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Summary: a jewel of an electronic gift not for men only...
Review: I am the only female on earth with this state of the art tool for best music. however, man will like it more. but hey, not for long!
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Summary: Very nice gadget, i like mine.
Review: I just got my rio , i got the older version with 32 megs of ram , instead of the new overpriced version with 64 megs. I find 32 megs of ram to be not enough memory for the music i wish to store for trips , or vacations without computers for example. But for everyday use, I find 30 minutes of music to be enough for my work day, after work I just upload new music for the next day. It would be nice if it had more memory though. Now that the price for the older model is dropped to 100 bucks after rebate I find it a good value. I really like mine. I recommend it to people who like variety in their music during everday life, and don't mind changing tracks everyday or so.
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Summary: TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I found this product to be absolutely terrible. Yes, it does eliminate buying a CD Writer in some respects, however, the lack of time available is unfortunate. It's not worth the money. MP3's are absolutely amazing, although the technology is not refined enough to hit hand held, take my advice go with a CD Writer and you can copy much more than an audio median.
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Summary: This product is revolutionary.
Review: I never listen to the radio anymore. I record audio programs from the net on my computer, encode them into MP3 format and then listen in my car on the Rio while I commute to work. All I need is a cassette adapter to plug into the earphone jack. Talk programming will store 2 hours with the 32 MB model and 4 hours with the 64 MB model.For music, it is just as good as having a CD player in my car and its a heck of lot cheaper.
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Summary: Good, but wait for IBM's Microdrive
Review: Now don't get me wrong, I'm a big advocate of mp3, but I think that even with additional (and expensive) flash cards, Rio doesn't haven't have as much memory as I need. I really don't like listen to music at 64kbps, although that rate is perfect for talking. 128kps is good enough for most songs, but Rio only can take 30 minutes of music at that rate. I do congradulate Diamond for the size and design of the Rio, however. There already is a newer version that has double the space, but it looks like an iMac. (Boo!) One thing to watch out for is a tiny little hard drive called Microdrive from IBM. It holds 340 Mb, which is good four about 6 hours of music at 128kps, and 12 hours at 64k. Expect that around Christmas.
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Summary: Great toy for geeks getting in shape
Review: I used to record my CD's onto tapes so I could play them while I was running, but now, I actually put everything into mp3 and load em up. No skipping like cd's and really tiny.
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Summary: Works great!
Review: I love my Diamond Rio Player--it's lightweight and the sound quality is amazing. The bass really kicks in well. Great to have when working out!
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Summary: Whaddya mean 30 minutes?
Review: I like the rio a lot, my big problem with it is the lack of storage space. The parallel connection is VERY slow for downloading, maybe next gen will have 64MB and a USB connection. The thing I like the most about my rio is the fact that I don't have to carry my valuable CD collection around in my car where they can easily be damaged by sunlight, mishandling or worse yet, stolen. With a cheap adapter I can plug my rio straight into my car casette deck and I only have to worry about the rio getting stolen, not $100's worth of CD's. I think the music industry is less worried about the MP3 market stealing music as it is the Rio market stealing sales for replacement CD's that are easily damaged or stolen. Now the CD's I buy stay locked up safely in my house.
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Summary: Not bad, but far away from best
Review: Weve seen it so many times. Companies make a product that lookspretty cool, give it a name that most people will remember, andadvertise a lot. Then it WILL sell, dosent matter how good the product actually is. RIO is a good example of that. And it was easy to do such a thing becourse the other portable mp3-players on the market are pretty anonymous. They dont advertise that much. Probably cuz they want to focus on doing a great player. Like the first portable mp3-player, MPMan. Its out in a new version that is far better than the RIO-player. It has flash memorycards, is easy to deal with and does even support other fileformats for storing. The main problem with mp3-players is the amount of space for storing music. To get near cd-quality you got to have 128kbps or more(156 recommended). The best solution to this right now i think is a player with a harddisk or cd-rom built in. Then you can store many hours and hours of music. But it makes a little bigger and more expensive player. So i think the next step from that is flash memory cards. They are small and can store pretty much and best of all they are replaceble. So, summary: Dont buy the RIO-player if not your only demand is to get a small player. Check out the other cool players instead.
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Summary: Not the Best...
Review: Its really not that great. No enough space to hold a fairly large amount of mp3s. But hey, If you have the money, why not...
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