Both GE and Sony undercounter cd players have not worked!!
588304
Am getting ready to return my second "under counter kitchen cd/radio"--my Christmas gift from my husband, too!! Both the GE and the Sony sound great with the radio, but produce only a small hissing sound when the cd player is on. You can get a radio anywhere; it's the cd player I was looking forward to. Incredibly frustrating; am suspecting they're all made in the same factory in China and all have the same defects. At least I tried this one before drilling more holes in the bottom of my cupboard!! In any case, am not sure what I'll do next, but this is really disappointing and annoying. I'm envious of the few reviewers here who have had a great experience, but am not willing to invest more time in this quest!!
2158280
My son got this CD player/radio for Christmas from his Grandmother. The CD player never worked. It's so frustrating, when you put the CD in it just gets stuck and if it moves at all you hear a click and a scrape which is the CD being scrached. UGH!!
PLEASE DO NOT WAST YOUR MONEY!
4715485
We purchased the entertainment center for our Christmas gift.  On Christmas morning we went to play the radio..it worked.  Next we tried to play the CDS and we could not hear a thing. We tried everything but nothing worked.  Also the tape player on the side was troublesome...the tape had to be jammed in to get it to fit in the slot.  We called Crosley and they suggested that we return it, which we did and are now awaiting a refund from Amazon.
3239438
I bought this CD player - twice - and both times it was broken.  The LCD lit up, but nothing appeared on screen, and I had to keep holding the dang play button to get it to do anything!  Of course, that doesn't mean it played any music whatsoever!  All I could hear was a faint buzzing noise.  I called the company, and Virgin Pulse said Target had a hold of a "bad batch", so I guess I shouldn't blame Virgin Pulse entirely, but I'm still not buying from them again.
300650
I purchased this DVD player and had problems with it. I sent it back for warranty repair 9 months ago. AKAI keeps on telling me that it will be shipped back shortly, BUT NOTHING!!!!!! I have called so many times that I feel like a fool. I guess I will just have to buy a new DVD player ... Save yourself the aggravation.
4301850
The Good.

I purchase this turntable do my to need to copy vinyl records to CDs and based on Amazon.com reviews.  The turntable worked very perfectly.  I had never owned an automatic turntable.  Really Nice.  Also, this turntable has an RIAA magnetic equalization preamp and can be connected directly to an amplifier without the magnetic equalization built in.  ie the front jacks on amplifier.  Very nice when you only need to copy a few records and you don't want to leave the turntable always connected.

The Bad.

Now came the "fun"part of my purchase.  I tried to run the included software.  I got an immediate error and the software would not even start to load.  I updated all of the MircoSoft software in my computer and tried again.  Same results.  I had a professional look at my operating software and we still could not get it to run.  My computer is a 64 bit "Windows 7" system.  On page 9 of the manual, I found that the Sound Forge Audio Studio LE, supplied with the turntable, would not work with XP64 and Vista64, however it should work with Windows 7.  I don't think that the software will work with any 64 bit system.

The Ugly.

I contacted "Sony Support" looking for a software update, found none.  I finally found a way to get help via an Email sent to Sony.  Sent in a request for help.  Had an answer in 12 hours (great).  "Call Sound Forge Audio, a division of Sony."  I called and got a continusiouly repeating meassage, "Due to the extreme number of calls, please hang up and contact a website where I could get help.  I tried the phone number all day.  The message never went away even if you tried to stay on and wait it out.  I went to the website and guess what?  I was right were I started.  Sony put me in a loop with no end.

I finally looked at the reviews again, but this time I also read the bad reviews.  Had I done this before I purchase the turntable, I would not have bought it.  There seems to be two major problems.  The turntable does not work and getting Sony to fix it is a trick.  Thank God mine works.  The second problem is the very poor software that comes with it and the lack of support from Sony and the Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio LE division.

In Summary.

