Audio CD track organization is far from tidy
752764
The audio CD is not separated by chapter/talking points.  If you go to the kindle version and look at the table of contents you see main categories and sub categories.  The CDs tracks are split based on how many minutes not what the sub chapter is.  This is ironic because the book is on tidying up but the audio CD is unorganized.
I am waiting to borrow a MP3 CD version from the library to see if the situation is improved on that version.
870925
I like the CD, especially track 7. However, the CD doesn't have song-info on it. My car doesn't find any track names, and not even my computer does. It's really annoying.
3678484
got used to the odd UI over a week or so of usage.  most annoying thing is that it organizes by filename, not mp3 ID data... also, mine in particular has between 6-14 separate folders for the same album.... and it comes up with weird genres when I know I've gone through each and every mp3 file to make sure they are tagged correctly.  otherwise LOVE the weight of it... and like I said, got used to the UI.... ended up buying another AGPtEK mp3 player, the M28.  considering getting the Rocker......
1434661
Brilliance audio keeps churning out low quality MP3 audio books. It ruins the experience. The minimum for an MP3 CD should be 128 kbps.
4628866
Saying people have a choice of buying it from itunes isn't a valid comparison, since itunes provide a lossy compressed files that are inferior to the CD release. The idea of using there own player software when playing on a PC is also inferior as some of us use some of there more advanced players with DSP to help correct for there less then stellar speaker systems.

With there propriatory software I cannot put DSP of my choice in the playback chain, removing my ability to listen how I want.

An audio CD should be an audio CD, not some bastard child of some music companys vein efforts to alienate a majority of there customers.
3818934
It is one continuous track. Even being a mixed CD, there should still be some track breaks to designate what you are listening o, or skip to a certain point.
4113026
The track list is not as it appears on the original OST, or at least the CD of the OST from the '90s, but it's all there! Flow is a bit off though.
2710632
My complaint isn't so much the quality of the recording as the presentation as in the poor packaging.  Here, we get 1-1/2 CDs worth of music spread across 3 CDs in a "Vox Box" style CD case.  It is an absurd waste of packaging material and forces the buyer to allocate 3 CDs worth of shelf space for only one CD's worth of material.  Two of the CDs have less than 38 minutes of material (one only 33), and the other only 47 minutes.  And this, from Brilliant Classics, who previously gave us eco-friendly packaging for Angelo Gilardinio's Transcendentia, which housed 5 CDs in cardboard box about 2 CDs wide.  Also, Brilliant Classics gave us the Villa-Lobos string quartets (6 CDs) in  a similar eco-friendly box.
As for Porqueddu's playing, I'm only familiar with the Ponce Preludes, having listened to them and played them for years.  I find his interpretation to be sub-standard, compared to that of Segovia, Hoppstock, Holzman, Boyd, Parkening and others.  In short, his playing is dry and sometimes, his tempo is just too slow.

Recommended, however, because most of the recordings are world premiers. But still disappointing because space was available for recording other sets of preludes, e.g., the 24 preludes of Gilbert Biberian, of which, only the first 12 have ever been recorded.

My rating is harsh, geared to send a strong message to Brilliant Classics and their artist director not to be so lack with their recording and packaging standards.
2960832
Music is fantastic, but the song info embedded on the discs is completely jumbled. can't find a specific song in your library without editing literally all 75 song titles to the correct ones. pretty basic thing to screw up.
938893
There are lots of 5-disc DVD/CD changers available now, and a few of them even play MP3 discs, but what sold me on this one was the fact that it will play my MP3s in random order. I've looked at about a dozen 5-disc changers with MP3 capabilities over the last few months, but the one feature they were all missing was the ability to play MP3 songs randomly. When you can cram 100+ songs onto an MP3 CD, you don't usually want to hear them in the same order every time. This DVD changer can play the tracks from 1 disc randomly, or you can load up 5 MP3 discs and have the random pick from all of them (500+ random songs). An added bonus for some people is the ability to play WMA-encoded songs, but watch out - WMA's that have been flagged as copyrighted won't play. If you turn on the TV when MP3 files are playing, you can see the folder and the first 30 characters of the song that's playing; an on-screen menu also lets you easily select folders or songs to play.
Other than its MP3 capabilities, it's a pretty standard DVD/CD changer. It is not a progressive-scan player, though, which is odd since it's so new. The manual says it can play DVD, CD, Video CD, CD-R, and CD-RW, as well as DVD-R discs that were "recorded on a Panasonic DVD video recorder". Things it says it won't play include DVD-Audio, SVCD, Divx, and Photo CDs.
Panasonic opted for minimal controls on the face of the unit, which probably allowed it to be fairly thin (it's the shortest multi-disc unit I've seen) but means that you have to run most things from the remote, including choosing which disc to play. On-screen menus help you set up the player and show you which special options you've selected. Oddly, pressing the Stop button on the remote or the unit stops the current feature (song or movie) but the disc remains active - you must press Stop a 2nd time to tell the player that you're done with the disc and want to switch to something else (like change to another disc). When the unit powers off, the power stays off, so there's no point in plugging it in to your amplifier hoping that you only have to use a single Power button.
No changer is perfect, but the only things I've run into with this one are minor annoyances rather than actual problems. And it's great to finally find a changer with true random functionality for both my CDs and MP3 discs. If you want a single unit to function as both a DVD player and a CD changer, this one does it all for you, in a very slim package.
By the way, despite what the Amazon information about this changer says, it does not have a "shuttle dial" or a "unified remote control".
Pros:
 - DVD changer with CD, MP3, WMA capabilities
 - MP3/WMA songs can be played in random order from one or all discs
 - Change 4 discs while playing the 5th
 - On-screen setups and MP3 file/folder selection
Cons:
 - No progressive scan
 - Must use remote for most functions
3563473
This is retarded. Instead of a list of songs in my library, im stuck with one 45-minute long track.

