rio cali sport review

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Average Ratings
Value for Money7.5/10
Reviewer Rating6.5/10
Overall Rating7.7/10 Based on 3 ratings
50% Recommended1 out of 2 Reviews

Review of Rio Cali Sport

By Lee46 on 13th May 2005

Lee46's Ratings
Time MP3 Player Owned1 - 6 Months
Sound Quality8/10
Battery Life8/10
Features4/10
MemoryExpandable SD cards
Value for money5/10
Overall value3/10
no Lee46's recommendation

Good Points

Size, weight, rugged build quality, battery life.

Bad Points

Small screen, hard to read, can't use playlists with expansion cards, music manager software very basic.

General Comments

I bought the Rio Cali because it was expandable and because a friend had a Rio player that looked good and worked well. When it arrived I loaded it up with music and everything seemed fine until I tried using the playlists. When you have 512k of MP3 files you want to be able to split them up into album-sized playlists. If you do this with the Rio Cali the player will ignore any files that are on the expansion card.

Many calls and emails to the tech support lines later, I finally got a confirmation from Rio that none of their players support playlists on expansion cards. By this time it was five months after I bought the thing so I decided it was too late to try to get my money back.

A pity, because it really is a good player, but I am going to buy something else next time that will do what I want.

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