Rio Volt SP100 Personal CD Player

Pros: High capacity, WMA support, ID3 Tags, good tech support, price
Cons: packaged headphones, dancing guys, regular batteries, size

I love my RioVolt.

Sure, it's not perfect, but I love it anyways, to the point that my girlfriend feels neglected due to my new toy. It's amazing.

Why I Love It

It plays mp3s, and more importantly to me, WMAs....

Pros: Upgradeable Firmware, reads almost any CD/CD-RW as well as almost any mp3 file.
Cons: Little round remote, LCD not sealed to dust, 2 lines of display

UPDATE - Firmware Keeps Getting Better!
A funny thing about the RioVolt is that a company out of Korea, iriver.com also sells a RioVolt like clone which recently released firmware 1.20 for its player. This firmware works on the RioVolt....

Pros: Great features, good sound, not bad looks.
Cons: Shoddy quality, heavy unit, heavy remote control, flimsy remote control clip

I heard about this MP3 player and thought it sounded ideal for my needs, being able to play CDs _and_ MP3_ CDs. The idea of being able to burn my entire music collection onto a handful of CDs and being able to carry them around sounded very appealing. It...

Pros: Hold 10+ hours of music. Upgrades, ID3 Tag support. Directory Navigation.
Cons: Slightly slow, sketchy Music CD support. Little Dancers.

Music, where would we be without it? Almost everyday you hear music in some form or another. Without it some people would go insane, I am one of those people. The prognosis was: Riovolt.

Ease Of Use: 5
The Riovolt is...

Pros: Sleek design, easy to use, upgradeable firmware, large backlit LCD display, etc.
Cons: Crappy carrying case, not great headphones, dancing men on LCD

Right now, the increasingly popular Rio Volt is the absolute best MP3-CD player on the market right now. Unlike many other competitor players, the Volt is reasonably sized and sleek designed. Others are very bulky and without the quality the Rio Volt...

Pros: Hours and Hours of Music from a CD; Good Navigation System; Good Sound Quality
Cons: Flimsy Construction; Line Out Jack Very Problematic (Read On...)

Opening remarks

I've had a frustrating run with MP3 players. My first experience was with a CD-based model made by Classic. It was one of the first such CD-based MP3 players widely available commercially, and I suffer the curse...

Pros: Early innovator, disc compatibility, great battery life, upgradeable firmware.
Cons: Flimsy construction, useless included headphones, odd button placement.

I'm on my second one of these great gadgets. My first one was stolen out of my car, and I didn't hesitate to buy a new one that same day. That's how much I love it.

The RioVolt now has plenty of competition, but it was one of the first basic,...

Pros: Plays MP3 & WMA files, backlit LCD display shows ID3 tags with song info
Cons: Expensive, remote is a bit awkward, both sets of headphones are inadequate

The price shown is after a $20 rebate from SonicBlue. Overall, this is an excellent device. It plays both of the leading PC music formats, MP3 and WMA. It comes with a nice black leather case which is attractive and has a strong belt clip attached. It...

Pros: great sound! cool looks!, not bad battery life, great anti-skip for MP3
Cons: none found yet... still testing..

I was looking for an MP3/WMA player to compliment my Sensory Science mp2300 (see my review http://www.epinions.com/content_24543202948/tk_~CB005.1.5)

esp for long distance drives.. I had looked...

Pros: Crisp Sound, ID3 Support, Upgradable, Long battery life, Good Controls, Doesn't Skip
Cons: Little earphones, Ugly LCD screen, Can't save playlists, Cheap quality remote

I carried around a Rio PMP300 for almost two years, and while I spent hundreds of hours listening to it, I needed more storage. After the purchase of a CD burner, The choice was obvious, an MP3CD player.

First let me say that first...

Pros: Sleek Design, Excellent Features, Upgradeable Firmware, Backlit LCD
Cons: Dancing People on Display; Batteries don't recharge in unit

This Mp3 CD player is the second I have owned. I have also owned the Lenox MP-2000 player. Before buying both products, I completed extensive research as to the different options and consider myself knowledgeable as to the mp3/cd player field.
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Pros: Plays CD-R/RW's, carries hundreds of songs, long battery life.
Cons: LCD Display, background noise, navigation

Imagine if someone told you that it's possible to carry over six hours of music on a single disc, listen to the entire disc and still have battery life when the disc finishes playing. Then imagine you can actually scroll through the list of songs on the...

Pros: 20+ Hours of Great Quality Music on 1 50 cent CD, 15 hours batter life.
Cons: Ok display menu, not tiny like other MP3 Players.

First of all, this is the cheapest MP3 player style available. I'm referencing the CD Format. Why is it the cheapest? Well media for this bad boy costs about 50 cents for 650MB, on another device, well chances are you can only get about 128MB storage...

Pros: great sound quality, large anti-shock buffer, durable remote control, bright informative screen
Cons: lackluster coloring, desirable features made optional

(Updated for the LCD remote)

I have mixed feelings about the SP250. For months I followed with interest a bulletin board on mp3.com about the development and release of the Korean iRiver2 player. Everyone thought the RioVolt SP250 and iRiver2...

Pros: Upgradeable firmware, interchangeability of discs, backlit display
Cons: Slow search of mp3's, horrible battery life, headphones poor sound

The Sonic blue Volt CD/Mp3 player is a great idea and a poor implementation of that idea of interchangeable mp3 data on CD's. Either the technology is just not there or that the idea isn't feasible at all. I somehow believe that there could actually be...