The Diamond Rio 300 MP3 player, I brought this and a Sony MZR37 minidisc at about the same time. The Rio came with 32MB of memory as standard. You can increase the memory to 96MB, however this at least doubles the price of the system. Now 32 MB might sound like a lot but thats around 10 tracks recorded at 64 bps or 5 tracks at 128 bps. Considering the standard CD is around 13 tracks long you don't get much on there. To actually record the tracks onto the Rio you have to physically link up to a PC therefore you need a PC or hardware system. So its not as portable as it is made out to be. Since you can only record 5-10 songs on the standard system, its not very good .  Read the complete review

I imported my Rio 300 from America a year and a half ago. It was, then, one of only 100 MP3 players in England - and it felt good. It connected seemlessly to my parallel port with the special connector provided, and within half an hour I had filled my Rio to bursting with tunage! It was great a year and a half ago - but this model sadly has had its time now. The plastic is weak - it is not a durable player. The battery case will not stay closed now, and the printed labels for the buttons have long since been rubbed off. It has some nice features, for example the ability to loop A->B user-definable points [for example so you can work out just what those lyrics ...  Read the complete review

I think that the sony music stick is a great invention although it is rather pricey it makes up for this with the superb music quality and many features. It is one of the best mp3 players available and I am sure you will be pleased if you choose to invest in one. The stick is small and stylish and appeals to most tastes. The cheapest I have found it was on a website called www.outpost.com and this retails at $299 although you may be able to find it cheaper. If you are someone who wants to buy an mp3 player but is not worried about the cost then this one is for you. And all of your friends will love it too. ...  Read the complete review

The Diamond Rio 300 is a portable MP3 player that initially came onto the market about 18 months ago. When it came out it featured groundbreaking features, mainly because it was the only on available. It comes with 32mb of internal memory and this can be expanded to 64mb using Smartmedia cards. These are fairly expensive, a 32mb one costing around £50. A 32Mb card will hold around 45 minutes of CD quality music so there is a maximum of 1 ½ hours of music in the player at one time. It takes one AA battery and these can last up to 12 hours depending on how loud you have it. The sound quality of the player is remarkably good. It is hard to tell the ...  Read the complete review

The Diamond Rio 300 was the original, and I think the best, portable MP3 player. It comes with 32MB of memory, which can be increases with special cards which you insert into the player, and I think the largest card you can buy is a 64MB card. This means that you can have 96MB of memory! This is great, because most normal length songs take up between 4 - 8 MB of memory. This means that with the normal memory, you could store about 5 songs (not much, really). This is a bit of a blow, as it isn't like a CD player, where you can change the CD once it has finished. To change the tracks stored on the Rio, you need to hook it up to your PC. The advantage of ...  Read the complete review