Coby 1.4-Inch Video MP3 Player with FM, 4 GB Flash Memory MP601-4GBLK (Black)

The Coby MP601-2G is an mp3 player that is marketed toward budget friendly consumers. I picked up one a few days ago as a throw away player to leave in my car and take in my pocket to avoid damage to my more expensive and higher capacity iPod Nano. The player has a washed out, tiny screen and a confusing menu system. However, after a few minutes of use, it becomes fairly easy to learn the counter-intuitive navigation style. The system does not include an installation cd, but has user manual pdf's and installation software stored on the internal memory. Windows 7 automatically recognizes the device as an external storage drive. You can install the software to tranfer files, but I prefer manually dragging and dropping files to the player directly. If you do decide to drag and drop, you will need to refresh the mp3 database on the player to find your files. The unit comes with 2GB internal storage, which is very small in this day and age, but may be suitable for someone with a smaller...Read more

I'm a cheapskate when it comes to mp3 players. Between us (and our kids), we've tried probably 5-6 different MP3 players in this general price range (25-30). They have all been a bust, until we found these Coby ones.

The problems we usually have (but DIDN'T have with this one) are:

1. the players don't work well with windows media player (we had one brand that only allowed us to sync one song at a time... unplug, re-plug... sync next song)
2. you can't play things in the order/group you want (eg it won't shuffle, it ONLY shuffles, you can't use playlists, etc)
3. the players won't charge, won't hold a charge, go through batteries like crazy, etc.
4. no color display/text-only
5. awful menus
6. manual is incomprehensible or not included
7. they die after a month

When we finally got sick of the parade of misfits, we came across these, crossed our fingers - and we love them!

Unlike most other super...Read more

When my 1GB Sandisk MP3 player died, I hit up amazon looking for something around the same size and function. I was not looking for a video player what-so-ever, but stumbled upon this player which for the comparable had more memory that my old player, I bought it up.
This player ended up being WAY more than I expected for a "Coby" Video/MP3 player.
Yes, the screen is small, but if your in the market looking for something that plays video, than you might not be interested, or is there are complaints about the screen being too small and hard to see, well, you knew before hand what the screen size would be. That being said, I have put several different types of video files on this player, and it plays all of them great. It's nice that if you end up being stuck somewhere you can just quickly pull up a 30minute episode of Reno 911 to kill time.
The player also comes with a E-Book reader, which if you stick any .txt file on it, it will read it, it also comes with a...Read more