Well, speaking from my own experiences with the product:
I have never gotten more than 2.5 hours of life from the recharegeable battery. And they say it
should be good for over 11 hours. And that is with all the options turned off. One day the Rio
decided that it no longer wanted to have a capacity for 190 megs. It now wanted to give me 250 megs.
Then one day after that, it decided it wanted to go back to 190 megs, however, it insisted that
40megs were in use even though nothing was on the player itself. So now my 190 meg MP3 player is
only a 150 meg player. If I use the WMA file format, the songs "skip".
I imagine I got a lemon, but in my opinion, a company only gets one shot to show off their
product to me.
"Chris Maginn" <
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> I couldn't disagree more. I purchased Rio's for my wife and I and have also updated each with
> 256mb of memory (memory available even at Costco for about 40 bucks). The 128mb version of the Rio
> upgraded to 256 will be good for 80-90 songs. The newest software for downloading is easy to use.
> Both have worked very well..no trouble. We chose flash memory devices for durability reasons.
>
> PS: The newest Rio just got a PC Magazine's Editors Choice Award
>
> In the hard drive genre you might check out the new Dell models. They have been well received and
> are easier to use with Windows than the IPod.
>
> Here's the link to PCMag.com's MP3 player product reviews:
>
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,2359,00.asp
>
>
> "Mark" <
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> > Don't go anywhere near a Rio. I have had nothing but problems with my
Rio900
> > M~