Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
Great DVD picture and CD sound, but problems with MP3s
I repeat, the DVD picture and sound is fantastic, and so is the audio on CDs.  However, the one CD-R I tried with MP3 files on it doesn't play at all.  The machine finds all the tracks, but refuses to play almost all of them: most it just pauses on for two seconds then skips to the next; some it will \\"play\\", but all you hear is a bunch of dangerous sounding pops and beeps.  For some random reason, it did successfully play one of the David Gray songs, and it sounded great, but no others.  Now, this CD-R was in CDFS format, which is an extension to ISO9660, with long filename support, so perhaps that is the problem?  I know the manual says only ISO9660 with 8.3 names is supported...I'll have to continue to experiment.<br />Also, MP3 track navigation blows bigtime: if you have a file tree of nested directories, you only ever see the MP3 file names, not the directories.<br />A more general problem I noticed was the loud clicking the machine makes when stopping or starting play of any format media: it does not sound too healthy.<br />So, I'm somewhat disappointed, considering this was top rated by Consumer Reports, and I wish amazon gave free shipping on this item, but still, for $$$, it's not too bad, as long as you don't mind poor MP3 compatibility.