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Bah! Humanity digusts me! Everybody’s running around dropping all kinds of hard-earned dough on these uppity MP3 players, just so they can carry around a thousand or five thousand or ten thousand lousy songs they never listen to. For my money, there haven’t even been a hundred good songs ever recorded! Still, you go strutting around, trying to impress people by telling them you’ve got the collected discographies of Kraftwerk, and Tim Buckley, and Hüsker Dü, and Aphex Twin, and Kurt Loder only knows who else, in your pocket. But when it comes to what you really listen to, it’s twenty spins a day of “Pon De Replay” and ten apiece of “All Right Now” and “Since You Been Gone.” The rest of the unheard music on your player is sheer show-off status symbolism. Bah!

 

This RCA Lyra MP3 player’s reasonable 256MB hard drive is perfect for people like me: unsentimental, nondelusional freethinkers who realize that 99.99% of everything is garbage, including recorded music. It can hold the only fifty or sixty songs in the history of music that are worth a damn, and what else do you need? The Lyra also includes an FM tuner, although only an idiot would wander into the swamp of mediocrity that is commercial radio. Those bloodsuckers in the music industry must’ve gotten to the RCA people, because this thing supports DRM. And you can choose between red, blue, and purple backlighting, although none of those colors will change the fact that you’re an insignificant little microbe, alone in a vast, indifferent universe of suffering.

 

On the off chance that some overpaid, drugged-up clown releases a new song that makes the cut – hey, it happens every few years – you can expand the Lyra’s capacity with MMC or SD cards. Find a cheap 1GB SD card and you’ll have a 1.25GB player without paying for the “look how cool I am” factor. But trust me, with taste like yours, the less songs you listen to, the better! Now, let me tell what I think of your clothes…

 

Warranty: 90 days

 

Features:

 

Built-in Memory: 256 MB

 

External Memory Slot: SD / MultiMedia Card

 

Compatibility: MP3, WMA, WMA DRM, Audible

 

Software: MusicMatch Jukebox

 

Battery Life: (Continuous Playback) Up to 20 Hours

 

Play Modes: 6

 

DSP Modes: Flat/Bass/Pop/Rock/Jazz/EQ

 

Audible Search: Forward/Reverse

 

Supported Bit Rates: MP3 32kbps - 320kbps

 

Supported Bit Rates: WMA 48kbps - 192kbps

 

Auto Power Down and Resume

 

Digital Volume Control

 

Auto DJ (MusicMatch Feature)

 

Export to WAV (MusicMatch Feature)

 

Firmware Upgradeable

 

Drag and Drop (Mass Storage)

 

Tuner: Stereo FM 87.5 MHz – 108.1 MHz

 

Preset Stations: 20

 

FM Record: (MP3 /Wave Encoding)

 

Dimensions (WxHxD): 1.46×3.3×1.1

 

FM modulator frequencies: 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, 88.7, 107.3, 107.5, 107.7, 107.9

 

Display:

 

Display Type: Dual Orientation Backlit Full Dot Matrix

 

Display color: Adjustable - blue, red and purple

 

Total Track Time, Total Number of Tracks,Track Number

 

Elapsed Play Time

 

USB Download

 

Digital Volume Level

 

Low Battery Indicator

 

Memory Card

 

Key Lock

 

FM Memory Preset Number

 

Hardware Requirements:

 

Processor: 500 MHz or higher

 

Windows: 98SE, Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS X V.10.1.5 or Higher

 

Internet Explorer 4.0 or Higher

 

Hard Disk Space Needed 100 MB for Software Only

 

CD Drive

 

USB 2.0

 

What's In The Box:

 

RCA 256MB MP3 player

 

FM modulator (plugs into car lighter)

 

Sport style headphones

 

USB cable

 

2.5mm line in cable

 

Belt clip and Neckstrap

 

1 AAA battery

 

One month Audible trial

 

Musicmatch and driver CD

 

Owners manual/quick start guide

 

100 free MP3s from emusic

Ipod's are over rated so I have my Lyra on order! yay!

Hmmmm. Thanks.

 

I currently use a 256mb Phillips I got for $30 shipped. It uses SD as well.

 

Get the Mini SD with the SD adaptor and then you are future proof as well.

 

This looks good.

 

How are the functions and how easily does it load music?

Amazon.com: RCA RD2312FM 256 MB Digital Audio Player with FM Tuner: Electronics

 

Some user reviews.

http://www.woot.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=618639

 

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thanx for the links mac. i'll report more when mine gets delivered.