Grouptronics Small Portable CD Player For Home With Speakers – Boombox Mains Or Battery Powered, FM Radio, Supports MP3 Audio Books & Music, Compact & Easy To Use - With USB & AUX IN - GTCDR-501

Excellent CD and Radio with remote control and very reasonably priced

I use this simply as an additional CD player to supplement my main one. I already have an excellent DAB radio (plus a couple of others). It is light, compact and easy to work. The sound quality is good but it also has a Mic slot for earphones which is a bonus, as is also the USB slot. I am pleased with this product (and with its speedy delivery & secure packaging) but there is one drawback: though it plays the CDs well it does not name or list the tracks, which can be a bit frustrating! It gives their time but nothing else - or at least as far as I can see! However, it's a handy device and most reasonably priced.

Great price and surprisingly well made. speakers are very good, you could pass this radio/cd player for something more expensive. Excellent value for money.

Don't expect massive sound but for the price it is a good portable stereo music player. CD player is fine and is easy to use - even if making usb drives of music for older people to listen to. Recommended. Very good remote control. You can point it anywhere and it still works!

The unit in matte black looks stylish but that is where it ends.I had to transfer all my music to a USB drive, as I have a car with no CD player. The car is nothing fancy, but has a built in touch screen, which displays a menu with a choice of music sources (radio, USB), and I am able to scroll through all the music on the USB drive and choose what to play. Fantastic.I need a portable device which is the equivalent of this - ie it will will allow me to play the music on the USB drive, OUTSIDE THE CAR, and will allow me to see what is on the USB drive and chose what to play. I do not want to have to use headphones or earbuds, or have to link it to my phone. I just want something that will play the wretched music and allow me to chose. But apparently that is too much to ask.I inserted the USB stick and set the player accordingly. It played a random track. Not even the beginning track. I tried fast forwarding, it played a bit of the next track, not the next album. I tried going backwards, same thing. So I have to listen to what the player gives me, not what I want. There is nothing on the display that allows me to chose. Even if I was super organised (fat chance), and had a written list of say 100 albums to remind me of what was on the USB drive, if I wanted to listen to album 99, I could not just scroll through, I would have to play every track on 98 albums to get to album 99. This is ludicrous.OK, back to CDs then. I set the player to CD, but on inserting a CD got the message 'NO'. Tried another CD, every possible combination of buttons from the very minimal 'instructions'. Still 'NO'. So the CD player did not work.Tried the radio. What a joke. Loud white noise and the digital display flashing numbers very fast, no doubt trying to find a 'preset' station, as there is no tuning wheel on the player. I tried various locations in the house to try and get reception, and finally, upstairs and after repeated wild stabbing at the 'pause' button, managed to stop the thing at 881, which I recognised as Radio 2, although there was no information on the display telling me this.So if I am very lucky, with a following wind I may get a few random tracks from the USB stick, and Radio 2 or some other unrecognised station, if I go upstairs and manage to stop the frantic self tuning at the right place. Oh joy.The last straw was the power on/off button. This was as random as everything else. Sometimes it would not turn on, then at maybe the 10th attempt, it would. Then it would not turn off. Then it would. Then it would turn on at the first attempt, but not turn off. Then it would not turn on. Oh wait, there it goes, it came on. But it won't turn off.... I give up.

First I am very disappointed because I thought I was buying a MP3 PLAYER and it is not; it only produces sound from an MP3 disc by an attachment to a MP3 player so I still need to buy a MP3 player, not at all what I thought I was buying.As a radio and CD player it has a satisfactory reproduction sound but everything to select or control functions are terribly difficult to see, difficult to find which makes this item very uncomfortable rather than a pleasure to own.

Looks neat and sound quality is very good - very pleased !

I read reviews which help, and as reported on one it does have a slight hum! But because it's a min efield out there looking for a MP3 player which does what it says it does went for it, I just wanted a put on cd and play a mp3cd which it does so the hum was liveable, couldn't face trawling through stuff again! The only other thing is the kind of pause time it's not long enough and because you have to push the button numerous times to get back to where you are (I've a bible on my cd) it can be 100 or more which is tiresome the only thing that kept me slightly happy about this was my friend had brought a 3x more expensive MPs (plop on and play mp3h cd) and she had to do the same finger tapping, lol. Leads long enough, lightweight and I might have gone for a different colour but they can be more expensive. All in all happy with it.