RCA Lyra™ 20GB MP3 Player - RD2850
- RCA 20GB Lyra Jukebox MP3 Digital Music Player General Features: Silver profile
- HUGE 20 GB 1.8" hard drive 2.2-inch LCD MP3/WMA/WMA DRM Playback USB 2.0 connection
- HDD SmartTrax Navigation Lyra DJ Digital FM Tuner with FM Record
- Battery Operated: Up to 12 hours of playback with internal rechargeable lithium polymer battery
- Signal to Noise Ratio (>85dB)
Product Description
Groove while you're on the move with this Lyra Jukebox! Get up and go with your music collection! Featuring 20GB of Hard Drive space - you can jam for up to 600 hours. This slim unit is compatible with mp3/WMA/WMA DRM playback plus it has a Digital FM Tuner that enables FM record. With this feature you can record while listening to your favorite FM station in mp3 format. You can later upload the mp3 file to a PC for personal use. The HDD SmartTrax Navigation allows you to browse your content by album, genre, year or title and easily select a group by ID3 tag as well. With this Lyra Jukebox you will run out of tunes before you run out of memory!
Amazon.com Product Description
Take your music collection with you anywhere with the RCA Lyra RD2850 hard-drive digital audio player, which can store 5,000 CD-quality songs (MP3 files encoded at 128 kbps) on its 20 GB hard drive. Amazingly slim at just 1 inch thick, it also weighs only 3.4 ounces. It plays both MP3 and WMA formats, as well as Secure WMA files offered by online download services. It also features an FM tuner with the capability of recording programming with the touch of a single button. Recorded audio files are saved and stored in MP3 format for uploading to a PC. It has a large, easily readable 2.1-inch LCD. The Lyra DJ feature creates an automatic smart playlist that contains related types of music. It uses the PC to analyze your music collection based on mathematical audio analysis and neural network learning to create groups of musically-related playlists that can easily be transferred to the RD2850. With the SmartTrax navigation feature, you can easily browse audio files according to artist, album, genre, year or song title. Songs can be tagged as "dislike" during playback for editing or deleting later. The player has several EQ presets, including bass boost, rock, pop, and jazz, as well as a user-configurable equalizer setting. The RD2010 is designed to be PlaysForSure-verified out of the box and works seamlessly with Windows Media Player 10, including support for Auto Sync to sync your music, photos and playlists. You can choose from a growing number of PlaysForSure download and subscription stores, such as F.Y.E (For Your Entertainment), MSN Music, Musicmatch, MusicNow, Napster, and Wal-Mart Music Downloads. What's in the Box
RCA Lyra RD2850 player, AC adapter, USB cable, line-out cable, car adapter kit, clip earphones, and CD-ROM with Lyra Jukebox and MusicMatch Jukebox software. Choose your music. Choose your device. Know it's going to work.
Look for the PlaysForSure logo if you're shopping for a portable music or video device and you want to make sure the digital music and video you purchase will play back on it every time. Match the PlaysForSure logo on a large selection of leading devices and online music stores. If you see the logo, you'll know your digital music will play for sure. The PlaysForSure logo makes it easy to find digital media stores and devices that work together. Choose from a large number of digital music and video stores, including CinemaNow, MSN Music, MusicMatch, MusicNow, Napster, Wal-Mart Music Downloads, and many more. Look for the PlaysForSure logo on a wide variety of devices including portable music devices, portable video devices, digital audio receivers, Pocket PC's and Smartphones.
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RCA Lyra™ 20GB MP3 Player - RD2850
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- Publisher: Rca
- Label: Rca
- Studio: Rca
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 18 reviews
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #43124
Avg. Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Solid performer so far, Mine is the 2826, but very similar. 2006-11-01
Comment: I just purchased this product clearence at a local book/music store, and I must say I am impressed so far. 20 GB capacity is a decent capacity. the display is big, nice blue back light easy to read. I have figured out how to make playlists, and it sorts songs by group. you can drop and drag files to the unit, or use Musicmatch to sync with the unit as well. Works a hard drive on the drop and drag. It comes with everything from power/charger cord, connection cables to computer and stero system, and a case. Also headphones to boot. Software disc as well. Only drawback is that the battery has lasted me between 5-6 hours when loading songs, have not seen how long it last with playing only. Also, it has locked on me a couple of times, but the reset button works ok without wiping hard drive, but worrys me. Not a bad player.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Don't Get Tricked by Ad Language 2006-08-10
Comment: I had this product for a little over a year without a warranty. I used it primarily for MP3 recordings. It died one day. The buttons stick, its operation was confusing, manual confusing, nice screen. Not looking forward to getting ripped off by RCA (again) for a repair. Wish I had bought a more expensive iPod, it would have been cheaper in the long run and without the frustrations.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Thomson (RCA) Lyra - Used with Linux 2006-08-07
Comment: ok I'm using this thing in an unsupported Linux environment, but basically it works. Plug it in and it appears as a USB drive, drag and drop mp3 files onto the device. They play fine.
The battery life is good, a day's play no problem, the capacity is 20Gb and it can handle any type of file so is useful for data transfers between machines etc. It's capacity actually makes audio books worthwhile though it doesn't play Audible's .aa files.
Audio quality is very good, but the earphones you get with the device are cheap, get a decent set.
The user interface on the player kind of sucks. It profiles the M3s into genre, year, artist, album etc based on the mp3 tags, so make sure they're correct or it's a mess to use. If you use Linux, get hold of easytag and set all the tags correctly or use something like Grip which will fill the tags in from freedb.
The big niggle and why it's only getting 3 stars is that you can't play music *while it's charging*. If you try to, it crashes with loud buzzing and has to be switched off/on. It's been back to the manufacturer with the problem but it still exists. This is stupid and down to poor quality control, it makes the car charger useless and it means I can't play music while transferring stuff to it. It just doesn't multitask. Otherwise, when not charging, it's actually reasonably reliable for me. The little niggle is it can't create playlists of it's own, you have to create them on the attached system and copy them with the mp3 files, again something like easytag or rhythmbox can create playlists.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Trying to get mine repaired is heck!! 2006-03-24
Comment: I bought this a year or so ago and (unfortunately) didn't get the extended warranty this time. After many hours of downloads, at least 100 CD's, it stopped working. I took it apart and found the tape that holds the hard drive to the battery had come apart in several connections. I called all over, searched the internet, and found someone in Canada who had the same prob w/a similar model. He knew of 2 other people as well.
I (finally) located RCA-Lyra Customer Service and was told after about 20 min on hold to give them my credit card number and they'd bill me $100 then tell me where to send the unit for "repair"
I know they're going to just send me another of the same product and I'm going to lose my hours of downloaded music. The buttons DO stick, it takes forever to format the music (it reformats everything in the memory, instead of just the CD or file you added).
I am not happy with this item. So now do I pay the $100 and get a new one or just say screw it and buy an iPod?
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: This MP3 Player is A PIECE OF S***! 2006-02-28
Comment: I got the LYRA for christmas. I was excited to finally get somthing that had a big enough storage capacity for all of my music. It took me hours to figure out how to work the damn thing but I eventually figured it out. Not even 3 days after I got it, the buttons started sticking, and it wouldnt shut off. I had a 30 day return so I sent it back to them to fix. I sent it on 1/4/06 and I still havnt got the damn thing back yet. I wouldnt recomend buying this prouduct.
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