, and an actually good FM transmitter thrown in.
Here’s a pic of my RD-2763FM with its accessories, sans the FM transmitter:
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I recommend it a lot, you don’t need more than 5 gb for your travel purposes, buy it today!
I bought the Jukebox last fall when I started doing a long commute. It worked fine for a long while, but I left it in the sun a few times, and now the battery won’t hold a charge very well. I only get about 20 minutes. Also, there a spring in the FM transmitter that holds a fuse in place, but the spring was too weak and it would lose contact. I ended up stuffing pieces of aluminum foil in to ensure that it would make contact. (Don’t do this unless you know what you’re doing, because if the fuse is short-circuited, it could start a fire — if the fuse can’t, well, defuse an overpower event). The price was right, and it got me through some long car rides, but I wouldn’t buy it again.
I got this item in March 2006 to start my new workout regime. I used it for music only. It started off nice, I had about 400 songs on it (lasting between 3 and 4 minutes in WMA format). When I first got it, I could get some serious playtime out of it. As I used it only for the gym, I can’t estimate the number of continuous hours of play. In any event. After about 3 months of usage (June 2006), it wouldn’t last more than an hour. So I deleted the songs that didn’t do much for me in the gym, bringing the total songs down to about 300. In August, I lost my workout steam–much like the Lyra lost it’s music play steam–and put it away for a while. I recently started back using it (December 2006) and I now get about 15 minutes of play time from this device.
Man, I wish I’d purchased an Apple iPod.
I bought my little Lyra RD2765A at the local FYE about 2 weeks ago. I can say that so far, I’m very happy with it. I pretty much stick to using the basics of it, transfer files to it using browser windows instead of any program, aside from the Lyra DJ ( I also do my own music file tagging before hand in Winamp, RARELY do I ever use Windows Media Player ).
File transfers are simple to do, the sound is GREAT, and the volume control sensitivity is VERY nice. I do agree that using this to look at images is kind of pointless ( why would people want to look at a highly detailed image on small screens anyway? Give me a full 17″ computer screen, thank you. ).
I like the little navigation joystick, it’s easier to feel for when you have to keep your eyes on the road or where you’re walking. The only downside to it is that you have to lock the player when you put it in it’s sleeve so when the joystick moves, it doesn’t affect anything.
Also, trying to find car adapters if a car doesn’t have a tape deck is a bit annoying, as most adapters out there now are made to fit Ipods sockets, and not much else. Same goes with protective sleeves. There are NO protective sleeves out in the market that fit the design of the RCA Lyra RD2765A. And yes, the shiny mirror finish DOES show off finger prints badly. But it’s nothing a little TLC can’t take care of.
We’ll see what my opinion on the player is during the next few months, but so far, I’m very happy ^_^.
~~Bee
to the person it was given to, said it was fantastic, the sound was great, the features were easy… very friendly user
I’m gonna keep this really short for now, but will update this review when I have more time. I don’t think the Lyra is even for sale anymore, but, I still wanna put in my 2 cents!
I’d never owned an mp3 player before when I received this as a Christmas gift in 2006. The few times I tried to use it, I had trouble with the included “MusicMatch” (now defunct) software. It wasn’t meant for Windows ME, which I’m still running, so it seemed kinda screwy and my pc would crash alot, so back in the box it went.
About a month ago I was determined to give it another try. By doing a custom download, I skipped the things I didn’t need. So I dusted it off, actually READ the instructions, took the tutorials, and got down to business.
And now I spend countless hours HAPPILY downloading all my favorite CDs, and nixing the cuts I do not like, making playlists (that was tough for me to figure out)and I can now say this is aVERY GOOD little device. The sound, whether being played through my receiver or with the provided Sennheiser earbuds, is incredible…every bit as good as the original CD to my ears.
