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Summary: Love my rio 500!
Review: I've had my rio 500 and I love it to bits! It goes everywhere I go, and is so easy to lose into my pocket. {That's a good thing, it fits!} It has 64 built in memory, which is great, and can take up to 2 more extrenal memory cards, which makes it greater. The only thing that makes it less valuable is that the external and internal memories are counted as seperate storage areas, meaning you can't have half a song on each one. This makes sense since you can easily remove the memory card at any given time.This thing is also very durable. I've dropped it on rocks, cement, and even stepped on it and have never had any change in the playing quality. I have, however cracked the LCD while running and hitting the ground at 30mph, but I think anything would break like that. This product also incudes a random mode, program list, and some other options to make the sound quality better. I strongly recommend the rio 500, it really beats the old CD players and other low-memory portable devices.
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Summary: Sleek & [Nice]
Review: Droped it Like A Walkman Numerous times Didn't phase the Rio at all The Sound is excellent A class by itself. I never got into anything new kept my LP's & Cassetes Skip the CD Revoultion.The rio 500 gave me vision. New is sometimes better!
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Summary: A year later and still works perfectly
Review: I bought my Rio 500 about a year ago, and I have greatly enjoyed this product. More importantly, I've had no problems with it, which amazes me since I've dropped it many times, gotten it wet several times (it even survived a nice fall into the ocean,) and I've downloaded/uploaded many songs with no glitches whatsoever. Overall, its a great product that I'd recommend to anyone. Only one complaint, though: playing time on an AA battery is nowhere near 11 hours (like they say,) its more like 5-7 hours.
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Summary: Newest Firmware Upgrade Compatible With 128mg Ext. Cards
Review: I won't rehash most of the comments hear except to say that I am generally pleased with this player. The sound is good, though it lacks some punch and detail, and it can be a little cranky about handling files consistently (skips or forgets bookmarks, etc.). Mostly, I want to let folks know that the newest firmware upgrade (for free, available on the Rio website) allows the player to recognize 128 smartmedia cards. So currently I have 192 megs of music on my player! This alone makes this a very convenient player.
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Summary: Good player, software.....?
Review: Well, i must say that the player is very good...music quality is very good...The software [is not good], but you can use Realjukebox... Many people have complaints regarding the support. My rio broke down one day, for no raeson (checkerboard error, couldn't fix it with the patch...). I e-mailed for support and i explained my problem. 2 days later, i got a mail back saying that i could send my rio to them and they would replace it...3 weeks later i had my new player. I think that this is an example of very good support...
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Summary: Quality Control Issues
Review: I'm sure that this is a great product - if you can get the included software working (Rioport Manager.) I downloaded one song to the Rio, but now the app freezes whenever I try to connect. The firmware update program is a joke - still says v1.04, even after supposedly upgrading to 1.15 I use several other USB devices with no problem, but not this one. Diamond MM seems to have an overall quality control problem, even dating back to my Diamond Stealth video card from 1993 - it worked okay, but just try to get new drivers or tech support (same problems back then!) Sorry for the negative review - but I'm looking for a different brand.
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Summary: Best Mp3 player I had ever had!
Review: Got my Rio 500 last week and so far I love it. It is a billon times better then the Rio 600. All of the Rio 600 I had which was 4 of them was broke never worked. But now I know that all of the Rio's that were made PMP300,PMP500,600,and 800 the PMP300 and PMP500 were the best because they have the mark "Diamond Multimidia" on them. But the Rio 600 and 800 don't have that on them. I guess that is the reason that the Rio 600 and 800 broke out of the box. But the Rio 500 is the best for me now. I got 128 MB with a 64 MB smart card. The card works great just put it in and format. A lot better than those backpacks that the Rio 600 and 800 takes. $100 Bucks for a 32 MB backpack! It's only $63.99 for a 64 MB card for the Rio 500. This is a lot better then the Rio 600 and 800. This is a great Mp3 Player!...
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Summary: MiniDisk VS. MP3 (a better review)
Review: If you look around you, the world is turning digital. Everything from your refridgerator to your bed will be somehow connected to the internet. CD's are already on their way out but now what? Well, since the world will be digital and not even need 'portable minidisks' than why go back to disks at all? If we can listen to music without replacing anything than why should we. What I'm saying is, the Rio is most likely one of the best and easiest MP3's to have. Minidisks are just going back to disks when we should be done with them already. Forget MiniDisks, they were old before they started. Get this MP3 player, it is great.
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Summary: Hardware is good, but more supports are needed.
Review: I just bought Rio 500 along with a HP9150i CDRW totalling $160 (incl. tax) in the promotion of CompuUSA. I found this player works well, but a few things need to be noted: 1. Buy a SONY earphone, don't use its own earphone, although it's "free". You will feel the difference. A lot of people has mentioned this. 2. Go to www.rioport.com to download the latest win98/Me/2k driver and Rioport Audio Manager software. You need these stuff to make it work under Windows2000. The system may ask for riousb.ini file. Just search under c: dirve, you may find it under c:\winnt\system32\drivers\. There are a few problems when I tried to install it under win2k. There should be no problems under win98. 3. Go to http://www.riohome.com/RioSupport.htm to update the firmware. It will fix a lot of problems. 4. It seems that the battery drains fast when I transfer files. Any experiences? If the price is good, it is worth to have a try.
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Summary: rio 500 is great
Review: i got a rio 500 mp3 player for christmas and in just a few minutes i had it ready to put mp3 files on from my computer. it is really easy to use and to change files when you get bored with a song. the sound quality is usually cd quality (depending on the file you download). it also works better than a cd player in that it doesn't skip because there are no moving parts. finally, 64 megabytes fits as much as a cd would and you can also get a memory card for even more room (but are $50 to $100). even though it is more expensive than some others the rio 500 is worth the price.
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