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Summary: best buy
Review: this product is definately a best buy. It's inexpensive, but has great quality. I also love mp3's
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Summary: Decent sound, not enough space, and NO MAC SUPPORT!
Review: Mac users get nailed again. No matter how good a product is, if it doesn't support the macintosh platform, it makes it worthless for the millions of mac users around the world. If you have a mac like I do, you'll unfortunally have to look into a different, more expensive Mp3 player. The 32MB space is too small on this one anyhow.
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Summary: Sounds Fine to Me
Review: Had a Rio PMP300 player for about a week. It is tiny, battery life is excellent compared with other portable music solutions and there are no moving parts so it doesn't skip. The upload sofware is intuitive, I was up and running in a couple of minutes. I havn't looked at the packaged CD ripping/encoding software as I prefer to use my own software to do this. As to the quality/memory size issue: if you play a song recorded at 128kpbs and then play the same song at 64kbps you will notice the difference. However I couldn't really say that one is 'better' than the other, in terms of sound quality. The 128kpbs version is of course closer to the original CD if that is what is meant by 'better quality'. I'd say its nothing that can't be corrected with equilisation. If you played two dissimilar songs, one encoded at 64kbps and one at 128kpbs I'm not sure I could reliably tell you which was which. In short the difference isn't enough for me to care. At 128kbps, the play time is about 30 minutes, at 64kbps it is about 60 minutes. If you want 60 minutes play time, I'd try a 32Mb player first then if you care about the 128kbps issue buy a 32Mb Flash card upgrade. Simple as that.
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Summary: This product is great, but advantages and disadvantajes
Review: The Riö its a great product but there are DISADVANTAGES: -32MB too litle (i bought a 32mb card) -bad earphones poor quality (i bought a SONY headphones) -no ejecting -Volume limit too low ADVANTAGES: -Xcellent Quality -Free Songs -fast transmision to it
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING
Review: i've been listening to MP3s on my computer since its inception- my main purpose of buying a portable player was for my workouts. this is better than a tape and much better than a cd in regards to skipping and overall freedom. this little hardware is a big awakening that the future is here. the sound quality is sufficient, unless you want to be a real tightwad about it (it's better than tape, a smidge less than CD). my next step is memory! memory! memory! this is a wonderful product.
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Summary: Lies all Lies!
Review: So this thing is supposed to be great eh? That's what I thought too, till I got one for xmas! It turns out that with the bitrate everyone encodes mp3's with (128kbps) only about 30 minutes of music fit on this piece of junk! I only call it a peice of junk because I opened the box and looked the unit over and found that there was a place where the glue had failed and I could see the little circuit board inside my player! So, that aside, went to see if I could get a flash card to upgrade so I could put as much as 1 entire hour (that's at least 20 minutes less than the largest cd's) on my riopmp300, but it costs almost 100 bucks for another 32megs! So now I'm fed up with diamond as well as the place I bought it from (not here, I just came here to warn you guys) because that damn rebate makes it unreturnable! They're trying to get rid of them because they know they suck! "They" want to get you to buy the 270 dollar rio that might be worth what this one cost if you can put 90 minutes of music on it. Questions? email case@oxy.edu
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Summary: Thought Diamond was better than that...
Review: Want a horror story? Check this... This past summer, I put in a bid on Diamond's e-Auction for a refurb Rio SE and won (yeah, "won" - right). First they sent me a 32MB Rio by mistake. Then they sent me a Rio SE - broken and filthy dirty (so much for being "refurbished"). After that, they sent me a brand new Rio SE - the next day, the control button falls off of it. Finally, they sent me another brand new unit - the display doesn't work. Diamond will no longer respond to my e-mails and the 1-800 number won't go through from my calling area. Also, with each unit they sent me, I had to pay $22 Cdn (GST - I live in Canada) - I'd be able to get it back from Canadian Customs but Diamond won't send me a letter to confirm the RMAs I sent back to them. Still want to buy from Diamond...?
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Summary: MD VS. RIO
Review: I my self have recently perchesed a RIO and can say it is so much better than a MD because it's worth ever penney. Think of it this way, an MD is bout $250(recordable). The Rio is only $100 right now. It is true the MD can play more songs, but at that price you'd most likely be to scared to take it anywhere for fear of breaking it. For example if you where to go bike tiding and it fell or somthin, not a big loss, $100 compared to the MD, $250 gone. You do the math. And also, unless you got the stuff, with the MD you'll still have to buy CD's, unlike wiht the RIO
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Summary: MD is better!
Review: MP3 is quite a good idea, except that you have to listen to the same songs all day long, the memory is expensive compared to other formats and the sound is quality isn't THAT good (a lot better than tape, but not near CD).
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Summary: A Wonderful Beginner MP3 Player
Review: I bought my Rio PMP 300 a few weeks ago before Amazon ran out, and it is wonderful! The controls are very easy to use, although the memory is somewhat small, I figured how to change my downloaded MP3s into a smaller bit-rate, taking out very little quality. One thing that I read in previous reviews that somewhat discouraged me was that it tended to be very responsive, and easy to accidently press a button, but when I began using my Rio, I noticed the handy hold feature which helped out greatly, after I had set the settings I liked for the tracks i was listening to. Overall, this product was a good beginner model, even though its lack of memory, and i would highly recommend it to beginners, and I would suggest the Creative Nomad 64 Megabyte for more advanced users of MP3.
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