Overall score is within types, in performance order. For music players, this score is based primarily on ease of use, headphone quality, audio playback time, and damage resistance. For media players, video and picture quality is also rated and included in the overall score. The displayed score is out of a total of 100 points. Tests were carried out by International Consumer Research and Testing, a worldwide group that includes Consumer Reports.
The Centon 2GBMP3-003 (Red) is an MP3 player available from
Centon.
The 2GBMP3-003 (Red) typically costs
$24.99.
Consumer Reports recommends that you match the features on a model to the needs you have. Here's
our take on some of the specifications and features that are commonly available on MP3 player
models like the 2GBMP3-003 (Red).
Audio playback formats:
The most common audio format(s) the player will recognize and be able to play.
These include: Apple Lossless: Apple (Mac) format for an uncompressed sound file AAC: Advanced Audio Coding FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group OGG: Short for Ogg Vorbis, a free, open source music format WAV: Uncompressed Windows standard for waveform audio files WMA: Windows Media Audio
Features & Specs - Centon 2GBMP3-003 (Red)
Audio playback formats
The most common audio format(s) the player will recognize and be able to play.
These include: Apple Lossless: Apple (Mac) format for an uncompressed sound file AAC: Advanced Audio Coding FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group OGG: Short for Ogg Vorbis, a free, open source music format WAV: Uncompressed Windows standard for waveform audio files WMA: Windows Media Audio
The CENTON 2GB Mp3 player (Red) is a pleasantly designed piece of junk for my purposes. I do not listen to short music files, but rather to podcasts of varying lengths and this player seems incapable of dependably playing large files. I therefore tried splitting them into smaller files (20 min. each) but still have periodic freezes where the only cure is to pull the battery. If I can't trick it into starting another track upon restart then it simply refreezes until I can plug into my computer and remove the offending file. At that point I can try again but it is very inconvenient when I am working on something or on a long drive. I have returned to my old 1GB Sandisk player as it at least works. <br /><br />An additional comment I feel I must make concerns the software that the player insists on installing. No matter what I try, the loader that pops up claims to be out of memory and will do nothing. Dragging and dropping works correctly and this would be a nice player if I could trust it to play the files I enter. It also seems to drain the battery even when shut off.<br /><br />In short, if you wish to only play short music files this may be an adequate player; the sound is not bad and I have had no problems with small files. Good luck, personally I will avoid the Centon name in future.
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