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Pros: useability, portability, controls Cons: fm tuner I have been using this mp3 player for about 3 months. I ride my bike 3 miles to and from work everyday. The armband makes it easy to carry and have no worries about dropping or losing it on the ride.
Pros: it's fun and easy to use it Cons: The quality of recording music I bought this mp3 two days ago and I really liked the ligt-ups on the play and stop buttons. It wasn't hard to download mp3 into it either. But, I wasn't that much satisfi
i got this product for this past Chirtsmas...I am just a high school kid, and I needed something great to workout in, and run with. This product is the ebst thing I have. I am obsessed with it. Everything about it is great. The Rio Music Manager program o
THIS IS A VERY NICE MP3 PLAYER. AS A MATTER OF FACT IT IS MY SECOND ONE WHICH I BOUGHT FOR A GIFT. HOLDS ALOT OF MUSIC AND I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU CAN ADD A LARGER CARD TO HOLD MORE MUSIC. THE SOFTWARE IS VERY EASY TO USE TO TRANSFER MUSIC. ALL AROUND A
Pros: Good Quality Cons: Bad Radio Signal I Had Gotten My First Rio For Christmas Last Year. I Had brought it to a friend's house and sadly her dog chewed it. I Later Bought a Rio Forge and i liked it except when i tried to do an internet update, It
Pros: Tactile Controls Allow for Easy Adjustment Cons: Back of the Unit could Be Sturdier Tactile Controls Allow for Easy Adjustment of the Volume and Track Access When Working Out. Unlike Players With Dedicated Batteries, the Forge Allows Swapping AAA o
Pros: Excel button controls, good playback quality Cons: Ear buds fall off/out, arm band too big for wrist I bought this yesterday, and took it on a 18 mile run. I was very pleased with the wieght, and playback quality. The cord could be a little longer,
This is the first MP3 Player I've ever listened to and I got one for my birthday! It has a sleek silver look, can hold up to 120 songs, and has a very good sound quality. I had a couple of problems with it though. The FM Radio didn't come in and
I've spent about 4 days with a 256mb Forge, and find the features better than any other player. I wanted an iRiver flash player, but have an investment in SD cards from my Palm T3. I like the quality and software that I've experienced with an iR
I've had this for about 3 weeks now and I think it a good mp3 player. It's not perfect, but the positives outweigh any negatives. I've previously owned an iRiver ifp 395t and used a iriver 799t. Overall, I prefer the Rio Forge. The iRiver p
Like anything, this just takes a little getting used to. It's my first MP3 player and I've overall been really happy with it.An anecdote - one thing I noticed on my player was that you really have to push to get the headphones in all the way. I
I've done way too much comparing and searching for the best mp3 player, I feel it is my duty to now write something down for posterity's sake.You are like me if you don't want to waste over $200 on a music player. I can't understand pu
There were so many complaining reviews that I felt compelled to write and report that I've had nothing but good experiences with my new Rio Forge so far. I received it for Christmas, have taken in out running a number of times -- and I am really sati
I purchased the rio forge before reading all the negative customer reviews and I just hoped it wasn't all true. I had no problems at all getting started and it's only downfall was that the clip didn't hold the player in place when I went fo
Before I graded the firmware to 1.33 (properly), the player was almost unusable (very poor FM reception). Unfortunately the upgrade instruction from the downloaded firmware file is INCORRECT. Just when I was ready to return it, I called the support line a
I bought this player as refurbished for 80.00 with a 20.00 rebate and after reading the reviews I hedged my bet and bought the extended warranty. All I really wanted was a MP3 player to take with me while I was running and so far so good. I updated the pl
I bought this product a little while ago and I have to say that it is a good MP3 player. You can either use their software (Rio music manager) or you can just use Windows Media Player 10 like I did. Using media player 10, it's a snap to load and dele
The Rio Forge is great. It is small, easy to use, holds tons of great music you download and organize your way. The only thing I have noticed about it is that When using the FM tuner, the reception is not great. Other than that, I love it.
