Why I buy this one ?
- Box Contents - TRIO MP3 Player, Headphones, Cables, AAA Battery, Software CD
- 7-Color Display
- Lyrics are scrolled as a song plays
- Can be used as a traditional thumb drive
- 10 Hours of battery life on one AAA battery

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What our customer's say!

"SAVE TIME AND DO NOT PURCHASE", Aside from other inconveniences; the whole menu is in chinese/japanese, so it is hard to figure out what to do when you are stuck and far away from the little manual. Also it is very hard to turn on. It would take me about 5 minutes to turn on. Some times I just gave up and did not used it.

"Very useful product", Product is easy to use. Performance is quite satisfactory. Quality is good.
I wish it came with rechargeable battery. and charging plug.

Evnthough they dont recomend for use in car, I use it without problem but use it for just listening. Do not try to navigate files while driving.

"Terrible mechanics and switches", I have used this player for a year. I love its ability to adjust tempo, the player has great playing options.

What I hate is:
1) the player's LCD collects pocket lint making it impossible to read.
2) the player's primary selection switch is a toggle switch that has become difficult to actuate; the electrical switches have become defective.
3) the LCD's window is glass. While the player was in my key pocket the window became fractured. I have no recollection of any trauma to my key pocket. I had glass shards in my pocket.

"Junk", No manual or info included. Hard to use controls. Cannot make it work as claimed.

"I do not recommend this product", I bought this as a gift. It comes with no directions and it is hard to even see the display items on the product. The battery that it came with became corroded after just 2 weeks of use and not misuse. When I replaced the battery, it still does not work. I am very disappointed at the 2 week life of this product and I do not recommend anyone try it. I would return it, but I do not think that's an option with this product.

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"Decent enough player, but could be better.", I've been using it for about 2 months now and it's working pretty good for me. I use this more than I use my Toshiba F40 believe it or not.

The good:
1. Easy to get music on it - No proprietary software to load, no proprietary format to "convert" in and out of. You just copy over your MP3's & go.
2. Data storage - You can carry just one device now & not have to lug around a USB key & MP3 player separate.
3. USB plug right on device - You just plug the thing in and don't need any cables or other garbage.
4. Normal battery - You don't have to worry about charging a battery, it's 1 AAA battery. When it's dead you can just dump it and put in a new one.
5. Small size

The bad
1. No power-off memory - When you turn it off, it doesn't remember where you were in a song/podcast. If you're 1/2 way through a 2 hour podcast and have to turn it off, you have to "fast" forward back to where you left off. This is a big issue for podcast listeners
2. Fast forward - Because of the above you end up fast forwarding a lot, and fast forward on this is really "slow" forward. Also, the control is tiny and hard to use. It needs a knob on the end of the dial ro something. If it can't remember where you left off, it should at least make it easy to get back to it, but it doesn't.
3. Long boot time - Turning on the device the "welcome" screen is up for about 20-30 seconds, this should be INSTANT on.
4. Battery Life - 1 AAA battery is only good for 3 hours. It's good that you can change it because it dies so fast.

Overall I'm happy with it, but think a few small tweaks are needed to make it great.


"mp3 player and voice recorder", large storage volume: 2 GB, mp3 player sound quality is ok, but the voice recording sound is mixing lots of noise, it is not a good voice recorder, change battery very 3 hours, it is not a good power efficient player.

"Machspeed Trio 2 GB MP3 Player with Voice Recorder & Thumb Drive ", GREAT PRODUCT

"Misleading rebate promise", The player works as advertised, however I rate it only one star because of misleading business practices. The package promises a [...] rebate. When you click on the link to set up your rebate you are required to sign up for a lot of useless crap and provide them with a credit card number so they can charge you [...] per month. Of course they say you can cancel at any time but this practice is dishonest and there should be some sort of class action lawsuit to stop these jerks from making bogus promises about rebates. I am returning the 2 players I bought and will never buy anything from Trio again.

"Machspeed Trio 2GB MPE Player", The basic ability to play MP3 and WMA files works well. Navigation, if you separate files, is not the easiest thing. When I power the unit up it always defaults to the location of the first folder I created rather than the last folder I was in.

The voice recording works with 8Khz sampling. With higher sample rates a considerable amount of noise is introduced into the recording but since the sample rate is higher the frequency response improves. This isn't advertised as working so I can't complain. If you're in a hurry to start a recording you have to first navigate to the voice folder which is time consuming and is frustrating.

The "ebook" function is a little misleading. To use, create a folder named TEXT. The 2 line display will then let you "read" a text file with a .txt extension. It does not as I'd hoped read the file to you as spoken words. If you have a few thousand word document you'd have to be pretty desperate to scroll through it ~20 characters or so at a time. This isn't documented as far as I can tell. I had to search for some documentation on sigmaTel MSCN to find a description to get it to work.

At the time of writing I'd put 1/2 the value in the 2GB of storage and 1/2 in the basic MP3 player capability giving fair (but not good) value for the money. The file transfer speed is at best 1KByte per second.

If you want ease of use consider another player at a higher price point.