$10.00 Digital Slick MP3 Player Review
While scanning the pages of a Family Dollar advertisement, there was one item that instantly caught my eye. $10.00 for a 1GB MP3 player that can hold up to 680 songs. Of course granted there's no guarantee you will have 680 songs due to it's an estimate based on an average song of 4 minutes. But never the less at $10.00, it was bought. They were running out quickly by the next day and decided to buy two since it seemed like a good deal.
Normally when buying electronics I'd check online to see others reviews about a product but didn't have time prior to picking it up. The Slick MP3 1GB player is black and sliver and has a length of 4 inches. It has an easy 2.0 USB port on the end of the player making loading songs quick and easy. It includes both English and Spanish as a language option. It contains a voice recorder and a locked button to prevent the player from turning on accidentally. The back light is a pleasant illuminating blue shade.
On the display screen is number of songs on the device, battery strength, volume level and song information. The song information contains the artist and title scrolling along the bottom. You can choose whether to keep the back light on or turned off after a certain amount of seconds has passed.
The menu has simple options such as play music, play voice recorder, settings,preview and more. There's an equalizer to allow you to choose what style such as: rock, pop, jazz, classical and bass for the sound quality.
If you're interrupted just as you come upon one of your favorite parts of a song, the mp3 remembers where the song left off before being shut off. There's even a feature that allows you to focus on a part of the song and enable it to play back only that certain piece.
After checking out online about the product, I've seen it being sold anywhere from $15-37 dollars. On Overstock.com they have this item listed as $36.99. The product is the same item as the one in Family Dollar only the packaging looks different. Many Family Dollar stores require asking at the counter regarding availability of MP3 players.
Having the display is a nice feature and it's great knowing when it's about time to replace the battery unlike other similar priced mp3 players. It does require 1 AAA battery that is not included. Getting started was easy with no driver installation needed. Simply insert the battery, turn on by pressing the play/pause button for a few seconds and plug into the USB port of the computer. It will locate the device in an instant. They include instructions and details on all the features. Overall this product has been working good for the price.
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Post a CommentSame thing here..mine says 'starting' and has the hourglass. It lasted a month. Seemed like a great little MP3 at first. I have tried different batteries, even rechargable, but it makes no difference.
I have the Slick MP3 from the Family Dollar store also and i have always been able to add music. Now when I try to add music, I get a msg: directory or file cannot be created. What do I need to do?
32 is the max volume. Perhaps try and test it with a different headphone set.
I have a friend that just picked on of these up and has a volume question. He wants to know what the volume max is. Apparently when it is maxed out, he can barely hear it. He says that the volume setting says "31" or "32" when he has it turned up all the way. Is this the max, or is he only hitting 30% of max volume, and if that is the case, is there a way to lock it that might be set (at the 32% level) so he can unlock it and get it to go higher?
i purchased the mp550-4 mp3 can hold up to 1000 songs 800 photos and i cannot get it to run, the screen is not an easy touch but hard touch, the charge time was 3 hours, the buttons are to small to use, the manuel is useless, i have tried to up load my jpg's and did once but they were freezing the screen and got locked so had to delete and have been on here 6 hrs and havent used it yet, its small compact and large enough screen to carry in my wallet so would be convenient but to way to difficult to use, i will be returning mine and the site is not complete with info and the phone help is only avail m-f and business hrs that i work 8-6 so not helpful, not easy to use, I WANT A FUN ITEM WITH LITTLE TO NO WORK NOT STRUGGLES
I haven't encountered that problem. I did a search on Google but unfortunately only found questions and no answers regarding the hourglass problem. If I find a solution, I'll let you know.
My mom bought my 4 yr. old one for x-mas it worked fine for a while & then it started doing the hourglass thing. It won't even link with my pc now when it was just a couple months ago.
I'm sorry to hear that. Have you tried it on a friend's computer and see if it registers and works with window media player on their computer?
I tried doing what you said and it doesn't hook up. I plug it in but it doesn't show up in my media player. I don't know what to do now. Anyone know any place where they can see what's wrong with it?
Hmmm, it sounds like the store if you bought them all at the same one got a shipment of defected mp3 players. Hopefully the one you have now will continue working okay. I've had mine for a while and with light use, it still works fine.