It takes some practice, but after a short while, I realized how intuitive the user interface is. There is a rubberized wheel surrounding a small joystick. The wheel turns smoothly and the rubber makes it easy to use with one hand, no slipping. You can use either of these to scroll through 3 menus: Music, Pictures, Folders. I’ve noticed that the more music I put on it, the slower it is to go from ON to playing music. It’s even freezed up a few times and although it’s powered on, nothing works. The instructions advise you to hold down the power button for 10 seconds and it reboots the harddrive-it works but is a pain.
It comes with a tough-leather carrying case that is useless, and seems too small for the player. You really have to jam it in there which I hate doing since I treat my electronics with lots of TLC. However, the major downer is battery life-it’s not very good. I’t practically empty by the evening, even though I’ve only turned it on a few times, and usually for just 30mins or so at a time. I’d say I get about 2.5-3 hrs…maybe thats not so bad.
Overall I think this is a great player!
UPDATE MARCH 11 2009******************
Still love it. Infact, regarding battery life, I have been able to get nearly 6 hours of play time IF I simply put in on random, and don’t touch it at all. Every time you look for a song, or skip, that little hard drive has to work, which eats the battery power. Of course not touching it or finding just the right song are major shortcomings, but it’s great at a party…just push play and you’re set for 5-6 hours.
I had this product for a little over a year without a warranty. I used it primarily for MP3 recordings. It died one day. The buttons stick, its operation was confusing, manual confusing, nice screen. Not looking forward to getting ripped off by RCA (again) for a repair. Wish I had bought a more expensive iPod, it would have been cheaper in the long run and without the frustrations.
ok I’m using this thing in an unsupported Linux environment, but basically it works. Plug it in and it appears as a USB drive, drag and drop mp3 files onto the device. They play fine.
The battery life is good, a day’s play no problem, the capacity is 20Gb and it can handle any type of file so is useful for data transfers between machines etc. It’s capacity actually makes audio books worthwhile though it doesn’t play Audible’s .aa files.
Audio quality is very good, but the earphones you get with the device are cheap, get a decent set.
The user interface on the player kind of sucks. It profiles the M3s into genre, year, artist, album etc based on the mp3 tags, so make sure they’re correct or it’s a mess to use. If you use Linux, get hold of easytag and set all the tags correctly or use something like Grip which will fill the tags in from freedb.
The big niggle and why it’s only getting 3 stars is that you can’t play music *while it’s charging*. If you try to, it crashes with loud buzzing and has to be switched off/on. It’s been back to the manufacturer with the problem but it still exists. This is stupid and down to poor quality control, it makes the car charger useless and it means I can’t play music while transferring stuff to it. It just doesn’t multitask. Otherwise, when not charging, it’s actually reasonably reliable for me. The little niggle is it can’t create playlists of it’s own, you have to create them on the attached system and copy them with the mp3 files, again something like easytag or rhythmbox can create playlists.
I got the LYRA for christmas. I was excited to finally get somthing that had a big enough storage capacity for all of my music. It took me hours to figure out how to work the damn thing but I eventually figured it out. Not even 3 days after I got it, the buttons started sticking, and it wouldnt shut off. I had a 30 day return so I sent it back to them to fix. I sent it on 1/4/06 and I still havnt got the damn thing back yet. I wouldnt recomend buying this prouduct.
I bought this a year or so ago and (unfortunately) didn’t get the extended warranty this time. After many hours of downloads, at least 100 CD’s, it stopped working. I took it apart and found the tape that holds the hard drive to the battery had come apart in several connections. I called all over, searched the internet, and found someone in Canada who had the same prob w/a similar model. He knew of 2 other people as well.
I (finally) located RCA-Lyra Customer Service and was told after about 20 min on hold to give them my credit card number and they’d bill me $100 then tell me where to send the unit for “repair”
I know they’re going to just send me another of the same product and I’m going to lose my hours of downloaded music. The buttons DO stick, it takes forever to format the music (it reformats everything in the memory, instead of just the CD or file you added).
I am not happy with this item. So now do I pay the $100 and get a new one or just say screw it and buy an iPod?