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Summary: Guys, the Rio Volt is the same as the AVC Soul Player
Review: If you can't find the Rio Volt, look at Easybuy2000. They have the AVC Soul MP3 CD Player which looks almost exactly like the Rio Volt. It's also $145 dollars to boot. Depends on whether you want the SonicBlue Rio name on it.
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Summary: THIS IS THE ONE TO BUY!
Review: With the recent flooding of portable MP3CD players around. SonicBlue's Rio Volt is definitely the TOP OF THE LINE Choice.Its everything you could possiblyt want in a portable device that virtually plays any MP3 file on cd/cd-r/cd-rw!!! the big screen is backlit and displays what song is currently playing. This is a fra cry from just seeing what track is running. The outward design is in itself sharp and futuristic, it even comes with a remote! STOP! If you are in the market for a GREAT MP3/WMA player, look no further, the next generation player is here! I figure it would take quite some time before this particular player becomes obsolete. NEVER NEVER GET THE GENICA TAVAURA. As it is the biggest piece of &^%* you could possibly buy.
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Summary: Everything it's purported to be....
Review: It's great. Read the reviews. Do the research. A bit of due diligence tells you that this is the one. Let's touch on the important parts--WIDE variety of bitrates, great LCD view (sure, could have more lines, sure, could get rid of the dancers, but I'm listening to the music, and as other people have said, navigation is so sweet you don't have to fiddle around), and rejected files? I've done several hundred, and the only one it didn't like was a 300 meg french MP3 stream-captured from Winamp (which, I might add is the best plugin available... save some huge chunks, split 'em up, and go...) As for the comment of why this is more expensive? Have you been able to order it from the 'MANUFACTURER'??? I really don't care for a rinky-dink site, even if it is the same player. What I like about this? Rio/SonicBlue branding, combined with Amazon.Com's acceptance of a wider range of payments, better shipping (are you as dumbfounded as I was with the 'other guys' shipping?), and if something, heaven forbid, ever goes wrong, I know that I'd much rather trust these wonderful people (Rio/SonicBlue/Amazon.Com) than I would anyone else to expedite warranty repair or replacement. Bottom line, this is kinda like a mattress. Invest more money now, be happier later. Sure, you can go to Target and get a player, and there's even other players on here... but why? Don't waste your time, just get this unit, and if you don't like it, well... the CD has to go in shiny side DOWN...
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Summary: Still need improvement.
Review: There are already too many good reviews about this product. I don't want to be offensive, but my feeling is some of the enthusiastic reviews must be from Sonicblue insiders. Otherwise, many of them should have already pointed out those shortcomings I am gonna tell you. I used to own a Philips EXP103 for 6 months, and I was pretty happy with it. I wish I haven't seen all these extremely good reviews, otherwise I won't sell my exp103 for this Rio volt. Of course, as all other reviews said, this player does have fancy looking and something really cool (ID3 tag display, remote control, etc...). But here I am gonna talk about something it disappointed me: 1. Background noises. The background noise of this player is much higher than Philips EXP103 (although exp103 also has static noise). It's annonying especially when you listen in the eveing at low volumn. And you can also hear electric plus noises ("po") at the begining and the end of every mp3 files 2. Can't read out some discs. It's not like someone says that this player recognizes all kinds of CDR/W discs. It works fine for my MP3 discs, but can't read out an audio CD (Beatles - One) I burned. This 80mins CD works fine with all my CD players and philips exp103. I tried two identical copies of this disc, Rio Volt failed both. I don't have other 80min audio CDR to test at this time, so I am not sure if that's a common problem of rio volt. By the way, this player has no problem with my other audio CDRs (all <74mins). 3. IMHO, the sound quailty of this player is inferior to Philips exp103. It's partially because of the crappy headphone comes with it, which has no bass compared with the one of exp103. A low-end Sennheiser HD433 (<$30 including shipping) will do a much better job. 4. This is never mentioned by other guys before, probably my bad luck. When listen to audio CDs, the 40sec ESP mode gives much worse sound quality than 10sec mode. It's so obvious if you switch between these two modes while playing. It seems to me like a badly implemented loss-compression algorithm. I only experienced this problem with audio CDs. I used to have a RIO500, too. Compared to memory chip based Rio500, both sound quality and backlite display of this player are actully degenerated. I suspect that Rio volt is just an OEM product Sonicblue grabbed to fill the market gap. Their next version could be better. If I had a second chance, I won't sell my exp103 for rio volt. I'd rather wait till other major companies join in this market.
