Rating: 
Summary: Great Basic Player
Review: I've had mine for about a year with minor difficulties and am pleased with the performance. In fact I may buy one for my wife. This will allow me to use the same USB connection for both units eliminating hardware/software problems that arise from having different type units. I've seen a lot of negative reviews on this product and I haven't experienced any of the problems listed. One comments on the cheap plastic case that is broken on the first drop...I've dropped mine several times, not a scratch. My only complaint is that the battery compartment opens too easily and can allow the battery to fall out. It doesn't have some of the features you may want like track programming or song info but for the money a great starter unit at fair price.
Rating: 
Summary: Good....but save up and get better
Review: Well I bought this MP3 player as my first one. I have to say it as REALLY good sound from what I have heard (at 128 or above), great battery life (but I think the 10 hours is pushing it) and I'm happy it can support my WMA files. But this is where the good stuff falls short. You only get the song number so you don't really know which song you are selecting. Also it takes so long to go through songs, you better put only your best songs on there. DO NOT LISTEN TO WMA FILES ON THIS PRODUCT. Although it may support it no matter what the quality, I get a wierd fuzzing in the background EVERYTIME (which seems to be gone on my computer). If you are going to buy this as your first MP3 player (or a spare one for one of the members of the family) then do it. But if you are looking for anything above MP3's and maybe some bells and whistles, look somewhere else.
Rating: 
Summary: Cheap, Shoddy, Its going back before it breaks.
Review: I got this as a Christmas present, the person that bought it for me did so because she thought Rio was a good brand for MP3 Players. Out of the package you can tell its not the best, brittle plastic, (One drop and its finished for good), you can press in a bit on one of the sides and feel the plastic give a bit. Setup was a bit of a hassle, DO NOT USE MOODLOGIC.It would not detect the player at all, after installation it gave me a notice of an upgrade, I upgraded it and shortly after it gave me and error message. It wouldn't work afterwards and when I closed it, the program performed an illegal operation. (This is after uninstalling and installing it again*3) (My OS Win98) The Real One Player was easy to use. Drag and drop is nice.
The Sound Quality of the intial download to the player was great, the second download there was noticeable high pitch chirps and squeaks where there shouldn't be any.
The manual that comes with the player is overly simplistic (It will tell you how to put the battery in, where to plug it into your PC and that's it.)
My recommendation is not to buy the RIO one, in my opinion this product would sell best as a 10 dollar disposable MP3 player, then the quality wouldn't be so questionable. Save your money and get something that will last. 80-100 dollars for this means you are being nice and donating money to the company. For maybe from the looks of it a month or two less than outstanding performance, is 50 - 40 dollars a month.
Rating: 
Summary: Useless.
Review: I bought the Rio One because I had another MP3 player (one from
Compaq) and I didn't like that the other player used the MMC
cards which have smaller capacity. The Rio One was a gift for
a relative and I wanted to buy them something better than what
I had. That was a huge mistake. My Compaq MP3 player has never, not
once, given me problems. The Rio One player is currently broken
with the flashing "USB" message others have written about. Now I
feel really bad because I bought this person an MP3 player which
is far worse than mine. And as others have said, tech support?
What tech support?
Rating:
Summary: Very Bad Customer Service
Review: The product it's self is great. Very easy to use and great sound, but linking to the PC for downloads was not user friendly. The Mfg really failed here. Called customer service (no 800 number) and found the service to be very elementary. Their solutions so far were 1)"don't use the software that came with the unit, it doesn't work" 2)"we've never seen anything like that, could you email it to us and we'll look into it?"
