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Summary: Great Product, Where's the Upgrades?
Review: I bought it, I love it, but when the hell are the upgrades going to come out? I've been waiting for months, what is the deal? They advertise that its upgradable to 300+MB but they have NO upgrades available. They should have at least made the external 32MB available before they shipped this. The 32MB that comes with it doesn't cut it.I bought it because it was inexpensive and I figured it could be upgradable. If you want a MP3 player I suggest getting one with at least 64MB's.
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Summary: terrible service, terrible player
Review: I bought this player hoping to end my mp3 woes but to my surprise. the sound quality died in one week. I e-mailed rio and talked to a technician in town and he said send it to them. but they charged me 30 dollars just to send it to them. what a sham. poor software that always crashes. please try look into a different player
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Summary: they have been better
Review: About a month ago, I purchased a Dimond Rio 600 mp3 player. At first, I was very excited about this product, because it is compact, lightweight and sporty. But after using this product I have found several flouts, one thing is the material the manufactures have chosen to use, it might be lightweight but it's too soft to maintain its structure. Sometimes the player would turn off by it self because the battery would separate and loss connection. Also the Rio 600 does not use flash media cards, instead it uses a memory back pack which is not currently sold in stores, and since the only way to upgrade your rio is to buy the back pack from Riohome.com, Rio have managed a system that doesn't allow any competitors to create a similar product which allow them to push up the prices for this memory pack. Currently Rio is developing a new Rio 800, which I hope is better than the 600.
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Summary: An excellent MP3 player
Review: This is an excellent MP3 player as mentioned in the title. The sound quality is awesome, 95 decibels a second, some of the other MP3 players are 90 or some even 75. Unlike a lot of MP3 players this one uses a USB cable, which means it will load the songs much, much faster. Also I like the earphones that come with this player. They don't look so cheap like the standard head phones that are supplied with most of them. I bought this about a week ago, so I can't say much about the durability. But as for the people that complain about their device breaking down, that must just be a defected model, mine works fine. The only real flaw I see in this MP3 player is that it does not come with full version software(you need to pay like 20$). The backpack idea I guess can be a flaw. You can only upgrade with backpacks made by RIO. But it can be upgraded to 372 MB! They are a bit expensive right now, but I am guessing that the prices will fall soon. One thing you need to know is, if you want to get this to hold a lot of songs, you shouldn't get it. Get a minidisc player and recorder instead. You pay a hundred bucks more, but it will be much cheaper than investing on memory cards. But if you want something that will load your favorite songs in ten seconds, get this because minidiscs take along time to record and delete songs. Its basically a tape recorder.
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Summary: very good product with 64MB
Review: I have the Rio 600 and bought the 32MB backpack, so I have 64MB. In WMA 64bps (that still gives me a great sound) I can store up to 30 songs, also the reachargable battery is a nice feature with the 32MB backpack. Installation on my win98SE PC also worked fine. What is also very nice is the download speed, compared with my old Rio 300 this is ingreadible fast.
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Summary: Software Glitches Get It The Thumbs Down
Review: I might think twice about purchasing this new player from Diamond Multimedia. My recommendation--spend the extra dollars for the Rio 500, and get more memory and software with fewer glitches. I purchased this for my sister, and she had a terrible time installing the software onto a Windows 98 machine. The USB device was not being recogized by the software, and Diamond's technical support was only able to help after sending a firmware upgrate for the software. Unless you care about swapping out the colorful faceplates that can be purchased with the device, I would go with the older, and more mature Rio 500. It may not carry as sleek of a design as the newer generation players or any of the cool on-screen graphics, but its simplicity keeps it reliable, which is the most important, right? As a side note, whenever you decide to purchase any of these MP3 devices, be sure and get one equipped with USB connectivity. Not doing so will severly diminish the transfer rate at which you can upload music from your computer to the MP3 device.
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Summary: Nice, but buggy...
