NetGear MP101NA Review

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NetGear MP101NA
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psfindc's Review of NetGear MP101NA Audio Interface and Sound Card

14th Dec 2004

Overall Rating

1 stars
  • Value for money
    0.5 stars
  • Ease of Set Up
    3 stars
  • Time Sound Card Used
    Between 1 - 4 Weeks

As of December 13, 2004, the Netgear MP101NA is NOT for the serious music fan for the simple reason that the software is not able to handle a large volume of CDs - say, more than 90 discs worth of music.

When you get to upwards of 1,400 song it justs shuts down and deletes any playlists you've created without any sort of warning ala "sorry, but you can't add any more songs."

With over 1,200 CDs in my collection, I had hoped to save them to the CPU -- which has had no trouble storing that quantity, listen to them through the MP101, and then create a whole lot of shelf space by selling those CDs that I don't listen to all the much.

The tech support, in India, is 24/7, free for the first 90 days and is actually pretty good, even though I wish those jobs were here in the US instead. They said that future versions (mine is the 3.3.36 one) will hopefully be able to handle greater quantities, and that I could download them for free from the Netgear homepage, but they were not able to give me a real idea if later versions would ever be able to handle the volume I'm talking about.

Otherwise, if you don't have that many CD's it's actually a pretty cool little toy as the display shows the song title, artist and CD title and will even "crawl" any lengthy info across the screen.

The wireless connection with the server worked immediately about 50% of the time, but was able to detect the server pretty quickly (1-2 mins) the rest of the time.

I had a firewall problem when I first set it up that was blocking transmission, but the tech guys walked me through the patch, no problems.

Like I said, this is a cute toy, but not a real tool for those who hope that technology can help them create any significant shelf space.

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