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The Rio also spawned one of the first Digital Music service providers (ASP or SaaS Cloud Service), RioPort. RioPort was the first digital music service to license secure, single-track commercial downloads from major record labels. [2] The Rio PMP300 was supplied with a copy of the "Music Match" software for managing the user's MP3 library.
Rio was a line of digital audio players and related audio products. Its first release, the Rio PMP300 digital music player (also known colloquially as simply the "Diamond Rio" ), released by Diamond Multimedia in 1998, was one of the earliest notable and commercially successful devices in its category. [ 1 ]
Some MP3 players can encode directly to MP3 or other digital audio formats directly from a line-level audio signal (radio, voice, etc.). [citation needed] Devices such as CD players can be connected to the MP3 player (using the USB port) in order to directly play music from the memory of the player without the use of a computer. [citation needed]
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The Rio 500 was the first MP3 player to allow file transfer via USB cable, and PC & Mac support. It features 64 MB of flash memory available for music, has light blue backlight, ability to set bookmarks, has an expansion card slot ( SmartMedia card) and is powered by one AA battery.
[60] This market shift was initiated when the first portable digital audio player, the Rio digital music player, was introduced. The 64 MB Rio MP3 player enabled users to store about 20 songs. [61] One of the benefits of the Rio over portable CD players was that since the Rio had no moving parts, it offered skip-free playback. [61]
March 1998 – The MPMan F10, the first portable MP3 player, is launched. [21] July 1998 – SoundJam MP released allowing mp3 playback and CD-ripping on Macintosh computers. In 2000, Apple bought this program, and used it as the basis for iTunes. September 1998 – Rio PMP300 MP3 player is shipped by Diamond Multimedia. [22]
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