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Summary: Incredible, delectible, indescribable, stupdendous
Review: I was one of the first people to get the Rio Volt. I ordered it shipped 2 Day FedEx to me direct from Sonic Blue. When the Phillips eXpanium first appeared, I convinced three of my friends to purchase the drive. I am glad I waited. This drive has everything. It comes with a remote, AC adapter, batteries, headphones. The size is quite light and it's shaped in a circle like a cd. It can play not only MP3's but WMA's which sound just as good but take up alot less space. That means you can probably fit 200-250 songs on the player. Try that on your portable mp3 memory card players. 80 min cd's hold 700 megabytes. The top of the line memory players hold 64 internally with an option of an additional 64. This still brings you to about 1/5th the capacity of the RioVolt. No resume option? No problem, update to the latest firmware (yes, you heard me, you can update the firmware to support new features) and you will have not only resume to the correct song, but the exact location in the song as well as shuffle and repeat modes! GET IT NOW!
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Summary: The perfect player
Review: This is really the perfect player. You can still play all your old CDs and also play mp3 / wma cds. I got 450 songs on 1 CD! (using 96 kbs WMA files, the same quality as 128 kbs MP3s) It works perfectly too. Just make sure you update the firmware to v 1.10. The ID3 support is awesome and so is the backlight and the remote. Well worth it.
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Summary: playing CDs
Review: You need a CD burner, you have way more music on one CD than you can possibly manage, and you need to burn a new CD everytime you grab that awesome new tune. Sorry, I wouldn't pay this much for this thing... even though I love my mp3s. I have the RIO Pmp300, and even though the memory is small this is excessive and is cumbersome. Sorry, but buy something else.
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Summary: The RioVolt Portable CD & MP3
Review: AMAZING!! absolutely amazing! This thing is great. I've hadone of these for a week now and i can't get enough of it. It haseverything that i have been looking for and it is affordable. GoodStuff: 1) It plays both regular CD's, CD-R's & CD-RW's, and playsmp3 format as well as regular format 2) it is small andlightweight(it is roughly the size and weight of an average portablecd player) 3) Something that i found to be absolutely wonderful isthat it displays the names of the songs and folders. This issomething i have been looking for everywhere. 4) You can organizeyour mp3's into folders and have the folder name as well as the song'sname displayed in the LCD. 5) The LCD has really great lighting.Easy to see in all lighting. 6) The batteries last longer than withmost of these types of portables. 7) Comes with an AC adapter unlikesome 8) plays MP2, MP3, AIFF, Q-Design AIFF, QuickTime, WAV, SoundDesigner, MOD and 'snd' music files as well as mp3's and regularCD's. BAD STUFF: 1) No car kit. I really would have liked it, butit doesn't come with a car kit. 2) It is slightly more expensivethan others ... this one is $... Otherwise it's great and i thinkit's perfect for anyone doing long distance traveling who does notwant to have to pack a hole binder full of CD's, this way you can pack2 or 3 cd's and never finish listening to all of them once through bythe end of your trip. END
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Summary: Everything You Need
Review: I got the Rio Volt after many trials with different MP3 portable players. I wanted a unit that would hold lots of music, so that ruled out the solid-state memory type players. So, I was down to either MP3CD players or harddrive based units. I went through: Pine D'Music's SM-200C MP3CD player (cruddy sound, short battery life, skipped badly), Creative's Jukebox (good sound, lots of storage, short battery life), and Archo's Jukebox 6000 (tinny sound, some hardware/software problems, decent battery life). Then I got the Rio Volt and that's what I've been happy with ever since I broke it out of the bubble packaging. This player does it all, you can put CD-R or CD-RW in it. It supports multiple formats of discs (ISO and DirectCD being the two biggies). It supports multiple encoding bit rates (up to 320kbits). It supports variable bit rates. Its firmware is upgradeable easily so that it'll support future standards. The little remote control is handy. It sounds great and best of all I can get 14-15 hours on a pair of AA batteries! If you are not using your MP3 portable while exercising or during physical activity then the Rio Volt is the machine for you.
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Summary: Perfect Rio
Review: First of all its design is perfect. It is a bit bigger than a cd. It plays standard audio CDs, the CD-Rs and CD-RWs that you've burned on your CD-recorder. It supports MP3 and WMA, and can be upgraded to emerging standards and it has an electronic shock protection up to 120 seconds. It runs up to 15 hours on 2 AA batteries. You can also use it with the AC adaptor. It has a big LCD screen which makes navigation better. The best part of the player is remote control. This remote control aparts this mp3 player from other players. Player also supports ID3 tags and audio CD text, title display.The earphones are very quality either.And also the Real Networks audio management software and Adaptec CD burning software for PC are bundled. The carrying case is included. In my opinion, If you want to buy a mp3 player, Rio Volt must be your first choose. Buy it and get a happy life :)
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