| Brand Name: | Rio |
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Product Specifications
Technical Details
- 16 hours of Music
- Upgrade up to 1 GB
- Stainless Steel Face
- 512 MB
- Stopwatch
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Product Description
From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer The Rio Forge is designed for people that like to play hard and use music to play even harder. Rugged and compact, the Rio Forge Sport player uses no moving parts and stays solid even when your body is moving fast.
The Rio Forge series is our latest generation of flash-based sports players. The Rio Forge is designed for people that like to play hard and use music to play even harder. The new design integrates the protective rubber grip from previous models with a stainless steel face plate for added durability. Up to 20 hours of battery life allows you hours of non-stop work out time. Comfortable Sport Clip earphones and a newly designed case with armband keep your player and music secure and accessible. Simple menus and intuitive controls make for easy one-handed operation. Stopwatch and Lap Timer make the Forge the ultimate gym or running companion.
Features
- 512 MB of memory stores up to 4 hours of music
- Sport Clip Earphones
- Sports Case with Armband
- USB 2.0 for Fast Transfers
- Stopwatch & Lap Timer
- FM Radio
- Audible Support
- Up to 20 hours Battery Life
- MSC Compatible for easy drag and drop of music and data files.
- Rugged Design Provides Skip Free Music
- Expansion Memory Slot Lets You Add up to 1 GB of Additional Memory
- Includes Rio Music Manager -- the most intuitive way to create and manage your digital music library
Box Contents: Rio Forge 512, Carrying Case with Armband, Sport Clip Earphones, 1 Energizer AAA Alkaline Battery, USB 2.0 Cable, Installation Disk, Quick Start Poster, Warranty Card
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Rio Forge 512MB Sport MP3 Player
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223 of 228 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Owns its niche, certainly.,
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This review is from: Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player (Electronics)
I would file this under "interesting/ nearly compelling", and actually deserving of five stars despite the 512Mb limit (other flash players go to 1Gb today). The keys to the Rio Forge's success are a very functional user-interface, nice "other-than-music" goodies, and support for SD/MMC cards.The user interface uses the LCD real estate quite well. Songs have full ID3 tags displayed, scrolling when necessary. Title, artist, album info is stacked, so scrolling is minimal unless you have long info in all fields. The navigational system is intuitive, and while it isn't a clickwheel, the tiny joystick/ button combination works well once you adapt to it. The music output is more than acceptable, but not quite equal to Creative's quality or level. It handles MP3s, WMAs, and iTunes AACs without incident. This makes compatibility fairly broad. The best points illustrate the marked evolution of the Forge from its earlier Chiba/Cali roots. The device no longer requires proprietary software in order to copy files; the device is recongized as an external drive with all rights and privileges afforded to them via USB. A nice feature is the aggregation of the optional flash card into the removeable drive storage total. This allows you to copy a full 1.5Gb of music over to the device, assuming you have a 1Gb MMC or SD card inserted. You can also format/copy/delete the aggregate; this might be a bit of a problem because you lack the ability to segregate, say, device content from flashcard content. I would tend to say it's not that much of an issue. Smart use of folders on either will help identify which content is removeable. The device uses a single AAA battery and will go twelve hours easily at mid-volume. You can also specify the kind of battery (Alkaline or NiMH) and it adjusts the battery meter accordingly. This is actually a pretty good idea, considering the ubiquity of AAA batteries. Some things I like are the FM tuner and stopwatch. It is designed to be a workout companion, and these two features make it especially appealing for big club members; televisions broadcast over locally-based FM, so your cardio workout is now accompanied by sound to go with the visual. The stopwatch is, well, a stopwatch. It also handles splits, so it's decent for running, not at all useless. The usual expectations (presets for FM, inline recording, ID3 tag support, multilingual) all apply. It has a very good case with armband, and reflects its workout partner design philosophy throughout. Earbuds are decent, but if you're like me, you have a favorite pair already. No suprises on the input, as it takes the standard miniplug. In all, it truly owns its niche for flash-based players. Hard drive based players cannot withstand the rigors of active running or quick movements for very long; any electronic device might break when dropped but the likelihood of inoperability is much, much less with the Forge. It certainly isn'g coming out of its armband holder without 20g of force. The ability to accept SD and MMC cards makes it more expandable than any other flash-based player as well. iRiver and Creative can't match it in this regard. Finally, it's the intangibles that cement its primacy. It sits in your hand very well, and it looks pretty sharp. The cool blue backlighting only enhances its looks, and the outer cover is a big improvement over the Army Green of the 256Mb Cali. For a workout, this is my MP3 pick. Fred
58 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet MP3 player - tiny, powerful, with expansion,
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This review is from: Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player (Electronics)
(1 week report) 4.5 stars.This is the best MP3 memory player I could find for my Audio Books. I didn't want a hard drive unit such as iPod. It is Audible compatible, and I fit 10 books in it straight out of the box. They sounds just fine. I have an expansion card ordered which will bump my player capacity to 1.5 gb. The FM tuner works well, and the FM record feature is cool -but you cannot 'schedule' recordings, which would be incredibly cool (I'd schedule recording of Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour and All Things Considered, for example.) You have to turn the unit on and hit FM RECORD at the right time. If it would have allowed scheduling, I would have given it 5 stars. This unit does not have a voice record feature on it, which was on my old Rio. I actually used it pretty often. The headphones that come with it (and most MP3 players) are not very good - so I use my Sony (bought seperately) behind the ear headphones. I love the tiny size of this thing. It's almost as small as a large key-fob. Another great feature is the fact it uses regular AAA batteries. Available anywhere. No more being stranded on the airplane or a walking trip without being able to charge. The display is small, but very high contrast and easy to read. The controls have a wonderful back-lighting for easy location at night. I'll report in again in about a month.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
good sound - cheap buttons,
By Mark (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rio Forge 512 MB Sport MP3 Player (Electronics)
This is my first review of a product. My wife bought this for me for my birthday. It took me a few weeks to start to use it. I use it when I workout. Overall, I like the sound and it was easy to drop music on it. However, 3 1/2 months after buying it, the volume button got stuck. It would still allow me to decrease the volume, but I couldn't increase it. So, after playing around with it, I managed to decrease the sound to an inaudible level. I e-mailed Rio and received a prompt reply. Basically, since my 90 day warranty had just expired, I would have to mail it in and pay $89 plus shipping etc. for a remanufactured replacement for which I would have a 30 day warranty. The player is currently selling new for $83 on Amazon. So, obviously this makes no sense. I decided to take the Rio apart figuring I had nothing to lose at this point. The problem is that one tiny piece of plastic sheared off one end of the volume button, thus not allowing it to contact the internal switch to turn the volume up. I e-mailed them again asking if they would just sell me a replacement volume button and was told that they don't sell replacement parts, but I could send it in and have it replaced for $89. I will give them credit for replying promptly. However, I'm very disappointed with their service. I'm also very disappointed with the fact that something a simple as the proverbial 5 cent piece of plastic should cost me $89 to replace it. It is durable (except for the buttons) and is great for working out. I just wanted to let people know about my experience with this product. I haven't tried any other mp3 players. I basically reset the volume to a higher level and will have to take the cover off to turn it up (which is pretty easy) if it gets turned down, but it seems unnecessary when all I need is a new control switch. As far as the player goes, it is easy to use, and the controls are intuitive. Thanks for reading.
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