Overall Very Good Player
I actually bought two of these players - one for my wife and myself. At first we had a lot of the problems that people talked about here. I flashed the players and formatted them and the SD memory I put in and only use the RIO supplied software. Everythin
This is my second Rio. I liked the first one so much I bought the Forge for the USB 2.0. I bought a refurbed unit for about thirty bucks. I love the thing, guess I'm one of the lucky ones.I'm surprised to see all of the negative reviews. I guess
So you're happy with your purchase and one day the S.O.B. doesn't power up or do anything? Only 90 day warranty?? Relax. Here's how to fix it. Take it apart and be careful not to lose the screws or buttons. Take off the top circuit board an
It's good enough for me
I bought the rio forge over a year ago for motorcycle riding when my hard drive 5GB model trashed the hard drive. I wanted flash memory, and an expandable slot for at least an extra GB of memory, and mp3/wma file playing capability.I use it riding notorcy
I bought this mp3 player, for some personal reasons, the 1st, was cause I wanted to train on the gym, no need of too much songs, and a good look cause I dont like the slim actual mp3 players, it's a little tough look, good for a big strong gym traine
I feel bad so many have had bad experiences with the Forge. I've had mine since October 2005. It locked up at first, and Rio's phone-support folks directed me to firmware upgrade instructions. All has been near-perfect since then.The expandable
Pros: Small / Sleek / Cool Cons: Arm Band stinks Pretty good player but it would sometimes turn off and start over sometimes when I would just be trying to rewind or skip a song. The arm strap is good and strong, but the way the player is positioned in t
Pros: quality Cons: price
Pros: expandability, sound quality Cons: battery life, reliability I bought my Rio about a year ago, and at first it had a little bit of a hiccup with the tiniest intermittent failures. About a month later I bought an 512MB SD card and I noticed that the
Pros: Cheap, Small, Portable Cons: Quality not that great
Pros: light weight, easy to use, easy to read Cons: Connection to head phones, and trying to open to insert battery
Pros: Basic, Durable, hard wearing, light weight, relatively low priced now Cons: Navigation button badly designed, Bad Earphones, Firmware fails and requires reset The Bottom Line: A relatively low priced, durable, resilient player for running, hiking an
Pros: comfortable to use and easy to load with music! Cons: small capacity for music library - uncomfortable ear pieces
Was really pleased with the player at first, especially with a 1 gb SD card. After three days, the battery died, switched the battery, and a few songs later the player completely died (hearing that this has happened to others and now myself, I recommend b
I purchased a refurbished Forge 256 in late May 2005, taking a chance in spite of the poor reviews because I wanted the expandable memory feature.As of early March `06 it is still working, except now the playlist doesn't show anything that is on the
Pros: Easy to use software Cons: Overall very annoying and non-reliable. Unit shuts down frequently and without any reason. Then you amy press start button until you get sick, but the unit does not start. Then you take it in a couple of days and press Po
Pros: portability Cons: reliability
Pros: Easy to use Cons: Poor Quality
Pros: It plays music! Cons: It plays music when its working! The Bottom Line: Buy it if you can get it cheap, otherwise invest in an IPod.
Pros: Sounds great and controls are easy to use. Cons: Never worked consistently.
Pros: Worked for awhile. Cons: Doesn't work anymore and my 90 day warranty is long gone.
i purchased a iRiver 790 for my girlfriend and a Rio Forge 256 for myself. boy do i wish i had ordered the iRiver for myself. not only did her player cost less, it sounds better and works flawlessly. the only thing better about my forge is the armband. i
256 Has Same Problems as 128
Like another Rio I owned, this thing broke down within two weeks. The sound and design are pretty impressive and the unit is quite stylish and comfortable to hold and operate while running. I don't use the FM tuner so the apparent inadequacies in tha
Great player for mp3s, but the FM tuner is worthless because you can't get any stations and the sound quality is poor.I also trashed 2 512mb sd cards trying to upgrade the memory.Called Rio support last June and told them. They said they would get ba
This was my second MP3 player, yet I am ready for my third. At first I thought this was better then the Creative Labs Nomad II, that I had. It has more memory, better arm band, and the sound is pretty good. Yet after a month of using it I now see the nega
I bought the Rio Forge specifically for the gym and because of its FM Tuner. My gym has television sets up with an FM tuner so you can hear the audio side. However, the tuner has NEVER worked at the gym and I can only get one regular radio station to work
I really liked my Rio Forge! It really kept me moving in the gym.But the radio sucks! I could never get a station to stay in tune.The other problem is that the battery door never stayed on tight. Sure enough the day I did not keep checking on it was the d
I really like a lot about the Forge: expandable memory, stopwatch, small size, nice design, user friendly software, FM stereo with record capability, and on and on. Unfortunately, the darn thing keeps shutting off when you push the buttons, and it's
this was my first flash-based mp3 player, and i did a ton of research. so i decided on the rio sport 256 mb because of the price, design, and the fact that it was a refurb (which i assumed would fix some of its problems). i assumed wrongly. as described b
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