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Summary: Great Product for The Money, Does everything i'd like it to.
Review: This is an excellent MP3/CD Combo Player. It does what I need it to. Never skips, and the portable remote is great. It includes updateable firmware and an AC adapter (the SP90 doesn't) so it makes it well worth it. Note: I'm really only using this for the most basic features, I don't move around with it, nor do I use any of the advanced programmable features or equalizer....
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Summary: Rio Volt Rocks
Review: This is the greatest cd player that I have every owned. All problems that I read about were either fixed by firmware or were not there in the first place. It has not skiped once, and I keep it set on the lowest anti-skip setting. I keep it in my backpack and walk around and bike with it and it just will not skip. The remote rocks. I don't know how I lived without one for so long. My favorite functions have to be the ten dics resume, choices to shuffle and repeat within directories, and the ability to program the foward, back, and eq buttons. The only problems are the carrying case and earbuds. The carrying case is useless because there is no window to see the display. The earbuds give horrible sound, but anyone who takes their music listening seriously should already have a pair of earphones that they like. I would recomend this product to anyone, it is the best.
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Summary: great player!!
Review: This thing is awesome. What an affordable solution to other MP3 players out there. I wanted to get this mainly cause I was tired of carting piles of CDs back and forth to work, yet I didn't want to pay the high price of a portable MP3 player. This did the trick. I burned about 7 discs full of MP3s. Now I have hours and hours of music in 7 small sleeves. This is also a great way to protect the original disc from damage.The controls on this are very intuitive as well. Navigation is pretty easy with the +10 button, but I agree, you will need to have some sort of list. I just list the main albums I have on the disc, but it's easy enough to print out a complete song list if you're so inclined. The backlit display is essential and very easy to read. There are also many modes you can play in, but I mainly use standard and shuffle. If there is one thing I would like for this, it would be better battery life. It runs on 2 AA batteries, but you better keep extras with you if you plan on using the batteries a lot. They seem to last around 10 - 15 hours. Other than that, HIGHLY recommended.
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Summary: With one exception the best
Review: With the exception of the new iriver 350 SlimX, this is the best CD/MP3 player on the market. I own several MP3 players and the Riovolt consistently tops all (with the exception noted above and I believe iriver produced the Riovolts for SonicBlue) Having firmware upgradeability is great, and the latest version will now remember/resume where you left off on up to 10 different discs (great for audiobooks). Note that the technical specs listed are incorrect when they say the unit does not have resume, it does with the firmware upgrade. Great value.
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Summary: Didn't last a month!!
Review: I can't see what's the big deal about this project. OK, fine, I probably could handle the skipping and fast battery drainage, but then several events happened (below, in chronological order), forcing me to warn people not to buy this product. 1. The hold button suddenly didn't work.
2. The remote that came with it suddenly stopped working as well.
3.The whole unit stopped playing CDs and couldn't function. Forget about customer support!! Rio would just send you a useless FAQ email. Please, please, please don't buy this!!
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Summary: Deeply Flawed
Review: It skips when you walk; let alone run. It pauses inbetween mixed songs so listening to dance compilations is a torture. With regular portable disk players playing recorded CDs, I don't see the value of this product.
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Summary: Impressions of a person new to MP3s and MP3 Players
Review: I recently bought my first MP3 Player -- The RioVolt and overall I like it...I think it was a great bargain. The sound quality is very good. I really like the fact that it reads CD RW disks. I fill a disk with songs I like, and carry it with me. As I get tired of certain songs.. I just change them out. Its great...I only need one disk. There are,however, a few things that I don't like about it. 1) Its not as nice as my Panasonic cd player for CDs. The anti skip isn't as good, it isn't as compact and generally doesn't feel as well built (the buttons, latch, etc.). I'm not sure but I feel like this unit will not tolerate a great deal of abuse. 2) It loses my place on the CD every time I turn it off (This is very annoying. If I could change one thing...it would be this). I don't even bother setting up playlists for this reason. 3) It takes a very long time to start playing when I first turn it on and I find it difficult to navigate through the songs (I don't understand why they wasted 1/3 of the screen space for that silly dancing person). 4) The instruction manual is poorly written and I probably still don't understand all of the features. Don't get me wrong...the advantages of this (vs. my regular CD Player) greatly out weigh the disadvantages. I would recommend the RioVolt to anyone who likes music and is on the go a lot...(having over 100 songs on one cd is awesome). Its a great product...but there is room for improvement.
