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Summary: 300 PMP,,,How To Lose Stars Without Even Trying
Review: The 300 is fine, it's the company that produces it that's the problem. Lost star 1 The supplied CD has only music web links and no setup for the control panel.I demanded they send me what I paid for. Their reply was I should go to some web site and spend my time downloading the sofeware. Lost star 2 Diamonds LPT port adapter crashed my scanner. Their reply was I should go BUY another LPT port card. Excuse me ? Lost star3 The ear buds they supplied in place of the headset I thought I was buying fall out of your ears if you move.I demanded they send me the headset I paid for. Of course. they didn't.Why did they get to keep 2 stars? I managed to get some music loaded and if one holds perfectly still so as not to lose the so called buds it sounds great. However, because of the three lost stars mentioned in the beginning if I have a choise I will never buy another Diamond product.
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Summary: This Rio Player is hot
Review: I bought this player about 5 months ago and I have had no problems with it. The battery cover stays on,headphone jack is fine, case stays together. The 32mb memory is plenty for my needs. Plus I am not one who wasts time using these things at home when i have a great surround sound system to listen two that i can plug headphones into if it is annoying to anyone. This is perfact for running, on the way to work, school, or if your going on a plane trip. I had a Philips CD discman that could play cdr's and cdrw's w/45 skip protection and it skiped like crazy. Putting 14 songs on the rio with near cd quality sound is fine by me. I suggest this product to anyone. After all its only $100. If something goes wrong with this product use the warranty and send it in to get fixed (For those people who complain about problems with the memory).
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Summary: Up to 60 minutes...I do not think so.
Review: The concept is great, the product is small and light, but the company stating that the player holds up to 60 minutes of music is entirely false. I would think a more accurate number is more like 30 minutes. When I was looking into purchasing a MP3 player I looked at the RIO300 and RIO500. The RIO300 was offering a $50 rebate and the RIO500 was over $200, but I thought for $100 an hour of music would be sufficient. THE THING ONLY HOLDS APPROX 30 MINUTES. I would have spent the extra money to buy the RIO500 which is said to hold up to 2hrs, probably more like 1hr. Lastly, if any of the buttons on the RIO300 are pressed, the machine turns on and starts to play. I am constantly having to shut it off.
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Summary: 1st-generation mp3 player
Review: The Diamond Rio 300 made news when it first came out at the forefront of the 1st generation mp3 portables. Once the best in its class, it's no longer cutting-edge: its lack of memory (32 MB, which can only hold 30 minutes of CD-quality sound) and stodgy controls have been vastly improved upon by its more recent bretheren, the Rio 500 and others. As a result, it's difficult to rate this product a worthwhile buy nowadays. Purchasers would be better off with the more advanced Rio 500, Creative Nomad 64, or RCA Lyra (64 MB version)-- or, better yet, ordering an mp3/CD player like the MamboX or Brujo, which put traditional portables to shame with the ability to read mp3 tracks from CDs.
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Summary: RIO Good, RIO SW Bad
Review: Santa brought me the Rio PMP 300 for X-mas and was excited at first. Then I found out the software to transfer MP3's from PC to the unit was only 95/98 compatible. Having only NT 4.0 to work with I mooched off a friend, until I found: rioshell I am now self sufficient on NT, no thanks to Diamond who could not committ to NT. The 300 unit itself has not had an issue even after adding the extra 32 MB flash upgrade.
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Summary: mmmm....so,so
Review: One word to descirbe the Rio, WEAK. It is a FEEBLE GOOSE! I was really excited when i got my Rio for Xmas, but then I wsa horrified! I opened up the box and picked up the Rio, i tried to open the battery compartment but the whole machine snapped in my hands! IT WAS SUCH A FEEBLE GOOSE! I had only opened the battery compartment and it was already snapped up good! I tried to return the beast but, low and behold, the bloomin' monkies refused to give me a refund (not Amazon). My friend Johnny has a Rio as well and the sound quality was extremely poor and no way near Cd quality! I warn U know this little beast should be avoided p.s REMEMBER IT IS A 'FEEBLE GOOSE'
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Summary: Diamond RIO PMP300 - Goods and Bads
Review: I will have to say this is a very good product. Unlike other reviewers I think that it has a very solid design. GOODS: Great Sound Quality (Creates Problems - see Bads:) --- Good Belt Clip, Run with it and stays there! --- CANT SKIP - Incapable of skipping like a CD Player --- LONG Battery Life - Runs Approx. 10hrs on One AA! --- Easy use : Just hook it up and tell it what u want --- Quick Download : Each song - 10 secs from computer --- BADS Plastic Cover - Picks up fingerprints, spears, ugh --- Display - Small Digits - However Comfortable --- Night Use - FORGET IT! --- Headphone Jack - Somewhat unsturdy, be careful! --- Memory - Interal Memory Chip Skips after a lot of usage, it is irreplaceable. Must buy new ext. chip --- Only comes with 32 megs, and another 32 is much$$$ Thats all I have to say, but if your into skipless music, HERE YOU GO!
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Summary: Worth the price with multiple rebates
Review: This RIO model is a nifty music device. Compact size, fantastic sound quality, no skipping, and easy transfer of music from a computer. On the other hand, it only holds six or seven songs, the door on the battery case doesn't stay shut so well after a few months of use, and a little abuse, and the "hold" switch gets sticky after a while and becomes difficult to move. If you can find it on the cheap it's a cool toy, otherwise wait for a newer model or get some other technology to fire up your tunes.
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Summary: Follow-up review
Review: Last time, I only gave the Rio 300 4 stars because of the lack of memory size (only 8-9 songs per 32 MB). Now, I must take that comment back. If you encode the files to 96 or 112 kbps onto it, yeah, you'll get the occasional skip (once a song, at the most), but I'll sacrifice that any day, now that I'm able to encode almost 12-14 songs for each 32 MB. What else is great (besides getting new songs) is being able to find older songs or songs out of print from the internet (I prefer Napster). I still strongly suggest getting a fast net connection, or you'll have to wait all night to get one 4 MB song. (This is for us unlucky scrubs that can't download songs at work....) Rationalize it this way: $40-$50 per mo. for broadband internet service. Faster browsing and downloading programs, and you don't have to buy a CD again. If you bought 3 CD's a month, it just paid for itself. And you don't have old jewel cases lying around gathering dust. If the recording industry figures out how to prevent digitizing of music and outsmarts the computer industry, the Rio would be in trouble. But any industry that throws money at N'Sync, Dwight Yoakum, and Ben Folds Five is probably not too tough an adversary. P.S. Why are these reviews even necessary? As you can see, Amazon's been sold out since before Christmas.
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Summary: One of the Best values on the Market
Review: "Minidisks the wave of the future" ...all that I have to say about this is ...HA. All minidisks are, are glorified cd's. But this review is about the Diamond Rio pmp300 which I have recently purchased. I find that the diamond rio 300 is one of the most excellent values out there...not only with no moving parts there is no skip (as opposed to a mini-disk which has 40 second protection) but also, the price value is excellent. I say this because all those poor feebs now who have mini disk players have to pay $CASH$ for their music. Why do that when I could log on to a popular Mp3 music servers and download free music. The only gripe I have with the Rio 300 is that it only comes with 32 megs of memory...and flash cards are a tad expensive at the moment. I have to say though...this machine is perfect.
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