Diamond Rio 300 MP3 Player for $34.99 at buy.com

[w0lfe]

Just saw this at FW.
Diamond Rio 300 MP3 Player for $34.99 at buy.com
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[FreNte]

since we're on the subject and thought someone might like this



just found a 600 refurbed for around 40 bucks, it has expandable mem.

something

 

[CalebTG]

Not worth it.

Tried one once, wasn't worth it to me, I paid $27 a while ago

It is only expandable with a max of 32mb more via SM (64mb SM cards DID NOT work at all)
Also, it is Parallel Port only (no usb).

Only up sides to it are:
extremely light (less than 3g I believe) and it looks decent.

It is very similar to the Rio One, but the Rio One supports USB and SM cards up to 128MB.
The rio one looks identicle except it is silver instead of black.

 

[virtuamike]

I gotta check with my sister but I'm pretty sure I got the 64MB SM to work on her Rio 300, u have to use different desktop software. It's not a bad unit, for $34.99 it's a pretty good deal, but not qualifying for free shipping kills it for me.

 

[sat4fun]

This is the piece of equipment that first took mp3s off of the computer and Diamond went through a lot to get it to us.The capacity is small, but it is worth the $30 for sentimental value.

 

[DoubleN]

I have one of these and the fact that it has to use the parallel port just drives me crazy. You can't just drag and drop songs like you could if it was a USB device, but rather have to use special software to transfer songs, and the maximum memory it can have is 64MB (32MB internal + 32MB smartmedia). I use it simply because I don't feel like shelling out for a new MP3 player, but I would definitely suggest against buying one now, since for a little more you can get an MP3 player that connects via USB and is much more useful.

My 2 cents...

 

[frogster220]

anyone know if you can fit more than a 32mb sm card in this?

 

[frogster220]

I found this page with some good utilities for the rio

http://www.rioworld.org/rio300-new.htm