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Summary: Great beginning player
Review: I started learning all about .mp3's a couple months ago(Thanks Napster). I immediately got a writable cd burner and then moved onto pc based .mp3 player and just learned how to convert .mp3 files into Windows Media Player(cut's the filesize in half!!!) So my obvious next choice was to buy a portable .mp3 player. I didn't know anything about them so I decided to buy the basic unit before I wanted to drop $300 on one of the really good ones. The guy at BestBuy recommended the Rio600 because it's pretty basic, yet upgradable firmware and memory pack (up to 340mb pack). So far I'm really happy with it and recommend it if you're looking for you're first mp3 player. Last, back to mp3-to wma conversion.. I could only load 6 6mb .mp3's into the Rio600 w/32mb. I converted my .mp3's to .wma (Microsoft Windows Media Player format) and I was able to load those 6 files + 5 more! Convert your files to WMA! You WON'T regret it!
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Summary: Good to take running
Review: This MP3 player is pretty easy to use and easy to set up. You don't have to be a computer nerd to use it. The design is stylish, and it comes with a belt clip.
I've found this MP3 player is quite nice to have while running or exercising. Unlike CD players, it will not skip - so you don't have to hold the thing like a goon the whole time you're running.
The downside is the memory. 64 meg. can only hold so many songs, and of course, the higher the quality the more memory each song takes up. It can hold somewhere between a half hour and an hour's worth of songs. This isn't a problem if you're using it to take with you while you're jogging, but it's not the sort of thing you want on a 5 hour plane ride.
Erasing and adding tracks to the MP3 player doesn't take too long (maybe 10 minutes), but it is a pain if you change the playlist everytime you want to go to the gym.
All in all, this is a neat toy. I'm pretty happy with it.
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Summary: it's pretty good
Review: for the reviewer who wrote "This is an excellent player! (if your one of the lucky 10% who actually gets one that works). Even if your one of the lucky 10%, I'll give you three months before it dies on you..That's what mine did." - I wouldn't trust this grammatically incorrect review. I've had my mp3 player for over a year and it works perfectly fine. And if I, along with all the others who have reviewed the product, got it to work for much longer than 3 months, obviously it was the user's use of the product that caused its downfall. The only complaint I have about the product is that the battery indicator is inaccurate. It will be at 60% and then a second later, will just be dead. So be sure to have an extra battery with you when you get under 75%. I am not sure about the validity of the mp3 draining the battery even when it's off, but I find my battery lasts pretty long even if it's been off for awhile
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Summary: Initial comments -just got it 2 days ago
Review: This is my second MP3 player. My previous one was a Samsung. As for this Rio 600 here's my initial thoughts. It looks real nice. It sounds as good as any I've heard so far. The battery drain is very low. It is easy to use with Windows Media Player to load it up. (Get the WMP driver off the Rio site.) I personally hate Real Jukebox (comes with this player). Most of Real software is Real Bad. And it has a very nice belt clip pouch. Also it has good ID tags and a very easy to use back lit menu. Those are its strenghs. Weaknesses - Instead of using removable flash media cards it is upgraded via a special backpack which is hard to get right now. It does not seem to be as rugged as I would like. So I keep it in the belt pouch for protection. I have yet to call Rio (Sonicblue) customer service. I've been told that they are very weak in service. I hope I don't have to find out. This of course is my initial review. I will try and update this review in about a month.
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Summary: If you like shoddy craftsmanship, then purchase this player
Review: I bought my Rio 600 online at Tigerdirect (I've had great experiences with them) and I have regretted it since the end of the first 3 months of ownership. I bought the 32MB version with the extra 32MB backpack upgrade... it worked for about three months, and then it simply stopped working. It would not turn on, or display anything on the screen. After several e-mails to rio's customer support, I finally convinced them that my player really was broken, and that it was not a firmware problem. They finally sent me a replacement, which lasted about three months and is now broken again, exact same problem. I will not buy an mp3 player or anything else from Rio or its affiliates. I got this as a deal for about $70; at least that's all I paid. You get what you pay for, so save up for an iPod.
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Summary: Read this before you buy the Rio 600!
Review: I am a 15 year old audiophile and I got this mp3 player for christmas last year. I was really excited, because of all the good things that had been said about mp3 players (this one in paticular). I hooked it up into my mac and downloaded a very small playlist; most people could fit about 30 min, but with lower quality of music (around 96 kbps), I got about 45 minutes on it. The mp3 player is cool because it is completly skip free, and it is also very durable (I dropped it from waist hight onto asphalt, and it worked fine afterwards, save a few scratches).
But after about a month or two of using it, I started experiencing glitches. The battery level would fluctuate from 100% to 50% and back again and about 3 hours after replacing the batteries, they quit on me. This thing EATS batteries like no other! Also, every once in a while, the mp3 player would automatically delete all the songs that I had downloaded onto it.
I emailed SONICblue, and after about the 5th or 6th email, they responded saying that they would replace the player. I got my second, and it had the exact same problems as the first one did! I emailed again for another or a refund, but they never replied. I went to [local store] (where we bought it), and they gave us a 3rd one. This one didn't even turn on! I couldn't do anything with it. So, about a month before the warrenty ended, I got store credit for it and bought a PlayStation 2 : ) (no complaints there).
My friends with this player have had the same problems with the player and costomer service as i have had, and so have the people on amazon. Please reconsider buying this defective product.
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Summary: Looks are deceiving...
Review: Performance was very poor, battery life indicator was useless and not very good quality all around. My power on/off button broke and no one stepped up to fix or replace...I would go another direction.
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Summary: looks like 5 stars, performs like 1
Review: This is an excellent player! (if your one of the lucky 10% who actually gets one that works). Even if your one of the lucky 10%, I'll give you three months before it dies on you..That's what mine did. Waste of money,Waste of time unpackaging it. Amazing how such a crappy product can come in such a good quality package.
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Summary: came broken
Review: sent a player as a birthday gift for my nephew. i tried to order a new rio but, at the time, only available was "refurbished", and it was unusable. the player was sent back but i have neither my money refunded nor a usable player shipped back. i hope others fare better.
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Summary: light weight, easy to use menu..What more to ask for. well?
Review: The rio 600 is super easy to use. It has a sexy look , it's light weight, it has changeable face plates to fit your mood and it has tons of accesories.. what more could you ask for... two gigabites of storage well? Well when it comes to memory its all what you like.. Lets say you download a song from a website. The more kb the song you download has the better the quality. So if you want to listen to a super perfect quality sound than you want to dowload the song with the highest kbs. But that would also take up more space on your rio. Downloading the high kb songs you can fit roughly one hour of songs onto your rio. Now if your intrested in having less quality songs so that you can fit more songs on your mp3 then you want to download the songs with less kbs. If you download the less quality songs than you can fit roughly 2 hours of music onto you rio. The rio 600 comes w/ an easy to use instalation cd and a universal Serial Bus cable. When it comes to dowloading songs I use www.morpheus.com and then once the songs are downloaded I download them onto real one player and from there I copy them onto the rio so that if something happens to my rio I can re-download them back onto the rio from real one. Downloading is as easy as 123 w/ the rio 600 because once you dowload the songs from the website they transfer right onto the rio. If you have dial up internet then it will take roughly one hour to download a song from a website depending on your conection speed. The rio has tons of accesories. There are two different packs of face plates.. There is a three pack of red, teal, and white. There is another three pack of black, purple, and orange. I think that the black or white face plate looks really cool on the rio. A three pack of face plates costs around $15. You can also purchase a remote for your rio so that you can control the rio when it is in your pocket. The remote costs around $30. There are lots of other accesories that you can purchase...
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