A good automatic turntable at very good cost,

But it comes with a very poor software package and NO vendor support.  Also the manual that comes with the turntable is very poorly written and the manual that is down loadable for the software is not of much more help.  I don't think that whoever wrote the manuals actually ever saw or used this turntable or its software.

C. Richard Meyer
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I read all of the reviews before clicking the checkout button...really, I did... but I overlooked them thinking just MAYBE ...maybe my pc/cd-rw will work just FINE, I don't burn alot, maybe one or two times a month for some audio cds on the go. When I got them in 3 days I said I LOVE amazon!.. but guess what, the product sucks.

Memorex is an OK company, their other products are great, but we are talking about this SPECIFIC product - these blank CDs..and the first try my Nero Burning software went halfway (was burning just 3 songs for a start) ....ERROR! Please check the disc in Drive E and my pc froze.

No problem. I tried again, rebooted and took the first CD out and inserted another cd, this time it did not even start burning - it kept saying PLEASE INSERT DISC IN DRIVE E

...so now it did not even detect them.

No problem, new product, i will try again.

Third attempt: upon insertion into the drive, the cd icon came on mouse (it usually does when something is inserted) ...and my PC froze

I gave up. I am thankful to Amazon who gave me full refund shipping included. Their reply was apologetic and said "This issue appears to be more widespread among consumers. We are still investigating this product and thank you for bringing it to our attention"

Well, so I am not the only one, and I purchased Generic brand from dollar store and they worked JUST FINE. So yes this product stinks.
1099427
The cd was playing fine. After 3 complete playings it no longer works. It shows it is playing on my cd but there is no sound. My player is fine it has to be the cd.
I am not pleased!!!
4083311
It sucks it doesnt read some of my Burned CD'S and skips when its supposed to have G-Protection And a Walkman.
3820080
I like how this cd clock radio looks and operates.  BUT, the CD player has stopped working, and we have not even owned it for a year!!!  It was an expensive piece of equipment, and I bought it thinking that it would last 10+ years!  Very disappointed.  Oh, and in addition we attempted to try out the cable to connect an ipod, which did not work, either...
4789964
The Item worked for about 2 weeks just fine.  When I received the Sony DVD recorder I just order through Amazon a couple of weeks later to start transfering or converting the 8MM video cassettes into DVD format the equipment just stop working and it did not turn on anymore when trying to use it. Took it to Sears to see if it could be repaired since they offer repairs for electronic devices since I thought maybe it could be the equipment power supply but they could not fix it.  A bomer!!!!
4134438
I'd drop a review letting you know a nasty little situation that I and other users have come across with certain games that uses the newest form of copy protection (I'm not sure what its called since info like that is hard to find). It seems that No One Lives Forever 2 and The Thing both use the same new copy protection that results in the CD being unreadable in several CDrom models such as the "Samsung SD-616F DVD drive" and "creative 52x cdrom" and I am sure there are other effected models...
Oh P.S. Thus far firmware upgrades to the Cdrom hardware have not solved the problem and as of this letter Samsung has issued no information regarding firmware updates to solve this issue, their last firmware was 7/2002. With this type of issue simple game patches will not repair this either since the cdrom will not even read the CD
49898
My cd was blank! It did not play. Very disappointing. Tried multiple times to get ahold of the company with no luck
1479698
CD player does not work, clock & alarm does. never tried the CD player till recently, to late to return. don't buy it
1531837
No sooner did I start using this DVD player than it stopped working with DVDs. It still plays CDs, but it won't read a single DVD. I tried troubleshooting using information from Philips and online to no avail. I contacted Philips and they said that I will need to ship it in to have warranty work done and that I must pay for the shipping. While paying for the shipping is a standard clause of the warranty, I think it's BS to have to pay to fix a DVD player that stopped working within its first week of use. I will probably by a different brand rather than have this one fixed.
970444
cd changer slot does not register it. Even tried a CD with silent audio tracks. Additional device is needed to communicate with the factory CD player.
849662
Cd ejects when adjusting the volume and the radio stations are all fuzzy. Cds have to be a certain type to play