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It's definitely possible to find a less expensive 128MB model, but the $200 Rio Sport S35S is worth the price for those who want a reliable, well-designed MP3 player with an FM radio. If you like the looks of the S35S but don't have the cash, try the $149 Rio Sport S30S, which offers an expandable 64MB of memory but keeps the same sporty design.
 
The S50 digitally receives FM stations using a seek function, manual tuning, or six presets. Using the presets is a good idea since the seek function often stops on empty channels and manual tuning takes too long.
 
Sonicblue includes a rechargeable, nickel-metal-hydride battery, which can be powered via the USB connection or the included AC adapter. Battery life was just as claimed--slightly less than 20 hours using the rechargeable. Sonicblue says that you can get up to 35 hours of life on an alkaline AA battery. One caveat: Don't leave the S50's power switch in the on position, or the battery will drain. There's no autoshutdown feature--just a power-save mode that slowly sucks away juice.
 
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Sonicblue includes a rechargeable, nickel-metal-hydride battery, which can be powered via the USB connection or the included AC adapter. Battery life was just as claimed--slightly less than 20 hours using the rechargeable. Sonicblue says that you can get up to 35 hours of life on an alkaline AA battery. One caveat: Don't leave the S50's power switch in the on position, or the battery will drain. There's no autoshutdown feature--just a power-save mode that slowly sucks away juice.
 
We moved 100MB of MP3s to the S50 in exactly four minutes, which translates to a better-than-average transfer rate of 0.42MB per second.
 
duff_rose said:
We moved 100MB of MP3s to the S50 in exactly four minutes, which translates to a better-than-average transfer rate of 0.42MB per second.
 
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Through the included headphones, the S50's sound quality did not knock our socks off but was definitely acceptable. Our test headphones improved the sound, although perhaps not enough for serious audiophiles with exacting standards. Radio reception was a bit fuzzy on weaker stations, but we didn't expect perfect reception from an MP3 player.
 
Through the included headphones, the S50's sound quality did not knock our socks off but was definitely acceptable. Our test headphones improved the sound, although perhaps not enough for serious audiophiles with exacting standards. Radio reception was a bit fuzzy on weaker stations, but we didn't expect perfect reception from an MP3 player.
 
The music never lags behind when it goes with you. Hear up to 4 hours of music using the 128MB memory capacity, then toss in a built-in FM tuner and MMC slot for added variety and playtime.
 
It advertises "plays MP3 format" on the box. This is false advertising. You can only play MP3's if you use their proprietary conversion software. If this is MP3 "compatible", then all of my regular audio CD players are "compatible" (via burning audio CD's). Second, it is not compatible with W98SE as far as I can tell. I crashed on install on my machine and even crashed it's own "uninstaller" so I couldn't remove it cleanly. Third, support is nonexistant at RCA and "MusicMatch" tried to charge me more money ($30) BEFORE even getting the software installed. If I knew that up front, then the player is no longer as inexpensive as the competitors. Fourth, if you can get the software to run (my father-in-law did), then you are treated to nagware (it constantly tries to force you to upgrade), spyware (it constantly sends messages to MusicMatch about your activities), and outright virus-like attacks (it tries to change all of your app-defaults to point to itself instead of something useful like Winamp). It *does* play WMA format but only if I want to spend days re-encoding my entire collection from MP3 (a NON-proprietary format compared with WMA and their bogus MP3 format).
 
Rio S50 MP3 player, earphones, carrying case with belt clip, armband, 1 x Nickel Metal Hydride battery, power adapter, 1 x USB cable, Rio Music Manager software, audio management software, user manual
 
The RCA unit is a great deal. I wanted an MP3 player for running and for the price, this one is wonderful. I have a set of tunes that I run to so I don't change them that often...if I did, my rating might drop because Music Match tends to crash on my Win XP system. I have an XP1900 cpu with 512 PC2700 DDR ram etc. and when I try to use some of Music Match's features, the thing crashes. I purchased the $20 upgrade because the features of Music Match sounded really good. I tried to convert a bunch of files to MP3 Pro and level them and I found that if O selected more than 20 songs at a time, the program crashed. Also - the MP3 Pro conversions had a static in them that the original MP3's did not. Anyway - the unit is a good buy but I am a bit put off by Music Match.
 
. I easily got 50 songs loaded. Paid 59.00! I read that the display was not up to par because it didn't list song info. Big deal! You don't get that when you play a CD on your player and when you burn your own. It shows bitrate, battery life, vol, etc. No backlight might be the only downside, but again, no big deal. The ease of skipping songs makes it a luxury not a necessity. Easy, inexpensive
 
duff_rose said:
The RCA unit is a great deal. I wanted an MP3 player for running and for the price, this one is wonderful. I have a set of tunes that I run to so I don't change them that often...if I did, my rating might drop because Music Match tends to crash on my Win XP system. I have an XP1900 cpu with 512 PC2700 DDR ram etc. and when I try to use some of Music Match's features, the thing crashes. I purchased the $20 upgrade because the features of Music Match sounded really good. I tried to convert a bunch of files to MP3 Pro and level them and I found that if O selected more than 20 songs at a time, the program crashed. Also - the MP3 Pro conversions had a static in them that the original MP3's did not. Anyway - the unit is a good buy but I am a bit put off by Music Match.
 
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