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Pros: Nice size, good features Cons: Locks up/stops working Wow - Bought for teenage son - who loved it at first. First one lasted 3 wks then locked up with internal error. One hour drive to store and took it back, only to have second one die 6 wks later
Pros: Great Sound Cons: Hard to down load stuff
Pros: Features Cons: Quality/Technical Support I loved the features that the RIO 256 offered and since I was to be using it for running I figured it was a good value... The downloading was pretty easy but had a few problems with it but not too bad...Foun
Pros: Lights up, Sturdy Cons: Locks up Rec'd the 256 for Christmas. Bought a 1gb SD card so I could hold about 250 songs total. Unit locked up and shut down, then starts over on song 1. I returned it for another one ( I thought maybe it was a bad uni
Pros: Sounds nice when it works Cons: Support is horrible I purchased a Rio Forge 258 and almost immediately had problems. It periodically won't turn on. When I connect it through the USB port it shuts itself off, so that I can't transfer music t
Pros: Ease of use and features-e.g. FM tuner and software interface. Cons: Not reliable. Bad engineering work all around. Engineers at Rio can't read design specs.
Pros: I successfully returned it Cons: Doesn't work. Made me feel quite stupid. Wasted my time.
Pros: Decent player when working. Cons: This thing is made to easily break. Cheap plastic parts, poorly made electronic components.
Pros: Great when it works Cons: Doesn't work for long
Pros: expandable memory slot, functionality Cons: durability sucks
This player completely froze loading music. After that it wouldn't even power on. Rio technical service advised a hard reboot. Same thing happened again. Rio technical service advised returning the Forge. So I did. Shopping around now.
This is a sleek player. However, I've had a few problems:-headphone jack bent, only plays left ear.-often won't read SD card, occasionally won't even power on with DS card in the slot-power button brokek, but I was able to fix it.So overall
I was incredibly disappointed with this player primarily for three reasons. 1 - The buttons are tiny and it is a pain to deal with while running. 2 - I bought this for running and liked the stopwatch option and then discovered that it's too much of a
Don't buy this product. I received this MP3 player as a gift for running and other active sports. Unfortunately, it shuts off at the slightest tap. I've been told that the problem is the spring that holds the battery, but no amount of fiddling s
I've read the same on some other message boards - the thing simply stops working. I probably only used it 3-4 times, then it started cutting off even when I would hit a button other than the power button. It would restart, but would act up in some si
The Rio Forge was off to a good start. Then the unit began shutting off. Now it will sometimes power on, then shut down following the start up sequence. Batteries are fresh. This is all within 60 days. Sure sounds like an inherent quality problem with the
I bought the old Rio and was very pleased. Lost it and made the mistake of buying the new Forge before any reviews were out. I've exchanged it twice already because it keeps shutting off. I'm so angry that Rio would put such a piece of garbage o
I got the Rio Forge for christmas and had problems right away. It keeps shuting off. I had a horrible time getting through to customer support and when I did the tech said, " I hope the person who bought it for you kept the reciept". Then we got
I recently purchased this player, and assumed that I could download songs from iTunes onto the player. When the instructions that I followed from the manual on downloading from iTunes did not work, I attempted to call customer service, but always received
Folks,These reviews you are reading ARE CREDIBLE... I prayed they weren't after I'd already purchased...The story - Bought in November... PHENOMENAL!... I loved this thing, durable, crystal clear sound, never skipped... About mid December it beg
I received the forge 256 mb for christmas, and I was at first excited about using the player. The design is sleek and modern, and the player seemed to abound with many useful features.Setting it up, I found it easy to use, with a very intuitive interface
This player completely froze while loading music. After that it wouldn't even power on. I couldn't get anyone at technical service. I am returning this piece of garbage. I have never been so displeased with an electronic product in my life. I ur
I bought this player as a gift for my husband for xmas. After 1 week of use, the darn thing won't even power up. No lights, no display, no nothing!!! It seems that other reviewers of this product have had the same problem too. Looks like this is a kn
I should have read the reviews before I got this.. I exchanged my Xmas gift for this one, and it has already stopped working; only after 6 weeks. I used to love this product, but the Rio Forge 256 has recenlty disappointed me along with their customer &qu
It's silver, it's sexy, and the sound quality is AMAZING. When it works. That's all this player has going for it.I was hesitant, based on all the reviews. I bought one anyway and enjoyed it for almost a month. Did a couple of downloads, yad
Despite reading all the reviews on poor quality, I still purchased the Rio forge. I have owned a Rio mp3 player in some form since they first came to market. I felt it was a good purchase based on my good experiences with their products in the past.Howeve
I bought one - tried to add expansion card - it crashed. Returned it figuring it was a fluke. NOPE! Second one crashed too. I am using latest firmware (1.33) and have tried all of their suggested "fixes". What's worse - Rio appears to know
After a month the problems started with my Rio player. First the volume couldn't be turned down, then the songs couldn't be advanced. I patiently contacted online support and had to wait a week for a response. Each time the response wasn't
My Forge 256 crashed when adding an expansion card. Can't even turn it on anymore. Nothing the help line suggests works and they've made no move to accept responsibility. I'm furious with Rio and will never buy their product again.
