Rio SP50 MP3/CD Player: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

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Built-In Radio: No
CD Amplifier: no
CD Copy Twin Deck: no
CD Player: yes
CD Player / Recorder: CD Player
CD Player Features: Top Loading
CD-Changer: no
CD-R/Rw Recording: no
Category: Portable
DAB: no
DAB Broadcast: no
DVD Recording: no
Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB): No
Digital Out: no
Digital System: Mp3 Player
Digital Versatile Disk: no
DivX Capability: no
Exchangeable memory card: no
Long play: yes
MP3 Playback: Yes
MP3 Player: yes
MP3 Recording: no
Mini CD: no
Multi CD Player: No
Multi Play Capability: no
Number of CD's held: 1
Picture CD readable: -PhotoCD
Player/Recorder: Player
Portable Remote: Portable without remote control
Radio Built In: no
Record Function: yes
Server Function: no
Shock-Proofed: yes
Shockproof: Yes
Super Audio CD: No
Super Audio CD Playback: No
Super Audio CD-Player: no
Table / Portable: Table
Table/Portable: Table
Width (mm): 130
Year of Introduction: 2003
Year of introduction: 2003

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Manufacturer's Description
The RioVolt SP50 plays both standard music CDs as well as your own custom CDs that you’ve burned with MP3 files on CD-R or CD-RW. With your RioVolt and one favorite MP3 CD, you’ll have ten times more music with you than a traditional CD player. Plus, it features up to 120 seconds of skip protection, making it the perfect companion for your music.

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Customer Reviews

15 Reviews

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

Average Customer Review

3.9 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews)

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the money this is a very good buy, 5 Mar 2003

By	James Rowles (Barnstaple, DEVON United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

- the only other one I have seen at this price is a Goodmans model - but that doesn't play cdrw and has less features. Obviously the more you pay the better model you get.

Pros:

Cheap
plays mp3 and cd
plays cdrw - no hassle at all
on a cd you can get around ten albums - mp3 only players at most are 128mb (say 2 albums worth) and cost double the price of this player.
Recognises all my mp3 discs (i recommend you use nero to burn - works a treat)
finds mp3 tracks quite quickly (seen alot alot worse)
ID3 tags
Line out
works fine in a car - used on a 3 hour journey, 156 x mp3s on random, didn't skip once, finds next track fast
Bass switch - i keep it on always
lock feature
for cd playback ESP shock is great
Sound is great on both cd and mp3
No glitches on mp3 - I use music match to rip the tracks from my original cds

Cons:

No resume
search function a bit fiddly to use
battery life with orig batteries is bad -
I use ni-mh 1300 (or better) rechargables - last much longer.
Earphones supplied are cheap - I use some cheap sony ones
open and close - a bit cheaply made
no light for display (you can't expect this at this price - also that would use up more battery power)

MP3 - EPS:
Reads disc for about 10 seconds into the 2mb buffer (whilst its doing this there is no shock protection - so if you jolt it, the jolt will be read into the buffer and will make the song jump slighty). After disc is read then for 2 mins you cannot jolt it at all. I have found that if its in a pocket swinging around a bit then it can ocassionally jump - you just need to make sure it doesn't move too much when using Mp3 playback - now i have sussed this I don't have a problem. No problems in car or at home use with the mp3 EPS at all.

In summary for �10/�15 less you can get a personal cd player with similar antishock - the difference is this has the mp3 playback as well - which is essential - 10 albums on 1 cd is superb!...

Main negative thing is the MP3 EPS - so read above then decide.

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant but battery monitor a bit dodgy, 1 Dec 2002

By	"jimlaflin" - See all my reviews

This MP3/CD Player is fantastic. My old Personal CD Player was good but couldn't play MP3s.
As I have a CD Burner and a huge MP3 collection I thought this would be a superb combination. It accepts CDRW as well so you can actually rotate your entire collection over a number of days simply by overwriting the CD every night and when you get a new song just add it and it's done.
Keep your IDv3 tags well maintained on your MP3s and it looks quite good on the screen of the player. The artist, title, album and bitrate are displayed by scrolling across the display.
The volume control is fine, you can go through any range of volumes unlike some players where you seem to only have the choice of very quiet, quiet or very loud.
There are more good points but that's all I can be bothered to type.
The only bad points I can think of (being a little picky) are that the battery monitor may as well NOT EXIST. Put new batteries in and it goes down to battery half empty. Then it shoots up to full after about 10 minutes. Then flashes meaning it's about to die. Then fills up again. Completely useless
The batteries that come with the player, as expected only lasted about an hour which was worse than most 'batteries included' deals.
Also, the headphones that are supplied really hurt my ears (seemed too big and uncomfortable) so I am now using new headphones with in-line volume control.

Other than the quibbles at the bottom, I love my new player and take it with me wherever I go (can even run around with it because of the excellent ESP Shock Protection)

Buy it now!

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How can this be so cheap?, 1 Nov 2002

By	Mr. N. Ibrahim (London UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this with worries, because they were no other reviews of it and rio itself isnt the biggest brand in the world, i made my cd and put it in, it loads in less than 5 second and comes up with all the track details instantly, loading between tracks is quick,. Only thing that is bad about this player is the headphones, they are terrible, i reccomend ordering better headphones with this item, also the battery life isnt amazing, but for the price, can u complain?

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Player
Bought this some time ago, and still works a treat. Created a bespoke MP3 CD with 11 albums on, ripped to MP3, and this plays them perfectly. Read more

Published 24 days ago by S. Meehan

3.0 out of 5 stars Good buy
This is not for everyone especially with the falling prices of USB drive MP3 players. But, for the price this is a good product. Read more

Published on 23 Aug 2003 by beovar

3.0 out of 5 stars Basically very good, but not without faults
Despite giving this product a relatively modest three stars, I would probably still advise most people seriously looking at it to buy it. Read more

Published on 10 Jul 2003 by Mr. Chris Pickering

4.0 out of 5 stars Riovolt SP50
This piece of kit does exactly what I want it to do. I put the batteries in and loaded it with 10 hrs worth of CD tracks saved as MP3s and set it to Random Play and it's fine. Read more

Published on 3 April 2003 by Alan prescott

1.0 out of 5 stars A disaster from start to finish
I'm afraid I had problems with this MP3 CD player from the minute I unpacked it.

1. Both slide buttons on the side - "Unlock/Lock" and "Bass/Normal" are stuck in position and... Read more

Published on 31 Mar 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Deeply Flawed
The first thing that struck me about the Rio SP50 is how loud the amp is in it. Even with the volume on zero there is a very noticeable hiss though the headphones, so much so... Read more

Published on 11 Mar 2003 by drlargepants

5.0 out of 5 stars My Best Buy for ... [the price]
If you are like me you always want to read reviews from people who have purchased something that you would like to buy. Read more

Published on 1 Feb 2003 by generalmac

4.0 out of 5 stars If you like music this is for you, no questions!
This is such a good product. It plays MP3/CDs CD-R/CR-RW CDs and of course normal CDs. How can you argue with that? This is the ultimate music companion. Read more

Published on 31 Jan 2003 by Brian Weryk

5.0 out of 5 stars In some ways, it's really a little computer...
This is a good unit. The unit reads all the discs I have tried, even RW disks written at 10x speed. It reads the list fast and seems to be one of those products which just doesn't... Read more

Published on 19 Jan 2003 by Andrew Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars Rio SP50
I've had the Rio SP50 for about a month now and used it every single day. It is absolutely fantastic. No skips whatsoever on playback. Read more

Published on 16 Jan 2003 by Music lover

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