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Summary: The wave of the future
Review: Someday everything will be "no moving parts." Remember when 32MB was a lot of disk space for a PC? The PMP300 is well worth the money and it does what it claims to do. I think it makes more sense to buy the 32 Meg version and buy the 2 pack of 32 meg memory from RIO than to spend the money for the 64 Meg version. This product is well worth the money.
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Summary: This is the future
Review: I have the SE and love it. Additionally I hooked up my laptop to my stereo... No more storage problems. Too bad I can only play 35 DAYS of different music... I get bored on the 36th day (unless I have downloaded more by then)
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Summary: I like it because it plays 2 hours of music
Review: I like it because it plays 2 hours of music. the only part I dont like is the price.
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Summary: would have given it 0 stars if i could
Review: sound quality 23%
durability 38%
style 10%
user interface 56%
versatility 18% my advice is to wait till real electronics companies start rolling their products out
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Summary: Mach 4 Enterprises Rates the Diamond Rio Player
Review: The Diamond Rio Player is an excellent piece of equipment for playing MP3's at any time the user wishes. However, its limited to 32MB. Hopefully the manufacturer will extend this soon. Technology is growing and those portable MP3 players should grow with it. We own 3 Diamond Rio Players and are experimenting with them, with there ability for the Multi-OS compatibility. All in all, the Diamond Rio Player is pretty nifty. People should try it out. Take it for a test spin. We did!
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Summary: Player not worth the money
Review: The 32MB Rio is definitely not worth the money, and the reason is quite simple. I own a Minidisc player/recorder I purchased for about the same price. It is less than 200 grams with a 10 hour lithium battery and a disc. Yes, I admit the Rio is convenient for the road, but the time to get the stuff on there is way too much. Encoding eats up processing power and lags the system, even on a Pentium III. If I were to use the normal 128 or 160kbps bitrates, I would be stuck with only 7 or 8 songs, whereas a Minidisc, for a comparable price, can provide 17 or 18, with replacable discs. And regarding the problem of remembering what songs are where? That's what colours and the TOC are for.
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Summary: fantastic for sports
Review: a definite five stars ... perfect for running. not only does it *never* skip, but it weighs far less than a tape or CD player - less bounce. an arm wrap/strap would be welcome. sure, all the issues about download speed and playback time exist, but any playback duration is infinetely longer than no playback at all - this thing breaks new ground for sports music systems. nice rubber buttons to work the controls without looking at it, too ... doesn't seem to be affected by excessive moisture. dig it!
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Summary: Multi-OS but limited
Review: The rio is very useful since it can be used as a means of transport for data too, using the rio utility that can be run on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BeOS, Linux, win*. but it's still only 32 meg and the memory extensions are very expensive, for music only use, go for a MD
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Summary: poor quality, poor service
Review: Although the concept is good Diamond has done a poor job of designing the product as well as a poor job of supporting it. The volume is too low even at its highest setting. The 'hold' switch is poorly designed so that you can't tell if its engaged. The clip holding the battery in is easily broken and the add on 32meg external memory didn't work when it arrived. Overall, a very poor job.
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Summary: The mp3 format is not yet ready for the portable market.
Review: I have experimented with the mp3 format on the upgraded (64 meg)version of the player. As widely described by everyone else, the time allotment in 128bps recording leaves a lot to be desired. And the sound quality of the music in 64 bps mode sucks. Ha,Ha!!!! However,once they get the amount of music that you can store on the Rio player up at 128 bps, it might actually have something to show the other formats. I think it would be a nice piece to play through your car audio system if you want to listen to a song, but do not have the cd. Only drawback is you have to be fortunate enough to have a IBM Compatible PC and Windows like me. =0)
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