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Summary: LUV MY RIO 800
Review: I've had my Rio 800 for the last four months and have had zero problems with it. The sound quality is great. The voice recording was a plus. I haven't had any of the problems that everyone seems to be having. I love it, I love it, I love it. I'm one satisfied customer.The one thing which I really didn't care for, but found that it was (to me) utterly useless was the Rio software. I'd suggest to anyone thinking about buying a Rio 800 that they use Windows Media Player 7 to load files onto their player. (...)
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Summary: AMAZON + AUDIBLE. COM = BIG SAVINGS 4 YOU !
Review: This is a great sounding player with many features, all detailed in other reviews. NO BATTERY TROUBLES AT ALL! But, as others have stated, YOU MUST follow the instructions and go through the calibration procedures, BEFORE you start using it. ....
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Summary: Zero Stars
Review: All started well, but within the 90 day period, the unit up and died. Trying reaching 'sonic blue'! You will never get through via phone, and will only get automated e-mail responses... a complete waste of money.
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Summary: This is the real deal
Review: I didn't want to write a review until I had owned this item for
a while. The sound is excellent, the item holds up well, and
it recharges quickly. I would definitely recommend this player.
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Summary: Well Reseached and found the perfect one
Review: I have reasearched Mp3 players since they came out and after buying 5 of the most praised and quiality products on the market I have concluded that the rio 800 is the best overall in the range of quality, sound and quality of memory. It has also been proven to excel in efficency in battery life. I bought 3 and gave them as gifts and keeped one for myself. Rio made one of the first or if not the first Mp3 player on the market so there product quality should be exceptional.
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Summary: Can't Trust SonicBlue
Review: I don't own the Rio 800 but I did own a Rio 500. I am writing this to warn others of the problems of dealing with this poorly run company. My Rio 500 died. I sent it back--they sent me another. It didn't work. I sent the second one back--they sent me a Rio 600 which is a piece of junk. This happened over a period of 3 months! Don't trust them, they're customer service is lousy. I finally bought an Iomega HipZip and I love it. Everything sounds better on a HipZip and the Music Match software is much better than Rio Port.
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Summary: Excellent!!! Best Digital Audio on the Planet!!!
Review: I recently got this fine piece of equipment in order to solidify my vast love of MP3. I read both horror and love stories about this machine, and was worried as it arrived. I popped it out of the box and begin reading the manual. (AS ALL SHOULD DO BEFORE COMPLAINING ABOUT IT) I calibrated the batter and installed the software... This was all a stupidly easy process and anyone who screws it up is like the process.. or didn't ...!!! I'm sure that some of you out there did get defective models. But, I didn't. As for the battery... I've had this for 2 1/2 weeks and only charged it 3 times including calibration and I use it very heavily. Its small, stylish, light, and the sound quality is the BEST on the market. So don't have any qualms before purchasing this product!!! It is an excellent investment!
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Summary: Broken
Review: I recieved a Rio for a birthday present and I thought it was a great gift until I opened it and it didn't work. I sent it back thinking that it was a mishap and upon recieving my second one, one week later it just stopped working. I think the idea of downloading music is great but the Rio800 needs to be revised as a product.
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Summary: possibly unusable out of the box, but ok once working
Review: this is my first MP3 player; i wanted something that would work with itunes with little or no fuss. i did the battery-charging calibration thing- yes it's damn annoying to have to wait 5 hours before you can play with your new toy! but despite the calibration going ok i immediately ran into the same problems described in other reviews: the unit randomly shuts itself off or will "freeze" and only reboot if the memory-battery pack is removed and re-mounted. for a new piece of somewhat pricey electronics to do this out of the box is almost unforgivable. i upgraded the firmware to v1.56 from riohome.com. this seems to make things better; itunes uploads quickly and with no fuss. and it looks like it's actually monitoring the battery level now, and has run all day without a random shutoff or freeze. my classical audio files encoded at 160kbps sound very ok, with little hiss or distortion, and i can transfer about 60 minutes of music into it in under 2 minutes. the headphones that come with it are almost instruments of torture; while they look cool, they hardly fit my overlarge head and spear the insides of your ears after a few minutes. very uncomfortable. they made some odd ergonomic decisions, including a cute oval-shaped display window that actually cuts off part of what you can see.
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Summary: Needs Improvement
Review: I just got this player yesterday and already it doesn't seem to be working. I calibrated the battery and this morning when I started using it, the device powered-off after the first hour. So, I am recharging it as we speak. The design is okay. The device looks better than it really is. The software is terrible because it isn't intuitive. The documentation, Help Topics or the User Guide, that comes with the package are terribly written. I have also heard a lot of other people complaining about the battery. I certainly hope I do not have the same problem. Other than the problems aforementioned, the player is OKAY.
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