On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 02:01:44 -0800, michael hunter wrote:
"michael hunter" wrote in message
om...
hi recently bought the Bench unit(£33.33)....not sure if Lidl is
widespread over england...certainly loads in N.E england and
Scotland....It is a good player...a good read out of Artist and
track....but it fails to play any cd that has got any mp3's on the
root of the cd

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Thanks Michael

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Ok thanks for the message back....it must be the way that i burned the
cd's then....i remember using easy cd creator....and it has has a drag
and drop facility(ie: use the cd copier as a hard drive type of
thing(I know there is a proper name for this...but cannot think of
it)....i might just have to re burn the cd's and see if they will
play

I've just bought a Bench KH 2259 MP3-CD Player from Lidl for the same
price - presumably you have a 2257/2258/2259/2260 too?

If so, I can verify that it will play MP3s in the root directory and seems
to handle multi-session as well (though I haven't tested that properly,
yet, so it may well miss some of the additional sessions).

I don't use Windows software to burn CDs, but if you're using drag and
drop-style burning, you may find that the CDs are burnt with a UDF
filesystem rather than the (older, more commonly supported) ISO9660 format
that these players support.

I've tested with various makes of blanks - Verbatim, Imation, Philips and
Kodak - all work.

As an aside, I'm pretty impressed with this gadget - it reads ID3 tags
(referred to as "ID3 days" in the translated-from-deutsche manual!) and
plays VBR-encoded MP3s. Considering it also comes with 2 rechargable NiMH
cells, a charger, a car kit, a case and a remote, I think that's pretty
damn good VFM.

Thanks

HTH,
Alex.
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