Brand new 20G Rio Riot's at Geek
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meithkiller
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Hey Purk, how's it going? Yeah, its been awhile since I've been active here on the boards. I've been pretty busy lately. We had our first child last fall, and my wife is three months pregnant again. I switched from night shift to days at work (UPS), and race season is well under way, keeping my schedule full most weekends.
Well, I got the Riot yesterday morning, and started it charging before I went to work. When I got home, I started to work at installing it, and putting some songs on it.
I first installed the RealOne software that is required to transfer songs, and like austonia said, it can be troublesome software that tends to try and take over your PC, I was able to take care of most of its pervasiveness by doing a custom install, and making it the default software for absolutely no file types. I didn't let it search for music files on my PC either, I only put songs into its library I want to transfer to the Riot. Only major problem I had with the software once installed, was that the RealOne player wasn't able to access CDDB (gracenote) to rip songs with title and artist info from my CD's. Actually not much of a problem since I prefer to use AudioGrabber with a Lame MP3 encoder to convert CD's to MP3's anyways.
Next step was to attach the Riot to my ancient PC (PII 350 running Win 98). Nothing has ever been truly plug & play with this PC, even when I "upgraded" to Win 98 SE. The PC recognized the Riot, but couldn't find any drivers for it, not even on the Windows update online. Although there was no documentation on the subject, I finally figured out there was a driver on the software CD they sent along, buried somewhere with all of the "Real" software. I transfered a few existing MP3 files I already had on my PC as a test, and a couple of minutes later, I was finally listening to music on my new Riot.
I can honestly say I am very happy with the Rio Riot, and it is everything I had hoped for in a HDD based MP3 player (for the price). Sure I'd be happier with an Ipod, but unless someone can point me to a place selling new Ipods for $140, I think I'll be perfectly happy with my Riot for quite awhile. Transferring music takes awhile, but it takes a lot longer for my PC to rip and encode CD tracks to MP3 files, than it does to download them to the Riot. I'll download a couple of CD's every night to the Riot, and will eventually fill it up.
-Keith
Well, I got the Riot yesterday morning, and started it charging before I went to work. When I got home, I started to work at installing it, and putting some songs on it.
I first installed the RealOne software that is required to transfer songs, and like austonia said, it can be troublesome software that tends to try and take over your PC, I was able to take care of most of its pervasiveness by doing a custom install, and making it the default software for absolutely no file types. I didn't let it search for music files on my PC either, I only put songs into its library I want to transfer to the Riot. Only major problem I had with the software once installed, was that the RealOne player wasn't able to access CDDB (gracenote) to rip songs with title and artist info from my CD's. Actually not much of a problem since I prefer to use AudioGrabber with a Lame MP3 encoder to convert CD's to MP3's anyways.
Next step was to attach the Riot to my ancient PC (PII 350 running Win 98). Nothing has ever been truly plug & play with this PC, even when I "upgraded" to Win 98 SE. The PC recognized the Riot, but couldn't find any drivers for it, not even on the Windows update online. Although there was no documentation on the subject, I finally figured out there was a driver on the software CD they sent along, buried somewhere with all of the "Real" software. I transfered a few existing MP3 files I already had on my PC as a test, and a couple of minutes later, I was finally listening to music on my new Riot.
I can honestly say I am very happy with the Rio Riot, and it is everything I had hoped for in a HDD based MP3 player (for the price). Sure I'd be happier with an Ipod, but unless someone can point me to a place selling new Ipods for $140, I think I'll be perfectly happy with my Riot for quite awhile. Transferring music takes awhile, but it takes a lot longer for my PC to rip and encode CD tracks to MP3 files, than it does to download them to the Riot. I'll download a couple of CD's every night to the Riot, and will eventually fill it up.
-Keith
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nice ..how much was this going for ...?
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$134.99. Not bad for a 20 gig MP3 player that sold for $400 about a year ago.
-Keith
| Originally posted by xtreme4099 nice ..how much was this going for ...? |
$134.99. Not bad for a 20 gig MP3 player that sold for $400 about a year ago.
-Keith
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