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Summary: Great little thing!
Review: Everyone is crazy. it's their damn fault they made it funny, mabey they should stop dropping it. And if it does go fuzzy, you can fix it easily by taking the headphone jack out a little. And for the memory, you can buy a 340mb microdrive from IBM. a little pricy, but it gives you 10 frikin hours of music of 128k bitrate songs. 10 hours on this little tiny thing. And the battery last like 10 hours... ONE BATTERY! And the round pad thingy... all you have to do to work it is just push on the edge of it, and no prob. This thing rocks.
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Summary: Still is vaporware
Review: Despite being on the market for many months, the add ons that are supposed to make this a truly useful machine are still not available. There is no memory add on: with decent quality mp3's you will have less than 30 min play time. There is no fm tuner. The machine is very fragile and the parts come apart with any rough handling. Rio continues to show hostile disregard for its clientele.Avoid this turkey.
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Summary: skip this product
Review: easy to use softaware. extremely small memory storage. breaks VERY easily.
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Summary: Decent, but you could buy much better
Review: +'s: small, looks cool, good sound quality
-'s: i am running win 98, pII 400, 256 ram... the software (audio manager) which is the only way to transfer music is very buggy, slow, and eats up to many resources (feels like written in JAVA awt). 25% success rate transferring songs over 6 megs. if i turn off the player in the middle of playing a song, the player will not play that song anymore... ie: it will start playing and then 30 sec in it will jump automatically to next track. --go buy an mp3 cdplayer like pine technology's
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Summary: Non-Existent support from Diamond MM
Review: I bought a Diamond Rio 500, but since those are not being sold now I thought I should let you know that support for these devices is non-existent from Diamond / SonicBlue. I have still not been able to register the device to unlock its software to allow me to continue making MP3 files from CD. There is no documentation that comes with it, there is virtually no on-line documentation, and there is no technical support. I have gotten three on-line responses so far from people who obviously did not even read my question and problem. The device seems to be working ok so far, but the software to use it and the technical support are garbage.
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Summary: Static Player Too
Review: I purchased two RIO 600's for my kids (Christmas). At first I was impressed with the intuitive software and sound quality of the player. THEN.. after 4 days my son's RIO audio output became all static. I tried different headphones and re-loading the playlist with no luck. I took it back and the replacement has now started the same symptoms. I am giving up on RIO!
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Summary: Perfect in every way!!
Review: This has changed my life! Not only is it easy to use and it has great quality.
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Summary: Defective
Review: When I first got my player, i opned it up and put the batteries in it, the thing didn't even work. I've read other reviews and they didn't sound too good. I would recomnmend getting a different player.
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Summary: Good player
Review: A lot of people are having problems with downloading songs to the Rio 600 but in the book it says that if you are having problems you should go to the Options and change the Device to Rio 600. Sometimes it works without this but if you do it, it should work no matter what. I have had a few problems but i think that most of you people are just idiots and don't know how to use the Rio 600. It works great. Also, whoever said that they had one that came without a case and they think it was previously returned, you are an idiot. At first they were released with no case and 1.01 firmware. Then when they release it with 1.15 firmware, it had a case. The case is only in the one with 1.15 or greater firmware. I've returned my Rio 5 times and the one with the new firmware and case is much better and possibly completely bug free.
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Summary: Static Player
Review: Sure the Rio600 is pretty cool and can play digital music but I think that Rio should still be de bugging it. When I first got it for chrismas it worked perfectly and I thought it was the coolest thing. 3 days later all im hearing is static that sounds like the beat of the music. Obiously its defective, so I'm sending it back. Another thing that was wierd was that each time I set my clock it always went back to the time it came with and even if the thing had no music in it, it still says it takes up space. What really stinks is that it can only really play up to 9 MP3 songs! I hope they send me a better one.
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