WTF IS THIS NONSENSE?
953044
I have issues with scribbling coming up when CD is ripped to Windows Media Player. Who put the wrong information on the CD for track information. This is an issue for many Classical CDs and I will continue to discuss this until the problems are fixed. I'll revise my review if people at Deutche Grammophon can "do their job." Otherwise good selection of music including the voice of Leontyne Price on seven of twenty tracks.
2378284
Some notes about the collection itself. The songs are organized into "disks" within the Amazon player. Unfortunately, there are no disk titles, just disk 1 through disk 27. Album labels would be welcome. Also, it fails to export to Windows Media Player, I got a total of 5 songs from the export. Not a biggie since you can easily import the folder from within WMP itself. Therein lies the other problem - this is recognized as one gigantic album and I get 27 songs no1, followed by 27 no2, etc. There'll be quite a bit of work to create suitable playlists so this becomes useable in WMP.

Of course even with the above issues one can't argue with the price, so I'm still giving it full 5 stars. Still, I believe people should have an idea what they are getting.

UPDATE: When importing in WMP all the song names are intact, but there's no album information. I went over all the tracks and with the help of Wikipedia matched them to their respective albums. I had to update the metadata for every track and change its album info. WMP helped most of the time finding an entry in its database, but the 3 Backtracks disks only had shortened versions there so these I had to update entirely by hand. I also had to change the genre tags since for some reason Amazon thinks AC/DC is Alternative music... All in all it took me about 3 hours and I'm now a happy camper.
4197549
Maybe its because the music genre is changing, but track selection doesn't seem to have a defined style or feel like previous ISOS.

When I listen to this set, minutes go by without any interesting soundscape, transition, or tiesto magic.

Its good for background or driving music while doing something, but its not a "museum" album that can be appreciated on its own.

Bottomline:

This should have been 1CD
2596964
Criticism of the CD:  What I wanted was a CD where the type of bird would be announced on the CD before or after the song, so that I could listen to the CD without having to read along in the book.  (I wanted to learn bird songs during my commuting time, which precludes reading along.)  Also, even when using the book, I had a great deal of trouble telling when one track had ended and another had begun, so I was usually lost and confused.  This is not the right CD for me.
4190624
The idea of this program is excellent, but it has one serious, incomprehensible glitch:  it does not preserve the order of tracks within albums. If you like to listen to your music randomized, then that is fine, because that is what you will get, but if the sequence matters you have to manually reorder the tracks.  Especially for classical music, opera, spoken-word recordings that is onerous.  Smith Micro say they will fix this in the next release.
4853686
Hello Kiddies. I've lived with this unit for a few months now and I thought I would put me two cents worth into the review section. The sound is on par with the best CD players I've heard-absolutely stellar. On the other hand it doesn't seem to have bested it's predecessor, the CD 6004. They both sound pretty much identical to these ears, which is nothing bad at all. Again, stellar sound presentation. But a couple of ergonomic changes have me going back to the 6004.
  The first of these is the remote, I don't need a remote that runs other equipment and  the cd player-too many buttons and the four arrow center 'jog' doesn't even control next/previous functions like it used to. Now I have to search close to the top of the remote to find those in order to change tracks, it also now un balances the remote in the hand. The second is the next/previous buttons on the player itself. The  6004 used to allow me to hit the 'previous' button after loading a cd, and it would go, for example, from track 1-backwards to track 24. On the new 6005, you can only increment UP, not backwards-it stops at 1 and you can go no further-very dumb change in ergonomics if you ask me, and you should Marantz, because I bought the dang thing!
  The third thing they changed, and again it might seem trivial to some, and it might be, but to people like me with partial ADD it means a lot, and that is the previous models had a real nifty feature: after you put in a disc and the player read the table of contents, you could hit the >> (next button) or << (Previous button) and after you hit the track you wanted, you just let the button go and the player would go to that track and start playing it! You didn't have to hit the 'Play' button to start playing at the track you picked. Very useful feature that is NOT on the 6005. Again, stupid having that feature on the previous 3 models and then taking it away for no good reason.
  But, those quibbles aside, the player does a superb job at playing CD's. No harshness on the top end, just a very Analogue sounding machine that I believe is faithful to the recording on the disc. If it's a marginal sounding disc to begin with, the CD6005 will pull as much life out of it as it can and let it sound as good as it can. But you put in a well recorded and mastered CD like Dave Brubecks 'Take Five' and you'll be astonished at how damn good this thing sounds. I would not expect to hear a better sounding CD player for anything less than $2500. The last 5 years have seen CD players sounding so much better than older decks, and all this while the CD format is dying a slow death. But not with me. They keep blowing out cd box sets like the 16 disc Theloneous Monk's Riverside albums for $52 (!) and I'll keep a buying them. Bring it on. I still get a kick out of physical media.
  So ergonomics aside, a fine player from Marantz. I'll go back to my 6004 for the nit picking reasons I expounded on earlier-to me both players sound pretty much identical-but you really cant go wrong under $500 with the CD6005.

Happy Listening!
Gerard Masters