Advantages: Size, capacity, ease of use Disadvantages: Not a 'trendy' i-Pod
...the i-Pod, but better. Rio Audio has come up with the Carbon model. And I bought one.
When I went to look for an MP3 player, I had three priorities in mind.
Firstly it had to have a decent storage capacity.
The Rio Carbon has a 5Gb hard drive, which is capable of accepting in the region of 2500 songs compressed via WMA (or about 1250 at MP3). This sounds a lot, and in reality it is a lot, but don't go expecting to get that many on the hard drive. ... ...which, by far, was the Rio Carbon.
Its size is about 3 inches 'square' and about half and inch deep, which is big enough to notice when you put it in the palm of your hand, but small enough to put in just about any pocket without causing problems. And I say 'square' as an example only. The machine is actually tapered on all sides, which gives it an elegant and sophisticated appearance, something that is woefully lacking in all the other players ...
GUMMO1471 03.09.2005
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Advantages: It's not an ipod Disadvantages: it's not an ipod
...music is easy with the Rio Music Manager. (supplied)This programme allows you to set the music genre etc with a whole list of them, 98% of which I've never even heard of! (What the hell is NEGERPUNK?Sweetcorn Dub? It must be my age.) When playing music you can then select to play music by artist, album, genre or playlist. So plenty of ways to decide what to listen to. You can also use windows explorer to transfer your music, but this is less flexible ... ...amount of time, sorry no facts and figures to give you, but it's short enough to not bother me. (I have the attention span of a goldfish so if it took too long I'd be pacing up and down! ) I tend to download my music whilst doing other stuff on the internet.
I use Roxio Creative CD to convert my music CD's to MP3 and find that even at its best compression setting the sound is great. This is helped by the graphic equaliser on the player which has ...
dave8999 14.09.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Rio Carbon 5 GB
Advantages: Great player. Large hard disk and small physical size. Great battery life Disadvantages: wider than most. Bad case, and no other third party cases. Back scratches easily.
I bought this for £129.99 from amazon.co.uk. It is an excellent player, with many great functions. I have not tested the audible playback, but it cannot be faulted for mp3 playback. It will play both VBR and CBR mp3's and WMA's, although my music collection is only MP3s. As it is registered in windows as a removable hard disk automatically, and mp3 files can be dragged and dropped into the player, unlike either the ipod or the micro, this player ... ...allows it to work with many digital camera leads etc, and so when your travelling you can put your entire MP3 collection on here and share it with others without a CD with drivers (the Ipod is notoriously hard to get music off if your computer loses its data.
Compared to the 2nd gen ipod mini (owned by my sister) this player is both smaller and lighter. It has a small scroll wheel for control, and although the interface isn't as polished as the ...
leoedin 10.07.2005
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Advantages: Small, slim, compact, 20 hr battery life, 5GB memory, price... the list is endless... Disadvantages: Perhaps not as durable as it could be.
...believe nobody has reviewed the rio carbon yet. Is it some kind of hidden gem? I purchased mine a couple of months ago and it's my baby! I love it to pieces and it's great to have an mp3 player which the whole world doesn't own... In other words it's not an ipod... I really don't understand why anybody would chose an ipod over it... It's miles better.
So why is the rio carbon possibly the best mp3 player in the world? Well for starters it has a ... ...mp3 players, great if like me you enjoy a bit of travelling and don't want to have to charge it every five seconds. Also it's much smaller than other mp3s, it's so slim and easy to handle. There's a scroll button for easily locating your fave tracks and a button which takes you to the menu... what more could you need. It's so easy to use it couldn't possibly be better designed. There's also a very useful lock function.
Then there's the memory and ...
K_a_t_y 04.07.2005 (05.07.2005)
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Advantages: easy to use, looks good, good value for size + memory, great battery life, nice leather case + earphones Disadvantages: none
...but she now wants a Rio after borrowing mine for the day! Battery life is really excellent and is still at 20 hours even after 6 months regular use ( ive heard ipods lose their batter life quite quickly)
overall i think it is excellent value for money and well worth considering as an alternative to an Ipod. ...
susan-a 21.12.2005
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Advantages: slim, compact, stylish, easy to use and plenty memory Disadvantages: none that I have come across yet
I received this MP3 player for christmas, and I have to say I think it is fabulous. It is very compact and so easy to use.
Contained in the box is your player, USB cable for downloading, software to manage your library, battery charger, carrying case, ear phones and even adapters for Europe and America for the charger.
The menu is so simple to use, you can search by artist, album, track, year or even genre of music or simply play all of your tracks.
... ...handy for little messages as reminders. There is a stopwatch and a section which tells you how much memory you have used. I currently have 39 tracks on my player and have only used 191 MB of 4769, so you can see the capacity it has to hold a vast library.
The rechargeable batteries also have a long life, with upto 20 hours playback between charges.
The music manager software is very easy to use, you only need to drag and drop.
As this is my first ...
sandy180 28.12.2005
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Advantages: small,nice feel,good sound Disadvantages: died after three weeks
I received this mp3 player for my birthday, I had never heard of it, and had only really considered an iPOD as my choice of mp3 player...
It looked and sounded great, fit in your hand like a little pebble, it was easy enough to use,and I enjoyed it, UNTIL... 3 weeks into using it I went to turn it on and it was totally dead, wouldn't respond to charging or anything. I'll have to take it back. Not sure this would encourage me to exchange it rather ...
mellokitty 31.10.2005
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