Rating: 
Summary: Just OK
Review: The RealJukeBox software is not so great. The biggest drawback is the inability to upload an entire playlist into the Rio 600.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't buy it
Review: I've now gone through two of these devices. I experienced the same problems others have described on both units. Specifically, the battery does not hold its charge even when it is not being used. Also, the unit does not always turn on even when it is charged. What's even worse is customer service. I sent them an email and they respond by directing me to send my email to another site. Why didn't they just forward it themselves? Either way, they never responded. Bottom line...the unit doesn't deliver what it promises and customer support is non-existent.
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Summary: Avoid this player!
Review: STOP.... don't buy this piece of "_ _ _ _ ". I received the Rio 600 with my monthly subscription to Audible.com. I think they sold me a refurbished model because it arrived in a plain white box. At first, I was impressed with the cool design, small size, and fast loading memory. However, using the unit is a total headache. The player controls are difficult for normal-size fingers, and the unit continually cuts off for no apparent reason. Also, if you try to rewind a few seconds, don't be surprised that you're taken to the beginning of the book. Ten minutes later, after queuing up your original position, the Rio may suddenly cut off and you will have to repeat this ridiculous process again. I've decided the Rio makes a good rock for breaking windows.
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Summary: May help rio users
Review: I have owned my Rio 800 for one year before any problems developed.
And I think I have found the problems.
The problem IS NOT the battery as it is.
I tested my battery and it is fine after it is charged.The problem is with the software in the Rio player's POWER SAVER MODE.
If the player is on long enough for the power saver time to shut it off, the player will not come back on at all- even if you remove the backpack and replace it. When I turned the POWER SAVER off, the player played for 3 or 4 hours with no problems.
But when I powered the unit off, I could not just power it back on. I had to remove and replace the backpack for it to work, even though the POWER SAVER MODE was set to off.
Which means, the Rio unit is shorting out the battery.
(Before, I only had to charge the battery every other day and I would have the player on two and a half hours every day while working out.) I hope this helped
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Summary: audible users will hate it
Review: Battery says 11 hours, means 3. (With battery consumption as bad as it it, I can't believe you can't get an external car power accessory.) Buttons are touchy -- hard to hit correct spot each time. Display tough to read, especially in a car. Internals are cheap. Bundled software is a mess. But at least my Rio lasted almost two months before *completely* dying. All I wanted was an audible.com player -- I'd have gone with something else if I'd felt there were better alternatives for that. And this has still been a huge disappointment to me -- despite all the negative press I'd read here first. Believe it!
Rating: 
Summary: The bare minimum
Review: I got the RIO for Christmas, while I was really hoping for a Techno Yepp. The RIO works. That's about it, though. The firmware is poorly designed. You have to go through four steps, just to see what time it is. The interface (buttons) are also poor; they feel cheap and are hard to use through the soft clip-on case. Finally, it looks like there's a lot of wasted space in the design. The player could be a little smaller, packed tighter, and feel a little less cheap. That being said, I haven't had any technical problems with my RIO. By tweaking the frequency of the playback, you can squeeze three hours of good quality music on 64 megs. That being said, I would jump at the opportunity to use something with software that was more intuitive.
Rating:
Summary: Pretty Basic
Review: My best friend purchased this and loved it. What can I say? She's not technologically inclined. I checked it out. The face plates are easy to use, you can see the screen easily, but as my title states, it's pretty basic. The headphones are hard to use, I had to ask how to put them in my ear and they never stayed. That's no big deal though; they can be easily replaced. The memory space is all that bothers me, and the buttons can be difficult to figure out.
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Summary: THIS IS AWESOME!!!
Review: This is a great mp3 player. It comes with a cool carrying case and USB cable. It also comes with a CD-ROM with Real Jukebox and Audible Manager. The only problem I encountered was connecting the USB cable. I have an older computer and I just inserted it into the other USB port and it worked like a charm. I'm listening to it right now as I'm writing this review. I've been listening to it since I downloaded the songs! This is awesome!
Rating:
Summary: Nothing but problems
Review: This is the second 600 I have had, and now this one is kaput and I'm shopping for a new one, I don't want to deal with it anymore. LIke many others said, it won't turn on and you have to take the backpack off, my backlight works very randomly, when you turn the volume up or down it freezes and you have to disconnect the backpack, now it won't even play, you push play and it just restarts the device! Two thumbs down!
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Summary: I love my RIO600...but I hate their support
Review: We have recently bought two RIO 600s, and love everything about the device itself. The on-line support, the email support (no response) and the phone-in support, are frustrating at best, non-existent at worst. When you go to 'install' the software, well, their motto seems to be, 'let the selling begin.' As it happens, all we needed off the installation CD was the driver (this took...ah...a while to figure out). As for the player itself, we couldn't ask for more. You can pick any bps rate from 32 to 128 and download up to 40 songs (120 minutes?). We run and work out, have found no skipping, plus, grrreat sound (particularly with upgraded headphones, the bass comes pulsing through). We don't use the backpack, which does seem to be a problem for many. And, be prepared to muddle thru until you find the right settings, for example, 'enabling the volume leveling', while time-consuming, seems to eliminate many errors. That's it, then...a 5 star product with 0 star support. I'm sure they get a ton of returns from folks who just can't get it up and running.
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