The ‘Bookmark’ button found on the left of the player can be used to repeatedly loop part of the track. The front of the player has all the main controls. The LCD display is clear and not that hard to read. But again this is an extremely good figure and I’m quite certain it would have lasted longer if I didn’t play around with the light unnecessarily. The Backlight seems to drain the batteries a lot and since I was constantly meddling around with it, my batteries died down after about 10 hours.
But this depends on how careful you are with the batteries. Diamond claims more than 13 hours of non-stop continues playing.
Some other portable MP3 players in the market take as long as 20-25 minutes.Ī single AA battery powers the player.
It took me about 5 minute’s to upload the MP3`s to fill the full 64MB,which is very satisfactory. Transferring of MP3`s is done using the USB port. Unfortunately I was not able to get the expansion cards at the time this review was posted. These Range from 16 MB up to 64 MB in size. The RIO 500 has a slot for memory expansion with Smart Media cards on the top of the player. Welcome to the world of portable MP3`s!!! I Played two long sets which lasted about 1hr 45 min and had AEROSMITH blasting away through out. Being so compact in size it didn’t get in the way at all. I remember the day’s when I had a Discman and with one wrong move the music was a gonna!! I played a game of tennis wearing the Rio 500 through out and didn’t experience any skipping or fluttering what so ever. Since there are no moving parts in the MP3 player there is no restrictions in movement. With 3.59″ x 2.46″ x 0.74″ dimensions it’s smaller than my palm and weights under 3 ounces. I’m kind of used to all those ”wow’s and “cool man!!” comments now.
The coolest experience was when I had to explain to 80% of the people I met what this little ‘thingy’ really is …. It’s so tiny compared to a regular Walkman or Discman and it’s got the look & feel of a very ‘hi-tech’ gadgetry. So what was my first impression? Very cool!!.You can take my word for it. Upgradeable firmware provides future compatibility.ĭiamond Rio 500The kit I received came complete with the Rio500 player, a Strong carrying case that has small pockets in the inside for the additional flash cards, earphones, USB cable and one AA battery.Single AA battery for up to 13 hours of listening pleasure.Audible Manager 2.0 software for spoken audio content.Software included for downloading, organizing, creating and playback of digital audio files.Bookmarking feature for repeatedly looping of tracks.64 MB onboard memory, expendable with flash cards.Skip and Flutter resistant due to non moving parts.