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What's Inside
Stuffed with features such as ID3 tag support and a very nice LCD screen, the MiSEL MP3/CD player has all the features to please just about any user--including a remote control! But MultiChannel Labs is claiming that ease of use should be its main selling point. Find out inside.

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Powering Up

Playing MP3's on the MiSEL is very easy. After one burns the MP3 files onto a CD-with directories or not, they can simply stick it in the player and press the play button and it'll start playing. It does take the player quite a bit of time to index all of the files on the CD, but that's quite normal for a MP3/CD player.

While we're at it, I think I should explain to you why the LCD screen on the MiSEL is so special. First of all, it actually has pixels where it can display and animate text (it actually scrolls the titles of the songs you're playing) or even draw pictures (like how it draws a picture of itself and displays the text "Reading…" when one first sticks in the CD). Finally, it is automatically backlit and, because of such, will allow the user to be able to read the screen even in the dark. Because of such, the LCD player is the best that I've seen on any player of any sort; period.

The MiSEL can also display up to three languages on its LCD: English, Japanese and Korean. This ensures exceptional compatibility with MP3 files that are in either of those 3 languages.

Directory browsing is also by-far the easiest that I've used on any portable MP3/CD player that I've used in the past, mainly because of the aforementioned LCD screen. A press of the directory up or down buttons will make the LCD screen list the names of each directory (not just a number like other players do) and then the user can pick whichever directory they wish to move to. That's it; it's as easy as that!

Another very handy feature of the MiSEL's MP3 playback is its bookmark feature. The user can set bookmarks for up to 10 MP3 CD's and 50 bookmarks for each CD so that they can quickly be played back. Plus, the MiSEL will retain and recognize bookmarked CD's, even after the unit has been powered off-very impressive!

Audio CD playing on the MiSEL is also a cinch. It handles audio CD's as well as any standard portable CD player, and the option of using the 45 second electronic shock protection is very handy (a 50 second ESP is automatically turned on for MP3 playback).

The sound quality that the MiSEL outputs is also top-notch, both with MP3 and regular audio CD playback. Not once did it choke or skip and its ability to let the user set their own bass and treble levels allows everyone to enjoy music however they want it. The MiSEL skipped absolutely zero times while playing MP3 CD's, which is the best out of all my the MP3/CD players that I looked at before and rivals the Genica Kalua, an advanced DVD/MP3/CD player for the TV or home theatre.

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