Review: I have enjoyed this product for a few days now. It has it's problems. 1) It ships with software that isn't a full version. 2) It is buggy as hell (the Rio software, not the bundled software). downloading often fails, fast forward will jam the machine (have to pull the battery pack off to reset it), tunes often have loud pops and noises at the end of them, and tunes often get skipped before their ends are reached. 3) 32MB is goofy. 64MB is useful, 32MB is too small. On the good side, it works well, (as soon as you throw away the garbage earphones), USB works well (when it works), sound quality is acceptable for active use.
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Summary: Smooth, sleek, and sound
Review: I was a little wary buying the Rio, as the portable MP3 player technology was somewhat new, but It's MUCH better than I thought it would be. It feels good--and it doesn't shout out "LOOK I'M HIGH TECH" to everyone who sees it. I was very impressed by the sound--you can turn up the volume up all the way (I wouldn't recommend it with headphones though), and it remained clear. I plugged it into my desktop speakers and loved it even more!
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Summary: Thoughts on the Rio600
Review: Well, I was going to give it around a 3.75, but since there's no option, I left it at four. The Rio line of MP3 players is overall a very high-quality, top-of-the-line series of devices. The Rio600 in general is no exception, but I do have a few issues with it... The funky shape isn't that bad... I have a Nomad II also, and the shapes actually are quite ergonomically sound, for both players. It does look funny though. The clip-on faceplate idea is questionable... Why not just sell it in several colors? I don't care for the clip-on backpack idea... I feel that SmartMedia cards are more universally compatible. Sure, not as much upgrade potential with flash cards, in comparison with the 300mb+ capacities of the backpacks, but I usually steer towards more mainstream parts, away from proprietary designs. The player is easy to operate, but I prefer the old circle-dial controls on the Rio 300. The "joypad" is close, but no cigar. ;) 32mb really is not enough for a typical person... Most people today are still using mp3 (myself included), and a half hour of music just doesn't cut it... Even using lower bitrates, you just lose sound quality. 64mb is a minimum for mainstream mp3 players... Big slip-up Diamond/S3/SonicBLUE. Sure, you could upgrade it with a memory backpack, but that brings up my problems with proprietary hardware... Overall, a good player. I want to see the Rio800 when it comes available... Until then, this is a fairly good player. A word of advice to those buying though... Seriously look at the Rio 500 or the Nomad II. The Rio 500 might not be as ergonomically sound, but it's a proven, tried-and-tested 64mb player. The 600 has a bit more ease-of-use, but the 500 has better features. The Nomad II is also a wonderful player, with plusses such as voice recording and a built-in FM radio tuner. It has a more curved shape, comfortable, and is very shiny... (ooh, shiney... ;) All of these use USB, of course, and each is upgradable to support WMA (even though the 600 does it natively). The 500 is upgradable (with SmartMedia cards) right now to 128mb (with a firmware upgrade). The Nomad II will only go to 64mb currently, as a down note... Again, I say, overall a good player. But, if you don't want to repeat your playlist every half hour, consider another, larger-capacity player.
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Summary: SUCKS!
Review: A poorly designed product doesn't require a whole lot wrong to be utterly worthless, so please be aware of the sheer number of problems with this piece of crap before you buy it: - Early versions (mine) have a rubberized skin that shreds the first time you put it in your pocket. It looks terrible after one day. - The product looks nice (which should impress ID magazine) but the software (PC) is heinous, counter-intuitive & circumlocutious. It is awesomely bad. - The Rio inexplicably ceases loading tunes after about thirty songs have been pushed on to it, and tells you you must get an upgrade. - The e-mail support for this product is terrible. The clueless replies answer questions you didn't even ask and skip answering the one you did submit. - My Rio has stiopped working and my call back to replace it is now overdue. - AVOID THIS PRODUCT AND PUNISH THE COMPANY BY CHOOSING ANOTHER BRAND. THEY DON'T DESERVE YOUR PATRONAGE.
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