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Summary: stay away
Review: this unit has good intentions; has good accessessories and features. however it is a piece of junk. it constantly skips between songs. i tried contacting rio techncial support and their only answer is that you shouldn't use it for walking.
They also recommended not to record at 128kbs or above; i had not done either of these things. the unit skips even when sitting stationary.
Rio need to change the firmware. they should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this unit to stay on the market. there are no faq's.
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Summary: Big Mistake!
Review: I agree with all of those reviewers that gave 1 star to this unit. It's to bad that you are not given the option to rate it as zero stars. First unit I had could not even select the FM radio mode so it was exchanged for another. Second one could select FM mode but could only receive a few stations and only if you stood still. All pre-recorded music cd's skip continually. I was able to play some mp3's. Stay away from the RioVolt SP350. It was a big mistake for me to buy it and a complete waste of money.
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Summary: Not Worth the $$MONEY$$
Review: I purchased this product becaseu my Sony got stolen. I was looking for a new one when i saw this and read some of the reviews. It sounded like a good cd player. Big mistake. I recieved mine the other day and when i first took it out it was extremely light and felt like [inexpensive] plastic. not something i was expecting for a 189 dollar cd player.(theres definatly a reason why it has such a huge sale) when i put my cd in it started skipping when i would tap or shake it a little bit. The controls were also very confusing. I would not recomend this product to anyone. Stick to the big sellers like sony and panasonic.
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Summary: nice, but too many bugs.
Review: In one word:
Disapointed.The good:
Price.
Features.
Built in batteries.
Nice design. The Ugly:
Horrible FM reception.
A few skips here and there when plays mp3 content.
Too little setup features.
Controls are not 100% easy to use.
Beta release firmware with lots of problems. Compared to:
Rio volt SP100 (2 years) - with latest firmware - flawless performance and ease of use. Conclusion:
Unless they release new firmware fixing all the problems, don't waste your money on it.
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Summary: Worst Online Shopping Experience Ever
Review: I was attracted to buy this product by its rebate, but long before the rebate arrives I am terribly regretting buying it now. A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN ONE MONTH after I bought it, it literally stopped working. On the LCD, it always reads "Read Error" when it is supposed to play. After communicating with SonicBlue Technical support (remember it was after one month and couldn't be returned to Amazon), they agreed there was something wrong and it should be replaced. They gave a "RMA" number and to my surprise, I would have to pay for shipping the product to their facility in Arizona. That is not all¡ When their replacement arrived this morning, I found out IT DOES NOT WORK. It automatically forwards or rewinds 5 seconds, stops for another 5 second, etc¡ So I called support again, asking if the one I just received was returned by someone else instead of new, the answer is yes---¡°refurbished¡±----without checking if it works!
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Summary: worth the work
Review: So here's the skinny on this high quality Cd player. When I frst tried my player..I also encoutered problems with playing my MP3 cd's. I called their support line and they were extremely helpful and pleasant.( too bad they don't have a 1800#) Anyway, I learned the following: 1) Burn cd as a Data CD. 2) burn/write at 2x...not 4x. 3) burn songs on the cd that have quality or bitrate of 128...this is a little tidious because you have to look at the quality of each song before you download it. 4) Close and finalize session. 5) Use high qualtiy blank CD's.
If you are willing to do these things, you will hear an unbelievable sounding CD in this player. It sounds even better than its predecessor. Too bad it took so much work to figure this out...it would have been nice to know all this stuff beforehand..so I'm sharing it with ya'll to save you calling the manufacturer and wasting any blank CD's.
The re-chargable batteries is a great feature...don't have to spend money on batteries. Once charged..batteries last a long time...I love this feature. This is a great CD player..I think it's worth it.
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Summary: Dissapointing piece of junk is an optimistic statement
Review: I have been wanting a Rio with the built in Radio Tuner ever since they came out. This thing showed up as a gold box offer one night and I got all starry eyed. It's thin, cheap, the controlsare confusing, the manual is a pdf file,that gave me a broken link error on the CD, fortunately I was able to retrieve it from the lacking in content support site.The software is dissaponting and not what I had expected at all. I should have gotten a used pre Sonic Blue model ... when they were still good. Now, don't bother.
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Summary: TryHarder? It may look the part, but RioVolt; Keep Dreaming!
Review: All I have to say is this is the worst player ever! My MP3 cd player kept on skipping and having a rough time playing cd music. I didn't even bother of keeping it, I just throwed it outside my window into my trash can. There is way too much negative description for this player and it is way too much that I am not going to list them. RioVolt, if you want to try to make a better innovation for the community, then I suggest you to fix up this RioVolt SP350. Stop ripping off people money and start fixing up this MP3 CD player!
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Summary: Two thumbs down for SonicBlue
Review: I agree with the folks who have problems with this RioVolt SP-350 player. It skips the music tracks of either ORIGINAL CD-AUDIO music or MP3s stored in CD-R or CD-RW media that worked FINE with the previous model, the SP-250 Player (i wonder why SonicBlue discontinued it!!) I've followed all the directions of Sonic Blue and still nothing. I believe it's a firmware problem. I mailed SonicBlue a week ago and i just got a reply from them. They say "we are sorry, we have no firmware upgrades, please return the defective unit to the store where you purchased it from to get a new one as a replacement and if they don't want to do it, please call us after may 1, 2003 and we'll do ir for you." but reading someone else's post, getting a replacement won't help much because i believe that it's this model that is all messed up.. now.. will SonicBlue send me a refund for this defective unit? who knows!! What a disappointment, i expected much more from this brand.. two thumbs down for this model.. SonicBlue guys, do something QUICKLY or you'll lose customers! Best Regards, Paul D. Fabre
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: My review is quite simple. Don't buy. I got the unit for Christmas last year and dealt with the skipping for a little while, but then returned it when it was static like in the car. After getting a second unit from Amazon, I found the static problem somewhat improved, but now noticed that the unit had a nearly impossible playing MP3 CDs. SonicBlue says clean the lens (of a new player?) and burn CDs only at 128kbps. This is not the performance I expected. This is poor. Now I'm stuck fighting with SonicBlue to get a refund. This product is not worth $...Get an IPod.
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