cliveb Wrote: > This isn't going to help the Original Poster (who appears to want a > low-capacity flash player running off AAA or AA batteries), but I'd > just like to say that my Rio Karma has never given any trouble. As far > as I can tell from reading various audio forums, the reports of hard > disk failure have been blown out of proportion, and the other failures > (mainly the scroll wheel breaking) are typically due to user abuse. > > The Rio Karma is the "geek's DAP", and it strikes me that it is the > natural DAP for the sort of person who is attracted to the Squeezebox. > Despite the design being over 2 years old, it's arguably still the best > DAP that was ever made. It supports FLAC and OGG as well as MP3 > (although given that it's only 20GB, which kind of rules out FLAC, and > OGG decoding eats up battery time, in practice you're best off sticking > with MP3). It's a crying shame that the iPod juggernaut killed Rio.
That's good to hear actually. I was considering a Rio, but the reports combined with the price kept me away from it at the moment. Maybe I'll scour the used market again in 6-12 months and see what I can find. -- eq72521 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eq72521's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1512 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18910 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
