Matsui 120MR MP3 Review

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Matsui 120MR MP3
1.6 stars
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Flyfisher's Review of Matsui 120MR MP3 MP3 Player

2nd Jan 2007

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    3.5 stars
  • Time MP3 Player Owned
    Less than a Week
  • Battery Life
    3.5 stars
  • Memory
    As described
Good Points

Tiny size and as of January 2007 a great price from PC World


Bad Points

None so far! But read the review for operating tweaks.


General Comments

Mac User! So finding a player that is outside the iPod range is a problem. There appears to be a host of cheap MP3 machines around until you look if they are Mac compatible. A friend had a Matsui 120MR as a christmas present and was showing us the various features and I noticed in the devices handbook that it was 'plug and play' with OSX! and it is.

PC World have them for sale at £24.99 so a quick flash with the plastic and we have one. Very short user manual, not always a good thing. In this case it is quite OK.

The device comes with a lot of pre loaded MP3 tracks which are interesting but will probably be deleted by most owners. Mine were, just to make space for my own tracks.

As advertised the machine is a pretty true 2GB device and I managed to get 100 tracks into about .94GB all as MP3 tracks. iTunes does not like to communicate with the device through a powered USB hub and it would not mount it and then when I did get it to mount it would not let me enact it. The solution was to connect through one of the keyboard sockets, no further problems.

iTunes will not let me backward engineer tracks from AAC files to MP3 although the help pages say that it will. To get MP3 files I have reset the iTunes preferences to upload CD's as MP3 files and then copied them to the Matsui 120MR. No problems and the sound quality through my Sony headphones or through our Marantz stack system is very good.

The Matsui 120MR also has a microphone built in to allow you to record as well as listen. I will add a further update when we have used it!
My overall view is that the Matsui 120MR is a very positive and cheap introduction to MP3 audio.

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Members' Comments onFlyfisher's Review

  • iconoclast on 10th Jan 2007

    Your review was pretty accurate, but when I download tracks from my PC, the player does not play them in track order ie 1,2, 3, 4 etc. It plays them 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc, and I cannot seem to get it to play in numerical order...Can anyone help me?

  • bagman1 on 22nd Jan 2007

    I have the same problem. I thought the Matsui 120MR MP3 Player And Recorder was playing tracks in alphabetical order, so I renamed all tracks with a prefix a, b, c etc., but that didn't work.

  • sparrow999 Rank: Lance Corporal on 4th May 2007

    I had the same problem, but I fixed it by changing the title in the properties for the music file (for some reason the song title and file name can be called different names).

    It's time consuming as you have to alter each file name individually going into the properties, but once done I didn't have any further problems with the playing sequence.

  • johnH2 on 30th May 2007

    In my opinion it is an absolutely awful product. Have a read of this for the proof.

    http://forums.cnet.com/5208-4_102-0.html?forumID=71&threadID=218044&start=0

  • dzimani on 11th Apr 2008

    I found this review unhelpful because it is contrary to what mine is behaving.I stopped listening to the songs I saved in it because it refuses to play.

    I am yet to throw it in the bin because the USB part is still alive.
    Its only the player which is completely dead.

    The question is, Can it be repaired or not?