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Summary: Good product, bad support.
Review: I purchased a Diamond RIO 300 almost a year ago, and I definitely say it has been great. The one problem I've had was with the battery compartment. When Diamond designed the RIO, they took the duracell ultra batter and built the RIO around it. Low and behold, the Duracell Ultra tends to be bigger then most AA batteries, so I had problems when using rechargable batteries (stupid me, saving the environment) that made the RIO shut down every time it was bumped. Diamond addressed this issue in a knowledge base (which was hard to find) and basically said "shove something in there to make the battery fit. I use foil now (which sometimes makes the compartment pop open, but only when it's in my backpack) and haven't had much problems yet. However, Diamond's tech support is very horrible in trying to get merchandise replaced (which I've tried with my rio and other diamond products). I'll probably purchase a RIO 500 just because it has a better battery compartment design.
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Summary: The first mp3 player ever is a big hit!
Review: I read a lot of what other people have been saying about the diamond rio. For the most part, the reviews have been good, but when they weren't good, they were BAD. I don't understand how someone can complain about the rio just because they can't install it on their computer, or they didn't look at the computer requirements. Or if they mistreated it... The sound quality on this is excellent. For those people who said it is NEVER cd quality sound could never be more wrong. The Diamond rio can actually be above cd quality sound, depending on the speed of your encoder. I was almost completely satisfied with the Diamond Rio, but the 30 minutes of sound it could hold weren't quite enough, maybe if it just had 45 minutes. I didn't want to buy a memory card for it because they're about $100, and it reduces the sound quality by 50%. I bought this mp3 player last summer, and i still have it in one piece. I've dropped it a few times, and had to make simple repairs, but i've never had to do anything that actually cost me money. There are better mp3 players out there now, like the diamond rio 500, and some nomad ones, but they're probably considerably more expensive. The diamond rio is a bit fragile, and if you drop it, then it will skip, because the battery could be knocked out of place. But as long as you're fairly careful, it'll stay in one piece. I've been biking with mine, skateboarding, through the airport, etc... and as i said before, it still works. You might want to shoot for the diamond rio 500, but the price on this baby is killer. The only thing that beats an mp3 player, sadly, is a minidisc player, mainly because you can bring your songs with you, and many other reasons, but i'm not going to go into that ^_^ the bottom line is, if you want a VERY small mp3 player which holds FREE downloadable music from the internet which works on fairly new computer, and is fairly durable, go for this one!
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Summary: Works great for me
Review: This thing was the first MP3 ever? Wow! Not too shabby. Its durable,it has good sound (satisfactory at 64kbs), it looks cool, and most importantly: it gets the job done. Throwing music on the Rio from my CD's and my computer is simple. Who cares if it doesn't support USB? I can go brush my teeth or clean my room while I wait 5 minutes for all 17 songs to download onto the Rio. That's right, 17 songs at 64kbs, which makes me happy since I haven't even upgraded this inexpensive device yet. In fact, i might not even need to upgrade it; I'm already content. No moving parts, no skipping, la dee da da, bla bla,great sound, and it all does the job with one "AA" battery, which lasts for hours upon hours. I honestly, have no complaints, really. Listen to this picky electronics consumer's advice: if you know how to use a computer and you want a quality MP3 player worth your hard earned money, go buy the Rio. ..., sweet.
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Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Review: When I bought this product, the price seemed right, and the sound was great. Overtime however, my control pad wore out smooth! My battery mechanism holder broke! And the headphones broke as well! I got a replacement pair, but those eventually broke too. The Rio offers an hour of music storage.....which is only true if you use 64kbps! Pretty much cassette tape quality. An expansion card will allow the Rio to hold more, but at almost 100$! The sound never TRULY disappointed me, but it should be noted that it ISNT EVER CD quality. NEVER. It takes away bass from songs to allow more volume. The durability on this product is a joke. The software that came with it was efficient, but not great. It would be more cost efficient to get a CD-Recorder and make CDs rather than to use this! Don't waste your money! Get an Mp3 player from a better company such as Creative, or possibly even Sony.
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Summary: You want an MP3 player? Here it is!
Review: This is the best little gadget I have! It's the coolest thing! It's about the size of a deck of cards and weights about 4 ounces. It hold 32MB of songs, which turns out to be a lot more than you'd think. The advertisement says near CD quality music, but I've never had a CD play this good, and honestly would like to hear CD quality music if this is "near CD quality". It's well worth the money-- it's an offer you'd be crazy to pass up!
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Summary: Fun And VERY Portable
Review: I bought the Diamond Rio 300 Player and I love it. It's is so portable its unbelievable. One tip though, the speakers that come with it aren't that good. The plug doesn't fit in well you have to shove it in. By the way, if you see that your player keeps pausing it is because your volume is up too high.
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Summary: It gets more difficult the longer you own it!
Review: Love the concept. Love the transportabilty, BUT onehour...means more like 30 minutes AND after you download 50 songs theyexpect you to pay (from there software provider-music match) for adding other songs to your play list. I am sure there are ways around it, but who wants to spend the time figuring it out? I want ease and Daimond is not making it easy! I own stock in the company and am really annoyed that they expect me to pay after I forked over the cash for an over priced piece of... I will get around it because I grew up on computers, but WHY make it more difficult for me so that I am DRIVEN to write a BAD review at amazon. I made an effort to write this review so that the comapny will make a change. Simply...I want to hear a song right now, but because my roommate is sleeping and I USED up my 50 songs I would have to make an even BIGGER effort than signing on and spending 10 minutes writing a NEGATIVE review to DIAMOND in hopes that they will make their product more USER FRIENDLY. When I paid $150, I was not aware that the product ACTUALLY held only 30 minutes and I would be responsible for anything over 50 songs. I want to feel at ease, in that I can recond ALBUMS and not be selective in songs. DO SOMETHING DIAMOND OR SONY WILL TRULY MONOPOLIZE THE MARKET!
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Summary: Better then I thot
Review: I got the Rio PMP300 player about 7 months ago. I love it, and use it every day. I have all of my favorite music on it, since it is so easy to get. I dont need to buy CD's any more, and it's saving me alot opf money. Its small size allows me to bring it ANYWHERE i want, including school.
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Summary: MP3 all the Way!
Review: This product is AWESOME! It was really easy to use, probably because I'm a 13-year-old computer nerd, but anyway, it was really easy to set up. You plug in the Parallel adapter, and off you go! I already had RealJukebox and a small collection of mp3's. And, since I can't really notice any difference in the quality, I can fit up to 20+ songs without any extra memory! This was well worth the $ I paid after a rebate and 3-7 day shipping. BUY IT IF YOU HAVE A NEWER COMPUTER AND LIKE MODERN MUSIC (modern is easier to find)Ciao!
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Summary: Flaws
Review: It is cool to have such the technology to listen to music at not have it skip. But Diamond needs work in many areas before they have a great product. First the battery location is not well placed or it needs a better locking mechanism(mine has tape holding it closed). Second, their customer service really needs improvement. My first player didn't work correctly. SO after calling long distance on my dime they sent me out a new one which intially didn't work. Then I called long distance again to be told that "this is a common problem" that is not in the manual. But i enjoy it though.
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