RIO SonicBlue RioRiot 20GB Portable MP3 Player Jukebox $134.99

[r01axb]

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[loup garou]

That's a good price, but I'd recommend staying away from the RioRiot. There's a reason there are so many refurbed units floating around. I had one and it went back twice for warranty work. After the third time it broke (they sent me a new one each time), I gave up and it's now sitting in my closet. Plus, they have just about the worst support (in India, btw) ever...I spent way too much of my time on the phone with them trying to get an RMA to justify the cheap price of the unit.

 

[jtallon]

I was actually happy with the HARDWARE on the Riot I had about a year ago. I thought the software they included with it was the biggest pile of crap I've ever seen. I love that the Riot has a built in FM tuner - that's a rare feature on mp3 portables...

The software sucks because it can't handle 20 gig of mp3's. So they give you a 20-gig player, but the software will crash if you try to transfer more than about 3 gig of mp3's at a time... Oh yeah - the USB 1.1 doesn't help either...

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: jtallon
I was actually happy with the HARDWARE on the Riot I had about a year ago. I thought the software they included with it was the biggest pile of crap I've ever seen. I love that the Riot has a built in FM tuner - that's a rare feature on mp3 portables...

The software sucks because it can't handle 20 gig of mp3's. So they give you a 20-gig player, but the software will crash if you try to transfer more than about 3 gig of mp3's at a time... Oh yeah - the USB 1.1 doesn't help either...

Yeah, I stopped using the crappy software that came with it and used WMP9 to transfer stuff...that worked well enough.

 

[froinlaven]

Pretty good price for the amount of storage. Looks pretty bulky but as long as it works, it's a good deal in my book.

 

[BigM]

Check out this slick salesman for sonicblue with his Rio Riot...the thing is actually smaller than i thought:

Link to asian guy...

 

[rich120]

I got mine for about that price at a Wiz liquidation sale. I haven't had a single problem yet. I use both RealPlayer and WMP9 to downgrade songs to 128 kbps and have 15 gigs happily on my device.

 

[froinlaven]

Originally posted by: BigM
Check out this slick salesman for sonicblue with his Rio Riot...the thing is actually smaller than i thought:

Link to asian guy...

Not too bad, but how do you know he's not a Yao Ming size asian? I guess if he's as big as myself, who is also an asian, then that device is not so big after all.

 

[Anonemous]

damn... must comtemplate between this and the Jukebox mini recorder from archos.... (214$ or so).... must decide....

 

[AnyMal]

I would suggest this RCA Lyra, same price plus free shipping, supports MP3 Pro, also works as external drive. No FM though..

 

[weepul]

20gb for $140. wonder when the ipods will drop to that price.. *drools*

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: weepul
20gb for $140. wonder when the ipods will drop to that price.. *drools*

//krunk (^_^x)

I wouldn't hold my breath

 

[drunkmunk]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
I would suggest this RCA Lyra, same price plus free shipping, supports MP3 Pro, also works as external drive. No FM though..

Where did you see this for the same price? I'm only seeing it for 199.99. I'm in the market for an MP3 player and I want one that works as an external so this would be perfect.

 

[dc]

Originally posted by: weepul
20gb for $140. wonder when the ipods will drop to that price.. *drools*

//krunk (^_^x)

when pigs fly.

 

[Yobbo]

I have the 15GB iPod for windows, and the software that comes with that is actually have decent. Plus I transfered 7 gigs of MP3s in no time flat (firewire)...but this is a good deal if you dont need something smaller than a pile of business cards...

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: froinlaven

Originally posted by: BigM
Check out this slick salesman for sonicblue with his Rio Riot...the thing is actually smaller than i thought:

Link to asian guy...

Not too bad, but how do you know he's not a Yao Ming size asian? I guess if he's as big as myself, who is also an asian, then that device is not so big after all.

YO! That's pretty much the same thing I was going to say.

That's a pretty nice deal for 20GB.

 

[BigM]

I seriously have no idea what the designers of this unit were smoking. If it just didnt have those flaired corners, it would be a decent size. The corners make it a good inch taller...thats alot in the world of portable mp3 players.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: rich120
I got mine for about that price at a Wiz liquidation sale. I haven't had a single problem yet. I use both RealPlayer and WMP9 to downgrade songs to 128 kbps and have 15 gigs happily on my device.

I got mine at the Wiz too! Of course, I talked them down to $50 for it.

Originally posted by: BigM
I seriously have no idea what the designers of this unit were smoking. If it just didnt have those flaired corners, it would be a decent size. The corners make it a good inch taller...thats alot in the world of portable mp3 players.

I don't know either. After I gave up on RMA'ing mine, I took it apart. The circuit boards and HD don't require that space. If they used a rectangular battery instead of the huge cylindrical one that's in there, they could've gotten it down to a much smaller size.