Rating: 
Summary: You can't go wrong here
Review: For my first MP3 player, I found this to be a very good unit. It is light, easy to use and plays forever on a a single "AA" alkaline battery. But I use the Energizer Lithium Photo batteries and I have maxed nearly 15 hours of use on a single battery. Since I use mine on hunting or fishing trips, it gets plenty of weather and outdoor use. The up side:
It's not tiny, but it is small enough. And it's weight is just shy of not noticable. It's simplicity is unmatched. There are no moving parts. So dust and things are not a factor. However, be careful about moister in any form. You can add 128MB Smartmedia card to it to upgrade from 32 to 156. I know the math doesnt work, but for some reason you will only get about 124mb out of your smartmedia card. I chalk it up to the space required for the format. I dunno. None the less the 128MB upgrade makes it a really sweet unit. Down side:
You lose a little of your storage on the Smartmedia card. Another problem is if you download your music to the memory that is built in, and let's say you have a little space left, you cant use that space after upgrading the memory. So if you use 30 of the 32mb of onboard memory, then you lose the 2mb of space or you put a small lower quality song there. It will not let you borrow space from the card. And when you factor in your preset loss on the smartmedia card, you are losing a small chunk of memory,about 5-6 mb. Overall I give mine 5 stars. You might consider the newer player, which has 64MB onboard and is only more. Not too oftent you will add 32MB of memory inthe MP3 world. You can also add a 128MB smartmedia card to increase it to an aprx. 192MB. Hoever, you will probably only have about 185MB that will be useable. Possible improvements: Allow the two memories to mesh together, as one. Build a unit with am/fm radio, and possibly add a record feature. Also, I would like to see a unit that would use two 128MB smartmedia cards at the same time. Like a unit that has 128MB onboard, and you can add 2 128MB cards to at the same time to crank out 384MB.
Rating:
Summary: The worst products, support and service ever!
Review: The unit does not work, no service provided, no toll free support, must call long distance and pay a fee to talk, and when they cannot figure it out, you still pay the phone fee, and there is no one available to service the unit. Basically, if you buy it, and there is something wrong with it, you are stuck with it... and that came out of the tech support mouths!
Rating:
Summary: Good mp3 but wheres my rebate
Review: I bought this and added a 32m memory card. So far I like it and it very easy to remove and add songs from my computer. Both the memory and flash card shows up on my mac desktop and I easily remove and add songs. My only gripe, and this is a big one. is where is my rebate? It is already 3 months.
Rating:
Summary: Worthless
Review: Took me 2 hours to figure out how this thing works, and I've been in the computer busness for over 17 years, so I know what I'm doing! The included documentation is a joke. Since it takes days to get a response from Rio that isn't automated and for another product you'll have to figure everything out yourself! So if you're not real technical this is not for you.
And if you're thinking about adding memory, forget it. I tried to add an 128m card, and that's where my problems really began. At first I couldn't add music to the new card, then it stoped identifing the card, now the unit doesn't work at all. Loading firmware from the web site was a disaster. Now the computer won't identify the RioOne, because the unit won't turn on and only displays 0. Rio's support is a joke, so now I have an ... piece of garbage.
I've wasted over 8 hours of my time trying to get this thing to work (which it only did for one download of music), it isn't worth the money at any price! Buy whichever mp3 you want, but read all the negative reviews on this one very carefully - they'll dead on! I'm buying an Archos.
Rating:
Summary: Who rated this with 1 star?
Review: Okay, you've probably been reading the reviews on this MP3 player and hearing that it has problems. Well, I'm here to clear up all that confusion. I read the reviews and at my own risk, I ordered this item because of its low price and ... rebate. I received it about 5 days later and then started to play with it. Here's what I found. Installation was very simple with Windows XP. I just plugged it into the USB port and didn't need to install anything. All the drivers were installed with XP, and it lets you copy with My Computer (although it doesn't let you copy with Windows Media Player....). It includes RealJukebox, but I use MusicMatch and Windows Media Player now to take care of all my track recording (it's slow to open up files). Windows XP also lets you copy music to this easily by drag-and-drop through Windows Explorer and My Computer, so there was no need for the driver installation. Now the sound quality. I started out using different encoded MP3s and some WMA files, and this played them very clearly! Even with the small earphones, it sounds like two speakers are right next to my ears! It's great that way. The only problem I found was that copying my 128kbps MP3s only let me put about 6-7 songs on its 32MB of space, so I decided to encode all my MP3s to WMA, and I was able to copy about 6-7 more onto it without a SmartMedia card! And they still sound just as great as MP3s! The other thing is that it doesn't display any ID3 tags for the tracks, so you have to search through the tracks to find the one you want, but then again, if you like to exercise, it might not matter. Also, the battery life isn't exactly VERY long, but it's been longer than what I've seen with other MP3 players, so I'm not complaining. Recommendation: if you know nothing about MP3 players and liked this price, GO FOR IT! I've loved this thing, even though I've only had it for 3 days! I plan also to buy a 32 or 64MB SmartMedia card for this in a couple of days to expand my music. Then again, if you want more than just 32MB of space, try the iPod or Creative Nomad that hold 5, 10, or 20 GB of files! I do recommend this, however, to anyone here! You'll love it!
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