Rio Nitrus 1.5 GB MP3 Jukebox

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Manufacturer: Rio
Price at amazon.com: Too Low To Display
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Used & new from $177.80

List price $199.99



Product Features:

• 1.5 GB HDD plays over 25 hours of MP3 of 50 hours of WMA music
• Includes Sennheiser earbuds
• 5-band adjustable equalizer with pre-sets
• 16-hours continuous playback with rechargeable LiIon battery
• Compatible with computers with USB 2.0 (1.1 compatible) ports running Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME, or XP

Product Description:

The revolutionary Rio Nitrus packs 1.5GB* into a stealthy, razor-thin design.

Average Customer Rating:

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Comment: Very Good Player Rating:
I was looking for a new MP3 player after owning my Rio 800 for 4 years (still works great) I decided to buy another great Rio with more memory. I saw the Rio Nitrus and thought it looked good. It held tons of songs, looked great, and had a great company behind it. I ordeded then came to amazon to look at the reviews. While reading I became very disappointed i ordered it. About 5 days ago I recieved it and I could not ask for better sound quality or menu options. It has a sleek design that fits perfectly into my pocket. It holds 548 mp3s and has a great organizer to find them. I was also looking at the iPod, but it is too expensive and I dont need all that space. The Rio Music Manager is very easy to use and very quick to download to the rio. The battery is only 4 hours to charge compared to 11!!! It also last 14 hours! The ONLY thing that disappointed me was it had no case compared to the 800. So overall I would recommened this to ANYONE looking for an excellent quality mp3 player.

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Comment: Overall A Good Product Rating:
I purchase my Rio Nitrus a week ago, at first I had various doubts about this product. I had read some reviews that made seem as a horrible product, while other reviews called it marvelous. But first things first, I decided to purchase this product because of its size (it literally fits in my fist), and also because it can play Windows Media Audio (something that the ipod doesn't do). .... Installing the program on windows XP was very easy, and the same goes for installing songs in the player. I wasn't able to put 1.5 gigabytes of music in it, it only allowed me 1.4 bytes, overall I had a little bit over 500 songs (all of my songs are WMA's recorded at 128). Now onto the bad part. . .like some other reviews mentioned, Rio really screwed up with the volume buttons, they are too close together. Another small mistake are the headphones, personally I don't like the headphones that come with the unit, they are too small, and at times annoying (this is my personal opinion). However, don't get me wrong the sound of unit is amazing, when I first played a song I was amazed at how clear and loud the song was. Some of the thing I most enjoy about this player are the playlist, for example out of the 500 songs I have two playlists, one is compose of slow songs that I listen to while going to sleep, or in the bus, the other is call "top 20" which are usually the best 20 song I want to hear on my player. The rio nitrus has amazing search abilities, for example, you can search a song by its name, album, artist, etc., Or you can just shuffle and play all the songs (repeat is also available, but i don't use it). Overall this is good player, besides minor little problems (for me) such as the volume and headphones, I give the Nitrus 4.5 stars out of 5. If your interested in buying this product, I recommend you download its manual, and/or search for a professional review such PC world etc., One more thing so far my Nitrus has been working fine, I was a bit scare since I read all those "my player broke the same day I got it etc.," reviews, but for at least it seems to work just fine. Update, its been a month since I've purchase my nitrus, and it works just like it did when I bought it, the only exception is that now it has a few scrachtes, but nothing elses I'm still very please with this player. Update, My player Finally broke. . .everything was working fine but then I turn it off, and the next time I turn it on, it wouldn't go on past the RIO screen. So I call customer service, and they told me to do a hard reset, then upgrade to the lates firmware, and voila it work ... So right now is working fine.

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Comment: Add me to the list of DEAD RIO NITRUS Rating:
150 days and the hard drive failed... click of death!! Andy at RIO support said "1 in 100 HDs fail" and offered to fix it for $125 (after 90 days you are out of warrentee!). Guess I'll look into ram drive players next, they don't have the HD technology perfected yet. Too bad Rio.

Also the plastic over the screen is almost unreadable from scuffs.

Posted at November 11, 2003 06:27 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)