Rio Riot 20GB Review

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Rio Riot 20GB
3.1 stars
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Tim Higgins's Review of Rio Riot 20GB MP3 Player

28th Apr 2004

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Sound Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    5 stars
  • Time MP3 Player Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Battery Life
    4.5 stars
Good Points

The amount of memory to store albums of music is vast.
Far far cheaper than alternative MP3 portable player.
Excellent display screen.
Displays Album Name, track name, and artist, volume level, battery level, the amount of mins and sec length of the track.
User freindly menus with an excellent random play mode.
Back light to display the screen in those darkend moody enviorments, which can be altered to prelong battery life.
Sound quality is excellent with additional bass and treble settings.


Bad Points

Not many bad points and not enough to put me off purchasing it.
Volume control is a little fiddley.
The software which came with the Riot I could not get on with, so found an alternative on another web site 'redchairsoftware.com' which is very easy to use.
Slightly larger than some other mp3 players, but will still fit easily in my jacket pocket.
With all mp3 players the worse part is the actual downloading of all your music to the mp3 player in the first place. But it's the same through-out the portable mp3 player range.
There is room for improvment with these mp3 players, and that is to be able to back-up back to your hard drive all your hard work, because it takes along time if you spend the time entering information about the artists name, album name etc


General Comments

I can honestly say this Diamond Rio Riot 20GB Digital Audio Player is a superb bit of equipment, I did my homework and purchased my Rio Roit on Ebay for £120'ish' bargain!
Campared to most Portable MP3 Players this has an excellent display screen, with a mass of information.
20 Gig storage is plenty. I've only filled about 10 gig of mine and have 160 albums stored.

The only thing missing is a method of uploading from Rio Riot back to a hard drive , because after all the time spent loading it, it would be a shame to loose it all and have to start again.
But never mind.
at the price paid and the quality of sound, excellent menus,etc

It get's my vote

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