Rio Fuse 128 MB MP3 Player

Rio Fuse 128 MB MP3 Player

Product Description
Product Description:
The Rio Fuse is a tiny player with a huge sound. As a full-featured music player, it has a brightly lit LCD to display ID3 track details, equalizer presets, and multiple play modes. A fully adjustable equalizer controls bass and treble. The built-in USB connector plugs directly into most computers without the need for a cable. Transfer up to 30 songs using the intuitive Rio Music Manager, then unplug it and you're done. Features: 128MB built-in memory Plays MP3/WMA music files LCD display for song/title information Includes carrying case and armband for sports use

Rio Fuse 128 MB MP3 Player
Average customer rating:

Bookmark feature is very useful for Podcast listeners

It's alright.

My first mp3 and it SUCKS!!!

Software required?

Don't buy Rio

Rio Fuse 128 MB MP3 Player

Manufacturer: Digital Networks N.A.
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player

Product Features:

128 MB of memory plays over 2 hours of MP3 and 4 hours of WMA music

Backlit LCD displays ID3 track details and player settings

Adjustable equalizer with pre-sets

18-hours of continuous playback with one AAA battery

Compatible with computers with USB 1.1 ports running Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME, XP, Mac OS X

ASIN: B0000AQIFV
Release Date: 2003-08-21

Product Description

The Fuse is a tiny player with a huge sound. As a full-featured music player, it has a brightly lit LCD to display ID3 track details, equalizer presets, and multiple play modes. A fully adjustable equalizer controls bass and treble. The built-in USB connector plugs directly into most computers - without the need for a cable. Transfer up to 60 songs using the intuitive Rio Music Manager, then unplug it and you're done.

Customer Reviews:

Bookmark feature is very useful for Podcast listeners.......2006-09-12

First off, I'm not disagreeing with many of the negative comments concerning its usability and design. Certainly if you're looking for something to play music (as 99% of the buyers are), then there are better units out there.

However, if you are an avid podcast listener, there is one overlooked feature that this has that I have been having extreme difficulty finding in other brands: Multiple bookmarks that can remember positions even within a single file. I resample downloaded talkshows to 24Kbit/mono which allows me to fit almost 12 hours of programs into 128MB so the puny memory is not an issue for me. There are many programs which are two or even three hours in length. The bookmarks allow me to remember & go back and replay / resume interesting parts of a program for playback later. Without this feature, I'd be forced to always start at the beginning of a very long program and spend long periods of time holding down the fast-forward button (assuming one exists) to parts of the file which I would have to remember or write down.

I'm far from being an MP3 player expert. If there are other models that are dirt cheap in this low memory range with a bookmark feature, please give a shout. After all, as of this writing this model has been discontinued and I've been using it very heavily. I don't know for how much longer this little guy will last...

It's alright........2006-07-12

There are pros and cons to this little gadget.

Pros
1) Sound quality is excellent
2) It's portable

Cons
1) It sucks the life out of batteries very quickly, so unless you have rechargeables, don't get this.
2) It might be portable, but you have to put it in your pocket. It's not very slim.
3) It loses songs! ALL of them. The battery will just stop, the Rio will shut off and I'm unable to turn it back on. I'll pull out the battery, put it back in, and voila! The Rio will turn back on but no songs.
4) Will not play WMA's.
5) Uses software, which is quite annoying. Can't just download songs from anywhere.

The Rio seems to be a decent mp3 player, but not the Fuse. Buy something else.

My first mp3 and it SUCKS!!!.......2004-12-06

I got this for christmas last year, but i didnt use it that much but Now, i love kroq, but this piece of crap doesnt take in some of my songs. I put on 8 songs from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and only four of them work, and it skips the others. I have to go backwards to find the song, and it still skips them. ????

Now im getting a zen micro and i already know itll be better than this one even [...]

Software required?.......2004-09-30

I am a digital music enthusiast and have owned several MP3 players like this one; this was perhaps the most dissatisfying MP3 player I have ever purchased. Unlike most every other player I've owned, Rio requires that you install a program in order to transfer music to the device (most MP3 players simply show up as an extra drive under "my computer" allowing you to drag and drop files onto them). First of all, I hate installing vendor software like this, because these programs tend to be fairly invasive (changing file type settings, installing 3rd party "bonus" software, and they take up too much hard drive space given how minimally useful they are). My second complaint (which ties in with the 1st) is that the device was not plug-and-play compatible. This means that I can't download music to it from school computers or friends' computers either (because odds are they won't have the Rio software either).

As you can tell, I never actually got to listen to any music on it, because I could never download anything to it.

Anyway, these complaints may seem minor, but they make this device look kind of bush-league compared to equably priced models by other companies. I guess I had just expected more from such a popular brand of MP3 player.

Don't buy Rio.......2004-08-16

I have had continious problems with Rio, the same goes to many other people. Many things have broken on many peoples players. ave your money and be confident in your purchase. DON'T BUY RIO!!

Problems with my Rio
3 months - screen started to blank out in lines
5 months - keeps losing songs (you have to pull out battery to get them back I found - YAY)
8 months - won't start when I hit the 'on' button, but if I keep pulling the battery out and trying to start it, then it will come on after I do that a while)

DON'T BUY RIO - more bad reviews with other Rio players - read them before you buy

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