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Summary: An MP3 player you can love.
Review: The RioVolt SP100 has probably the same features as the SP90 but has upgraded software and more features . The SP100 is great and gives you great features. One of my favorite features is the equalizer, so you can manage to have the best sound possible for your type of genre. (Sound options include normal, rock, jazz, classical, and ultra bass). Another feature is the mode button and it gives you plenty of repeat options, shuffle, speed scan, etc. Other features include prog., +10 (skips ten songs at a time) and a remote.
The only problem with this is that it plays MP3 songs in alphabetical order and to skip through songs, you use the navigator button. Overall, this is a great mp3 player with good features. Pros: Excellent Sound Quality
Good skip protection (40 sec for cds, 120 for mp3s)
Good features
Plays MP3s, and blah blah blah Cons: Navigator is a pain
Stupid cd case
15 hours of battery life (just not enough)
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Summary: Don't Trust the Bad Reviews
Review: I just bought the SP100 at the mall today and like many of you I had serious doubts about it. I had read that it skipped a lot, it was made out of cheap plastic, there was a big gap between songs, the headphones were terrible, and it didn't sound good. Well all the people who said these things either grossly overexagerated the truth or bought a different thing than what I got. Except for the headphones they're not even worth your time. I am basing all this on how the product came in the box, the firmware version is 1.13. Starting with the skipping:
It was said that it skipped a lot on the audio CD's especcially. Well even though it takes a few seconds to start playing it hasn't filled up the buffer until a few seconds later. So, consiquently if you start jogging, tapping, or seomething else it will skip quite soon, but after the buffer is filled it works GREAT! To test the skipping I did the tap test, as well as dropping it a few times from about 4 feet onto the carpet. Next the Plastic it's made of:
All I can say is I don't know where they got the idea the plastic was cheap. The only thing that could be improved is the battery door which doesn't stay closed well, but I consider that a minor issue. About the Gap Between Songs:
When playing regularly there is at most a 2 second gap. (keep in mind I havn't had a chance to upgrade the firmware yet) If you play in shuffle/random mode the the gap can get as long as 4-5 seconds, which will probably be fixed in the version I still have to upgrade to. The headphones:
They are terrible. That's all there is to it. If you want some really good headphones go buy some KOSS UR-30 headphones. Lastly the Sound Quality:
I believe that the reviewers with the bad reviews listened to it with the included headphones, as I said earlier they are terrible, and of course it will sound bad. With my KOSS headphones it sounds *****EXCELLENT*****. The equilizer is very good despite what they say. So, I gave it a 4-star rating because of the few flaws in it: the loose battery door, and the bad included headphones. It was fairly expensive for them to not include good headphones. other than that I say go out and get it as soon as you can and ignore the bad reviews. Please chose if you found this helpfull or not, Thanks
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Summary: makes a nice mp3/cd player, and even better door stop....
Review: Ok RioVolt SP100 is a good first generation mp3/cd player, I'll give it that, hell it's probably much better than a lot of the second generation mp3/cd players on the market as far as features go(navigation, id3 tags, etc.). Alright let me cut to the chase; I use a portable audio device frequently for my daily commute and I need a player that is durable with good skip protection. Unfortunately the RioVolt SP100 is not what I wanted. Yes it is a great player if you're going to have it sitting still on a desk, but I need something that I could move around with and not skip so often, its not even like I use it for exorcize, I just walk with it and its skips. Another bone that I have to pick with it is that it's just so darn big and bulky, but that's a minor problem compared to the skipping. I brought this player when it was fairly new on the market and there weren't many other mp3/cd players to choose from, so I would advise anyone considering buying this player to look elsewhere, especially now that there are better mp3/cd players on the market.
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