Rio S10 64 MB MP3 Player

 (67 customer reviews)

Did some research on MP3 players to use while working out. Biggest complaints surrounded use of software to download MP3's or WMA's(Windows Media)to the player. Also wanted to be able to Rip songs off my current CD's to download to the Player. The software was very easy to install (I use Win 2000) and my pc had no problem picking up the new USB connection. After I installed the Software I connected the player and was ready to go. I used Windows 2000 to copy my CD's down to the hard drive in the WMA format. Then using RIO manager I could pick and choose which songs I wanted to hear. The software allows you to sort very large libraries of songs by Genre, Album, Song List and Playlist. The download time for a full CD's worth of sound is about five minutes. The display shows Album, Artist and song title and other info like volume and battery meter. You can shuffle songs and you can apply several setting using an onscreen menu list (i.e. equalizer, powersaver, etc). Also the...Read more

A nice, simple MP3 player, just the thing for working out at the gym.Compact, light weight, looks good, plastic but seems sturdy enough; nice padded case with belt clip. Fairly easy to operate: menus could be improved, but it's a barebones little player and you won't be fiddling with the menus very often. Sounds good to me. I listen to classical on Koss PortaPro headphones, and I'm picky about sound. If you listen in a very noisy environment, or if you just like your music REALLY LOUD, you will want to normalize low level recordings before you convert them to MP3.The 64 MB built-in memory is a joke, and when you update the firmware (and you should) you will have 61 MB left. Count on buying a memory card. With updated firmware, it will take SD memory cards up to 512 MB. The 512 MB cards are priced out of sight, but I found a name brand 256 MB card for $... That gives me 4 1/2 hours play time. It runs on one AA battery, and the batteries last a long time. I don't need...Read more

First, the good news: this player is probably the most well-designed and easiest to use of any mp3 players (of its capacity) that I have seen, not to mention it's quite reasonably priced. Though hooking the player up to your PC and uploading songs to it takes the usual basic computer skills, once the songs are on the player, even the computer illiterate (read: my parents!) can figure out how to use the Rio S10 and change the settings. The menus are very intuitive as are the layout of the buttons. The S10 comes with 64 MB internal memory (which is, to be honest, not nearly enough), and I just added another 128 MB, and it was a breeze to do (just buy the MMC card, open the player where the battery goes, and slide the MMC card in into the only obvious slot it could possibly go) and it worked right off the bat. Further, the little cover case that comes with it fits perfectly, protecting the player. The size of the whole unit is smaller than a pack of cigarettes, and easily fits in my...Read more