heed the advice of others on here. this is a defective product with extremely poor customer support, waiting weeks for responses. my player died two weeks after i got it. buy something else, the aggravation isn't worth it. and rio obviously is not co
I bought the Rio Forge 256 Sport as a Christmas present for my 13-year-old daughter. I liked the fact that it used flash memory with no moving parts to break. It is also expandable with an SD card, but I never tried it. I paid $135 from Amazon at the time
I bought a 512 rio forge for my wife in December. It was great, and I bought a 256 for myself in January and another for my son in February. Then the problems started.I am not sure what problems my son had, but I know he sent his back for warranty work on
I've had my Rio Forge 256 for 7 months. I only use it about 2-3 times a week no longer than one hour each use. Over the last couple months, I've been experiencing problems with my unit. More recently, it turns off for no reason. It sounds like a
This is my second Rio Player and both have been useless within a year of very mild use. When a Rio player breaks outside of the 90-day warrentee period, there is no support and no replacement.DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.
Ok, to make a long story short...After a lot of research, I purchased the Rio Forge when it first became available because I read that flash players won't skip and are better for exercise.However, I had to send the first one back. It stopped working
No kidding, no making stuff up, these things have a high failure rate. In spite of the warnings in the other reviews I bought one of these a couple of months ago. It just died. Luckily, it is still under warranty but now I'm without a player while it
I purchased this a few months ago and it's already broken. I can't adjust the volume at all, the different parts keep seperating and I had to buy new head phones. It doesn't fit into the arm band very well and can fall out while I'm ri
I purchased the Rio Cali and enjoyed using it except for the fact that you can't organize your music. All of the songs are just dumped into the unit without folders. Everything was fine until it fell off my stair climber (about 4 1/2 feet) onto the 1
I was looking for a simple mp3 player to use at the gym that had FM capability. The Rio Sport seemed perfect - I liked the design, especially the quality armband that came with it, and the fact that I knew the Rio name. After setting up the software on my
If you're looking for a nifty, futuristic-looking paperweight, this item is the one for you. All you have to do is buy it and use it. It will die on you, sometime not long after the too-short 90-day warrantee expires, leaving you with no way to make
I bought 1 Rio at Best Buy, and had it about a week. I liked the armband, for working out. I went to buy one for my husband, and when Best Buy did not have any in stock, I bought one online. The day my husband's arrived, my died. I was able to return
I bought the Rio Forge 256 MB in June of 2005 by December it would not work. The Rio has only a 90 day warrenty on labor so they would replace it for $70 if I wanted to send it in. Having paid $90 for it new I told them what they could do with it.
I purchased two Rio Forge Sport 256 MB MP3 players in December 2005.Since that time the volume control switch (down) has broken on both of them.Do NOT buy this item... the quality/durability is extremely poor.
Got one of these for Christmas, and it worked fine until the battery went dead in it. When I replaced the battery it kept telling me it needed to be reformatted. I followed the advice on the website and nothing worked. I called tech support and they walke
I purchased the Rio Forge MP3 Player from Amazon about a month ago. Worked fine until one night I tried to connect it to my computer for a new music download. I plugged the usb cable into the unit and... nothing. The MP3 player would not show connection s
I got this player as a present and ever since, I have had alot of troubles with it!First of all...within the same month, the player got so hot and the battery was scalding hot...and it melted parts of the plastic on the player!!! I NEVER throw away warran
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